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Pope Francis Embraced Human Exceptionalism

The idea of unique human value and concomitant duties are the core of human exceptionalism. Read More ›
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Man, with His Special Place in Nature, Was Designed to Use Fire

Only a special type of being very close to our own biological design could have taken the first and vital step to technological enlightenment, fire-making. Read More ›
The Miracle of Man
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Denton: Return of the Man Hypothesis

Scientific discoveries have revitalized the outlook that placed man at the center of the cosmos, not in a physical but in a metaphysical sense. Read More ›
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Rats Are People, Too!

A philosopher and a bioethicist want a “Jane Goodall” to come forward as “an ambassador for rats.” Read More ›
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The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis: A Fable Told by Ernst Mayr

Mayr worked tirelessly to establish a synthesis bearing the unmistakable stamp of positivism. Read More ›
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A New Low for Evolutionary Ethics

Understand that Big Think is not an obscure web journal by and for a lunatic fringe. Read More ›

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