When skeptics argue against the Bible, they are in essence not attacking the book itself, but the ideas contained therein. To destroy trust in the Bible is to call Christianity itself into question. In The Bible vs. Heart, Dennis Prager…
Tag: ethics
Humanized Pigs
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park China’s state-run Global Times newspaper recently “celebrated” the alleged discovery of a scientific process to create…
The Loss of Medical Ethics
“The moral worldview of any scientifically literate person, one who is not blinkered by fundamentalism, requires a radical break from religious concepts of meaning and value….The worldview that guides the moral and spiritual values of an educated person today is…
Should Infanticide be Legal?
Peter Singer, a bioethicists, believes he is too humane to eat a hamburger because animals should have rights, yet has no qualms about murdering children before and after birth. Singer believes that an unborn child only acquires “moral significance” at…
Darwin’s Conundrum
Darwin struggled with a paradox. If evolution is a struggle for survival, how could generosity, compassion, and other altruistic virtues have spread through natural selection? Even Darwin could see the clear evolutionary benefit to groups that inculcated ethical values in…