Tag: Euthanasia

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
March 21, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Adolf Hitler, anti-Semitism, assisted suicide, biological determinism, biological evolution, Charles Darwin, Columbine shooting, Darwinian Racism, Darwinism, environmental determinism, Eric Harris, Eric Metaxas, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenics, Euthanasia, Evolutionary Ethics, fatalism, Free Will, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, genetic determinism, Gilroy Garlic Festival, Gypsies, Holocaust, human evolution, imago dei, Marxism, Materialism, Mein Kampf, Might is Right, moral relativism, Natural Selection, Nazis, Nazism, Peter Singer, postmodernism, racism, Ragnar Redbeard, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, Slavs, Social Darwinism, struggle for existence, struggle for living space, white nationalism}

Eric Metaxas and Richard Weikart Spotlight Darwinian Racism

_{Richard Weikart

March 21, 2022

Ethics}

Today’s ID the Future brings listeners a lively conversation between radio host and bestselling author Eric Metaxas and historian Richard Weikart about Weikart’s new book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. Weikart provides a quick flyover of the evidence that the outlook of Hitler, the Nazis, and contemporary white nationalists is significantly shaped by Darwinism and the arguments of early Darwinists. Metaxas and Weikart then contrast the Darwinian foundation for morality with the Judeo-Christian foundation, which holds that all humans are made in the image of God and therefore possess inherent worth, regardless of race and regardless of one’s “fitness.” This episode is reposted here, with permission, from The Eric Metaxas Show. Check out Weikart’s new Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 16, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Adolf Hitler, Alt Right, biological evolution, Bronx Zoo, Charles Darwin, Darwinian biologists, Darwinism, David Livingstone, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenics, Euthanasia, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, genocide, Herbert Spencer, human zoos, immigration policy, John G. West, living space, Natural Selection, Nazi Germany, Nazi physicians, Nazis, Nazism, Ota Benga, racial struggle, racism, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, Scopes Trial, Social Darwinism, Stephen Pinker, sterilization, struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, The Descent of Man, The Origin of Species, transhumanism, white nationalism, white nationalists, Whoopi Goldberg}

Darwinian Racism Webinar, Pt. 2

_{Richard Weikart

February 16, 2022

Ethics}

Today’s ID the Future features the second half of a recent webinar spotlighting historian Richard Weikart and his new book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. Here Weikart fields questions from the webinar audience. Along the way Weikart touches on the connection between Darwinism and scientific racism, the objection that Darwinism, properly understood, doesn’t support scientific racism (much less Nazi racism), the racism inherent in Darwin’s own writings and those of prominent early Darwinists such as Ernst Haeckel, and more recent manifestations of Darwinian-inspired scientific racism both academic and populist. This and much more is explored in Weikart’s new book, available here. And for scientific reasons to reject Darwinism along with its racists implications, jump over Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
November 22, 2021

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Adolf Hitler, Bioethics, biological determinism, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Charles Davenport, colonialism, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Darwinism, embryonic gene editing, Ernst Haeckel, Ernst Rüdin, Eugen Fischer, Eugenics, Euthanasia, evolutionary science, Francis Galton, From Darwin to Hitler, history of science, human-animal chimeras, imago dei, immoral experimentation, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, miscegenation, Natural Selection, Nazi Germany, nihilism, No-True-Scotsman fallacy, Nordic racism, pseudoscience, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, The Death of Humanity, The Origin of Species, Tuskegee syphilis experiment, Universal Human Rights, Yuval Noah Harari}

Richard Weikart on Scientific Racism and the War on Humanity

_{Richard Weikart

November 22, 2021

Ethics}

Today’s ID the Future again spotlights The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. Historian Richard Weikart and host Casey Luskin discuss Weikart’s contribution to the new anthology, his essay “How Evil Has Been Done in the Name of Science.” As Weikart explains, over the past century and a half, science has been misused to fuel racist policies and undermine human rights. Darwinian ideas helped lay the groundwork for Nazi ideology in Germany. And we shouldn’t imagine the problem was restricted to Nazi Germany. Scientific racism also reared its head in the United States, including in the long-running and infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment. More broadly, a marriage of scientism and evolutionary thinking continues to undermine the idea of inherent human worth Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 11, 2020

Categorized
Free Speech

Tagged
Academic Freedom, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, cancel culture, censorship, communism, courage, Euthanasia, freedom of inquiry, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, Gulag, ideology, live not by lies, Nobel Prize in Literature, non-compliance with lies, political correctness, repression, Scientism, self-censorship, Soviet Communism, Soviet Union, Terri Schiavo, totalitarianism}

Live Not By Lies: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design

_{Michael Egnor

November 11, 2020

Free Speech}

On this ID the Future, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor discusses his recent article about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn, the great Soviet dissident and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, penned the essay “Live Not By Lies” in 1974, just before he was arrested and exiled from Russia. It was his advice, or even strategy, for living under totalitarianism. Solzhenitsyn’s basic advice is simply not to participate with lies, and to refuse to speak what one does not believe. It’s unnervingly relevant counsel to us in America today, where “cancel culture” and other silencing tactics, long foreshadowed in the intelligent design debate, are spreading to the broader culture.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 12, 2018

Tagged
__edited, authoritarian government, authoritarian province, authoritarian states, Bioethics, Euthanasia, homicide, hospice, medical assistance in dying, mental illness, Ontario, palliative care, Physician Assisted Suicide, right to life, terminal illness}

Canada: Physician-Assisted Suicide Devolves to Physicians Being Forced to Commit Homicide

_{Wesley J. Smith

December 12, 2018}

On this episode of ID the Future, bioethicist Wesley J. Smith exposes the horror of “Medically Assistance in Dying” (MAi/D) in Canada. Worse than physician-assisted suicide, this is medical homicide. Hospitals are even advertising it. Doctors in at least one province have no choice but to be complicit in these killings, or else leave their specialties or even quit medicine altogether. Will MAiD come to America, too?

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 21, 2017

Tagged
__edited, Coyne, Egnor, Ethics, Euthanasia, Jerry Coyne, Medical Doctors, medicine, Michael Egnor, Physician Assisted Suicide}

Euthanasia, Physician Assisted Suicide and the Corruption of Medicine

_{Michael Egnor

August 21, 2017}

On this episode of ID: The Future, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor talks about how enlisting doctors to perform assisted suicide is a betrayal of longstanding medical ethics. He describes it as an attempt to hijack the respectability of doctors to make the practice seem acceptable.

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Author
Raymond Bohlin

Date
August 9, 2017

Tagged
__edited, Academic Freedom, biology, Coyne, Darwin, Darwinism, Egnor, Ethics, Eugenics, Euthanasia, Evolution, Free Speech, Infanticide, Jerry Coyne, Michael Egnor, Neurosurgeon}

Evolutionist Jerry Coyne: Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee, or ID

_{Raymond Bohlin

August 9, 2017}

On this episode of ID: The Future, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor discusses Jerry Coyne’s free speech double standard. Peter Singer has advocated killing some handicapped newborns in the crib, and after some handicapped people protested and disrupted his lectures, Coyne objected to their infringing on Singer’s free speech rights. But then Coyne supported efforts to intimidate and possibly fire professor Eric Hedin for noting evidence of fine-tuning in an an elective seminar on “The Boundaries of Science.”* *Updated August 14, 2017