bean plant Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date May 9, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsBotanyEnvironment & ClimateFine-tuningHuman ExceptionalismLife 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 5 We all know that plants respond to stimuli, such as flowers opening with the sun or growing toward light. Read More ›
Gauger figure 7 Type post Author Ann Gauger Date November 25, 2019 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __edited, adenine, adenosine triphosphate, ATP, autotrophs, bootstraps, cofactors, compounds, DNA, evolution, metabolism, molecules, nucleotides, phosphate, replication, RNA The Mystery of Energy Metabolism Ann Gauger November 25, 2019 Evolution, Intelligent Design 5 The energy problem overshadows it all. There’s a great sucking sound of ATP disappearing down the great Atlantic rift. Read More ›
diatoms Type post Date September 4, 2019 CategoriesIntelligent DesignLife Sciences Tagged , __edited, autotrophs, cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, diatoms, diseases, foresight, Harvard University, intelligent design, intermediate filaments, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Denton, microtubules, MIT, molecular biology, mutations, PNAS, red blood cells, Richard Young, Whitehead Institute Foresight in Single Cells Science and Culture September 4, 2019 Intelligent Design, Life Sciences 10 There are things going on in cells that make sense only if a designing intelligence saw a need and planned for it in advance. Read More ›
weeds Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date January 14, 2019 CategoriesBioethicsBotanyHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __k-review, Argentina, autotrophs, brains, environmentalists, humans, insects, microbes, Monica Gagliano, Natalie Angier, New York Times, orangutan, pain, peas, persons, plant rights, radicals, Switzerland, trees, University of Western Australia, weeds Another Push for Plant “Rights” Wesley J. Smith January 14, 2019 Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism 2 There is increasing wind in the sails of everything-deserves-rights advocacy. Read More ›
tree-person-2 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 16, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsBotany Tagged , __k-review, anti-humanism, autotrophs, book reviews, ecocide, environmentalism, fruit, genocide, Natalie Angier, New York Times, novel, peas, rationality, science, sexual reproduction, Swiss Constitution, Switzerland, The Hague, trees, wildflowers No, Trees Are Not People Too Wesley J. Smith April 16, 2018 Bioethics, Botany 3 Novelist Barbara Kingsolver seriously asserts, in her review of a novel in which trees are characters, that they are people too. Read More ›
