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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 26, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, biologists, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary ethics, Germany, Jeffrey O’Connell, Julian Huxley, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, militarism, racial extermination, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, Thomas Henry Huxley, World War I}

New Book: Social Darwinism Among the Biologists

_{Richard Weikart
April 26, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors imply that social Darwinism was a position taken by non-scientists who just didn’t understand the science. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 23, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, anthropologists, anti-Semitism, Arthur Schopenhauer, biologists, Cambridge University Press, Christa Schroeder, Christianity, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, human evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, living space, Mein Kampf, Michael Ruse, militarism, Nazism, racial struggle, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

New Book: Social Darwinism and “The Hitler Problem”

_{Richard Weikart
April 23, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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I have clearly argued in all my works that Hitler was an eclectic thinker who drew on many different intellectual influences — some of them contradictory. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Jeffrey O’Connell, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, progress, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Theodore Roosevelt}

Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer

_{Richard Weikart
April 22, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 17, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, babies, bioethicists, China, embryos, fertilization, genetic engineering, government funding, humans, hybrids, monkeys, Nature (journal), scientists, Stanford University, William Hurlbut}

Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2021

Bioethics

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They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 14, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, abortion, atheism, biological origins, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, eugenics, events, humanity, infanticide, John West, morality, relativism, scientific racism}

Webinar with John West: “Darwin’s Three Big Ideas That Impacted Humanity”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 14, 2021

Bioethics

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Darwinian theory is a more than just an idea about origins. The reasons it arouses the passion it does go beyond science. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 21, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, atomic energy, Big Biotech, Brave New World, CRISPR, dystopia, embryos, genetic engineering, Israel, mouse embryos, New York Times, scientists, Weizmann Institute of Science, Zoltan Istvan}

Scientists Succeed in Creating Mouse Artificial Wombs

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

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This technology is still a long time from the potential for human application, but it presents issues we need to address now. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 20, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Argentina, Bolivia, ecocide, Ecuador, environmentalists, exploration, genocide, geological features, glaciers, human rights, mining, Moon, nature rights, Pakistan, Pope Francis, Science (journal)}

Now, It’s the “Rights of the Moon”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 20, 2021

Bioethics

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It is easy to mock this movement and to not take it seriously. That’s how it will win. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 17, 2021

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Blaise Pascal, Charles Darwin, Christendom, Claudius, creator, Crime and Punishment, Darwinian theory, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gothic cathedrals, H.G. Wells, Hamlet, intelligent design, John Updike, literature, logical positivism, Marxism, materialism, Middle Ages, narrative, nihilism, pigeons, Pulitzer Prize, sublime, The Time Machine, William Shakespeare}

Intelligent Design and the Restoration of Story

_{Jonathan Witt
March 17, 2021

Arts, Bioethics, Biology, Intelligent Design

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Celebrating the growing evidence of intelligent design can help rescue the arts from the nihilism and ugliness they have descended into in many quarters. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 15, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, African Americans, birth control, eugenics, feminism, history, infanticide, Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, Racism, United States, women}

Don’t Remove Margaret Sanger from History — Condemn Her

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 15, 2021

Bioethics

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A month dedicated to the history of any group should not just be a sanitized feel-good propaganda version of what came before. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, body, brain, Frankenstein, humans, medicine, monkeys, muscles, nerves, neurosurgeon, paralysis, quadriplegia, Robert White, soul, spinal cord, trachea, Wired}

Are Head Transplants Soul Transplants?

_{Michael Egnor
March 11, 2021

Bioethics, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The question of the disposition of the soul depends on what we mean by “soul.” Is the soul a thing somewhere in the brain, so to speak, or in the body? Read More ›