I. D. the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to I. D. The Future. I'm your host Eric Anderson and I'm pleased to be

joined again by Dr. Howard Glixman. A listeners will know Dr. Glixman

who is co-author of a wonderful book, designed body and is also a regular contributor to evolution news.

Welcome Howard.

Yeah, great to be here, Eric.

So Howard, recently we've been talking a lot on the show about Dr. Richard

Weikart's new book, Unnatural Death, Medicine's Descent from Healing to Killing,

and we've gone through lots of details with him about the history of euthanasia and assisted suicide clear back to the Romans and the Greeks and then up to the modern time.

Definitely recommend that our listeners check that out.

So I don't want to dive into too many of those details, but I'm really happy to have you on today because I know you were one of the reviewers and endorsers of the book.

So maybe just to start out, why did you endorse the book? Why do you think it's an important topic

we ought to be addressing?

Well, Eric, like physician assistant suicide

and euthanasia violates every principle of my life.

All right, I'm a Catholic, so you know, the commandments say not to kill the innocent.

So, you know, that's not only other people, but myself.

And then I'm a physician, so the Hippocratic Oath, which says, you know, first do no harm.

It says also that I'm not supposed to kill my patient, even if they ask me to.

And of course, you know, they're vulnerable, you know, I have authority over them.

And then and then I'm up been a hospice doctor for over 20 years, so I have a lot of

experiencing and managing a lot of end-of-life situations. So I recognize in the

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