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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
May 30, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Botany
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, bacteria, biologist, birds, bugs, chemicals, evolution, evolutionary biologists, foresight, genetic code, Howard Glicksman, human life, intelligent design, mass spectrometry, migration, molecules}

How Life Looks and How It Works: Thoughts on Eberlin’s Foresight

_{Howard Glicksman
May 30, 2019

Biochemistry, Botany, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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He concludes that “evolutionary ‘just so’ stories” are examples of “wishful thinking starved of molecular details.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 6, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, animal welfare, animals, beekeeping, clothing, death camps, Dogs, Holocaust, horses, humans, medical research, patriarchy, PETA, pets, rabbits, speciesism, The Conversation}

It’s Unjust Patriarchy to Own a Pet!

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 6, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Corey Lee Wrenn argues that what is done to an animal should be judged in the same fashion as if the same thing were done to a human. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 24, 2019

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, abstraction, animals, apes, emotion, humans, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, perception, reality, spirituality}

Egnor: A Couple of Problems with Ape “Spirituality”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 24, 2019

Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The wish to demote, punish, and degrade ourselves this way, a neurosis special to our modern culture, is itself, ironically, a tribute to human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 12, 2019

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, animals, apes, Aristotle, Christianity, communication, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, dog, Homo sapiens, human mind, humans, Jerry Coyne, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, physiology, signs, soul, speech}

Why Animals Don’t Speak

_{David Klinghoffer
March 12, 2019

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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If what separates us from other animals were material in nature, material alone, then perhaps we could look to a material process for an explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 6, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, Dogs, embryo, gender dysphoria, gestation, Joseph Fletcher, Journal of Medical Ethics, males, monkeys, mutilation, pain, The Ethics of Genetic Control, uterus transplant}

Bioethicists Urge a Grotesque Abuse of Animals

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 6, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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Once again, we find that if radicals envision it, eventually we will try to go there. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 25, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, anti-humanism, Chippewa, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, environmentalism, flora, Frank Bibeau, manoomin, nature, Ojibwe, right to life}

A Right to Life — For Wild Rice

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 25, 2019

Bioethics

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I believe that time is growing short to throttle this advocacy thrust. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
January 24, 2019

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", Ajit Varki, Albert Einstein, animals, Anolis lizard, bread, cheese, chimpanzees, creativity, Darwinian evolution, David Premack, fire, human origins, humans, intelligence, Internet, iPhone, John West, Neanderthals, Noam Chomsky, Peaceful Science, S. Joshua Swamidass, Thomas Nagel, tools, University of Pennsylvania}

A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism … On the Internet? Yes!

_{Ann Gauger
January 24, 2019

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics

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Not all humans can be concert pianists. Some humans can’t speak or get out of a wheelchair or remember their daughter’s name anymore. Here we enter into moral and ethical issues. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 17, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, choice, crime, evil, free will, genes, good, human dignity, Jerry Coyne, justice, morality, neurotransmitters, punishment, totalitarianism}

Jerry Coyne and the Consequences of Denying Free Will

_{Michael Egnor
January 17, 2019

Bioethics

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Without free will, there is no guilt and there is no innocence. There are merely animals to be managed. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
January 10, 2019

Categories
Arts
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, Bible, chimpanzees, David Barash, DNA, humans, mitochondria, music, New York Times, organelles, Seattle, University of Washington}

On Being Human — A Reflection

_{Ann Gauger
January 10, 2019

Arts, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics

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Evolutionary biologist David Barash is a man on a mission. He wants to make sure that we all know we are only human, and that means we are only animal. Read More ›

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Date
December 26, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, Bilateria, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Marshall, Darwin's Doubt, Eumetazoa, genes, genetic information, genome, Günter Bechly, homology groups, Metazoa, morphogenesis, multicellularity, natural selection, paleontology, Planulozoa, protein folds, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, UC Berkeley}

#7 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Thousands of New Genes Needed for the Origin of Animals

_{Science and Culture
December 26, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This is nothing short of a spectacular vindication of Stephen Meyer’s perspective in Darwin's Doubt. Read More ›