Tag: nihilism

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, biology, biphobia, Charles Darwin, evolution, historians, homophobia, natural, Nature, nihilism, purpose, sexual liberation, sexuality, transphobia, unnatural, Wikipedia, Yuval Noah Harari}

Harari: “Darwin Is the Prophet”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 18, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Psychology

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I’ve never heard evolution and nihilism connected so clearly and concisely, and the implications vastly exceed sexuality. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animals, Australia, Jack Kevorkian, Kathryn Jean Lopez, media, Midwest, nihilism, Philip Nitschke, Sarco, suicide, suicide prevention, Switzerland, The Last Resort, tragedies}

“Doctor” Nitschke’s Suicide Pod Claims Its First Victim

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Was the capsule tested? If so, how? On animals? Who knows? Somehow, these questions don’t get asked. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
August 12, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Austria, Canada, Christianity, death, euthanasia, Germany, Joni Eareckson Tada, Judeo-Christian tradition, lethal injection, Netherlands, nihilism, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Spain, suicide, The Death of Humanity, Yuval Noah Harari}

Unalienable Rights, You Say? Why We Must Resist Yuval Harari’s “Scientific” Nihilism

_{Richard Weikart
August 12, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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History attests that when a culture does not draw a firm line protecting human life, it inevitably progresses to ending lives for all manner of reasons. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, chimpanzees, culture, David Barash, Denyse O'Leary, Disney, fiction, fungi, horror, human beings, humans, humanzee, lyrics, materialism, movies, Museum of Natural History, mushrooms, music, nihilism, Periodic Table, Pinocchio, Seattle, soul, stardust, stars, supernova, University of Washington, Victor Davis Hanson, young people}

Humans and Fungi: In Wish, Disney Goes to War on Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
December 14, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Dismantling the discontinuity of humans with nature is the goal of a cheery, innocent-sounding Disney song. 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, District of Columbia, euthanasia, feeding tube, Hawaii, heart, human life, kidneys, liver, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, mental illness, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, new york, nihilism, Oregon, organ transplant, pancreas, Rhode Island, suicide tourism, Terri Schiavo, Vermont, VSED}

A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

5}

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
February 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Tagged
, "chilling effect", anti-humanism, bioethicists, fauna, flora, granite outcroppings, Hong Kong, human thriving, humans, medical establishment, misanthropy, natural processes, nature rights, nihilism, prosperity, responsibilities, rights, rivers, speciesism, The Lancet}

World’s Oldest Medical Journal Endorses “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 16, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Medicine

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In other words, we, flora, fauna, and, indeed, geological features such as rivers and granite outcroppings are equal. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 9, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Christianity, evolutionary processes, Higher Criticism, logic, nature, nihilism, On the Origin of Species, poetry, spirituality, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

William Wordsworth’s Posthumous Challenge to Darwinian Nihilism

_{Neil Thomas
November 9, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Paradoxically, Wordsworth's theology may have formed a more effective counterforce to Darwin's ideas than Biblical orthodoxy itself. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Human Origins and Anthropology
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, abortion, Alfred Russel Wallace, atmosphere, Big Bang, bones, brain, breathing, Charles Darwin, circulation, Discovery Institute, environmental fitness, Harvard University, Homo sapiens, humans, hydrological cycle, Lawrence Henderson, Michael Denton, muscles, natural selection, nerves, Nicolaus Copernicus, nihilism, On the Origin of Species, oxygen, physical existence, Privileged Species, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Miracle of Man, transition metals, UFOs, United States, vision, water}

The Miracle of Man: New Book by Michael Denton

_{David Klinghoffer
May 10, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Human Origins and Anthropology, Physical Sciences, Physics

5}

Sputtering nihilists have turned their rage on the idea that someone, somewhere, could be thinking that the unborn man or woman is a miracle worth protecting. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 27, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithms, Big Tech, boredom, Brave New World, computer games, Davos, drugs, eugenics, gene editing, machines, nihilism, technocrats, transhumanism, universities, vehicles, Yuval Harari}

Transhumanism Is Pure Eugenics

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

Israeli philosophy professor Yuval Harari is one of the movement’s chief proselytizers. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 21, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agnostics, college, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, education, faith, gravitation, history, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Judeo-Christian tradition, materialism, nihilism, professors, Science, Warfare Thesis}

Stephen Meyer: Faith and the History of Science; Desperation and the Costs of Materialism

_{David Klinghoffer
April 21, 2022

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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As these comments suggest, the nihilism that is being sown by materialism is not just an intellectual problem. Read More ›