Tag: despair

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, biotechnology, carbon molecules, China, Communists, death, despair, Falun Gong, hope, immortality, life-extension, obliteration, organ black market, organs, Orthodox Christians, political prisoners, Russia, technology, transhumanism, transhumanists, tyranny, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping}

Xi and Putin: Tyranny and Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 4, 2025

Bioethics, Technology

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Transhumanism is mostly a materialistic wail of despair in the night, a desperate quest for hope for those who are terrified that death leads to obliteration. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, addiction, bioethicists, Brave New World, community, despair, drugs, faith, family, LSD, meaning, mental health, neuroscience, patriotism, psychedelics, purpose, Reductionism, suicide}

Bioethicists Push Psychedelics for an “Interesting” Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 8, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

The dangers of taking such drugs aside, this essay reflects the reductionism of our time. Read More ›

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Date
August 5, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, assisted suicide, death, despair, Discovery Institute Press, Enlightenment, euthanasia, Greeks, history, Howard Glicksman, Jews, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, materialism, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, Peter Singer, Richard Weikart, Scott B. Rae, Socrates, suffering, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith}

How Did We Get Here? New Book by Richard Weikart Tracks Rise of the Culture of Death

_{Science and Culture
August 5, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

7}

The Judeo-Christian tradition encouraged a culture of life, but the secular Enlightenment and Darwinian materialism have tugged us in a different direction. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 16, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood-clotting system, books, Center for Science and Culture, creator, despair, Discovery Institute, educational outreach, evolution, government, hope, intelligent design, media, Michael Behe, Pope Benedict XVI, PragerU, prisoners, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, universities, video}

Can Evidence of a Creator Bring Hope?

_{John G. West
December 16, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

John Castino's life spiraled out of control. His faith in God was based on his feelings, and so when times turned bad, he lost his faith. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 24, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abortion, adult home care, Africans, brain surgery, chemotherapy, despair, DSHS, friendship, government aid, hematoma, homeless shelter, hospital, immigrants, Medicaid, pregnancy, racial hierarchy, Racism, rape, scientific racism, Section 8, subsidized housing, trust, WIC}

#9 Story of 2020: An Antidote to Despair

_{Ann Gauger
December 24, 2020

Bioethics, Biology, Faith & Science

9}

I am a biologist, a worker in a field with a sorrowful history of categorizing human beings by race. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 17, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, college students, colleges, COVID-19, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Black Box, Darwin’s Three Big Ideas that Impacted Humanity, Darwinians, despair, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, ID the Future, loneliness, Long Story Short, meaninglessness, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, monograph, professors, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Science Uprising, Secrets of the Cell, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, YouTube videos}

“Blind Evolution… Explained Everything”

_{John G. West
December 17, 2020

Faith & Science

4}

COVID-19 isn’t our only pandemic. There is also a pandemic of loneliness and despair. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
November 17, 2020

Categories
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, apes, Central America, Darwinists, despair, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, Jonathan Wells, journalism, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, morality, religion, Richard Dawkins, Science, Spanish, Stephen Meyer, young people}

The Solution to Fake News about Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
November 17, 2020

Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

3}

Just a few days ago, a former atheist endorsed Evolution News as the “best place” to read about topics relating to science, design, Darwinism, and faith. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
June 9, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Tagged
, abortion, adult home care, Africans, brain surgery, chemotherapy, despair, DSHS, friendship, government aid, hematoma, homeless shelter, hospital, immigrants, Medicaid, pregnancy, racial hierarchy, Racism, rape, scientific racism, Section 8, subsidized housing, trust, WIC}

An Antidote to Despair

_{Ann Gauger
June 9, 2020

Bioethics, Biology

9}

I am a biologist, a worker in a field with a sorrowful history of categorizing human beings by race, arranging them in a false hierarchy. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 12, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, assisted suicide, coronavirus, COVID-19, despair, District of Columbia, doctors, New Jersey, public policy, suicide prevention}

New Jersey’s Suicide Confusion

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 12, 2020

Bioethics

3}

With COVID-19, New Jersey officials are worried about a spike in suicide caused by the shutdown. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, assisted suicide, dementia, despair, disabilities, doctors, family, infanticide, killing, legislation, lethal injection, mental illness, Netherlands, organ harvesting, patients, Reuters}

Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia for Dementia

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 21, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

The Reuters story leaves out some details. The doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and instructed the family to hold the struggling patient down. Read More ›