{"id":2606,"date":"2009-09-01T08:54:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T16:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2009-09-01T16:20:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T00:20:55","slug":"death-panels-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/death-panels-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Death panels and science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative pundits of a religious bent periodically criticize Enlightenment rationalism and the scientific world-view as presumptuous, inadequate, or dangerous.\u00a0 (Leftist believers are hardly immune from science condescension.\u00a0 In his new book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0300151799\/geneexpressio-20\">Reason, Faith, and Revolution<\/a><\/em>, Terry Eagleton opines that the Apocalypse is \u201cfar more likely to be the upshot of technology than the work of the Almighty\u201d\u2014a nonsensical position if one believes in divine omniscience and omnipotence.)<\/p>\n<p>The current fury over government-subsidized medicine, alleged rationing, and end-of-life health care has been made possible, however, only because science has pursued a \u201cculture of life\u201d with patient rigor and dedication, allowing human beings to keep each other alive long past the sell-by date of decaying organs and a fragile nervous system.\u00a0 The parade of horribles that Enlightenment naysayers usually trot out\u2014mostly Nazi eugenics and possible atomic warfare\u2014is short compared to the astounding benefits that scientific skepticism and the demand for empirical proof have showered upon humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative pundits of a religious bent periodically criticize Enlightenment rationalism and the scientific world-view as presumptuous, inadequate, or dangerous.\u00a0 (Leftist believers are hardly immune from science condescension.\u00a0 In his new book Reason, Faith, and Revolution, Terry Eagleton opines that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/death-panels-and-science\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[326,309,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}