Cultural Update: AI takeover of education; proposed law overturning same-sex marriage; increased demand for euthanasia
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Rising seniors are the last class of students who remember high school before chat GPT. |
| 0:08.0 | What does this mean for the AI takeover of education? |
| 0:11.7 | The Supreme Court of the United States has been asked to overturn same-sex marriage. |
| 0:16.6 | Should Christians support this and how should we think about it? |
| 0:19.4 | And the demand for euthanasia in |
| 0:21.5 | Canada is outstripping doctors' willingness to do it. These are the stories we will discuss, |
| 0:27.5 | and we will also address some of your questions. I'm your host, Sean McDowell. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm your co-host, Scott Ray. This is the Think Biblically Weekly Cultural Update, |
| 0:36.5 | brought to you by Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. |
| 0:40.5 | Scott, we're going to jump right into this story that we discussed last week in terms of euthanasia and the medical aid in assistance in dying in Canada, because there's a backstory to this that concerns me even more than I was concerned last week. |
| 0:56.0 | And I suspect it does with you as well. |
| 0:58.8 | This is a long article in the Atlantic. |
| 1:01.3 | I'll try to just give key highlights here before we weigh in. |
| 1:04.9 | But it describes how in 2016, Canada's parliament legalized the practice of euthanasia. |
| 1:11.8 | And the way this article frames it, it said one day administering a lethal injection |
| 1:16.2 | to a patient was against the law. |
| 1:18.7 | The next, it was as legitimate as a tonsillectomy. |
| 1:22.7 | That's pretty stunning. |
| 1:24.3 | Now about made, medical assistance and dying, now counts for about one in 20 deaths in |
| 1:30.5 | Canada, more than Alzheimer's and diabetes combined. |
| 1:36.5 | Now what they talk about in this article is that there's a certain kind of momentum. |
| 1:40.6 | The moment Canada signed up for this, it has been moving down this slope very, very |
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