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>Ethics, embryos, and e-rants
>Kevin T Keith (His often profane blog, Sufficient Scruples, focusing on why it’s wrong to be religious, pro-life or pro-abstinence is here) wonders (in 1700+ words) how scientists ever began to speak in terms of “ethical” and “unethical” about sources of stem cells at the Women’s Bioethics Blog: To emphasize that: the search for “ethical” … Continue reading
Sam Harris at the Aspen Ideas Festival
Sam Harris, author of the books, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason and Letter to a Christian Nation, was given a forum at the Aspen Ideas Festival. I’m not sure how I ended up finding the video, “Believing the Unbelievable: The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World,” … Continue reading
>"Should Science Speak to Faith?"
>That free Scientific American issue also contains a dialog between two scientists on faith, religion and the scientific community. Laurence M. Krauss and Richard Dawkins discuss their different views on engaging in “seducing” people of faith. (“Teaching is seduction.” “No one appreciates a dishonest seducer.”) Gentlemen, the main point you should understand is that those … Continue reading
>More equal or less?
>A self-defined troll, Siricou Raven, asks, Merely being human genetically isn’t enough – so what do humans have that makes them protected over all other species? And when do they aquire whatever this is? SR, I don’t have to weigh, measure and evaluate – you do. You are the one asserting that “being human genetically … Continue reading
>Christian Docs’ Ethics on The Moral Worth of Human Life
>Yesterday, at the annual meeting of the House of Representatives of the Christian Medical and Dental Association, three statements on ethics were approved. I don’t have all of the text or the final versions of any of them at this time and will report on them in more detail later, but I would like to … Continue reading
>Racism, politics, and really big numbers
>Last week’s announcement that three different labs have managed to not only reproduce work showing that certain genes are responsible for embryonic-stem-cell-ness, but actually managed to turn adult cells into embryonic-like stem cells has been widely reported and comment upon. Times Magazine displays blatant racism and not a little naivete in their report, “Japan gets … Continue reading
Religion and zealotry of one sort or another
The National Review has published an editorial by Colleen Carroll Campbell on the resignation of St. Louis’ Archbishop Raymond Burke from his position on the board of that city’s Children’s Hospital foundation. The Archbishop objected to the invitation to the outspoken (and vocal) proponent for abortion and embryonic stem cell research, Cheryl Crow. Ms. Campbell … Continue reading
>Transhumanism Seminar in Second Life
>Transumanar, a site devoted to transhumanism, has announced a virtual, online seminar on Transhumanism and Religion in Second Life. I’m not sure that I’m ready for a Second Life, and I always get bored when I try to come up with an avatar. But, I may have to check this out, if possible. (In my … Continue reading
>Artificial Intelligence vs. believers
>The subject of believers and those who actively oppose them is only tangential to this blog. However, anyone exposed to cutting edge technonology, futurism, and, especially, transhumanism and enhancement will eventually run across at least one fundamental atheist. George Dvorsky, transhumanist and anti-theist, has published his review of a movie called “The Jesus Camp.” In … Continue reading
Majority of Doctors Oppose Abortion
In that NEJM article that I blogged on earlier, there are numbers about the “Intrinsic religiosity” of physicians, based on the answers of the 1000 or so docs who answered the questionaire. The authors seem to have no feeling for the history of bioethics as an outcome of the Holocaust or Tuskegee. Instead, the fuss … Continue reading
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