Tag: eating

3d render of abstract face in digital cyberspace with a lot of particles around. Technology concept of facial recognition.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 3, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Barcelona, bioethics, breathing, commodification, dead donor rule, donation, donor, eating, euthanasia, face, face transplant, heebie-jeebies, Maria José Abadías, medical treatment, medicine, neurovascular microsurgery, patients, Spain, suicide, suicide prevention, surgery, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital}

In Spain, a Transplant Case Gives Heebie-Jeebies

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 3, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Euthanasia conjoined with organ harvesting just took a particularly disturbing turn, when a woman was euthanized and had part of her face transplanted. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anti-Semitism, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, Dayton, drinking, eating, Ernest Hemingway, Evangelical Christians, fishing, Günter Bechly, headlines, Jews, John Scopes, journalism, newspapers, paleontologists, Paris, Princeton University, Scopes trial, Spain, William Jennings Bryan}

Hemingway and the Scopes Trial

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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William Jennings Bryan had a hard time coming up with expert scientific witnesses who were dubious of Darwinian theory. He wouldn’t now. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 29, 2025

Categories
Biology
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, chaos, dancing, death, disorder, eating, entropy, equilibrium, Eric Hedin, ID the Future, immortality, intelligent design, intelligent designer, jumping, life, naturalism, organisms, physics, running, specified complexity, swimming, water}

The Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 29, 2025

Biology, Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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We usually think of life as the most natural thing there is — blooming plants, flowing water, the cycles of nature. Read More ›

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Date
June 9, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, eating, intelligent design, mice, neuroscientists, Research, traffic}

How Brains Use Data Compression to Get Things Right

_{Science & Culture
June 9, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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A recent experiment with mice showed data compression at work when the mice were making decisions about how to get a reward. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 8, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, advance directive, assisted suicide, Compassion and Choices, dementia, doctors, dying, eating, euthanasia, fluids, food, Hemlock Society, interpretation, nurses, patients, treatment}

“Starve Me” Advance Directive Would Be Immoral

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 8, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Many of these provisions are, to say the least, subject to interpretation. And people with dementia may refuse food one meal, and accept the next. Read More ›

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Date
July 5, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, "poor design", Charles Darwin, choking, drinking, dysteleology, eating, intelligent design, lungs, mammals, mouth, On the Origin of Species, pharynx, respiration, speech, The Conversation, The Scientist, tongue, United States, Wikipedia}

Oral Cavity’s Supposedly “Lousy” Design Is a Key to Human Speech

_{Science & Culture
July 5, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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We’re constantly told that the design of the human larynx, trachea, and oral cavity is poor because it allows for choking on food. Read More ›