Tag: despair

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 14, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, authority, business, chronic pain, despair, disability, doctors, Gallup, love, media, medicine, moral acceptability, opinions, physician-assisted suicide, poll, popular culture, prevention, rescue, respondents, self-termination, spouse, suicide, terminal sickness}

On Morality of Suicide, a Wide Disparity of Opinion; Why?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 14, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Close to a majority, 49 percent, answered that committing suicide with a doctor’s help is morally acceptable, while 45 percent responded that it is not. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, beginning, Bertrand Russell, Big Bang, Cambridge University, Christianity, cosmology, creator, designer, despair, faith and science, Hoover Institution, James Tour, john lennox, monotheism, Peter Robinson, philosophers, scientists, Singularity, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, theaters, theism, universe, Why I Am Not a Christian}

Lennox, Meyer, Tour, Robinson: The Science of Monotheism

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

The indefinite article is emphatically in the singular. In all those statements, there was only one beginning. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, biotechnology, China, Communists, death, despair, Falun Gong, hope, immortality, life-extension, organs, Orthodox Christians, political prisoners, Russia, technology, transhumanism, transhumanists, tyranny, Vladimir Putin}

Xi and Putin: Tyranny and Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 4, 2025

Bioethics, Technology

2}

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, despair, drugs, faith, family, meaning, mental health, neuroscience, patriotism, 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, 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 & 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
, books, Center for Science and Culture, creator, despair, Discovery Institute, 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, Africans, brain surgery, chemotherapy, despair, friendship, hospital, Medicaid, pregnancy, racial hierarchy, Racism, rape, scientific racism, trust}

#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, 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, Africans, brain surgery, chemotherapy, despair, friendship, hospital, Medicaid, pregnancy, racial hierarchy, Racism, rape, scientific racism, trust}

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 ›