SCOUT· 52%26m·2026-08-26·FaithWednesday, August 26, 2026
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses The Economist’s argument for embryo selection on the basis of disease resistance and IQ, how IVF led to the trend of designer babies, and the outsized life and legacy of Dolly…
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“I took my family to DollyWood in late November 2024, when the park celebrates, “a Smokey Mountains Christmas” and was pleasantly surprised to see both her resort and amusement park overtly Christian. For example, there were multiple live sh…”
“Dolly was an interesting woman that was such an ecclesiastical knot of open vanity and kindness, feminism and borderline deism/agnosticism”
“I can’t help but think of the very appropriate line from Sam Neill in Jurassic Park 3: “This is how you play God.” God help us and God have mercy on us in Christ. We humans are still trying to find ways to build a proverbial Tower of Babel.”
“I can’t help wondering what happens when these children don’t perform at the level the parents perceived they would when selecting the genetic makeup.”
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