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Bioethics: In Canada, Medically Assisted Death Is a Solution for Poverty

In the U.S., too, many assisted suicides are facilitated by doctors who have not treated the patient. Read More ›
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Photo: High resolution CT scans of fossilized teeth and jaw bones of Purgatorius mckeeveri material from UCMP, Gregory Wilson Mantilla / Stephen Chester, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates

Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time. Read More ›
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Quantum Physics Axed Materialism. Many Hope the World Won’t Know

Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder struggles to explain how quantum mechanics is consistent with materialism. Read More ›
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Origin of Life: Saved by Time?

Many materialists believe that the severe unlikelihood of the series of events required for the origin of life is not a serious problem. Read More ›
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Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia

In Spain, a criminal who shot four people and was, in turn, shot in the spine by police and paralyzed, was granted death by euthanasia. Read More ›
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“Thank You for Waiting. The Doctor Will Kill You Now…”

Canada has some of the most permissive euthanasia laws in the world and allows people with disabilities to be killed on request. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Kuebi = Armin Kübelbeck [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

10,000+ Canadian Euthanasia Killings in 2021

The statistics are startling and illustrate that once euthanasia consciousness infects a culture, it grows like a fungus. Read More ›
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Photo: Dickinsonia, by Smith609 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Dickinsonia, the Ediacaran Animal that Wasn’t

Gregory Retallack is a kind of maverick paleontologist, who endorses a fringe hypothesis that Ediacaran organisms were not marine but terrestrial lichens. Read More ›
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Stifling Food Production to “Save the Planet”

After Sri Lanka’s government restricted non-organic fertilizer use, the economy and government collapsed. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.

If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?

We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds). Read More ›

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