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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 15, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Belgium, Canada, Cornell University, human life, kidneys, Netherlands, organ transplant, organs, Peter Singer, pigs, surgery}

Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 15, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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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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Date
July 16, 2023

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Children of Light, electromagnetic radiation, Fire-Maker, human life, ID the Future, intelligent design, light, Michael Denton, photosynthesis, podcast, Privileged Species, Sarah Chaffee, sun, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water, water}

Listen: Children of Light — and Water — With Michael Denton

_{Science & Culture
July 16, 2023

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences

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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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Date
July 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, biochemists, Children of Light, doctors, earth, Fire-Maker, human life, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, light, Michael Denton, podcast, Privileged Species, Sarah Chaffee, sun, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water}

Denton Explains How Light Sustains Human Life

_{Science & Culture
July 8, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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“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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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, eugenics, human life, race, Racism, unborn, United Nations}

UN Human Rights Recommendation Brands Abortion Restrictions “Racial Discrimination”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 3, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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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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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, artificial intelligence, babies, ChatGPT, chimpanzees, computer, dementia, human life, humans, infanticide, infants, medicine, persons, Peter Singer, pregnancy, Princeton University, self-awareness, sentience, unconsciousness}

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 8, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy

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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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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, advance directive, California, Canada, Colorado, compassion, Connecticut, dehydration, disabilities, euthanasia, Hawaii, heart, human life, kidneys, liver, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, mental illness, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, new york, nihilism, Oregon, organ transplant, Terri Schiavo, Vermont, VSED}

A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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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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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, Canada, crime, culture, euthanasia, human life, insulin, Jack Kevorkian, judges, murder}

Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 22, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, creationists, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, human life, improbability, intelligent design, Justin Brierley, materialism, nature, order, Oxford University Press, Stephen Meyer, Unbelievable, word salad}

Kudos: Saleem Ali, ID Critic, Agrees to Talk with an ID Proponent

_{David Klinghoffer
March 14, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

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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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 7, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abortion, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, birth, California, Canada, doctors, Finland, France, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, glaciers, Holocaust, human life, insects, Jews, Journal of Medical Ethics, mastectomies, Netherlands, Ontario, Oregon, organ donation, peas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, rivers, Sweden, unborn children, United Kingdom}

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 7, 2023

Bioethics, Botany, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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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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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 31, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, asexual reproduction, budding, corals, egg, embryo, fetus, Homo sapiens, human being, human development, human life, Jerry Coyne, microorganisms, morality, mother, murder, pain, pro-life, Roman Catholic, sperm, sponges, tissue, womb, worms, zygote}

#2 Story of 2022: If a Fetus Isn’t a Human Being, What Is It?

_{Michael Egnor
December 31, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

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