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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 24, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, abortion, animals, anti-human exceptionalism, communication, culture, dog, emotion, environmentalism, euthanasia, horse, human rights, humans, memory, New York University, self-awareness}

Professor: We Shouldn’t Necessarily Value Humans Over Other Animals

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 24, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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NYU environmentalism prof Jeff Sebo argues that humans are not always rational and that some animals display mental qualities so we aren’t exceptional. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, amphibians, Avalon explosion, Bayesian reasoning, birds, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, cattle, cetaceans, chimpanzees, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Genesis, gorilla, great apes, Homo sapiens, horse, humans, hybridization, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, marine iguanas, reptiles, whale evolution}

Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Darwinists

_{Günter Bechly
April 25, 2022

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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I consider this simple argument as a final nail in the coffin of Darwinian unguided evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bacteria, Congress, courts, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, habeas corpus, insects, laws, New York State, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water}

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2022

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Technology
Tagged
, Big Tech, Christianity, death, faith, fasting, Huffington Post, immortality, materialism, Nick Bostrom, nihilism, prayer, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, St. Paul, theology, transhumanism, Zoltan Istvan}

The Impossibility of Christian Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 1, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Technology

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First principles matter, and those of transhumanism and Christianity could not be more contradictory. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 18, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, college students, ecosystem, Enterprise, Florida, Great Lakes, Lake Erie, legislation, nature rights, New York State, Orange County, radicals, Toledo}

“Great Lakes Bill of Rights” Legislation Introduced

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 18, 2022

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

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Based on the chat-room comments, I was viewed by the college students who watched as the skunk at the party for defending human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 18, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, creativity, deification, dog, free will, God, gods, human responsibilities, human rights, humans, metaethics, morality, murder, reality, software, The Matrix, transhumanism}

Professor Explains “How to Be a God”

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2022

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Transhumanists and futurists worry about guaranteeing rights for AI technologies when they attain “consciousness.” Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 11, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, criminal justice, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, environmentalism, George Gaylord Simpson, John Derbyshire, medicine, National Review, natural selection, Nobel laureates, Peter Singer, Princeton University, random mutations, religion, Wayne State University}

How Has Darwinism Negatively Impacted Society?

_{John G. West
January 11, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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The late Morris Goodman of Wayne State University argued that humans are “only slightly remodeled chimpanzee-like apes.” Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 10, 2021

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, books, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, engineers, evolution, Evolution News, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Michael Denton, orcas, physicians, Richard Weikart, Stephen Meyer, Steve Laufmann, United Kingdom, YouTube videos}

Ever Thought You Could Change Someone’s Mind?

_{John G. West
December 10, 2021

Biology, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Iain was a diehard atheist from the United Kingdom. "I absolutely knew that I would never believe in a creator. It was inconceivable to me," he recalls. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 24, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, “consensus science”, atheism, Baruch Spinoza, COVID-19, Darwinian materialism, Humanize, intelligent design, mainstream media, materialism, Michael Medved, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Lewontin, Salon, Stephen Meyer, Steven Pinker, Thanksgiving, Wesley Smith}

Thanksgiving and the Frailty of Scientific Atheism

_{David Klinghoffer
November 24, 2021

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism

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Our bioethicist colleague Wesley Smith had a very interesting and wide-ranging conversation with Stephen Meyer. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 24, 2021

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, __nedited, Ardipithecus, Australopithecus sediba, bones, brain size, Cambrian Explosion, climate change, creator, Darwinism, Declaration of Independence, evolution, gradualism, hair, Hall of Human Origins, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo naledi, human language, Human Zoos, humanity, Lucy, museum, National Museum of Natural History, Neanderthal DNA, Neanderthals, Orrorin, Science Uprising, Smithsonian Institution, Thomas Jefferson, whiteness}

Evolution Theater: Smithsonian Whitewashes Human Origins

_{David Coppedge
November 24, 2021

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The museum makes a big deal of Lucy. Their portrayal has many more bones than the original! Read More ›