Fighting Eugenics | Season 2, Ep. 9

UnderCurrent with Gabe Lyons

The practice of eugenics may cause you to conjure up the evil by-gone era of Hitler and Nazi Germany in World War II, but you might be surprised to learn about a new era of eugenics currently happening in America and around the world.

In this episode, Gabe gets underneath the clever vernacular some are using to cloak a more contemporary—but no less unethical—eugenics, like “modern genetics,” “gene therapy,” and “transhumanism.” He reveals how people are essentially playing God to create a “perfect” humanity but are, instead, manipulating God’s original and perfect design.

Tune in to get informed and think well about what this means for our human flourishing.

Links to Learn More and Take Action:

• Watch my THINQ Conversation with Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: Bioethics & Gene Therapy.
• Learn more about Transhumanism through my conversation with Dr. John Lennox: When Humans Become Machines.
• Understand why eugenics is racism: Eugenics and Scientific Racism.
• To explore a fictional future where genetic modification goes wrong, read The Children of Men by P.D. James.
• Read 20th century predictions in The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley or 1984 by George Orwell.
• Read my HuffPost blog Defense of Down Syndrome Children…Like My Son.
• Read this New York Times article reporting 90% of children born with Down syndrome are aborted: Prenatal Tests Puts Down Syndrome in Hard Focus.
• Read more about 23andMe selling genetic data to pharmaceutical companies: 23andMe Sold Your Genetic Data to GSK: What this Means for You, Your Data, and Your Health.
• Continue to grow your cultural discernment: Create a free Thought Leader account and view the THINQ Framework series.
• Follow @gabelyons on Instagram and X and visit gabelyons.com.