Tag: CRISPR

Futuristic holographic baby in doctor's hand: exploring virtual reality and medical technology

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, babies, Big Fertility, bioethics, Brave New World, cells, children, China, CRISPR, designer babies, eggs, embryos, gestational carriers, government, Katy Faust, manufacture, men, parents, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, regulation, reproduction, skin cells, somatic cell nuclear transfer, sperm, Them Before Us, women}

Human Reproduction Is Becoming Human Manufacture

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Making eggs out of skin cells is just the latest example of an accelerating reproductive anarchy that is changing our very culture. Read More ›

A Glimpse into a Scientist's Mind Through Chalk Drawings

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Date
August 15, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Metascience
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, ambition, American Council for Science and Health, Chuck Dinerstein, COVID-19, credit, CRISPR, data integrity, dishonesty, honesty, incentives, Liam Kofi Bright, London School of Economics, peer review, perverse incentives, prestige, recognition, replication, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, science, scientific integrity, scientists, trust, truth, watchdogs, wealth}

Why Scientists Lie

_{Science and Culture
August 15, 2025

Bioethics, Metascience, Scientific Trustworthiness

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One thing that will really help the discussion, going forward, is to quit blaming the public for not trusting science. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 19, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal rights, CRISPR, Davos, discrimination, environmentalism, Europe, fauna, flora, genetic engineering, genocide, germ line, humanity, mammals, Munich, nature rights, oppression, PETA, rights, slavery}

Defending Human Exceptionalism in Munich

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 19, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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This matters tremendously because human exceptionalism is the necessary predicate to universal human rights. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ethics
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, biotechnology, blastocyst, cells, CRISPR, embryology, embryonic stem cells, embryos, gametes, genetic engineering, human embryos, human experimentation, implantation, morality, petri dish, pluripotent stem cells, public policy, Science News, synthetic embryos, UCLA}

Scientists Are Close to Creating Human Embryos from Stem Cells

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Ethics, Life Sciences, Medicine

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Once again, biotechnology is racing ahead of our capacity to intellectually digest what is happening. Read More ›

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Date
April 11, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, China, CRISPR, embryo, genes, genetic testing, germline, human beings, Humanize, ID the Future, Nature (journal), podcast, scientists, Wesley J. Smith}

Wesley J. Smith on Nature Article about Alarming Gene Editing

_{Science and Culture
April 11, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

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Using the breakthrough technology known as CRISPR, scientists are not only altering the genes of a given creature. Read More ›

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Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Genetics
Medicine
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, China, CRISPR, eugenics, germline editing, Harvest House, He Jiankui, human dignity, ID the Future, podcast, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Wesley J. Smith}

Sound the Alarm on Germline Genetic Editing

_{Science and Culture
January 7, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Genetics, Medicine

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As Wesley Smith explains, it’s not just that germline editing could lead to unintended health consequences. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 25, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cas9, Casey Luskin, coordination, CRISPR, Darwinian evolution, ENCODE, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, Feng Zhang, Ferrari, Francis Collins, gene editing, genetic defects, genetic enhancements, George Church, germ line, humans, Huntington’s disease, incrementalism, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jennifer Doudna, John Bodnar, John West, Journal of Theoretical Biology, junk DNA, Michael Behe, natural history, natural selection, predictions, Richard Dawkins, sickle cell disease, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Language of God}

Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2021: An ID Prediction for CRISPR Gene Editing

_{William A. Dembski
December 25, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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From an design perspective, there is no compelling reason to think that CRISPR gene editing will constitute an enhancement tool for building superior humans. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 23, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger, Annual Review of Genetics, apes, BioEssays, BioLogos, chimpanzees, Christianity, common ancestry, CRISPR, Dennis Venema, Evangelicals, evolution, evolutionary theory, functionality, Genealogical Adam and Eve, gorillas, hominids, human origins, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), intelligent design, Jesus Christ, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, macaques, methodological naturalism, Nature (journal), Nature Reviews Genetics, Ola Hössjer, Paul Nelson, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pseudogenes, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), RNA (journal), S. Joshua Swamidass, Science Signaling, Springer, Theist Evolution, theology, William Lane Craig}

Lessons Not Learned from the Evangelical Debate over Adam and Eve

_{Casey Luskin
November 23, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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To his credit, William Lane Craig is among those evangelicals who have been willing to question arguments against Adam and Eve. Read More ›

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Date
September 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academicians, bacteria, bacteriophages, CRISPR, Darwinian theory, DNA, electrons, Escherichia coli, evolution, geometry, intelligent design, light bulb, molecular machines, nanowires, Nature (journal), Neil Thomas, oxygen, pili, PNAS, Science Daily, seafloor, soil, Spain, Switzerland, Taking Leave of Darwin, Uppsala University, Yale University}

Tricks of the Cell Trade

_{Science and Culture
September 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Cell processes are quick and efficient. They can even solve geometry problems in the dark without eyes or brains. Read More ›

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Date
August 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, bioRxiv, CELS 2021, CRISPR, DNA, Emily Reeves, epigenetics, evolution, finches, gametes, genetic information, geneticists, hybridization, intelligent design, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Methanoperedens, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neil Thomas, New Scientist, organelles, Peter and Rosemary Grant, PNAS, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Scientist, University of Copenhagen, zygote}

Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
August 13, 2021

Evolution

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Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. Read More ›