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Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least. Read More ›
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Listen: Children of Light — and Water — With Michael Denton

The sun has a fantastic range of electromagnetic radiation, from high-energy gamma rays all the way to long wavelength radio waves. Read More ›
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Denton Explains How Light Sustains Human Life

“The atmosphere lets through just the light we need,” says Denton, “and the sun puts out just the light we need. It’s a remarkable coincidence." Read More ›
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UN Human Rights Recommendation Brands Abortion Restrictions “Racial Discrimination”

Simply as a matter of strategy, the just cause of eliminating racism should focus exclusively on fighting actual discriminatory policies. Read More ›
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Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Read More ›
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A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

A legal battle raged for several years during which the country agonized and argued about the right and moral course.  Read More ›
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Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life

Canada has fallen off the euthanasia moral cliff by allowing broad categories of people to be killed by doctors as a means of ending “suffering.” Read More ›
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Kudos: Saleem Ali, ID Critic, Agrees to Talk with an ID Proponent

Dr. Ali’s comments in his discussion with Meyer and Brierley are a little bit of a word salad, but never mind. Read More ›
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The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Read More ›
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#2 Story of 2022: If a Fetus Isn’t a Human Being, What Is It?

How is it that a leading professor of biology could fundamentally misunderstand the biology of human development?  Read More ›

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