Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 21, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __tedited, assisted suicide, culture of death, euthanasia, freedom of conscience, Hippocratic Oath, legislation, palliative care Culture of Death Brings Tyranny to Vermont Wesley J. Smith July 21, 2016 Bioethics, Medicine 2 Authorities in the state require doctors to counsel terminally ill patients on receiving assisted suicide. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 21, 2016 CategoriesScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, argument from authority, design intuition, feelings, logical fallacies, persuasion, public opinion, scientific debate, skepticism, tribalism, trust in scientists, Undeniable (book) Scientists Aren’t Exempt from Feelings, Any More Than the Public Is David Klinghoffer July 21, 2016 Scientific Reasoning 6 And no, that's not entirely a bad thing. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 20, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Health & Wellness, News, world Quebec Can’t Wait to Kill Wesley J. Smith July 20, 2016 Bioethics, Medicine 1 Waiting periods for reflection are supposed to be a "safeguard" against abuse in euthanasia and assisted suicide. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 19, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & ScienceIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, junk DNA, science On Junk DNA Claim, Francis Collins Walks It Back, Admitting “Hubris” David Klinghoffer July 19, 2016 Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design 1 By "hubris" perhaps he means the overweening tendency to assume that scientific opinion as constituted at the moment has got it all figured out. Read More ›
Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date July 19, 2016 CategoriesPhilosophy of Science Tagged , __tedited, ethicists, eugenics, relativism, scientism, scientocracy, Social Darwinism Yes, There Can Be Science Without Scientism, and Without Relativism Sarah Chaffee July 19, 2016 Philosophy of Science 4 Can we reject the confines of pure materialism without rejecting the information-value of data? Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 19, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thought, animal intelligence, grammar, human intelligence, language, learning, signals Here’s How We Could Know if Animals Use Language Michael Egnor July 19, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 4 Perhaps, some critics will argue, animals have language that we haven't detected. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 18, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & MindZoology Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, animal communication, animal languages, bird song, bird vocalizations, complex structures, complexity, designators, finches, functional complexity, functional specificity, grammar, human language, language, metaphysical, Nature, signal Are Birdsongs Language? Michael Egnor July 18, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology 7 Atheist mathematician Jeff Shallit insists that animals have language. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 16, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __tedited, bioethics, consent, futile care, Health & Wellness, medical ethics, medical futility, medical interventions, patients American Medical Association Playing “Hide the Ball” with Futile Care Rule? Wesley J. Smith July 16, 2016 Bioethics, Medicine 3 "Futile care" is ad hoc health care rationing. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 15, 2016 CategoriesFaith & Science Tagged , __tedited, Answers in Genesis, creationism, Noah’s Ark, Undeniable (book), viewpoint diversity Helpful Survey of the Best ID Literature Illuminates Distortions of the Evolution Debate David Klinghoffer July 15, 2016 Faith & Science 4 The American Association for the Advancement of Science evidently thinks religious scholars can be bought off with luxuries. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 15, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & MindZoology Tagged , __tedited, abstract thought, animal intelligence, animal personhood, common sense, David Hume, human intelligence, Jeffrey Shallit, language, Nature David Hume Notwithstanding, Abstract Thought in Animals Is a Myth Michael Egnor July 15, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology 6 Abstract thought in animals is a cultural myth at the heart of the Darwinian understanding of man. Read More ›
