Category: Culture & Ethics
Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!
It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on.
Poet and Scientist, Goethe Offered an Enlightenment Theodicy
Like Erasmus Darwin, Goethe was both poet and scientist and had himself at one time speculated on ideas of evolution.
Utah Versus Nature Rights
Utah is the fourth state — the others are Ohio, Florida, and Idaho — restricting rights to the human realm where they belong.
Science Gone Wrong, Thanks to a Hasty Transhumanist
“40,000 years of evolution and we’ve barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.”
Life with Screens: A Novelist’s Prophetic Warning
David Foster Wallace foresaw the rise of the Internet and its pantheon of seductions.