Tag: genetic engineering

Dimly lit laboratory with chemicals and equipment in a vintage, cluttered room

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, activists, biotech, biotechnology, censorship, culture of death, dignity, embryos, environmentalism, fetal farming, gender dysphoria, gender ideology, genetic engineering, hospitals, human exceptionalism, human life, labs, moral responsibility, nature rights, organ harvesting, totalitarianism, unborn, Wesley J. Smith}

Wesley J. Smith: Frightening Abuses of Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 31, 2025

Bioethics, Technology

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Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
April 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Christianity, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, genetic engineering, intelligent design, Internet, Jesuits, noosphere, North American Teilhard Society, paleontology, Peter Medawar, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Piltdown Man, The Phenomenon of Man, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Nagel, Vatican}

On the 70th Anniversary of His Death, Anything to Salute in the Thought of Teilhard de Chardin?

_{Robert Shedinger
April 10, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The significance of Teilhard's pointing out the incomplete nature of the evolutionary theory of his day should not be underestimated. 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
July 17, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, Ars Technica, birds, brain size, brains, chimpanzees, genetic engineering, Homo sapiens, human brain, humans, information processing, John Timmer, lemurs, London School of Economics, Michael Denton, monkeys, octopuses, oxygen, primates, superintelligence, synaptic connections, The Miracle of Man}

Brain Size Doesn’t Determine Intelligence

_{Science and Culture
July 17, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

5}

Brains are not simple, so many “just common sense” theories have fallen by the wayside. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Carl Linnaeus, common ancestry, Craig Venter, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution (journal), genetic engineering, geneticists, Georges Cuvier, historical sciences, intelligent design, molecular biologists, Mycoplasma, phylogenetics, primates, scientists, separate ancestry, statistics, Summer Seminar, systematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison}

Do Statistics Prove Common Ancestry?

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Consider a scenario where there are three German Shepherds: a mother, her son, and a third that is a genetically engineered clone of the son. Read More ›

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Date
October 5, 2021

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, academic freedom, Adam and Eve, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christians, Cornelius Hunter, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, faith, fossil record, genetic engineering, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, human origins, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, James Tour, Jay Richards, John Bloom, John West, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Michael Keas, panspermia, Paul Nelson, Rice University, Robert J. Marks II, Stephen Meyer, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Privileged Planet, theology, universal common descent, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

New Book, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Answers Key Questions on Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
October 5, 2021

Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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"If anyone thinks that the study of science and faith should be disparate disciplines, here are more than 656 reasons why they’re wrong." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 28, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, biotechnology, China, CRISPR, diseases, Financial Times, genetic engineering, Regeneron}

An Example of Ethical Human Genetic Engineering

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 28, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

The primary ethical problems with CRISPR in humans so far have come from “germ line” genetic engineering. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 17, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, babies, bioethicists, China, embryos, fertilization, genetic engineering, government funding, humans, hybrids, monkeys, Nature (journal), scientists, Stanford University, William Hurlbut}

Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2021

Bioethics

3}

They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 21, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, atomic energy, Big Biotech, Brave New World, CRISPR, dystopia, embryos, genetic engineering, Israel, mouse embryos, New York Times, scientists, Weizmann Institute of Science, Zoltan Istvan}

Scientists Succeed in Creating Mouse Artificial Wombs

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

This technology is still a long time from the potential for human application, but it presents issues we need to address now. Read More ›