Tag: Aldous Huxley

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
April 7, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Bible, biology, chemists, Darwinism, intelligent design, J. Budziszewski, jobs, materialistic paradigm, meaning, media, morality, natural law theory, Pandemic of Lunacy, peer pressure, Phillip Johnson, promotion, snake handlers, social status, status signaling, University of Texas at Austin, yahoos}

Status Signaling in the Herd: Why Otherwise Good Scientists Sneer at Intelligent Design

_{Terrell Clemmons
April 7, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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"Here is Johnson, giving a very studious argument for ID, and the other fellow thinks it’s sufficient to say, 'I know it's wrong because my friend told me.'" Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 4, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alice in Wonderland, atheism, behaviorism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, cosmogony, David Berlinski, Freudianism, Marxism, multiverse, On the Origin of Species, quantum fluctuation, Richard Dawkins, theistic Darwinism, Theory of Everything, Tom Wolfe, Universal Darwinism, Victorians}

Existentialist Science: Darwin as Proto-Absurdist

_{Neil Thomas
November 4, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

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The existentialist story might arguably start with Charles Darwin and his conception of the chance evolution of life. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
November 28, 2022

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Batsell Barrett Baxter, Brave New World, business, C.S. Lewis, chemotherapy, freedom, grief, intelligent design, Jews, literature, love, Melissa Wehmann Sewell, music, pain, poetry, problem of pain, suffering, Utopia}

Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering

_{Granville Sewell
November 28, 2022

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Technology

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After she realized she had lost her battle with cancer, my wife Melissa wrote a letter to our children. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 11, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Technology
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Bioscience, clones, egg, fertilization, human experimentation, human life, Israel, mice, organ harvesting, skin cells, sperm, stem cells, The Guardian, unborn, uterus, utilitarianism}

About Those “Synthetic Embryos”

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Technology

4}

I have no problem with this work in mice. But the scientists want to take this technology into human experimentation. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Basil Willey, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, evolution, On the Origin of Species, secularism, secularists, Sherlock Holmes, spiritualism, William Shakespeare}

Darwin, Group Think, and Confirmation Bias

_{Neil Thomas
August 2, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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How was Darwinian theory, despite its lack of empirical support or even semblance of verisimilitude, able to advance to its present position of orthodoxy? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 29, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, brain, brain injuries, consciousness, Cornell University, fMRI, matter, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Oxford University, The Guardian}

Can LSD Help Us Understand the Mind–Brain Relationship?

_{Michael Egnor
May 29, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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Aldous Huxley noted that LSD “lowers the efficiency of the brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of life.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
January 7, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Brave New World, Christianity, Darwinism, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, imperialism, militarism, moral responsibility, Social Darwinism, Soviet Union, T.S. Eliot, Westminster Abbey, William F. Buckley Jr., William Shakespeare}

Darwinism as the Root Problem of Modernity

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
January 7, 2021

Bioethics, Ethics

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Shaw and Chesterton believed that the acceptance of Darwinism made it impossible to resist social Darwinism, plutocracy, imperialism, racialism, and militarism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
August 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, Clarence Darrow, Dante, Darwinian theory, David Hume, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, J.B.S. Haldane, Jacques Maritain, John Dewey, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Malcolm Muggeridge, Marxists, Michael Polanyi, Pierre Duhem, Social Darwinism, T.S. Eliot, That Hideous Strength, William Jennings Bryan, William Shakespeare, Yuval Harari}

That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
August 16, 2020

Bioethics

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The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 23, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Tagged
, __edited, Africa, Aldous Huxley, bioethicists, biotechnology, Brave New World, China, Congress, Food and Drug Administration, genetic engineering, germ line, human experimentation, Journal of the American Medical Association, media, medicine, scientists, social media, Stanford University, William Hurlbut}

Slouching Toward a “Brave New World”

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 23, 2019

Bioethics, Environment & Climate

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Genetic engineering could unleash a deadly pandemic or lead to a “new eugenics” with very sharp teeth. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 30, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, Aldous Huxley, babies, biotech, Brave New World, China, dehumanization, Dubai, embryos, eugenics, FDA, gametes, genetic engineering, germline, gestational carriers, He Jiankui, IVF, Politicians, procreation, regulation, Stanford University, William Hurlbut}

Don’t Let Profiteers Control Human Genetic Engineering

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

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Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World as a dire warning. But we aren’t paying heed. Read More ›