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Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 12, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
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, __cedited, __image, biotechnology, China, MIT Technology Review, monkeys, Pandora’s box, scientists, University of Colorado, William Hurlbut}

China Genetically Engineering Monkeys to Be More Human

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 12, 2019

Bioethics

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Swell. A few years ago we were promised experiments that would effect the brain would never be done in mice. They were right. Read More ›

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Date
January 18, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __cedited, A Meaningful World, Atacama Desert, beauty, Benjamin Wiker, Burgess Shale, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, Chile, China, Darwin's Doubt, DNA, evolution, Ferris Jabr, insects, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, MIT, Ohio State University, Periodic Table, sexual selection, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation, water}

Early Cambrian Complexity and Other News

_{Science & Culture
January 18, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Stephen Meyer’s case for intelligent design in Darwin’s Doubt keeps getting vindicated by new fossils. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 4, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __cedited, Brooklyn, Buddhism, China, climate change, earth, Martin Luther King, mental illness, misanthropy, suicide, Tibet, World Health Organization}

Romanticizing a Suicide “for the Earth”

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 4, 2019

Bioethics

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The harsh fact is that Buckel’s suicide was futile. It won’t make a whit of difference toward improving the environment. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
December 18, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
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, __cedited, __image, 1984 (novel), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Amazon, artificial intelligence, China, Christmas gifts, extraterrestrials, George Orwell, GPS, H.G. Wells, Johannes Kepler, Michael Keas, myths, religion, science, science fiction, smartphone, Stanley Kubrick, textbooks, Unbelievable}

Unbelievable: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and How to Tell the Difference

_{Mike Keas
December 18, 2018

Faith & Science

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My box of books just arrived. Now you know what all of my family and best local friends are getting for Christmas this year. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 29, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, __cedited, Brave New World, China, Falun Gong, gene editing, genetic engineering, Harvard Medical School, He Jiankui, Hong Kong, Nobel Prize, Rod Dreher, Science (journal), scientists}

China Turns Against “Rogue” Gene Engineer

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 29, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

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Engaging in biotechnological and other medical research in China can free one from normal ethical concerns. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 28, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
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, __cedited, China, Darwinian theory, East Africa, East Asia, Ethiopia, Europeans, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, human origins, India, Israel, Middle Palaeolithic, Middle Pleistocene, Misliya cave, modern humans, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, New Scientist, Racism, rewriting}

Rewriting Human Origins, Ongoing in East Asia

_{Günter Bechly
November 28, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

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The reason all these new discoveries are so noteworthy is not because they represent the usual progress of science. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, __image, China, CRISPR, DNA, egg, embryo, embryos, eugenics, gene editing, genetic disease, Hong Kong, in vitro fertilization, MIT Technology Review, Nobel Prize, science}

Eugenics Revisited: Scientists on the Verge of Genetically Engineering Babies

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 26, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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CRISPR is the most powerful technology invented since the splitting of the atom. Read More ›

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Date
October 10, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, China, common ancestry, convergent evolution, Darwinian mechanisms, echolocation, evolution, evolutionary biologists, genes, homology, Illustra Media, intelligent design, last common ancestor, Living Waters, mammals, materialists, molecular phylogeny, Paul Nelson, physiology, proteins, Richard Sternberg, Sarah Chaffee, Science Advances, whales, wonder}

Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

_{Science & Culture
October 10, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry. Read More ›

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Date
July 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
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, __cedited, Anomalocaris, antennae, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, Chengjiang biota, China, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, exoskeleton, fossils, functional whole, PNAS, Stephen Meyer, trilobites, Wikipedia}

Meet the Fuxianhuiids: Exploding Cambrian Arthropods

_{Science & Culture
July 20, 2018

Evolution

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True arthropods are among the most sophisticated animals that appeared without ancestors in the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 13, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __cedited, animals, atmosphere, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, genetic information, oxygen, oxygen theory, paleontology, Precambrian strata, Stephen Meyer, trilobites, University of Alberta}

Newly Identified Banded Iron Formation Puts Origins Theories on Horns of a Dilemma

_{Casey Luskin
July 13, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Many claim the Cambrian explosion was triggered by a sudden global increase in oxygen levels. Read More ›