Wesley Smith – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

06Nov 2023 by Post

The Superior Programming that Makes Plants Look Smart

animals, anthropomorphism, bacteria, behavior, biology, Chapman University, Curiosity rover, Darwinians, Duke University, ethylene, flowers, herbivores, Ian T. Baldwin, intelligence, Intelligent Design, ivy, leaf senescence, leaves, Life Sciences, memory, Michael Pollan, Nature (journal), nitrogen, programming, Richard Karban, self-awareness, strigolactone, synthetic organic chemistry, tendrils, tentacles, The New Yorker, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, trees, Wesley Smith

Two signaling molecules — strigolactone and ethylene — can work independently to begin the process of leaf senescence. Source

14Jan 2023 by Post

Wesley Smith Asks, Is Your Body “Engineered”?

atheists, biology, Discovery Institute, Engineering, Engineering Research Group, Howard Glicksman, Humanize, Intelligent Design, Medicine, physicians, Podcast, Richard Dawkins, science, Steve Laufmann, Wesley Smith, Your Design Body

Or did it evolve through impersonal and random processes over countless millions of years of natural selection? Source

07Jan 2023 by Post

Listen: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on COVID-19 as One of the Most Divisive Events in American History

Big Tech, Center for Disease Control, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, factionalism, free speech, heterodoxy, Humanize, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdown, Medicine, National Bureau of Economics Research, pandemic, Podcast, Politics, public health, science, Stanford University, Wesley Smith, World Health Organization

Action was taken to suppress heterodox voices. Wesley Smith’s guest is one of those caught in this cultural oppression. Source

07Jul 2022 by Post

Where the Abortion Debate Goes from Here

abortion, Americans United for Life, Australia, Catherine Glenn Foster, Center for Human Exceptionalism, Constitution, Culture & Ethics, Discovery Institute, Dobbs v. Jackson, Europe, federal courts, human rights, Humanize, media, Medicine, North America, pro-life movement, public policy, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, United States, Wesley Smith

On a new podcast, host Wesley Smith and guest Catherine Glenn Foster discuss the Dobbs decision. 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

09Jun 2021 by Post

Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

ARF, Audrey Hepburn, bioethics, Center for Genetics and Society, China, Culture & Ethics, Emily Reeves, Erika DeBenedictis, Evolution News, Forbes, gene editing, genome, He Jiankui, HIV, Hong Kong, INK4a, Intelligent Design, ISSCR, Jin-Soo Kim, Jordan Peterson, Marxists, Medicine, Nature (journal), scientists, Seoul National University, TEDx talk, twins, U.S. Senate, Wesley Smith

I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Source

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

05Dec 2020 by Post

Listen: Darwinism, Bioethics, and Human Rights

animal standing, anti-humanism, Ban Ki-moon, bioethics, Cass Sunstein, Darwinism, ecological advocacy, ecology, human dignity, human rights, ID The Future, Podcast, The War on Humans, Uncategorized, United Nations, Wesley Smith

Wesley Smith explains why we need to take the threat of the anti-humanism movement seriously. 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

anti-humanism, bioethics, Books, conservation movement, Culture & Ethics, documentary, humans, ID The Future, marginalized people, The War on Humans, Wesley Smith

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