by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 18, 2019 | Pulse
February 2019 Pulse Last month, Democrats in New York passed a bill that allowed women to abort their infant for any reason and at any point of pregnancy up to the moment of birth. ‘A standing ovation for abortion?’, writes Ashely McGuire in USA Today. ‘That’s what...
by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 4, 2019 | Pulse
February 2019 Pulse On 25 November 2018, the MIT Technology Review reported that a Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, claimed to have created the first CRISPR-edited babies. In the first of five YouTube videos posted on the same day, He announced that ‘Two beautiful...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 21, 2019 | Pulse
January 2019 Pulse In a recent interview published by The Straits Times, Mohammad Alami Musa, said that faith communities in Singapore ‘are still at the lower level of inter-religious engagement and discussion, unlike America, Canada or Britain, where the level of...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 7, 2019 | Pulse
January 2019 Pulse Imagine that your humble refrigerator is able to replenish your food supply by taking stock of individual items and ordering them directly from the supermarket. And imagine that your smart fridge is able to monitor your diet and purchase only the...
by Dr Roland Chia | Dec 17, 2018 | Pulse
December 2018 Pulse In February 2015, Gay Byrne, host of the Irish religious television programme The Meaning of Life, asked militant atheist Stephen Fry what he would say to God if he found himself standing before Him at the Pearly Gates. Fry replied with his...
by Dr Roland Chia | Dec 3, 2018 | Pulse
December 2018 Pulse In his erudite and captivating book, Conscience and Its Enemies (2013), Robert George discusses the essential features of a decent society. According to the Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, the three pillars on which a decent...
