Tag: moral responsibility

Dimly lit laboratory with chemicals and equipment in a vintage, cluttered room

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, activists, biotech, biotechnology, censorship, culture of death, dignity, embryos, environmentalism, fetal farming, gender dysphoria, gender ideology, genetic engineering, hospitals, human exceptionalism, human life, labs, moral responsibility, nature rights, organ harvesting, totalitarianism, unborn, Wesley J. Smith}

Wesley J. Smith: Frightening Abuses of Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 31, 2025

Bioethics, Technology

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Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
August 28, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aristotle, brain, careers, causation, Christof Koch, Denyse O’Leary, divorce, epiphenomena, families, free will, friendships, grants, human trafficking, jobs, livelihoods, machines, marriages, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, moral responsibility, neuroscience, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, philosophers, Plato, preference falsification, promotions, Saint Augustine, scientists, sexual abuse, soul, The Immortal Mind, theologians, worldview}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Are We Meat Machines, and Why Does It Matter?

_{John Zmirak
August 28, 2025

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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I found yours to be a fascinating and persuasive book on a crucial subject. You lay out the issues starkly. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, babies, computer software, Endangered Species Act, fish, gestating human babies, image of God, insects, invertebrates, Jeff Sebo, life, mammals, microbes, moral agents, moral patients, moral responsibility, NYU, philosophers, The Moral Circle, universe}

Microbes as “Moral Agents”? Bioethicist Says Yes

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 14, 2025

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 15, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abstractions, carnivores, cats, Dogs, emotions, food, grief, humans, moral responsibility, npr, Oakland University, pets, predators, Psychology Today, safety}

A (Cat’s) Grief Observed: Understanding the Gulf that Separates Us from Our Pets

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 15, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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The gap between the human mind and the cat mind doesn’t turn on emotions but on abstractions. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, determinism, droughts, earthquakes, human bodies, Hurricanes, ID the Future, intelligent design, molecules, moral responsibility, natural disasters, natural forces, naturalism, Robert Sapolsky, Second Law of Thermodynamics, sickness, suffering, theism, tragedies}

Eric Hedin on Suffering in a Designed World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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First, Dr. Hedin discusses the problem of natural evils like earthquakes, hurricanes, droughts, and other natural disasters. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 18, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, children, China, climate change, environmentalism, experts, family planning, global warming, kids, life, moral responsibility, policies, prison}

Bioethicist: Having Children Is Bad

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 18, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Talk about shades of China family-planning theory. We must destroy much of what makes life worth living in order save the planet! 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 Egnor

Date
August 21, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __tedited, choice, culpability, determinism, free will, human behavior, Jerry Coyne, judgment, moral responsibility, purpose, solipsism}

Can a Determinist Change the World?

_{Michael Egnor
August 21, 2016

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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G.K. Chesterton told an amusing story of a young man who wrote to him extolling the truth of solipsism. Read More ›

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Author
Brendan Dixon

Date
June 17, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __tedited, atheism, creation myth, creationism, irony, just-so stories, moral responsibility, simulation theory, Singularity}

When Atheists Meet Creationism, You Get Creatheism

_{Brendan Dixon
June 17, 2016

Computational Sciences, Faith & Science

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It is not a word that rolls easily off the tongue. But I am at a loss for one that better describes the atheists Daniel Jackson describes. Read More ›

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Date
April 19, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Genetics
Tagged
, __tedited, behavior, cell adhesion, character, children, choices, estrogen, free choice, genome, human responsibilities, moral responsibility, parenthood, personality, prophecy, reproduction, risk, sexual ethics, sexual misbehavior, sexual reproduction, storytelling}

Science as Astrology: A Gene for, or Rather Against, Virginity?

_{Science and Culture
April 19, 2016

Bioethics, Genetics

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Sometimes it seems much of the most hyped research is about relieving us of the burden of personal moral responsibility. Read More ›