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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 10, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethicists, democracy, employment, global warming, homelessness, Iran, Israel, mullahs, professors, Racism, Ukraine, virtue-signaling, Vladimir Putin, war}

Blessed Are the Peacemakers, for They Shall Be Called Bioethicists

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 10, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Can you see it? Putin calling the Hastings Center and asking for a bioethics consultation before invading Ukraine. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, California State University Stanislaus, Canada, Center on Human Exceptionalism, culture of death, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, From Darwin to Hitler, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Netherlands, Richard Weikart, Stony Brook University, Switzerland, The Death of Humanity, United States, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith}

Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A Philosopher Looks at Science, abiogenesis, Alister McGrath, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Coming to Faith Through Dawkins, John Ray, magisteria, materialism, Meister Eckhart, Moses, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Philo of Alexandria, Richard Dawkins, speciation, Stephen Jay Gould, Tertullian, The God Delusion, theology, William Paley}

Some Unintended Consequences of Atheist (and Theist) Discourse

_{Neil Thomas
August 8, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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This “law of unintended consequences” is an intriguing aspect of the whole Darwin/Dawkins affair that deserves further investigation. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Douglas Axe, Jerry Coyne, materialism, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheists, Normal Science, panpsychism, paradigm shift, post-truth, Professor Dave, PZ Myers, religious right, Royal Society, Sam Harris, scientism, spiritualism, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Third Way of Evolution, tipping point, vitalism, Zeitgeist}

Is This a Paradigm Shift?

_{Daniel Witt
August 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Something is changing. Here are more thoughts on the “tipping point” in dissent from neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Africa, apes, Bronx Zoo, conscience, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, evolutionary biology, Final Solution, human evolution, Human Zoos, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, racists, Scandinavia, scientific racism, St. Louis World's Fair, The Descent of Man}

West, Metaxas: Face It, Darwinian Theory Is Itself Racist

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

4}

This malign record is no mere inexplicable aberration from an otherwise innocent scientific theory. The legacy is not a mistake. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, ancient Greece, animals, assisted suicide, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, Eric Anderson, euthanasia, healing, human life, humans, killing, Nazi Germany, Richard Weikart, Unnatural Death}

Richard Weikart: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 6, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Dr. Weikart's book is a wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide from ancient Greece to today. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aeon, animal rights, animal welfare, anthropomorphizing, dignity, elitism, intelligence, New York Times, personhood, rights, Western civilization}

“Plant Philosophy” Sounds Like a Joke — It Isn’t

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 6, 2024

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences, Philosophy

5}

The purpose is to destroy the philosophical basis of Western civilization. Think I’m overreacting? Read More ›

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Date
August 5, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, assisted suicide, death, despair, Discovery Institute Press, Enlightenment, euthanasia, Greeks, history, Howard Glicksman, Jews, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, materialism, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, Peter Singer, Richard Weikart, Scott B. Rae, Socrates, suffering, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith}

How Did We Get Here? New Book by Richard Weikart Tracks Rise of the Culture of Death

_{Science and Culture
August 5, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

7}

The Judeo-Christian tradition encouraged a culture of life, but the secular Enlightenment and Darwinian materialism have tugged us in a different direction. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cognition, consciousness, ecocide, Ecuador, genocide, Harvard Law School, human rights, Iceland, nature rights, neo-paganism, Panama, panpsychism, personhood, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Wesley J. Smith}

Rocks’ Lives Matter: The Political Face of “Everything Is Conscious”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 2, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

When it comes to rights, just being human is becoming much less of an advantage. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, China, climate change, Columbia University, Ecuador, glaciers, Iceland, nature rights, Panama, personhood, pollution, river rights, University of Oregon}

Icelanders Nominated a Glacier for President to Push “Nature Rights” Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 31, 2024

Bioethics, Physical Sciences

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Here is a story on “nature rights” activism that, on first impression, leaves one bemused. Read More ›