Tag: nihilism | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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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, euthanasia, Hawaii, heart, human life, kidneys, liver, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, mental illness, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, new york, nihilism, Oregon, organ transplant, Terri Schiavo, Vermont, VSED}

A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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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, 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 ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 27, 2022

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

Transhumanism Is Pure Eugenics

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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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 ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Technology
Tagged
, Big Tech, Christianity, death, faith, fasting, Huffington Post, immortality, materialism, Nick Bostrom, nihilism, prayer, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, St. Paul, theology, transhumanism, Zoltan Istvan}

The Impossibility of Christian Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 1, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Technology

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First principles matter, and those of transhumanism and Christianity could not be more contradictory. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 22, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Bible, Christianity, creator, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, Europe, evolution, Germany, history, Jesus Christ, materialism, Naturphilosophie, New Testament, nihilism, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma (series), Rome, teleology, world spirit}

As Many Opinions as There Are Men?

_{Neil Thomas
March 22, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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The ideas of Ernst Haeckel, in his youth a hardline Darwinian materialist, were to evolve to a surprising degree. Read More ›

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Date
February 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, Christianity, cosmic fine-tuning, Darwinism, Epicurus, evolution, Hank Hanegraaff, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, logical positivism, Neil Thomas, nihilism, Orthodox Christians, podcast, Richard Dawkins, Taking Leave of Darwin, theism}

Neil Thomas Takes on Epicurus and the Logical Positivists

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February 5, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Hanegraaff and Thomas provide a model of how two men with differing positions on Christianity can challenge each other while remaining cordial. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 3, 2021

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Political Science
Tagged
, animism, atheism, creator, David Klinghoffer, Declaration of Independence, elitism, endowed by their creator, equality, evolution, evolutionary ethics, freedom, Homo sapiens, human rights, ideas have consequences, metaethics, monotheism, morality, myths, nihilism, religion, Sapiens review, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, subjectivism, Thomas Jefferson, truth, Voltaire, Yuval Noah Harari}

Reviewing Sapiens: An Evolutionary Deconstruction of Human Rights

_{Casey Luskin
August 3, 2021

Ethics, Evolution, Political Science

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Yuval Noah Harari deconstructs the most famous line from the Declaration of Independence. Read More ›