FIRST PERSON: Genetic testing is a deadly business
CHICAGO (BP)--Prenatal genetic testing has reached a new low.
Biotech Horror
By any method of reckoning, we have entered an age of nearly unbridled biotechnological expansion. Futurists almost universally claim that the 21st century will be what Jeremy Rifkin has called "The Biotech Century." Richard Oliver, professor of business management at Vanderbilt University, has announced, "The Bioterials Age will complete the triumph of economics over politics, […]
FIRST-PERSON: Issues that ought to cause us all to lay awake at night
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--By any method of reckoning, we have entered an age of nearly unbridled biotechnological expansion. Futurists almost universally claim that the 21st century will be what Jeremy Rifkin has called "The Biotech Century."
ANALYSIS: Beyond the stem cell controversy, questions of life’s purpose arise
DEERFIELD, Ill. (BP)–The human embryonic stem cell debate has been at an impasse since the discovery of the unusual properties of unique precursor cells. In 1998 two teams of privately funded researchers were able to isolate and culture stem cells from human embryos. Some scientists believe these cells may be used to treat and cure […]
What happens when secularism wins?
The secularization of our culture comes with a very high price tag. Secularism, the evacuation of Judeo-Christian values from law, policy, and public discourse, is a cruel taskmaster. Like a Trojan Horse, secularism smuggles in values that are wholly contrary to the values that have guided the western world for centuries. At the heart of […]
Transforming Culture Through Moral Confrontation
Ours is an extraordinarily pluralistic culture. Throughout the strata of American life are innumerable sub-cultures. Not only do the panoply of religions, from Anglicanism to Zoroastrianism, exist side-by-side, but I even spotted a bumper sticker recently proclaiming the credo, "Born-again Pagan." The driver may have been an evangelical who was rejoicing in the grace of […]
