Tag: Bolivia

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 9, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Science Education
Tagged
, A Nation at Risk, abstraction, Alex Thomas, American Mathematical Society, Beatles, Bolivia, calculus, Chicago, Claremont Graduate University, compassion, competence, courage, CRISPR, Critical Mathematics Pedagogy, Defying Low Expectations, designer babies, discipline, East Los Angeles, education, Edward James Olmos, Escalante: The Best Teacher in America, Gale Pooley, Garfield High School, George Martin, Henry Gradillas, Hispanics, inference, information, Inkwell Press, intelligence, intelligence quotient, intelligent design, Jaime Escalante, Jay Mathews, Jerry Jesness, Kappan Magazine, Lewis Terman, Los Angeles, Mary Poplin, mathematics, modeling, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, probability, Programme for International Student Assessment, reasoning, Roland Fryer, search space, Stand and Deliver, standards, test scores, University of Chicago, Wall Street Journal, William James}

Jaime Escalante: Why a Heroic Teacher Matters to Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
February 9, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Science Education

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Anyone who has studied the history of IQ testing and eugenics will recognize the weaponization of low expectations against people deemed inferior. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 4, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Bolivia, Chile, climate change, courts, Ecuador, glaciers, India, laws, Mother Nature, nature, nature rights, prosperity, rivers, United States}

India High Court: Nature Is a “Living Being” with “Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 4, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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Nature-rights laws generally allow anyone who believes that nature’s “rights” are being violated to sue to prevent the violation and to seek redress. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 20, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Argentina, Bolivia, ecocide, Ecuador, environmentalists, exploration, genocide, geological features, glaciers, human rights, mining, Moon, nature rights, Pakistan, Pope Francis, Science (journal)}

Now, It’s the “Rights of the Moon”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 20, 2021

Bioethics

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It is easy to mock this movement and to not take it seriously. That’s how it will win. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 12, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, anti-humanism, Bolivia, Ecuador, forests, guns, human rights, Lake Erie, lakes, nature rights, New Zealand, Politics, right to life, rivers, Science (journal), Texas, United States, wildlife}

Nature Rights: “It Can’t Happen Here”?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 12, 2019

Bioethics

3}

Now former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, a very influential voice on the left, has endorsed the extreme ideological agenda. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 5, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Tagged
, __k-review, Argentina, Bolivia, human thriving, Lake Erie, litigation, nature rights, orangutan, Pachamama, Pittsburgh, radicalism, Santa Monica, Toledo, writ of habeas corpus}

Lake Erie Now Has Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 5, 2019

Bioethics, Environment & Climate

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If nature has rights, that means everything does, which devalues “rights” just as a wild inflation deflates the worth of currency. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, Bolivia, courts, Ecuador, glaciers, humans, law, legal standing, nature, nature rights, policymakers, rationality, rivers, United States}

For Rivers, a “Right to Flow”?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 26, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Most media with which I interact on this issue assume that advocating personhood for nature must be a fringe meme. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 27, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, __edited, Bolivia, Ecuador, human rights, nature, nature rights, pollution, property, resources, rivers}

Now It’s “Resourcism”!

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 27, 2017

Bioethics, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

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Your back forty is seeking legal counsel. Read More ›