The abortion debate shifts to the status of the embryo and the ethics of creating embryos in the lab for scientific experimentation.

Christianity is apparently making a comeback in Silicon Valley, but are there pitfalls?

And an online trend of pedophile hunters turns violent, which reveals much about our current

cultural moment that requires biblical reflection.

These are the stories we will discuss, and we will also address some of your questions.

I'm your host, Sean McDowell.

And I'm your co-host, Scott Ray.

This is the Think Biblically Weekly Cultural Update, brought to by Talbot School Theology, Biola University.

Scott, these stories are so interesting to me.

And this first one, we both tagged it reading through the New York Times this week.

It is so in your lane.

I'm literally dying to hear your thoughts on this because the title

itself is so revealing. The title is, this is the embryo that became my daughter. Now, the

article is about how apparently the abortion debate is shifting now specifically to the status of the embryo.

And some of this is brought on by some of the bills related to IVF.

She says, an embryo in medical terms is a fertilized egg that through the eighth week after

fertilization.

At that point, the tiny ball of cells is no bigger than a raspberry,

but its impact on the body can be mighty. And she says, whatever it was at that stage,

so right away, the framing and writing of this is from within a certain worldview.

Now, the nation is gripped, according to this writer,

with increasingly urgent questions about how we treat these embryos. Now, scientists are doing

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