Writing in the Spring 2006 issue of The New Atlantis, Eric Cohen has an interesting article entitled “Biotechnology and the Spirit of Capitalism”. In it…
Encounter Books, 2003. Rapid developments in technology, especially in medicine, genetics and biochemistry, are easily outstripping careful analysis and social and moral reflection on these…
Ignatius Press, 1991. The family has faced assorted threats throughout history. The French and Russian revolutions come to mind as two especially hostile forces to…
Wipf & Stock, 2022. An important new resource on the threat of transhumanism: Nearly a century ago Aldous Huxley penned his chilling and prophetic Brave…
As the old saying goes, Christians are in the world but not of it. Thus, although we live in a fallen, sinful world, we should…
Yes you read that right. And you are likely as incredulous as when you read the title of an article I penned five years ago:…
Some of the most important questions to be asked and answered by any worldview worth taking seriously concerns the issue of personhood. Such questions would…
Here is a guaranteed way in which I can send you to tears and overwhelming sorrow. It simply entails listening to some of the very…
The 1997 film Gattaca was a sci-fi thriller about a brave new world of genetic engineering and a two-tiered race. Most people were manufactured, created…
We have known for some decades now that in a number of countries, notably China and India, sex-selection abortions have been taking place at an…
Daily headlines speak to the enormous impact the new bio-technologies are having on all of us. Whether it is a breakthrough in genetic engineering, stem…
Bioethics has to do with moral reflection on biological and biotechnological developments. Such ethical thinking is certainly needed, since biotechnology is racing ahead, often impervious…
Two recent bioethics announcements have added a few more nails to the coffin of humanity. While these new biomedical breakthroughs promise much about medical research,…
One keeps coming back to the dictum attributed to GK Chesterton: “When a man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing.…
Several years ago R. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, made a profound observation: “Christians are sleeping through history as new medical…
It had to come to this. Add one part political correctness, two parts social engineering, and three parts biotechnology, and what do you get? The…
The report this week that scientists have now cloned embryos from adult monkeys takes us ever closer to the possibility of human cloning. Overcoming this…
For most of human history people have accepted the fact that life is “nasty, poor, brutish, and short”, to use Hobbes’s phrase. But advances in…
It was rather odd to see so many female Senators voting for human cloning the other week. This in spite of the fact that many…
The clone and kill bill to be debated in the House of Reps next week is a strange bit of legislation. While it has some…