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14Mar 2025 by Post

Microbes as “Moral Agents”? Bioethicist Says Yes

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Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Source

09Oct 2024 by Post

At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?

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Logic isn’t a sufficient answer to the question I raised, however. For a scientific answer, we need evidence. Source

29Jun 2024 by Post

Neanderthals Cared for Down Syndrome Children

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It may now be that more babies with Down syndrome are killed in the womb than are born. Source

21Sep 2023 by Post

Image of God: Are Children Persons?

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Today we take it for granted that children are special beings who require special care and attention. But it was not always so. Source

08May 2023 by Post

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

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Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Source

03Jan 2023 by Post

Life as a Half-Full Glass

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A 2018 book by biologist Nathan Lents is full of complaints about our bodies. Professor Lents has been answered in detail already. Source

02Aug 2022 by Post

Will Laws Protecting the Unborn Endanger Mothers?

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A fallacy used by abortionists and their allies is that doctors will be handicapped by having to comply with the law applicable to the care of their patients. Source

27Mar 2022 by Post

Are Birds Really Smarter than Reptiles?

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Scientists clash over how to measure animal intelligence: brain volume, brain organization, numbers of neurons…? Source

24Apr 2021 by Post

Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences

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If you are going to get a computer to achieve anything like understanding in some subject area, it needs a lot of knowledge. Source

17Apr 2021 by Post

Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

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They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Source

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