Tag: embryos
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.
Don’t Let Profiteers Control Human Genetic Engineering
Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World as a dire warning. But we aren’t paying heed.
Progress in Defining “Being Alive”
I have long believed that “being alive” is the fundamental predicate to possessing even rudimentary intrinsic moral value.
Eugenics Revisited: Scientists on the Verge of Genetically Engineering Babies
CRISPR is the most powerful technology invented since the splitting of the atom.
Mass Human Cloning May Soon Be Upon Us
Human cloning has been accomplished, but the field remains generally stalled because of a shortage of human eggs.