Wesley J. Smith, John West Decry the Demonizers and Dehumanizers

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Today’s ID the Future brings listeners the second half of a panel discussion at the 2022 Center for Science and Culture Insider’s Briefing. This portion begins with bioethicist and Discovery Institute senior fellow Wesley J. Smith making a surprising argument: His own field, bioethics, is at war with true medical ethics. Specifically, its most prominent figures—hailing from elite universities in the United States and Europe—are dedicated to emptying our medical culture of traditional ethical standards that protect human rights and are guided by a commitment to inherent human dignity. Some leading bioethicists see human beings as of no more inherent value than yeast. Smith stands athwart this anti-human trend and urges listeners to wake up and push back. Then John Read More ›

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0:00.0	ID the future
0:05.0	future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Greetings I'm Tom Gilson. Today on ID the future we conclude our presentation of a panel discussion on dangerous trends flying under the false cover of science and scientific thinking.
0:25.0	This comes from a panel discussion given in August 2022
0:30.0	at an insiders briefing for scientists, scholars, and supporters of the Center for Science
0:36.5	and Culture at the Discovery Institute.
0:40.3	First to speak in this portion of the panel is Wesley J Smith, author of many books and a frequent
0:45.9	spokesperson for bioethics, and one who remembers what it means to be human in the process.
0:53.0	John West, Vice President and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute,
0:58.0	follows him with more on this matter of dehumanization
1:02.0	in the name of science. matter of
1:03.5	dehumanization in the name of science.
1:05.4	We're talking about the consequences of materialism.
1:08.7	And John asked me if I would talk about the instrumentalization of unborn human life
1:13.9	during this presentation and I'll be of course not happy to do so but I think it's
1:19.6	important that we do so because we have to understand the evil that this way comes.
1:26.3	We're talking about what's known as bioethics and bioethics is a contraction for
1:31.9	biomedical ethics and it's a, and I believe it's a social movement and a political movement that seeks to change medical ethics away from the Hippocratic Oath and seeks to create a relativistic view of human life,
1:45.0	that there is something called, they call it the quality of life ethics,
1:49.0	so that if a person has higher capacities and suffers less, they have more value, I'm being very quick here,
1:55.8	than somebody, let's say, with a disability or somebody who might be terminally ill or the
2:00.7	unborn. And I want to talk about this out of their own mouths or out of their own pens actually.
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