Center on Human Exceptionalism

The mission of Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism is to affirm and uphold the intrinsic nature of human dignity, liberty, and equality. In resistance to a growing movement against unique human personhood, we aim to revitalize a commitment to the traditional Western view of human rights and human responsibilities — summed up by the term “human exceptionalism.” Read more

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The Fantasy of Living Forever in a Computer

Wesley J. Smith
February 2, 2023
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Transhumanists pursue the dream of immortality by hoping to upload their minds into computers — as if the mimicking software would be them. No, it would be a computer program, nothing more. They would still be dead and gone. And here’s another somewhat less ambitious approach to the same goal. Apparently a company is developing technology that would allow you to speak to loved ones after you shuffle off this mortal coil. From the Vice story: The founder of a top metaverse company says that the fast-moving development of ChatGPT has pushed the timeline for one of his most ambitious and eccentric projects up by a matter of years. In an interview with Motherboard, Somnium Space’s Artur Sychov said a user has started to integrate OpenAI’s Read More ›

Freedom of Religion on the Chopping Block

Wesley J. Smith
February 2, 2023
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Mass. Democrats Propose Turning Prisoners into Organ Farms

Wesley J. Smith
February 1, 2023
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Here Comes ‘Transableism’

Wesley J. Smith
January 27, 2023
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Medical Journal Demands ‘Ecological Equity’

Wesley J. Smith
January 25, 2023
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The ‘Pregnancy Tissue’ Deflection

Wesley J. Smith
January 23, 2023
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Tim Goeglein on the Case for Teaching the Great American Story

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Wesley J. Smith
February 6, 2023
Abraham Lincoln famously called the United States of America, “the last best Hope on earth.”  Throughout our history, most Americans believed that. So did countless people from other countries who left their homes behind to come here in pursuit of the American dream—including my grandmother who immigrated from Italy in 1910 as a 16 year-old to help free her family Read More ›

Dr. Peggy Hartshorn on Heartbeat International, Pregnancy Resource Centers, and Abortion Pill Reversal

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Wesley J. Smith
January 23, 2023
A continual criticism of the pro-life movement is that adherents only care about children before they are born. But is that true? The proliferation of Pregnancy Help Centers throughout the country and the many outreach efforts of the pro-life movement to help women and babies after birth testifies to the lie of the accusation. Wesley’s guest today has been immersed Read More ›

Steve Laufmann and Howard Glicksman on the Design of the Human Body

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Howard Glicksman
January 9, 2023
In this episode of the Humanize podcast we will explore the human body. Is your body “engineered” or did it evolve through impersonal and random processes over countless millions of years of natural selection? And what difference does the answer to that question make? Wesley’s guests are the authors of Your Designed Body, a new book that explores the complexity Read More ›

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