Medicine – Apologetics Ministry

13Jun 2021 by Post

Scientists Make Male Rat Give Birth

bioethics, biotechnology, birth, Caesarean birth, China, Culture & Ethics, IVF embryos, Joseph Fletcher, Journal of Medical Ethics, mammals, Medicine, rats, The Ethics of Genetic Control, uterine transplants, uterus

Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect — biological males giving birth — a reality. Source

09Jun 2021 by Post

Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

ARF, Audrey Hepburn, bioethics, Center for Genetics and Society, China, Culture & Ethics, Emily Reeves, Erika DeBenedictis, Evolution News, Forbes, gene editing, genome, He Jiankui, HIV, Hong Kong, INK4a, Intelligent Design, ISSCR, Jin-Soo Kim, Jordan Peterson, Marxists, Medicine, Nature (journal), scientists, Seoul National University, TEDx talk, twins, U.S. Senate, Wesley Smith

I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Source

07Jun 2021 by Post

The Brain Prosperity Gospel: Can “Neurotheology” Be Real Science?

Andrew Newberg, anthropology, brain, brain imaging, compassion, correlates, fMRI, infused contemplation, materialism, Medicine, mystical union, neurology, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neurotheology, Prayer, psychology, spiritual experience

Neurotheology is likely to become just another materialist fad in which the human rational and spiritual soul is reduced to evolved meat. Source

25Mar 2021 by Post

Woke Medicine Is Very Bad for Everyone’s Health

abortion, affirmative action, Baltimore, black babies, Black Lives Matter, Cambridge, Chicago, crime, Critical race theory, Detroit, Education, envy, eugenics, Fathers, gangs, George Floyd, Greed, hate, healthcare, Husbands, leftists, lust, Massachusetts, medical care, Medicine, murder, poverty, pride, Racism, rape, Riots, structural racism, welfare dependency

There is a major effort in medical education today to indoctrinate students and resident physicians into Critical Theory. Source

29Jan 2021 by Post

Egnor: Disturbing Questions About Consciousness

amnesia, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthesiologist, anesthesiology, consciousness, medical students, Medicine, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, pain, sedative, surgery, unconsciousness, Walter Bradley Center

Think about this next time you are put under general anesthesia, which I hope neither you nor I will be anytime soon. Source

27Jan 2021 by Post

Now Another State Wants Non–Physician-Assisted Suicide

assisted suicide, Culture & Ethics, death on demand, doctors, euthanasia, Germany, Hawaii, medical professionals, Medicine, nurse practitioners, patients, physician-assisted suicide, poison, suicide, Washington State

Hot on the heels of Washington State, it’s Hawaii. A bill has been filed to allow nurse practitioners to lethally prescribe. Source

02Jan 2021 by Post

Frontiers of ID: Microscopic Ecologies

agriculture, Amish, asteroids, biology, Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less, Cyanobacteria, Darwinists, ecosystems, Elizabeth Pennisi, fungi, Hayabusa-2, human health, Intelligent Design, James Hamblin, lichen, Mars, Medicine, Michael Eisenstein, microbes, microbiome, mites, Mt. St. Helens, Nature (journal), nematode, pathogens, protists, Ryugu, skin, soap, soil, springtails, tardigrades, Yale University

Public health lecturer James Hamblin at Yale decided to go without showers — for five years! Source

28Dec 2020 by Post

#5 Story of 2020: Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution

2019-nCoV, body plans, Charles Darwin, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, Design Inference, disease, DNA, Edward Jenner, epidemic, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, genetic engineers, Ignác Semmelweis, Intelligent Design, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, living cell, Macroevolution, Medicine, MERS-CoV, Michael Dini, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, molecular biology, mutation, natural selection, Nature Medicine, New York Post, organs, oxygen, pandemic, quarantine, RNA, SARS-CoV-2, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, smallpox, species, The Origin of Species, Theodosius Dobzhansky, virus, World Health Organization, Wuhan

The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory. Source

11Dec 2020 by Post

Examining Causes of Gender Dysphoria

Abigail Shrier, Arjee Restar, autism, autism spectrum disorder, boys, brain differences, cell phone, Culture & Ethics, documentary, dresses, Dutch Protocol, embryos, Evolution, Food and Drug Administration, Gender Dysphoria, girls, HBO, Irreversible Damage, Lisa Littman, Medicine, mental disorders, Parents, peer contagion, Phoenix, psychiatry, puberty blocker, rapid onset gender dysphoria, sexual abuse, spirits, surrogate mother, Texas, transgenderism, Transgenderism Series

In recent years, there has been increased interest in a possible connection between gender dysphoria and autism. Source

10Dec 2020 by Post

Delaying Puberty, or Destroying It?

boys, British High Court, buying time, Children, Christopher Richards, cross-sex hormones, Curium-Leiden University, desisters, Endocrine Society, gender, Gender Dysphoria, girls, GnRHa, gonadotrophin, growth hormone, Medicine, National Health Service, Netherlands, persisters, puberty, puberty blocker, sex reassignment, transgenderism, Transgenderism Series, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

For children with gender dysphoria, blocking puberty is not just buying time. It is more like a point of no return. Source