Tag: human rights
Professor Explains “How to Be a God”
Transhumanists and futurists worry about guaranteeing rights for AI technologies when they attain “consciousness.”
Richard Weikart: The Dark Side of Science
March for science, you say? Follow the science? Listen to the scientists? Perhaps first ask “What science?” and “What scientists?”
Reviewing Sapiens: An Evolutionary Deconstruction of Human Rights
Yuval Noah Harari deconstructs the most famous line from the Declaration of Independence.
In Sapiens, Admissions and Overstatements about Human Evolutionary Origins
Harari’s conjecture — “There are no gods” — forms the very basis for everything he says in the rest of the book.
Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design
On Independence Day, it is appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens.