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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 30, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Tagged
, colonialism, conservation, duties, environmentalism, indigenous people, mountains, nature rights, New Zealand, powers, public policy, responsibilities, rights, Santa Monica, Yellowstone}

This Mountain Is Now a “Person” with “Rights” and Even “Responsibilities”

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 30, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate

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And what responsibilities can the mountain possibly assume? Can it be sued for an avalanche? Ridiculous! Read More ›

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Date
January 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Tagged
, activists, billionaires, Charles Darwin, coal, environmentalism, evolution, extinction, gas, humans, Reuters, The Last Supper, Westminster Abbey}

In Unexpected Attack, Activists Deface Charles Darwin’s Tomb

_{Science and Culture
January 14, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Evolution

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Activists with Just Stop Oil seem to be attempting to enlist Darwin’s modern-day followers in their environment cause. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 26, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", amoebas, Arizona State University, complexity, culture, Daniel Dennett, Daphnia, Daphnia pulex, Darwinian evolution, evolution, genetic drift, genome, humans, Michael Lynch, microcrustaceans, mind, natural selection, random mutations, school systems, subtlety, water fleas}

No. 7 Story of 2024: Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 26, 2024

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Life Sciences
Tagged
, agriculture, beef, California, corn, environmentalists, Europe, food, global warming, human benefit, New York Times, pesticides, pollution, Sri Lanka, United States}

Learning to Love Industrial Farming

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 18, 2024

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Life Sciences

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"Old MacDonald-style farms where soil is nurtured with love and animals have names rather than numbers may sound environmentally friendly." Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
November 25, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, catastrophism, Christians, climate change, climate scientists, denial, Department of Energy, earth, Europe, Francis Collins, guilt by association, Holocaust deniers, human flourishing, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Judith Curry, NASA, temperature, The Road to Wisdom, William Happer}

Francis Collins Employs Climate Change as a Cudgel

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
November 25, 2024

Environment & Climate, Physical Sciences, Technology

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Collins identifies as a Christian, but he seems to have missed a glaring instance of design in the Earth system. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 22, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", amoebas, Arizona State University, complexity, culture, Daniel Dennett, Daphnia, Daphnia pulex, Darwinian evolution, evolution, genetic drift, genome, humans, Michael Lynch, microcrustaceans, mind, natural selection, random mutations, school systems, subtlety, water fleas}

Decade-Long Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Darwinian Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 22, 2024

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 24, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Environment & Climate
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Rare Earth
Tagged
, agnostics, blood, capillaries, cells, Charles Tanford, circulation, criminology, earth, elements, endothermy, evaporation, extraterrestrial intelligence, fitness, fluids, gas, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, liquid, microbiology, oxygen, skin, solid, solvents, temperature, The Wonder of Water, tissues, viscosity, water}

In the Case of Water, an Inference to Intelligent Design Is Independent of Any Religious Claim

_{Michael Denton
July 24, 2024

Biochemistry, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Rare Earth

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In this article I will explain why, as someone who is agnostic about many religious claims, I find the inference to intelligent design impossible to refuse. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 14, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, adaptation, apocalypticism, book reviews, bottleneck, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, evolutionary biologist, Herbert Spencer, human extinction, MIT, persecution, revolutionary science, University of Melbourne, University of Toronto}

When Darwinism Becomes a Fashionable Doomsday Cult

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 14, 2024

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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Like all cults, it can make otherwise intelligent people begin to sound rather strange, even precarious. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 3, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, California, Cambridge University Press, conservation, design filter, endangered species, Kenneth Miller, Michael Shellenberger, nature, Nature (journal), Patrick Brown, politically incorrect, scientific materialism, self-censorship, specification, The Design Inference, wildfires, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

“Move Along, Nothing to See Here”: What Happens When You Challenge a Dominant Narrative

_{Jonathan Witt
June 3, 2024

Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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William Dembski no longer has to be coy about the challenge his design filter poses for modern evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Environment & Climate
Fine-tuning
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, autotrophs, complexity, dignity, evolution, house plants, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, light, mainstream media, New York Times, peas, personhood, Swiss Constitution, The Atlantic, Venus flytrap, wildflowers, Zoë Schlanger}

Again with the “Plants Are Intelligent” Nonsense

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 9, 2024

Bioethics, Botany, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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We all know that plants respond to stimuli, such as flowers opening with the sun or growing toward light. Read More ›