Tag: The Death of Humanity

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, animals, assisted suicide, Charles Darwin, dementia, euthanasia, future, human life, infants, persons, Peter Singer, rationality, right to life, self-consciousness, The Death of Humanity, worldview}

The Contradiction in Peter Singer’s Worldview

_{Richard Weikart
September 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy

5}

He never provides any reason why rationality, self-consciousness, and the ability to plan the future have any value. 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

9}

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
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, California State University Stanislaus, Canada, Center on Human Exceptionalism, culture of death, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, From Darwin to Hitler, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Netherlands, Richard Weikart, Stony Brook University, Switzerland, The Death of Humanity, United States, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith}

Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." Read More ›

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Date
February 26, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, eugenics, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Jeffrey O’Connell, master race, Michael Ruse, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, The Death of Humanity}

Cambridge UP Book Airbrushes Darwin’s Contribution to Scientific Racism

_{Science and Culture
February 26, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

1}

Darwin’s racist and pro-eugenics thinking, combined with some implications of his theory that he expressed, laid the groundwork for Hitler’s diabolical outlook. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
May 2, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, California State University Stanislaus, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, eugenics, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, ID the Future, master race, Richard Weikart, Social Darwinism, The Death of Humanity}

Listen: Richard Weikart Reviews a New Book on Social Darwinism

_{Jonathan Witt
May 2, 2021

Bioethics

1}

The book paints Herbert Spencer as the eugenics-championing bad guy and posits that Darwin and Darwinism had little influence on Hitler’s master race ethic. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 2, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __edited, abortion, Big Bang, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, culture, Darwinists, euthanasia, Frank Tipler, government funding, history, human life, infanticide, materialism, Richard Weikart, Singularity, The Death of Humanity}

An “Impersonal Universe” and Its Consequences

_{David Klinghoffer
July 2, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

2}

Physicist Frank Tipler, as I noted earlier today, provocatively personalizes the Singularity, the beginning point or moment from which the universe burst forth. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
January 4, 2019

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, E.O. Wilson, eugenics, Francis Collins, human experimentation, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, morality, Owen Gingerich, Racism, Scientific American, scientific revolution, The Death of Humanity, Thomas Jefferson, warfare}

Why Michael Shermer’s “Case for Scientific Humanism” Fails

_{Richard Weikart
January 4, 2019

Ethics, Faith & Science

4}

Shermer tries to rewrite history by insisting that science is built on atheistic assumptions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 2, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, Adolf Hitler, Bertrand Russell, C-SPAN, Enlightenment, history, Hitler’s Religion, Richard Weikart, The Death of Humanity, Thomas Jefferson}

Weikart on C-SPAN: Jefferson, Russell, Hitler, Pianka, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
September 2, 2018

Bioethics

1}

Kudos to interviewer Peter Slen who is utterly unreadable as to his own attitudes on any on this. Read More ›

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Date
August 24, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, C-SPAN, California State University Stanislaus, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, FreedomFest, George Gilder, history, Hitler’s Religion, John West, Las Vegas, Richard Weikart, The Death of Humanity}

Weikart Will Discuss Hitler’s Religion, Death of Humanity, on C-SPAN, Sunday Night

_{Science and Culture
August 24, 2018

Bioethics

1}

Discovery Institute’s Richard Weikart, George Gilder, and John West were speakers at last month’s FreedomFest at the Paris Resort in Las Vegas. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
July 12, 2018

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, adultery, anti-Semitism, behavior, Darwinian theory, E.O. Wilson, evolution, evolutionary ethics, Harvard University, homosexuality, humans, infanticide, just-so stories, Kevin MacDonald, race, Racism, rape, stereotypes, Steven Pinker, The Death of Humanity}

Darwinian Theory and Evolutionary Psychology

_{Richard Weikart
July 12, 2018

Ethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

3}

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker asserts that infanticide has biological roots. He claims that ancient humans were picky about which babies they would raise to maturity. Read More ›