> Indeed, the syllabus I reviewed for a class called “Intellectual Foundations of Science II” covered a range of topics unusual for a science class including “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.”
> A student who’d taken the course shared a slide with me on “ensoulment” — the principally religious question of when a soul enters the human body — and said that the class had been told that IVF but not abortion could be consistent with the Catholic belief about ensoulment.
I'll give the author credit for going at least a little beyond the ridiculous "life [personhood] begins at conception" dogma, since they reference the issue of identical twins... But what about chimerism? HeLa cells?
