Dawkins Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date May 19, 2021 CategoriesBioethicsEthicsHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , atheism, COVID-19, Down syndrome, eugenics, genocide, human life, Jim Crow, morality, Richard Dawkins, slavery, suffering, Twitter, utilitarianism Dawkins: “Wise and Sensible” to Abort Babies with Down Syndrome Wesley J. Smith May 19, 2021 Bioethics, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism 4 I have rarely seen a more vivid illustration of the lethal consequences of utilitarian thinking. Read More ›
Frederick Douglass Type post Author Michael Flannery Date February 11, 2021 CategoriesBioethicsEvolution Tagged , Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animals, Black History Month, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin Day, evolutionary racism, Frederick Douglass, freedom, humans, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Frederick Douglass, Champion Abolitionist and Former Slave, on Evolutionary Racism Michael Flannery February 11, 2021 Bioethics, Evolution 4 One wonders what kind of address Douglass would give on Darwin Day — falling tomorrow, February 12 — amidst Black History Month. Read More ›
cannibalism 2 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 7, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __k-review, animals, atheism, cannibalism, eugenics, evil, Holocaust, human dignity, humans, Inquisition, Jim Crow, misanthropy, Nat Hentoff, Richard Dawkins, slavery, theism, Western civilization Menu Suggestion from Richard Dawkins Wesley J. Smith March 7, 2018 Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism 3 He thinks we are just a collection of carbon molecules and certainly of no intrinsic value simply and merely because we are human. Read More ›
