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The Eric Metaxas Show

Dr. William Hurlbut : What does it mean to be human in the age of AI and gene editing?

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Eric sits down with Stanford bioethicist Dr. William Hurlbut in a riveting Socrates in the City conversation on science, morality, and human dignity.Don’t miss this mind-opening exchange.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Metaxa show.

0:12.2

They say it's a thin line between love and hate, but we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least make it a double or triple line.

0:20.7

Now here's your line jumping host, Eric Mattaxas.

0:27.8

Hey there, folks.

0:28.8

Welcome to today's show.

0:30.0

It is Friday, the 25th of July.

0:32.7

For much of the summer, on Fridays, we're doing Socrates in the city Fridays.

0:38.7

And I had a conversation not long ago with a brilliant bioethicist at Stanford,

0:47.5

an extraordinary man of faith who works in the field of bioethics.

0:51.6

Tremendous conversation.

0:53.3

The weirdest thing is that he looks and sounds dramatically like Harrison Ford.

1:00.0

So if you go to the YouTube page and you look it up, you'll see what I'm talking.

1:06.1

It's amazing, actually.

1:07.9

And he has been mistaken for Harrison Ford.

1:10.2

He doesn't look so much. He's not like a

1:12.2

double, but you kind of think, like, is this Harrison Ford? It turns out it's not. I just want to be

1:18.5

clear. He's a bioethicist and absolutely amazing guest. I had him at Socrates in the city years ago,

1:25.3

and I said, we've got to get him back. So we're going to play that conversation in both hours today. So his name is William Hurlbutt. And I also want to say

1:36.7

that we are doing a full court press. There's an emergency because of the floods in Texas

1:43.2

to get aid to people that are just devastated.

1:47.6

Their lives have been devastated and food for the poor is reaching out to them,

1:53.7

helping them, working with local churches.

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