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Interview | Ethicist Kerby Anderson on thinking biblically about ethics | Marvin Olasky

Kerby Anderson is the national director of Probe Ministries International, the husband of one wife for 30 years, the father of three grown children, and the author of books such as Moral Dilemmas, Genetic Engineering, and Christian Ethics in Plain Language (Nelson, 2005).

WORLD A title like this last one begs for questions about tough issues that begin with a challenge: "So you say you can explain the ethics of in vitro fertilization in plain language. OK, go for it."

ANDERSON Eggs from the mother and sperm from the father are mixed in a petri dish and then after a period of time the fertilized embryos are implanted into the mother. Although a few ethicists object to the artificial nature of this procedure, most Christian ethicists find the above procedure moral.

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November 26, 2005, Vol. 20, No. 46

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