Tag: George Bernard Shaw

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, atheism, C.S. Lewis, evolution, George Bernard Shaw, history, Michael Ruse, On Purpose, Owen Barfield, panpsychism, philosophers, religion}

Michael Ruse on Purpose: A Conflicted Response

_{Michael Flannery
March 6, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy of Science

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Whatever else might be said of Ruse and his work, like all his books this one is worth having on the shelf. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
January 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Back to Methuselah, Candida, Charles Dickens, Darwinism, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, Great Britain, Jacques Barzun, London, Ludwig van Beethoven, Malcolm Muggeridge, Russia, scientism, Shaw Chesterton series, The Restoration of Man, Victorian England}

Shaw, Scientism, and Darwinism

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
January 8, 2021

Bioethics

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George Bernard Shaw’s positive criterion by which to measure and ridicule folly and vice was fatally ambiguous, eclectic, and inconstant. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
January 7, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Brave New World, Christianity, Darwinism, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, imperialism, militarism, moral responsibility, Shaw Chesterton series, Social Darwinism, Soviet Union, T.S. Eliot, Westminster Abbey, William F. Buckley Jr., William Shakespeare}

Darwinism as the Root Problem of Modernity

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
January 7, 2021

Bioethics, Ethics

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Shaw and Chesterton believed that the acceptance of Darwinism made it impossible to resist social Darwinism, plutocracy, imperialism, racialism, and militarism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
January 6, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Christianity, eugenics, feminism, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Malcolm Muggeridge, National Review, Shaw Chesterton series, socialism, The Restoration of Man}

Shaw, Chesterton, and the Critique of Darwinism

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
January 6, 2021

Bioethics

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Chesterton was a friend of Shaw but also an ideological opponent, who often debated with him on public stages. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 25, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Big Brother, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, genetic engineering, George Bernard Shaw, history, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, Olaf Stapledon, regenerative medicine, Silicon Valley, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism}

C. S. Lewis and Critical Reactions to Transhumanism

_{James A. Herrick
August 25, 2020

Bioethics

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I will briefly review two prominent voices in the opposition camp who reflect concerns at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s own case. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 23, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur C. Clarke, Back to Methuselah, C.H. Waddington, C.S. Lewis, Darwinism, eugenics, evolution, Francis Galton, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, J.B.S. Haldane, Olaf Stapledon, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, Possible Worlds, science fiction, scientism, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The World}

C. S. Lewis, Science, and Science Fiction

_{James A. Herrick
August 23, 2020

Bioethics, Technology

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Was C. S. Lewis an enemy of science? The apparent answer to this question is no. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Technology
Tagged
, autonomy, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, dystopia, Francis Galton, George Bernard Shaw, human nature, individual freedom, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, Julian Savulescu, liberalism, Oxford University, pharmaceuticals, posthumanism, Prozac, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism}

The Abolition of Man and the Advent of the Posthuman

_{James A. Herrick
August 21, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Technology

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In Julian Savulescu’s view, rapidly advancing brain science will provide some of the data necessary to shaping a better human race. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Alfred Tennyson, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, élan vital, evolution, evolutionary biology, Galileo Galilei, Genetics (journal), George Bernard Shaw, George Eliot, Harvard School of Public Health, heliocentric model, Henri Bergson, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Cairns, Joseph Conrad, Karl Marx, Max Delbrück, Nicolaus Copernicus, Peter Bowler, Ptolemaic system, randomness, religion, Salvador Luria, Sigmund Freud, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Kuhn}

The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 7, 2020

Evolution, Science Education

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The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack. Read More ›