Thursday, August 7, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
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Summary
Part I (00:13 – 10:40)
The Birth of the ‘World’s Oldest Baby’: A Baby is Born After Being Frozen as an Embryo for 3 Decades
- Exclusive: A record-breaking baby has been born from an embryo that’s over 30 years old by MIT Technology Review (Jessica Hamzelou)
- World’s ‘oldest baby’ born from embryo frozen in 1994 by The Guardian (Tobi Thomas)
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- A Cancer Patient Chose Assisted Death. That Wasn’t the Last Hard Choice. by The New York Times (Stephanie Nolen)
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- Judge blocks 4 districts from enforcing Arkansas law requiring Ten Commandments in classroom by The Associated Press (Andrew DeMillo)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, August 7, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.8 | Well, here's a headline, quote, a record-breaking baby has been born from an embryo that's over 30 years old. Another headline simply said |
| 0:24.1 | world's oldest baby born. Now, when you see a headline like this, you have to look further |
| 0:30.0 | beneath the surface. What's going on here? Well, technology review, very establishment, |
| 0:35.7 | has actually been pretty restrained when the headline is a record-breaking |
| 0:39.7 | baby that has been born from an embryo that's over 30 years old. I'll give them credit for candor |
| 0:45.0 | in that headline. So we're talking about an embryo that's more than 30 years old. An embryo that is now a |
| 0:52.7 | baby and a baby boy who was born just in the last couple of weeks |
| 0:58.4 | and now holds the record for the, quote, oldest baby. That's the lead. Quote, Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, |
| 1:04.3 | who arrived on July 26, was developed from an embryo that had been in storage for 30 and a half |
| 1:09.7 | years. Lindsay Pierce's very happy mother said, |
| 1:12.7 | quote, we had a rough birth, but we are both doing well now. He is so chill. We are in awe that |
| 1:18.0 | we have this precious baby. End quote. Well, first of all, congratulations to this mother and |
| 1:22.3 | father for receiving this new life. They did so through what is sometimes called a snowflake adoption. |
| 1:28.7 | That is the adoption, which, by the way, generally these days is undertaken by a Christian couple, |
| 1:34.2 | a Christian couple adopting an embryo that had been created through IVF technology by another couple. |
| 1:42.6 | And that couple did not transfer the embryo or all of the embryos into the |
| 1:49.3 | mother's womb. And thus this is a so-called excess embryo. And that's just the crude language, |
| 1:55.6 | very morally revealing language that is sometimes used here. And so I have argued that it is morally licit. It is morally |
| 2:03.9 | permissible by a Christian biblical worldview for a Christian couple to adopt one of these embryos. |
| 2:10.2 | I do not believe it's ethical to create the embryo in terms of the laboratory context and the |
| 2:15.4 | commercial enterprise of IVF in the first place. That's a very different thing. |
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