Bioethics and Christianity in the face of the challenges of technoscience

Bioethics and Christianity in the face of the challenges of technoscience
seminar of the group Science, Reason and Faith.
Luis Miguel Pastor García. Pamplona, March 11th, 2024

Luis Miguel Pastor García is Full Professor of Cell Biology and Histology at the School of Medicine of the University of Murcia, publisher of the journal Cuadernos de Bioética and president of the Spanish association of Bioethics and Medical Ethics. In addition to numerous publications and doctoral thesis directed in the field of histology, he has numerous collaborations published on bioethical issues. He is also interested in the study of an interdisciplinary field, that of transhumanism, in which he has several publications and on which he has written his doctoral thesis in Philosophy, which he recently defended.

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Today, bioethics is facing numerous ethical challenges generated by technoscience. Society is asking for a rational answer about the goodness or not of biotechnologies that can be applied to human life in the arc of its existence, from its origin to its end. What is the role of Christians in bioethical work? Is it absurd, antidemocratic and manipulative to pretend that Christian beliefs influence the bioethical discussion ? What truths or attitudes does faith contribute that can help to give an ethical sense to technoscience?