http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2010/03/an-ironic-name/ A First Things Blog Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:35:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2010/03/an-ironic-name/#comment-9412 Jeremy Pierce Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:33:19 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=5820#comment-9412 Not all eugenics involves choosing some and leaving others. One method of eugenics is simply modifying what's there. If they find a genetic mechanism to stop disorders like autism from developing, and parents use it, it is indeed a kind of eugenics. But it doesn't leave anyone behind. It simply improves the child already present (on the assumption that the change is an improvement, although that's a controversial assumption). Not all eugenics involves choosing some and leaving others. One method of eugenics is simply modifying what’s there. If they find a genetic mechanism to stop disorders like autism from developing, and parents use it, it is indeed a kind of eugenics. But it doesn’t leave anyone behind. It simply improves the child already present (on the assumption that the change is an improvement, although that’s a controversial assumption).

]]> http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2010/03/an-ironic-name/#comment-9154 Cheryl Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:14:08 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=5820#comment-9154 How good it was for your church to invite that speaker and inform the congregation. As for finding out about your name - be careful! My half sister started a search like you, and ended up with a gizzilion relatives in Ireland and Scotland, and has traveled twice from Winnipeg Man., to Scotland to meet them. : ) How good it was for your church to invite that speaker and inform the congregation. As for finding out about your name – be careful! My half sister started a search like you, and ended up with a gizzilion relatives in Ireland and Scotland, and has traveled twice from Winnipeg Man., to Scotland to meet them. : )

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