The Series
1. Introduction
2. Taking Life
3. Making Life
4. Faking Life
5. Discussion

The final installment features a Q&A discussion with the congressional staffers who were involved in the Statesmanship Institute. It is a great dialogue over the weighty issue of bioethics, and a great end to the series.

bioethics, bioscience, biotechnology, science

The Series
1. Introduction
2. Taking Life
3. Making Life
4. Faking Life
5. Discussion

This podcast revolves around the final steps in modern mans quest to set the world to rights: the faking of human life.

bioethics, bioscience, biotechnology, christian spirituality

The Series
1. Introduction
2. Taking Life
3. Making Life
4. Faking Life
5. Discussion

If previous bioethical coversations revolved around the taking of human life (through abortion, euthanasia, etc…), contemporary bioethical conversation deal with the making of human life. This next powerful segment addresses the ethical dilemma of cloning.

The Series
1. Introduction
2. Taking Life
3. Making Life
4. Faking Life
5. Discussion

Since this little series has been downloaded several hundred times, I thought I would repost it over the next 2 weeks. A few months ago I already reposted the introduction. Today’s podcast centers on the questions of taking human life. Nigel Cameron makes the bold claim that we need to de-link the abortion question from issues of bioethics (like cloning and stem cells). Additionally, he wades through the ethics of taking embryos and using them for the purpose of scientific research and personal gain.

bioethics, bioscience, biotechnology, christian spirituality

The Series
1. Introduction
2. Taking Life
3. Making Life
4. Faking Life
5. Discussion

Folks, you all are in for a real treat!

I was browsing through my iTunes library and stumbled upon a series of mp3 recordings I did for the ministry for which I worked a few years ago. During that time I was the coordinator of our Statesmanship Institute, a program that sought to equip congressional staffers with an understanding of a biblical world view on such topics as economics, foreign policy, and law. While most of the sessions were from a decidedly conservative version of the biblical world view, probably the gem of the entire series was a talk given by Nigel Cameron on a emerging biotechnologies and issues of human ethics. And since the ministry doesn’t exist anymore (thus the recordings belong to no one), I’m going to offer them here!

Nigel Cameron, who hales from England and studied at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, is Director of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society, Research Professor of Bioethics and Associate Dean at Chicago-Kent College of Law in the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is also President of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, founded the journal Ethics and Medicine in 1983 and is widely recognized as a commentator technology policy and ethics issues. His leadership in this field has brought him into partnership with “the Other” who also cares about human nature and emerging biotechnology.

This lecture was no Sunday School talk nor was it right-wing conservative anti-abortion propagandizing. It is a wide ranging discussion delving into the real implications of taking, making, and faking human life. He comes at the issue not so much from the stand point of the Biblical text, but rather from the philosophical, scientific, theological and cultural implications of modern biotechnological practices.

I guarantee you will want to download and listen to all five 13-minute installments over the next five Tuesdays. Enjoy and come back to share your thoughts!

You can read more about Nigel Cameron, here.

christian spirituality, theology, biotechnology, bioethics, bioscience