The new executive director at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity discusses recent bioethical debates.

The former director of the Human Genome Project hopes to show compatibility between Christianity and science.

Access to federal money may be mixed blessing for embryonic research.

Why scientific breakthroughs make the destruction of human embryos obsolete.

When science is made 'apolitical' and 'unencumbered by religion,' it's usually to hyper-politicize and hyper-sacralize it.

Foreknowledge: for God and not for us.

All three candidates have voted to fund embryonic stem-cell research.

Advances in stem-cell technology cheer and alarm ethics watchers.

A vision of a sinless future.

Plus: Surgeon general nominee's Methodist work under fire, Time interviews Rowan Williams, church building conflicts, and other stories from online sources around the world.

Britain may tighten IVF laws to prevent multiple pregnancies.

Fuzzy science sparks debate over treatments to reverse homosexuality.

Why we struggle to gain our moral footing in bioethics.

Research advance could shift stem-cell debate.

Fear of mortality lies at the root of our bioethics confusion.

Eugenics has made a lethal comeback.

It's hard to see the humanity of tiny embryos if we live by blind faith.

Plus: Prolifers rally and ... burn the Qur'an?! On having Ralph Reed to kick around, banning baths, and a bunch of links to a bunch of other stories.