Tag: currency

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 30, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, bank account, bank card, body, brain, checkbook, currency, doctors, electrons, firecrackers, flags, immaterial assumptions, Labor Day, location, material facts, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgeons, password, public buildings, Saint Augustine, The Immortal Mind}

Lots of Real Things Are Immaterial; Here Are a Few

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 30, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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I have a bank account. That means I have a bank card and a password. Also a checkbook. Are those items “the account?” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 17, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, business, Congress, corporations, currency, environmental movement, environmentalists, Florida, granite outcroppings, Great Salt Lake, human rights, Idaho, inflation, legal standing, legislation, nature, nature rights, Ohio, personhood, pond scum, radicals, rivers, Santa Monica, states, Utah}

Utah Versus Nature Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2024

Bioethics, Life Sciences

3}

Utah is the fourth state — the others are Ohio, Florida, and Idaho — restricting rights to the human realm where they belong. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 30, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, climate change, conservation, currency, Great Salt Lake, Harvard Divinity School, inflation, Lake Erie, mushrooms, nature rights, nature worship, New York Times, personhood, rights, squirrels, United States, Utah, Western civilization}

Let’s Declare the Great Salt Lake a Person?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 30, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

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If a squirrel or mushroom and all other earthly entities somehow possess rights, the vibrancy of rights withers. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 12, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Big Bang, currency, Eric Anderson, evolution, Harvard University, intelligent design, King’s College London, Lawrence Henderson, Michael Denton, nucleus, physical reality, Privileged Species, red blood cells, scientists, The Miracle of the Cell}

Shall We Be Darwin’s Yes-Men?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 12, 2020

Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Around 1970 Michael Denton was a young researcher at Kings College London, thinking about how mammalian red blood cells could become anucleate. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 24, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __edited, artificial intelligence, Bellevue, Center for Science and Culture, chess, currency, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, Facebook, George Gilder, intelligent design, Microsoft, money, Silicon Valley, Steve Forbes, trust, Walter Bradley Center, William A. Dembski}

COSM Conference: A Bonfire for Tech Vanities

_{David Klinghoffer
October 24, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

3}

Peter Thiel assailed the “Atheist Church,” as he calls the universities, calling for outsiders to push for a reformation that the academic priesthood will never undertake on its own. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 17, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __edited, animal rights, animal welfare, bonobos, chimpanzees, currency, Eugene M. Fahey, genocide, habeas corpus, Heritage, Holocaust, hominins, Human Evolution (journal), human rights, inflation, Jane Goodall, National Institutes of Health, New York Court of Appeals, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood}

Chimpanzee Liberation? Why Animal Rights and Human Rights Cannot Coexist

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 17, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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A “manifesto” in the science journal Human Evolution declares that chimpanzees and bonobos should be considered legal “persons” with legally enforceable “rights.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 15, 2017

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __nedited, animal rights, animal welfare, chimpanzees, Connecticut, currency, dolphins, elephants, frivolous lawsuit, humans, inflation, law, personhood, PETA, property, zoo}

Elephants Sue for Habeas Corpus

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 15, 2017

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism

3}

The point here isn’t to prevent abuse, if it exists. We have animal-welfare laws for that. Read More ›