Culture & Ethics – Page 18 – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

17Jan 2022 by Post

Seattle Power Company Sued for Violating the Rights of Fish

Culture & Ethics, Evolution, fish, Florida, KUOW, Native Americans, nature rights, Northwest, reneweable energy, river rights, rivers, salmon, salmon ladder, Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe, Seattle, Seattle City Light, Skagit River

When we give up human exceptionalism, we go a bit mad and soon are eating our own tails. Source

07Jan 2022 by Post

Sound the Alarm on Germline Genetic Editing

bioethics, biology, Casey Luskin, China, Chinese government, CRISPR, Culture & Ethics, eugenics, genetics, germline editing, Harvest House, He Jiankui, human dignity, ID The Future, Medicine, Podcast, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Wesley J. Smith

As Wesley Smith explains, it’s not just that germline editing could lead to unintended health consequences. Source

17Dec 2021 by Post

A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

authoritarianism, C.S. Lewis, Camille Griffin, Christmas, Christmas carols, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Davida McKenzie, experts, government, Great Britain, Greta Thunberg, House Beautiful, Keira Knightley, Lily-Rose Depp, Matthew Goode, Medicine, movies, pandemic, profanity, Republicans, Roman Griffin Davis, Russia, scientists, Secularism, Silent Night, Sope Dirisu, spoilers, The Abolition of Man

The new Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science. Source

13Dec 2021 by Post

Bioethicists Okay Human Extinction to Eliminate Suffering

asteroid, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, eugenics, euthanasia, extinction, Hilary Greaves, human extinction, Humanize, Joni Eareckson Tada, Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, nihilists, Oxford University, Physics, Earth & Space, Roger Crisp, Social Darwinism, Suffering, transhumanism, University of Calgary, Walter Glannon, Will MacAskill

A few months ago, Oxford professor Roger Crisp opined that we might not want to stop a huge asteroid from hitting the Earth. Source

02Dec 2021 by Post

Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present

boys, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, Darwin critics, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, girls, human behavior, ID The Future, materialism, natural selection, Podcast, sexual selection, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Descent of Man, The Spiritual Brain, Victorian England, World War II

If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories. Source

25Nov 2021 by Post

Thanksgiving and the Frailty of Scientific Atheism

atheists, Baruch Spinoza, Betraying Spinoza, consensus, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian materialism, Faith & Science, human exceptionalism, Humanize, Intelligent Design, mainstream media, materialism, Michael Medved, mind-brain question, Rebecca Goldstein, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Lewontin, Salon, Stephen Meyer, Steven Pinker, Thanksgiving, uncanny, Wesley Smith

Our bioethicist colleague Wesley Smith had a very interesting and wide-ranging conversation with Stephen Meyer. Source

19Nov 2021 by Post

Holiday Shopping Is Almost Here!

calendars, cell's, Center for Science & Culture, Christmas, Culture & Ethics, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, galaxies, gift shop, hats, holiday season, holiday shopping, mugs, natural world, notebooks, puzzles, t-shirts, wall art, Zazzle

We have T-shirts, mugs, notebooks, hats, wall art, calendars, puzzles (like the Amazing Colorful Moon Satellite Photo Composite Jigsaw Puzzle, above), and more. Source

18Oct 2021 by Post

The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration

abortion, Bible, Casey Luskin, China, Christianity, Christianity Today, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, Darwinian evolution, Downs syndrome, Ed Stetzer, ENCODE, Evangelical Christians, Francis Collins, gain-of-function research, George W. Bush, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Witt, Junk DNA, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Mark Galli, Medicine, Michael Behe, Michael Carome, National Institutes of Health, Obama Administration, pastores, premature babies, professors, pundists, Science (journal), The Language of God, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Alabama-Birmingham, vaccination

The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth. Source

21Sep 2021 by Post

Norm Macdonald’s God Hypothesis

Albert Einstein, August Kekulé, benzene, Bob Hope, Canadians, cancer, comedy, Culture & Ethics, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, Guy MacPherson, intuition, Jerry Seinfeld, jokes, Leo Tolstoy, leukemia, moth, murder, Norm Macdonald, North America, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, Sam Kinison, Saturday Night Live, scientists, shaggy dog

Norm casually took on the entire scientific community for “refusing to explore” what he considered the “fundamental question” of God’s existence. Source

17Sep 2021 by Post

Meyer: The Moral Law Within as Evidence for the God Hypothesis

atheists, cosmic fine-tuning, Culture & Ethics, DNA, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, ID The Future, information, Intelligent Design, Michael Shermer, moral law, Podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rosetta Stone, Stephen Meyer, theism, universe

Atheist Michael Shermer talks with Stephen Meyer about a fourth argument for theism. Source

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