Tag: nihilism

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, acid bath, atheism, atheists, DNA, double helix, evolution, Francis Crick, genes, genetic engineering, genetics, gods, human beings, James D. Watson, nihilism, Nobel Prize, podcasters, purposelessness, racists, religion, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, theism}

Tortured, Contradictory: The Legacy of James Watson

_{David Klinghoffer
November 21, 2025

Evolution, Genetics

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"A noxious atheist, Watson unwittingly pointed the way toward scientific evidence of a creator." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, animals, atheists, cellular operations, Christie’s, codes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, digital code, DNA, double helix, evolution, faith, Francis Crick, genes, genetic isolation, genetics, history, Human Zoos, humans beings, information, intelligence, intelligent design, intelligent designer, James D. Watson, John West, language, Maurice Wilkins, nihilism, Nobel Prize, Plato's Revenge, race, Racism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, sequence hypothesis, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, theism}

For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

_{David Klinghoffer
November 11, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Read More ›

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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

3}

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

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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 ›