Planned-Parenthood Type post Author Jonathan Wells Date October 9, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , abortion, abortion pill, Albert Olszewski, Alberto Giubilini, Ana Rosa Rodriguez, Animal Liberation, aversive action, babies, birth canal, blood samples, brain, curette, developmental biology, dilatation and curettage, dilatation and evacuation, distress, fetal age, feticide, fetuses, Food and Drug Administration, gestational age, Guttmacher Institute, Indiana, injury, Montana, New York City, newborns, Nik Hoot, pain, Peter Singer, petri dish, phenylalanine, phenylketonuria, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy, prosthetic legs, Roman Catholic, Russia, Should the Baby Live?, Sopher clamp, tissue, United States, Washington Post At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain? Jonathan Wells October 9, 2024 Bioethics, Medicine 13 Logic isn’t a sufficient answer to the question I raised, however. For a scientific answer, we need evidence. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943) Type post Author Neil Thomas Date June 13, 2022 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Anthony Flew, consciousness, Darwin, David Bentley Hart, David Hume, deism, Donald Hoffman, Erasmus Darwin, Europeans, evolution, Francis Crick, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, materialism, Michael Ruse, mind, natural selection, natural theology, neuroscience, On the Origin of Species, Peter Singer, Racism, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Rorty, Richard Spilsbury, Stephen Hawking, Ternate letter, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind Neil Thomas June 13, 2022 Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind 17 Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace Type post Author Neil Thomas Date December 13, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignLinguistics Tagged , Abrahamic faiths, Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Antony Flew, Bonfire of the Vanities, brain, Charles Darwin, Church of England, Communism, Cristian Bandea, cytology, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, East Germany, Erasmus Darwin, Eric Metaxas, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Noam Chomsky, Peter Singer, philosophes, religion, Stephen Meyer, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, The Return to the God Paradigm (series), Tom Wolfe, William Paley Toward a New Natural Theology Neil Thomas December 13, 2021 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics 9 Alfred Wallace was arguing his position from simple logic rather than on the authority of revelation from any of the Abrahamic faiths. Read More ›
Planned Parenthood Type post Author Jonathan Wells Date September 21, 2020 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , abortion, abortion pill, Albert Olszewski, Alberto Giubilini, Ana Rosa Rodriguez, Animal Liberation, aversive action, babies, birth canal, blood samples, brain, curette, developmental biology, dilatation and curettage, dilatation and evacuation, distress, fetal age, feticide, fetuses, Food and Drug Administration, Francesca Minerva, gestation, gestational age, Guttmacher Institute, Indiana, injury, Montana, New York City, newborns, Nik Hoot, pain, Peter Singer, petri dish, phenylalanine, phenylketonuria, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy tissue, prosthetic legs, Roman Catholic, Russia, Should the Baby Live?, Sopher clamp, United States, Washington Post At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain? Jonathan Wells September 21, 2020 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 13 Peter Singer has argued that animals, like humans, deserve protection because of their ability to suffer. Read More ›
