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why morality came before religion
Virtually every debate between an atheist and a theist features the question of where humans got their morality; their ideas of right and wrong. Theists say that without a religion to enforce a moral...
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trying to defend the indefensible
Illustration from the Innocence In Danger PSA campaign Unless you’ve been living on another planet with no access to any form of mass media, you’ve heard of what’s happening in the world of...
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yes, i’ll take the embryo on the left, please…
Since yesterday I was on Skeptically Speaking, talking about the practical side of transhumanism with George Dvorsky (which was apparently such a fun show, we’re being invited back), I thought it...
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when priests resort to insidious scare tactics
Illustration by Koren Shadmi Bad things happen to everybody, and while some treat their bad fortune as something to overcome as quickly as possible, others rub their hands with glee and use it to...
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ratzinger finds a new scapegoat for his troubles
Oh that Pope. He’s such a classy fellow, isn’t he? Fresh off the plane in Britain, he boldly launched into a short outburst against atheists and secularists, pulling out the old libelous canard that...
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why we’re more evil than you may think
In popular culture, mercenaries tend to be either characters with no morality, or with a very fluid sense or right and wrong, motivated primarily by greed, or if they have to be the protagonist of a...
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A constant, and in certain contexts, fair criticism of the tech field that we will create something before asking if we should created it the first place. We can let people tag their photos with...
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how think tanks could buy themselves a study
Photo by Jiroe Generally, when researchers studied children in same-sex households and measured how well they fared in terms of education, criminal records, and income, then compared them to...
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a terrible reason to oppose life extension
In the transhumanist lexicon, the word bioconservative is used to describe those who argue that humans will need to accept death as an eternal inevitability and experiments meant to extend human life...
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the scientific and ethical disaster that is the chinese crispr scandal
Among the many, many scandals we’ve had this year, perhaps one of the most disproportionately undercovered is He Jiankui’s experiment in modifying viable embryo genomes to be more resistant to HIV,...
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