Tag: arms

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, amputee, Anthony Kennedy, arms, Body Identity Integrity Disorder, body parts, capacities, culture, Daily Mail, Due Process Clause, insurance fraud, insurance scam, legs, limiting principle, medicine, mental illness, Neil Hopper, Obergefell v. Hodges, paraplegic, personal autonomy, self-definition, self-restraint, sexual obsession, societal expectations, spinal cord, transgender}

Here It Comes: First Transgenderism, Next Transableism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 5, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Why is it not also appropriate to cut off unwanted arms or snip spinal cords if that brings emotional relief? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arms, behavior, brain, brain power, consciousness, information, intelligence, jellyfish, learning, lions, marine biologists, nervous system, neurons, neuroscientists, octopuses, orcas, University of Washington, wolves}

Octopus Intelligence — A Challenge for Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 2, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
May 24, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, anthropocentrism, apes, arms, bonobos, Comparative Biomechanics, dolphins, fire, Galen, Giant Pagan, Giant Pope, hands, Homo floresiensis, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, Judeo-Christian tradition, kinetic energy, knuckle-walkers, orangutan, parrots, Pilgrim’s Progress, quadrupeds, ravens, Richard Owen, seals, secular culture, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Vogel, stone tools, The Miracle of Man, Thomas Huxley}

Man, with His Special Place in Nature, Was Designed to Use Fire

_{Michael Denton
May 24, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Technology

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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 ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 18, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, appendages, arms, biologists, biomolecules, budding, children, conception, culture, eyes, fingers, hermaphrodite, human life, humanity, humans, persons, pregnancy, right to life, science denial, womb, worms, zygote}

Question for Abortion Advocates: How Many Fingers Does a Pregnant Woman Have?

_{Michael Egnor
May 18, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

3}

Denial of the humanity of children in the womb from the moment of conception is the most lethal form of science denial. Read More ›

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Date
November 24, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, adaptation, arms, carpal tunnel syndrome, Eric Anderson, evolution, evolutionary change, health, Howard Glicksman, humans, ID the Future, Journal of Anatomy, journalists, median artery, natural selection, physicians}

Listen: Median Artery and Evolution Hype

_{Science and Culture
November 24, 2020

Evolution

1}

It’s far from clear how natural selection could select for this as an “adaptation” when its most obvious effect is to contribute to carpal tunnel syndrome. Read More ›