Category: ethics

10May 2022 by Post

Fact Check: Yes, Human Life Begins at Fertilization

abortion, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Association, biology, cancer, Children, conception, Culture & Ethics, egg, embryo, ethics, human being, human life, Law, Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, newborn, parasite, public policy, scientists, settled science, sperm, womb, zygote

So what are we to make of a scientific profession in which scientific experts consistently distort the science of human life? Source

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30Apr 2022 by Post

Now It’s Assisted Suicide by Zoom Meeting

access, assisted suicide, Culture & Ethics, death, ethics, medication, Medicine, obstacles, patients, physician, poison, protections, Skype, suicide, telemedicine, Vermont, Zoom

Remember when we were told that assisted suicide would only be engaged in as part of an intimate and long-term physician/patient relationship? Source

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24Apr 2022 by Post

Claim: Research Shows Animals Have a Moral Sense

abstract thought, animals, chimps, Conversation, Dogs, emotions, ethics, Evolution, Frans de Waal, horses, James Hutton, moral choice, morality, Nautilus, Neuroscience & Mind, right, Templeton Foundation, The Bonobo and the Atheist, University of Vienna, wrong

We are informed at Nautilus, the Templeton Foundation’s magazine, that “ It’s time to take moral emotion in animals seriously.” Really? Source

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26Mar 2022 by Post

Darwinism and Scientific Totalitarianism: John West’s Darwin Day in America

assisted suicide, beauty, COVID-19, Creativity, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, death, embryo, Enlightenment, ethics, euthanasia, Evolution, free speech, ingenuity, intelligence, John West, Medicine, New York Times, physicians, racehorse, speech, Terri Shiavo, theology, totalitarian science, unborn

The afterword, on “Totalitarian Science,” published in 2015, shows John West as a prophet of things to come. Source

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03Aug 2021 by Post

Reviewing Sapiens: An Evolutionary Deconstruction of Human Rights

animism, atheists, creator, Culture & Ethics, David Klinghoffer, Declaration of Independence, elites, equality, ethics, Evolution, freedom, Hammurabi, Homo sapiens, human rights, monotheism, morality, myths, polytheism, religion, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, social order, Thomas Jefferson, truth, Voltaire, Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari deconstructs the most famous line from the Declaration of Independence. Source

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25Jan 2021 by Post

The Arrogant Mistake that Is Scientism

abortion, cattle, Center on Human Exceptionalism, Culture & Ethics, Discovery Institute, Economics, ethics, eugenics, genetics, governance, Jay Richards, Law, Physics-Astronomy.org, Politicians, scientists, specialists, The Price of Panic, Wesley J. Smith

The tweet reads, “Imagine a world is ruled by scientists, not by politicians.” The drift of the tweet appeared to be, wouldn’t that be wonderful! Source

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07Jan 2021 by Post

Bright Idea: Put Scientists in Charge Instead?

anti-science, Culture & Ethics, Discovery Institute, ethics, experts, John West, morals, Nuremberg Code, observation, Politicians, progress, religious beliefs, scientists, technocracy, The Magician’s Twin, Wesley Smith, Worldview

Could scientists and advocates of scientism really make a worse hash of things than the politicians? Source

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30Aug 2020 by Post

C. S. Lewis Foresaw Scientism’s Totalitarian Potential

C.S. Lewis, ethics, Faith & Science, ID The Future, John West, knowledge, morality, public policy, scientism, scientists, That Hideous Strength, The Magician’s Twin, totalitarianism

According to Lewis, science steps dangerously outside its bounds when it assumes it has all knowledge, especially moral knowledge. Source

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26Aug 2020 by Post

Science and Scientism: The Prophetic Vision of C. S. Lewis

bio-conservatives, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, Culture & Ethics, ethics, Judeo-Christian tradition, magic, morality, Prophecy, science, scientists, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Conditioners, theism, twins

This essay has argued that Lewis was prophetic as regards the advent of techniques powerful enough to bring about the effects he feared. Source

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14Aug 2020 by Post

“Morality Pills”: Ethicist Calls for Drugs to Solve COVID Non-Compliance

bioengineering, bioethics, chemicals, conformity, coronavirus, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, ethics, Evolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, government mandates, intellectual elites, masks, Medicine, moral enhancement, morality, morality pills, oxytocin, Parker Crutchfield, Racism, teleology, The Conversation, transhumanism, Western Michigan University

Whatever one thinks about government mandates relating to the coronavirus, Parker Crutchfield’s “solution” is worse than the problem. Source

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