In October 2004 a media firestorm engulfed the Dover School Board in Pennsylvania when it required that teachers read a statement about Intelligent Design in the classroom. This was no isolated incident. Darwinian evolution enjoyed the status of an unquestioned orthodoxy for decades, but now it... read more

We hear over and over about the secularists, and the liberals, and those who want to allow for this or that, all of which is against our beliefs. That which we believe has been formed by the Roman Catholic Church as it teaches the Roman Catholic Faith. Whether it is abortion, women's rights,... read more

In a wonderful commentary aptly titled "Evasive Language Results in Suboptimal Outcomes," John Leo assaults the manner in which language is used to obscure the truth-rather than to tell it. He is not concerned simply with biotechnology, which makes his biotech examples even more telling. This isn't... read more

Pope John Paul has condemned human cloning as an arrogant attempt to improve on God's creation. The Pope has spoken out against cloning: "The sense of power that every technical progress inspires in man is well known," the Pope said in a message sent from his summer residence in Castelgandolfo to a... read more

Lamenting the United Kingdom's decision to authorize the cloning of human embryos for research purposes, Catholic doctors insisted it is "ethically unacceptable to deliberately sacrifice the life of any human being." On Aug. 12, the International Federation of Associations of Catholic Doctors... read more

Deceptive, irresponsible, outrageous hype and blatant lies - these are the tools being used to convince people that changing administrations from Bush to Kerry will lead to cures for all their present and future suffering from illness and disease. The worst news of all - it's working... So it... read more

Babies are increasingly treated like goods. A recent example is the announcement that babies have been born from 12-year-old embryos, the Jerusalem Post reported Feb. 3. Doctors from Hadassah-University Hospital in Ein Kerem were behind the birth of the two babies, now 9 months old. Previously, the... read more

New Jersey became the second state to allow stem cell research on Sunday as Gov. James E. McGreevey signed a law he said will "move the frontiers of science forward." Stem cell research, which has been strongly opposed by anti-abortion groups and the Roman Catholic church because it involves the... read more

"Scientists in China have, for the first time, used cloning techniques to create hybrid embryos that contain a mix of DNA from both humans and rabbits, according to a report in a scientific journal that has reignited the smoldering ethics debate over cloning research. More than 100 of the hybrids,... read more