Sentences with phrase «human exceptionalism»

To the contrary, another fundamental insight of human exceptionalism holds that we alone within the known universe bear essential moral duties.

Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council.

Comstock is a moral philosopher who rejects human exceptionalism and embraces animal rights and transhumanism.

With human exceptionalism cast aside, our new prime directive is to eliminate suffering, and eliminating the sufferer is now advocated in high places as a moral good rather than a pernicious harm.

It is people exercising human exceptionalism by recognizing their duty not to treat animals cruelly.»

I mean the whole thing makes no sense, and in any event, God is not a necessary basis for human exceptionalism.

Good climate policy must recognize human exceptionalism, the God - given call for human persons to «have dominion» in the natural world (Genesis 1:28), and the need to protect the poor from harm, including actions that hinder their ascent out of poverty.

While the mainstream viewed Nat's human exceptionalism advocacy as an embarrassing anomaly, pro-lifers received it as sweet incense.

Those who throw out accusations of «speciesism» seek to subvert human exceptionalism.

The National Review's John Derbyshire lost his religion — of no moment here — and then decided that his rejection of faith, and its replacement with scientism, meant he had to oppose human exceptionalism.

«Chimp personhood is a primary goal that animal - right activists seek to attain and then use as a wrecking ball to disintegrate human exceptionalism,» Smith also said «Once a court declares a chimpanzee to be a full person, that ruling would make chimps, in at least some regards, our legal equals.

In brain and behavioral science there is growing evidence debunking «higher order concepts» from human exceptionalism and anthropomorphizing inter-species medical and biological facts.

But emotion must not tempt us to reject the venerable principles of human exceptionalism.

Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and author of Culture of Death: The Age of «Do Harm» Medicine.

Indeed, in my decades of work around issues such as euthanasia, utilitarian bioethics, animal rights, transhumanism, and other associated agendas, I have found that the more one rejects human exceptionalism, the more likely one is to declare that immoral and (still) illegal wrongs — like infanticide — are virtuous.

It mostly dealt with human exceptionalism, and it has now been abridged (with my permission) into a written Q and A in Salvo magazine.

how we did not evolve directly from apes, and the positive impact of the new discovery for human exceptionalism.

-- and talks, and talks: I was interviewed for the Derek Gilbert podcast recently about Obamacare, health care rationing, the danger of bioethics to the vulnerable, animal rights, and human exceptionalism.

Article after column after editorial published in our most prominent news outlets promote the view that human exceptionalism is hubristic and arrogant.

Moreover, human exceptionalism is the predicate to universal human rights.

Contrary to Coyne, human exceptionalism need not rely on religion to demonstrate its validity.

What caught my attention was the questioner specifically raising the issue of human exceptionalism.

For years, I have been warning people that the time has come to man (and woman) the ramparts to defend the citadel of human exceptionalism (that's a metaphor for you literalists) against its many attackers.

But here's the germane point: To reject human exceptionalism is essentially to claim that we are just another animal in the forest, which leads to the logical conclusion that killing should be an allowable remedy to illness and disability.

Award - winning author Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council.

Award winning author Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council.

Once we reject human exceptionalism, injustices like infanticide start to seem virtuous.

In many ways, human exceptionalism is the key question of the century.

Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and author of A Rat, is a Pig, is a Dog, is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement.

Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patient's Rights Council.

In short, animal welfare does not ascribe «rights» to animals, but instead places on us — as an aspect of human exceptionalism — moral and legal duties to engage in proper husbandry practices.

Human exceptionalism was once considered a self - evident truth.

For example, recent shows have discussed living as a Christian «in a neo-pagan culture,» a debate on the Church's view on same - sex attraction, and an episode about the importance of human exceptionalism (featuring an interview with yours truly).

But being me, I couldn't escape a human exceptionalism angle that leaped off the screen — although I am sure it was not intended by the movie makers (or novelist, upon which the movie is based).

Wesley Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and author of A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement (Encounter, 2010).

Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant for the Patients Rights Council.

There are women who want a wilder life, women who struggle to be dutiful daughters, women who are suspicious of human exceptionalism.