Tag: bioethics
Three Things Materialists Can’t Do Without
Further requirements could be listed, including some even more horrific than cloning.
Egnor: How to Test Materialist Theories of Mind
A premise here is that abstract thought is a unique human endowment, so our colleague Wesley Smith will also find this of interest as a scientific test of human exceptionalism.
An “Impersonal Universe” and Its Consequences
Physicist Frank Tipler, as I noted earlier today, provocatively personalizes the Singularity, the beginning point or moment from which the universe burst forth.
Washington Post Boosts Elderly “Rational Suicide”
The story ends with the phone number of a suicide prevention hotline. That’s just a sop after potentially putting lethal ideas into readers’ heads.
A Push for Licenses to Genetically Engineer Human Beings
We can’t trust “the scientists” to do the right thing because over the years too many have proven unworthy.