There was an interesting piece in today’s papers, just a very brief item. It was about a poor chap in northern Vietnam who had become…
The Australian House of Representatives has just voted to allow the passage of a clone and kill bill. The Patterson Bill was passed by a…
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…
Despite the number of credible scientists who argued against human cloning, the Australian Senate nonetheless went ahead and voted for it to occur here. Not…
There were not one but two editorials in today’s Australian (November 8, 2006) that demonstrate how weak thinking and ethical poverty often run in tandem.…
This week the Senate debates whether we allow embryo research and human cloning. The media often likes to argue that this is a battle between…
Because the stakes are so high with many of the new biotechnologies, proponents of them often resort to word games to cover up what is…
As the Federal Government still debates the issue of human cloning, the impression remains that on the one side of the debate are scientists, and…
Religion in the public arena has been getting a lot of attention recently. The Australian Democrats are fearful of Christian influence in politics. (Indeed, I…
Last week all the world’s media was abuzz with reports of a new stem cell extraction method which purportedly leaves the embryo alive. I penned…
With a title like this, one would imagine this to be a book about the conflict between evolution and creation, or something similar. In fact…
Be forewarned. Coulter is conservatism’s pit bull terrier. And as a pit bull, she goes straight for the jugular. No niceties, no tact, no diplomacy,…
The brave new world the authors refer to is the scary new world of biomedical technologies and breakthroughs. While the new biotech offers much promise,…
Encounter Books, 2004. In 1932 Aldous Huxley wrote his prophetic and chilling novel, Brave New World. In it he mapped out a future in which…
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…
PublicAffairs, 2002. As in Australia and other Western nations, the United States has been involved in a lengthy and divisive debate concerning the new reproductive…
There has been a noticeable shift over the past fifty years concerning those whom society, and the media, look to as authority figures, as sources of…
For some time now we have known that the taste of Pepsi is based in part on the use of aborted babies. And now the…
It was recently announced that Barack Obama has asked megachurch pastor Rick Warren to pray at his inauguration. Warren has accepted the invitation to deliver…
The US election is now history, but there is still plenty of discussion about the election of Barack Hussein Obama. His supporters and detractors are…