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Author
Peter Biles

Date
March 28, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Technology
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Dante, Discovery Institute Press, G.K. Chesterton, George Gilder, Holocaust, Homo sapiens, John Milton, knowledge, Malcolm Muggeridge, morality, relativism, scientism, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Restoration of Man, Winston Churchill}

Michael D. Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis and Scientism

_{Peter Biles
March 28, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Technology

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Scientism claims that science alone dictates the truth, although this system of thought depends on non-scientific reasons to come to such a conclusion. Read More ›

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Author
Olufemi Oluniyi

Date
February 21, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, Africa, Africans, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, colonialism, Darwin Comes to Africa, ethnicity, Europe, Europeans, evolution, historiography, Joseph Stalin, morality, natural selection, Nigeria, pseudoscience, race, Racism, random mutation, religion, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, tiger}

The Cruel Legacy of Social Darwinism in Nigeria

_{Olufemi Oluniyi
February 21, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Genetics

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Social Darwinism rests like a tiger moth on Darwinism, its mother theory; when challenged with facts, it just flits to a slightly different position. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
February 15, 2023

Categories
Applied Sciences
Bioethics
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Big Data, C.S. Lewis, education, elitism, faith, government, knowledge, magic, media, milk, morality, Neo-Darwinism, reality, soul, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism}

Humans Have Limits. Transhumanists Want to Overcome Them

_{Peter Biles
February 15, 2023

Applied Sciences, Bioethics, Evolution, Technology

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Transhumanism, arguably an offshoot of neo-Darwinism, is set on envisioning the next grand step of human evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 6, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bears, cannibalism, consciousness, crime, free will, humans, moral agency, morality, Nonhuman Rights Project, plaintiffs, Psyche, responsibility}

Can Animals Be Held Criminally Responsible?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 6, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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While the idea is handled provocatively in philosophy literature, in practice, animals are envisioned as plaintiffs, not defendants, in animal rights cases. 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 ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 15, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Andrew Klavan, Claremont Review of Books, Leo Tolstoy, Marvel Cinematic Universe, morality, multiverse, narrative, Oxford University, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer}

Meyer and Klavan: How the Multiverse Ruins Science…and Storytelling

_{David Klinghoffer
November 15, 2022

Bioethics, Physical Sciences

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"The multiversal Marvel Cinematic Universe is a world without narrative stakes, moral meaning, or tragedy, because it is a world without consequences." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 15, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Ethics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, democracy, ideology, morality, Nature (journal), policy, Politico, Politics, pregnancy, religion, Science (journal), Supreme Court, technocracy, truth}

Another Prestigious Science Journal Conflates Science with Politics and Pushes for Technocracy

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 15, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Ethics, Philosophy

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If anything is a “war on science,” it is publishing ideological articles like this in what is supposed to be a science journal. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Ethics
Tagged
, abortion, culture, eugenics, Harvard University, ideology, journals, morality, Politics, Science (journal), scientific establishment, Supreme Court, United States, wokeness}

How Political Ideology Has Undermined Scientific Credibility

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 1, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Ethics

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Science goes badly off the track when it succumbs to ideological pressures — as it did with the eugenics movement. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Philosophy
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, abortion, African Americans, assisted suicide, babies, bias, censorship, culture, human being, media, morality, Politics, public health, Racism, religion, Roman Catholic, Supreme Court}

Pro-Abortion MDs Want Media to Cancel Pro-Life Voices

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 17, 2022

Ethics, Philosophy, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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Many abortion absolutists claim that pro-lifers are “racist” because restrictions on abortion will “disproportionately” impact women of color. Read More ›

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Date
July 10, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, criminals, evil, evolution, free will, good, Holocaust, humans, ID the Future, Jerry Coyne, materialism, Michael Egnor, morality, Nazis, neurosurgery, podcast}

Evolution and the Disturbing Consequences of Denying Free Will

_{Science & Culture
July 10, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

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How can an evolutionist such as Jerry Coyne condemn even something as manifestly heinous as the Nazi Holocaust? Read More ›