09Mar 2024 by Post

The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo

Alabama Supreme Court, biology, colon, Culture & Ethics, death, doctors, egg, embryos, fetuses, human beings, human rights, ideology, in vitro fertilization, independence, IVF, Judeo-Christian tradition, Medicine, newborn baby, newborns, personhood, petri dish, pregnancy, reproduction, right to life, sentience, sperm, Steven Novella, womb, Yale University, zygotes
A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization. Source
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01Sep 2023 by Post

What “Resurrecting” the Woolly Mammoth Would Mean for Darwinism

artificial wombs, biological information, Charles Darwin, Colossal Biosciences, dodo, elephant, embryos, Evolution, Financial Times, gene editing, George Church, ghost lineages, horizontal gene transfer, inheritance trees, Intelligent Design, pig organs, Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov, Siberia, Tasmanian tiger, Texas, viruses, woolly mammoth
Intelligent design would become the most likely hypothesis to abductively explain the data of life's history. Source
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02Dec 2022 by Post

Let’s Help “Professor Dave” Understand the Precambrian

Anabarites, bilaterians, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrotubulus, Carboniferous, Cloudina, Conotubus, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran, embryos, Evolution, Fortunian, fossils, Gaojiashania, Intelligent Design, Kimberella, Mongolia, Namacalathus, Namapoikia, paleontology, Permian, Precambrian animals, Professor Dave, Protohertzina, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, Tommotian, Trilobozoa, wormworld
We have much to teach the non-professor, and I trust that he is grateful for the education being rendered to him here. Source
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01Dec 2022 by Post

“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

acritarchs, Avalon Assemblage, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, Caveasphaera, China, Cladonia chlorophaea, Cloudina, cnidarians, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, demosponges, Dickinsonia, Doushantuo fossils, embryos, Eumetazoa, Evolution, fossils, Gregory Retallack, Haootia quadriformis, Helicoforamina, homology, Ikaria, Intelligent Design, Internet, Joe Botting, Kimberella, Lantianella, Megasphaera, Metazoa, microfossils, Nama Assemblage, Namacalathus, New York Times, paleontology, Precambrian animals, Professor Dave, Spiralicellula, sponges, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, straw man, Tribrachidium, Vernanimalcula, White Sea assemblage, Xiuningella, Yilingia, YouTubers
A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this. Source
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30Aug 2022 by Post

“Anything Goes” Reproduction Gathers Steam

BioEdge, bioethics, biotechnology, Brave New World, cosmetic surgery, dystopia, egg cells, embryos, experimentation, Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority, illness, lifestyle, medical professionals, Medicine, public opinion, restorative procedures, science, selective reduction, stem cells, The Guardian, United Kingdom
Medicine isn’t just about curing illness anymore. It is also a resource facilitating lifestyle enablement and the fulfillment of subjective personal desires. Source
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21Aug 2022 by Post

Pro-Abortion Absolutism and Its Consequences

abortion, Abortion Care Guideline, absolutists, after-birth abortion, bioethics, Christian florist, Colorado, embryonic stem cell research, embryos, ethcis, faith, fetus, Groningen protocol, human beings, Journal of Medical Ethics, Medicine, Netherlands, Peter Singer, pregnancy, public policy, rights, science, Second Amendment, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn, Vermont, World Health Organization
Abortion absolutism is a radical departure from the once well-accepted idea that nascent human beings — at least at some level — deserve respect and protection. Source
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