Imagining People As Products: EctoLife and our Brave New World

Imagining People As Products: EctoLife and our Brave New World

The EctoLife artificial womb facility video has taken the internet by storm. The video, produced by science popularizer Hashem Al-Ghaili, shows what may be possible in our near future: baby-making factories where fetuses are grown and hatched instead of birthed from their mother's uteruses. While this is still conceptual, it says quite a bit about the existing trends in reproductive technologies and just how dangerous and inhuman we have become in thinking about reproduction.

In this podcast, Lenny is joined by Patheos author Anthony Costello to discuss how new reproductive technologies, while promising a panacea, have become more of a Pandora's box in presenting new problems and dehumanizing us in the process.

Answering Atheist Arguments On Twitter: Where Does Matter Come From?

Answering Atheist Arguments On Twitter: Where Does Matter Come From?

Engaging atheists on social media platforms like Twitter can be tricky. Many such enounters devolve into not much more tha trading insults. However, in this podcast, Lenny uses a reent conversation with two atheists on Twitter to show ow Christians can better defend their faith while keeping the tone respectful. In this exchange, the atheists sought to disprove the Gospel concepton narrative, but when faced with the problem of the creation of matter out of nothing, which their worldview asserts, their own objections undermined them. Here, Lenny breaks down the entire conversation.