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Doctor’s Diary: Are Flaws in Our Design Responsible for Bad Things Happening to Good People?

When I lecture, I typically discuss intelligent design as if it were a near-perfect process creating inexplicably complicated living entities. Read More ›
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Steven Buri, Wesley Smith: What Is a Human Being?

That politicians and activists can watch their fellow men wallow in degradation this way is itself a twisted tribute to human exceptionalism. Read More ›
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Photo: Pocket watch, an image Wikipedia links with intelligent design because it’s meant to suggest an association with William Paley and the antiquated “watchmaker analogy”; by Hannes Grobe (Own work) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

On ID, Myth Persists that Wikipedia Is Reliable, though Co-Founder Has Called It “Appallingly Biased”

I was reminded of this by an exchange today on Twitter, or X, or however somebody “rebrands” it tomorrow. Read More ›
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We’re Seeing the First Wave of Applied Transhumanism

OK. Let’s get real. Most of the morphological transformations for which transhumanists yearn will almost surely never come to pass. Read More ›
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NYT Pushes Suicide for the Mentally Ill

Clancy Martin’s first paragraph makes clear why his thesis should be rejected out of hand. Read More ›
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Photo: A 2005 protest for Terri Schiavo, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: An Appeal to Sanity

I’ll close with a story. My wife used to set up psychiatric units across the U.S. Read More ›
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10,000+ Canadian Euthanasia Killings in 2021

The statistics are startling and illustrate that once euthanasia consciousness infects a culture, it grows like a fungus. Read More ›
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Photo: Darwin’s statue, Natural History Museum, by http://www.cgpgrey.com [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinism and the “So What?” Question: John West’s Darwin Day in America

At first glance, it might seem that whether we believe in evolution as a purely material, unguided process should make no difference to values or morality. Read More ›
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Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia for Dementia

The Reuters story leaves out some details. The doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and instructed the family to hold the struggling patient down. Read More ›

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