Culture & Ethics – Page 22 – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

13Dec 2020 by Post

Darwinism, Storytelling, and the Futurist ET Myth

2001: A Space Odyssey, Africa, Bible, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian materialism, domino, English literature, Flannery O’Connor, futurist ET myth, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, H.G. Wells, human brain, Human Origins, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jacques Derrida, John Milton, John Updike, Michael Keas, monolith, quantum leap, Robert Ardrey, Roland Barthes, science fiction, Stanley Kubrick, Texas, The Territorial Imperative, The Time Machine, Unbelievable?, weapons

The implication is clear: the alien monolith has somehow bequeathed to him and his little tribe a sudden quantum leap in brain power. Source

12Dec 2020 by Post

Literary Naturalism and a Time Machine

"survival of the fittest", 2001: A Space Odyssey, civilization, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian theory, Émile Zola, Evolution, extinction, George Eliot, H.G. Wells, humans, Jack London, literature, mutation, natural science, natural selection, naturalism, Paul Bowles, Robert Ardrey, Sam Peckinpah, science fiction, screenwriters, sheep, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Crane, The Paris Review, The Sheltering Sky, The Time Machine, The Wild Bunch, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Hardy, violence

The sun is burning out, and life on Earth is heading for extinction. This aptly conveys Darwinian materialism’s vision of a meaningless universe. 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

29Nov 2020 by Post

Pushing Elephant “Personhood”

animal rights, animal standing, animal welfare, animals, Argentina, Bronx Zoo, cattle, chimps, Culture & Ethics, Florida, human exceptionalism, judges, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood, Peter Moulton, writ of habeas corpus

Think cattle herds suing ranchers or lab animals suing universities — not to improve care but to liberate from all human use. Source

23Nov 2020 by Post

Smith: Personhood for Animals? What About Plants?

animal rights, animals, Cass R. Sunstein, Culture & Ethics, Declaration of Independence, human exceptionalism, human rights, ID The Future, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood, PETA, Podcast, Reductionism, The War on Humans, Wesley Smith

Bioethicist Wesley Smith examines the meaning of the term “personhood” and its implications for human rights. Source

16Nov 2020 by Post

Wesley Smith: An Anti-Human Movement

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A good and worthwhile conservation movement is being corrupted, and this hurts humans, especially in the developing world and among marginalized groups. Source

14Nov 2020 by Post

From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Advice for Intelligent Design Dissidents

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, cancel culture, censorship, Culture & Ethics, dissidents, free speech, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Live Not By Lies, Michael Egnor, neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize, Podcast, silencing tactics, Soviet Union, United States

Solzhenitsyn’s basic advice is simply not to participate with lies, and to refuse to speak what one does not believe. It’s unnervingly relevant counsel. Source

09Nov 2020 by Post