Here’s a conflicted piece in this morning’s Los Angeles Times —transparently contemptuous of pro-life activism but respectful of the pain of men dealing with their complicity in abortion. . . . . Continue Reading »
First we were warned that we are becoming an obese society, indeed, that we are drowning in our own fat. Of course, that means we have adult stem cells to spare, but never mind: The fat police are so concerned that some say obese people should be denied certain medical treatments.But now, . . . . Continue Reading »
The hype generated by ESCR advocates has a lot of ill and injured people very anxious to receive stem cell treatments. China, unsurprisingly, is willing to sell stem cell treatments of the fetal and adult variety—even though most of the treatments provided are far from proven either as to . . . . Continue Reading »
Andy Rau over at ThinkChristian , a smart blog hosted by Gospelcom.net, has a fun post with a serious intention on the Amazing Randi’s evisceration of con artist Peter Popoff. James Randi has also taunted so-called psychics Sylvia Browne and Allison Dubois (the inspiration for the TV show Medium . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a reality check: Oh, how the animal liberationists must be writhing in anguish and grief about this story from India. It seems a tribe of lowest caste Indians is making a decent living killing rats to protect the crops of local farms:In this impoverished tribal belt in southern Tamil Nadu . . . . Continue Reading »
This week’s New York Times Book Review is ” The Islam Issue .” Some of the articles are worth checking out. . . . . Continue Reading »
This article on Mormonism in the New York Times Magazine is certainly worth reading. . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . of the Southern Baptist Convention . (Sorry—should I have put that in the headline?) Moderates (presumably those of an Arminian bent) will not be pleased. Mohler is one of a growing number of conservatives within the SBC seeking to bring Baptists back to their Calvinist roots. It was . . . . Continue Reading »
My pal Bill Hurlbut expounds in this radio interview on the moral responsibilities of scientists, the human future, and other matters of interest to SHSers. For example, he explains why he holds the human embryo as having intrinsic moral worth: A lot of what I was hearing [during deliberations of . . . . Continue Reading »
Professor Robert Edwards, the creator of IVF, was featured recently in a newspaper profile. The results demonstrate—as we have discussed here previously about James Watson—that being a brilliant scientist does not necessarily translate into the ability to engage in sound moral reasoning. . . . . Continue Reading »
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