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__________________ Today’s public talk about moral values is usually framed in terms of a search for a moral consensus that is no longer self-evident—indeed that to many people is not evident at all. The search for a moral consensus based on a common human nature has, for some time now, replaced the social function of religious belief, which was long thought to be the indispensable foundation of social peace. For most of history, unity of religion was deemed essential to the unity of society and culture. That assumption was shattered in the religious wars in Europe of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As a consequence of the wars of religion, precisely the opposite conclusion was drawn: Social peace requires that religious beliefs, and disagreements over religious beliefs, be determinedly disregarded. Although
established religion continued for some time in most of Europe, religion
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At the same time one's personal ethics are being challenged in increasing measure. This topic often receives front page coverage as yet again another scientist is charged with fraud. Walter Hearn has ably dealt with day-to-day questions in his Being a Christian in Science (InterVarsity, 1997) . For Walt:
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Atheism and morality
Can atheism provide grounds for morality? Roman J. Miller, "When Fraud Knocks on the Door" PSCF 58 (March 2006): 1. Thoughts of a Teacher/editor. Wolfhart Pannenberg's "When Everything is Permitted" Argues the need for "Christian ethics." Ethical Method in Christian Bioethics: Mapping the Terrain Offers an "analysis of patterns of ethical methodology among Christians weighing in on contemporary debates."
Note: The views represented on this page do not represent the official position of the American Scientific Affiliation. Chemicals Claus Jacob & Adam Walters*, "Risk and Responsibility in Chemical Research The Case of Agent Orange," HYLE--International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, Vol. 11, No.2 (2005) Excessive Consumption Swearengen, Jack & Woodhouse, Edward, "Overconsumption: An Ethical Dilemma for Christian Engineers," PSCF 54 (June2002): 80 Fraud Kurt M. Pickett, John W. Wenzel, Stephen W.
Rissing, "Iconoclasts
of Evolution: Haekel, Behe, Wells & the Ontolgeny of a Fraud,",
The American Biology Teacher 67 (May 2005): 275-282.
Rodney L. Bassett, David Basinger, and Paul Livermore, "Lying in the Laboratory: Deception in Human Research from Psychological, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives," JASA, 33 (December 1982): 201-212. Brian E. Porter and Steve VanderVeen, "Does
Being Honest Pay? An Empirical Study," Christian Scholars Review
XXVIII (Number 3 1999): 452-465. Genetic Engineering J. Bruce McCallum, "Evolving
Concepts of Nature and Human Genetic Engineering," PSCF 58 (September
2006): 171-178. Medical Practice The Christian Medical and Dental Society provides position papers on many issues in medical and dental practice.
New Study by Harvard Medical School
Researchers at Cambridge Health Alliance finds US Medical Students
Receive Negligible Instruction about Military Medical Ethics.(November
2007) A new study by Harvard
Medical School researchers who are also clinicians at Cambridge Health
Alliance (CHA) found that medical students receive very little teaching
about military medical ethics and are ignorant about a physician's
ethical duties according to the Geneva Conventions. The study, entitled
"Medical Student Knowledge Regarding the Military Draft, the Geneva
Conventions, and Military Medical Ethics," appears in the current
issue of the International Journal of Health Services... Cambridge Health Alliance Full
Story
Dennis M. Sullivan, "The
Oral Conceptive as Abortifacient: An Analysis of the Evidence," PSCF
58 (September 2006): 189-195. Neuroscience The Biology of Stem Cells (Proquest) An overview. EditorialNature 450, 457-458 (22 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450457b; Published online 21 November 2007Replicator review: Nature has implemented a peer-review policy for strong claims. The transfer of a nucleus from a somatic cell of one organism into an enucleated germ cell of another for therapeutic or reproductive cloning is now well-established in many species, but has proved notoriously difficult to do in primates. Indeed some experts have concluded that it simply couldn't be done. Woo Suk Hwang's high-profile paper reporting that it had worked in human cells turned out to be fraudulent, making the goal seem even more elusive...more
Hope or hype? Can stem cells live up to being
the panacea for disease?
Celia Dean-Drummond,
"A Recovery of Wisdom As Virtue for an Ethics of Genetics,"
PSCF 59 (March 2007): 19. Skin derived precursor cells. (photo courtesy Freda Miller)
Adrian Teo and Donald Calbreath, "Embryonic
Stem Cells and a Reformed Christian World View: A response to Robert Boormsma,"
PSCF 58 (September 2006):179-188. Robert A. Boomsma, "Embryonic
Stem Cells and a Reformed Christian World View," PSCF 56.1:38-48
(3/2004) General Karen Lebacqz, "Pademic Justice," PSCF 59 (March 2007): 10. David P. Gushee, Ethical Method in Christian Bioethics: Mapping the Terrain, The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity (2003). Carson, Joseph P., "Should
ASA Defend and Advance Professional Ethics in Science and Technology
Professions?," PSCF 54 (June 2002): 124. V. Elving
Anderson, "A Genetic View of Human Nature," in Whatever Happened to the
Soul?: Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature, Warren S.
Brown, Nancey Murphy, and H. Newton Malony, eds., Minneapolis: Fortress Press,
1998 H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., Foundations of Christian Bioethics, Exton, PA, Swets & Zeitlinger, 2000 Jay Hollman, New issues in Medical Ethics, Bristol TN: Christian Medical and Dental Society, 1995.
John Frederic Kilner (Editor), et al Cutting-Edge Bioethics: A Christian Exploration of Technologies and Trends (Horizon in Bioethics Series Book) (Paperback - March 2002) Edwin C. Hui, At the Beginning of Life: Dilemmas in Theological Bioethics (Christian Classics Bible Studies) InterVarsity Press (October 2002). D.
P. Gushee and G. H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in
Contemporary Context (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2003). Religion and Ethics Newsletter (PBS) Christian Bioethics Links (click cancel to access the site) Loma Linda University Center for Christian
Bioethicsics Issues of
Life: Bioethics and medical links Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship of Australia Inc (CMDFA)CMF Ethics CMF produces literature addressing a wide range of ethical issues from a Christian perspective.
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