Category: genetic engineering

21Nov 2025 by Post

Tortured, Contradictory: The Legacy of James Watson

acid bath, Atheism, atheists, DNA, double helix, Evolution, Francis Crick, genes, genetic engineering, genetics, gods, human beings, James D. Watson, nihilism, Nobel Prize, podcasters, purposelessness, racists, religion, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, theism

"A noxious atheist, Watson unwittingly pointed the way toward scientific evidence of a creator." Source

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31Oct 2025 by Post

Wesley J. Smith: Frightening Abuses of Science

activists, bioethics, biotech, biotechnology, censorship, culture of death, dignity, embryos, Environmentalism, fetal farming, Gender Dysphoria, gender ideology, genetic engineering, hospitals, human exceptionalism, human life, labs, moral responsibility, nature rights, organ harvesting, Technology, totalitarianism, unborn, Wesley J. Smith

Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. Source

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17Jul 2022 by Post

Brain Size Doesn’t Determine Intelligence

Ars Technica, birds, brain size, brains, chimpanzees, genetic engineering, Homo sapiens, human brain, humans, information processing, Intelligent Design, jetliner, John Timmer, lemurs, London School of Economics, Michael Denton, Michel Hofman, monkeys, Neuroscience & Mind, octopus, oxygen, Peter Cochrane, primates, psychology, superintelligence, synaptic connections, The Miracle of Man

Brains are not simple, so many “just common sense” theories have fallen by the wayside. Source

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17Apr 2021 by Post

Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

babies, bioethicists, China, Culture & Ethics, embryos, fertilization, genetic engineering, government funding, humans, hybrids, International Society of Stem Cell Research, monkeys, Nature (journal), scientists, Stanford University, William Hurlbut

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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25Aug 2020 by Post

C. S. Lewis and Critical Reactions to Transhumanism

Artificial Intelligence, Big Brother, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, cognitive performance, Culture & Ethics, Francis Fukuyama, genetic engineering, George Bernard Shaw, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, history, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, life-extension strategies, Olaf Stapledon, pharmaceutical enhancements, posthuman, regenerative medicine, Silicon Valley, Singularity University, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism

I will briefly review two prominent voices in the opposition camp who reflect concerns at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s own case. Source

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