Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 26, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, Judeo-Christian tradition, magic, morality, prophecy, Science, scientists, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Conditioners, theism, twins}

Science and Scientism: The Prophetic Vision of C. S. Lewis

_{James A. Herrick
August 26, 2020

Bioethics, Ethics

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This essay has argued that Lewis was prophetic as regards the advent of techniques powerful enough to bring about the effects he feared. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 25, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Big Brother, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, genetic engineering, George Bernard Shaw, history, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, Olaf Stapledon, regenerative medicine, Silicon Valley, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism}

C. S. Lewis and Critical Reactions to Transhumanism

_{James A. Herrick
August 25, 2020

Bioethics

6}

I will briefly review two prominent voices in the opposition camp who reflect concerns at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s own case. Read More ›

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Date
August 24, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Change Laura Tan, DNA, Eric Anderson, ID the Future, intelligent design, medical engineering, podcast, Rob Stadler, Stairway to Life}

The Stairway to Life Is Really a Cliff

_{Science and Culture
August 24, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Many of the “stairway steps” that have to be mounted for chemistry to become biology must, very inconveniently, happen all at once. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 24, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Internet, magic, mysticism, Nick Bostrom, noosphere, Olaf Stapledon, Ray Kurzweil, Ronald Bailey, Science, Teilhard de Chardin, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Singularity is Near, transhumanism, University of Oxford}

C. S. Lewis and Contemporary Transhumanism

_{James A. Herrick
August 24, 2020

Bioethics, Technology

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The vision of technologically enhanced posthumanity arises out of a synthesis of scientific culture’s most robust mythologies. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 23, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur C. Clarke, Back to Methuselah, C.H. Waddington, C.S. Lewis, Darwinism, eugenics, evolution, Francis Galton, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, J.B.S. Haldane, Olaf Stapledon, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, Possible Worlds, science fiction, scientism, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The World}

C. S. Lewis, Science, and Science Fiction

_{James A. Herrick
August 23, 2020

Bioethics, Technology

19}

Was C. S. Lewis an enemy of science? The apparent answer to this question is no. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 22, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, education, experimentation, human race, Men without Chests, Nature, propaganda, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Conditioners}

Why C. S. Lewis Wrote The Abolition of Man

_{James A. Herrick
August 22, 2020

Bioethics

5}

Lewis’s deep suspicion of modernist educational projects, subjectivism about morality, and progressive scientific planning animates these lectures. Read More ›

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Date
August 21, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, control systems, health, Howard Glicksman, human body, human life, hydration, ID the Future, medicine, physicians, podcast, Ray Bohlin, water}

Why Water Is Important for Human Life — A Doctor Explains

_{Science and Culture
August 21, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Medicine

1}

Biologist Ray Bohlin and physician Howard Glicksman discuss the body’s wondrous control systems for using water. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Technology
Tagged
, autonomy, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, dystopia, Francis Galton, George Bernard Shaw, human nature, individual freedom, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, Julian Savulescu, liberalism, Oxford University, pharmaceuticals, posthumanism, Prozac, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism}

The Abolition of Man and the Advent of the Posthuman

_{James A. Herrick
August 21, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Technology

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In Julian Savulescu’s view, rapidly advancing brain science will provide some of the data necessary to shaping a better human race. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
August 20, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Discovery Institute, friendship, government, gratitude, leadership, mentoring, policy, Politics, senators, Steven Buri, U.S. Senate}

Remembering Senator Slade Gorton

_{Bruce Chapman
August 20, 2020

Bioethics, Science Reporting

1}

Some will submit that his kind are gone, but I know that they are still around, because he helped get them there. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 20, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, bureaucrats, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, cities, coronavirus, COVID-19, Discovery Institute, evolution, fake news, freedom, humanity, idolatry, John West, masks, police, rabbis, scientism, scientocracy, shutdown, skepticism, suicide, violence, Washington State}

“In Fauci We Trust”? C. S. Lewis Foresaw Scientific Authoritarianism

_{David Klinghoffer
August 20, 2020

Medicine

4}

Who would have predicted all that Americans have experienced in the past five months? Read More ›