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Photo: Lab rats, by Jason Snyder from Washington, DC, United States [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists Make Male Rat Give Birth

Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect — biological males giving birth — a reality. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design Has Implications for Genome Editing

Biology is a lavish display of sophisticated designs exceeding all human engineering to date. Read More ›
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Stifle Your Nausea: Ready for a Dish-Grown Brain?

"We have already genetically engineered babies, the march toward three- (or more) parent human embryos, and radical proposals for creating novel family forms." Read More ›
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Science and Scientism: The Prophetic Vision of C. S. Lewis

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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Image: Screen shot from That Hideous Strength: C.S. Lewis's Prophetic Warning against the Abuse of Science.

C. S. Lewis and Critical Reactions to Transhumanism

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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Image: Screen shot from That Hideous Strength: C.S. Lewis's Prophetic Warning against the Abuse of Science.

Why C. S. Lewis Wrote The Abolition of Man

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

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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