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Global Warming Hysteria: Embracing Their Inner Transhumanist

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I have often thought that transhumanism and global warming hysteria were a natural couple. The former blames humans for killing the planet, and the latter believes we can redesign ourselves … Continue reading

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Global Warming Hysteria: Embracing Their Inner Transhumanist

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I have often thought that transhumanism and global warming hysteria were a natural couple. The former blames humans for killing the planet, and the latter believes we can redesign ourselves … Continue reading

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Transhumanism: Now It’s “Machine Rights?”

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Oh brother. Every once in a while I like to check in to see what our friends the transhumanists are fantasizing about. The latest is apparently “machine rights” and “machine … Continue reading

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Transhumanism’s Mission to Create Ubermenchen Children is Coercive

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Reason magazine’s science writer, Ron Bailey, has long been in the thrall of transhumanism. (We debated once at CUNY). He has swallowed the immortality project without even chewing and has … Continue reading

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Hitchens Understands That Death Gives Focus to Life

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Christopher Hitchens may be the best short form writer working today. Powerful writing and pointed advocacy — much of with which I disagree — thankfully undiminished by his fight with … Continue reading

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Immortality Would Not Be Pretty

This season’s Torchwood, which was once fun science fiction — a spinoff of Dr. Who — has this season, become great science fiction. Shades of Death Takes a Holiday, the plot line has human death suddenly stopping, beginning with a … Continue reading

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Transhumanism’s Reductionism of Human Life

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The Canadian (conservative) bioethicist Margaret Summervile has a good piece on the problems with transhumanism, the futurist movement that presumes to “seize control” of human evolution to create a “post … Continue reading

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Transhumanism’s Solipsistic Utopianism

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The Discover magazine blog has a piece posted by one Kyle Munkittrick, which explains in a very succinct and understandable way, the socially anarchic values that lie at the heart … Continue reading

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The “Rapture” and the “Singularity” Have Much in Common

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Many jokes are being cracked about the prediction of doomsday Saturday, in which the “Rapture” is supposedly coming, heralding the end of days. From the CNN story: By now, you’ve … Continue reading

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“Neo-Evolution”

By Matthew Eppinette, CBC New Media Manager Just watched the above TED Talk on “Neo-Evolution.” From the description: Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally — … Continue reading

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