Tag: elephant

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 9, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Paleontology
Science Reporting
Technology
Tagged
, base pairs, biotech, Canis lupus, clicks, Colossal Biosciences, de-extinction, dire wolves, DNA editing, elephant, fur, gene editing, gray wolves, headlines, media, New Scientist, puffery, Rolling Stone, woolly mammoth}

Dire Wolves Are Still Extinct

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 9, 2025

Archaeology, Paleontology, Science Reporting, Technology

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Let’s call it puffery. The company was careful to acknowledge that the dire wolf is not actually back but that the pups are “functional equivalents.” Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
September 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial wombs, biological information, Charles Darwin, elephant, embryos, Financial Times, gene editing, George Church, ghost lineages, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov, Siberia, Texas, viruses, woolly mammoth}

What “Resurrecting” the Woolly Mammoth Would Mean for Darwinism

_{Rob Sheldon
September 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Intelligent design would become the most likely hypothesis to abductively explain the data of life's history. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, artistry, biophysicists, bones, dinosaurs, earth, elephant, engineers, gravity, Mass, Michael Denton, natural selection, physical laws, prior fitness, Privileged Species, quadrupeds, sauropods, Science Advances, The Miracle of Man, Ultrasaurus, University of Queensland, weight}

Prior Fitness and Dinosaurs

_{David Coppedge
August 17, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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Michael Denton has shown that humans must be the right size to use fire and create technology. What about size limits on big animals? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bacteria, Congress, courts, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, habeas corpus, insects, laws, New York State, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water}

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2022

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, animal rights, animal standing, animals, chimpanzees, dolphins, elephant, elephants, Eugene M. Fahey, fauna, human rights, mammals, New York Court of Appeals, Nonhuman Rights Project, orangutan, pets, The Last Resort, Western civilization}

New York High Court to Rule Whether Elephants Are “Persons”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 8, 2021

Bioethics

4}

Imagine: pet ownership made a formal legal guardianship complete with enforceable fiduciary duties — that is, if we can have pets at all. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, computer science, deep learning, elephant, Erik Larson, human intelligence, Neural Networks, philosophers, programmers, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, understanding, Wikipedia}

The Myth of “Deep Learning”

_{William A. Dembski
April 22, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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This is pathetic, and this is what is supposed to lay waste and supersede human intelligence? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 29, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __edited, animal personhood, animal rights, animal welfare, Bronx Zoo, chimpanzees, Court of Appeals, elephant, Eugene M. Fahey, habeas corpus, Happy, judge, Nonhuman Rights Project, sentience}

Judge Wishes She Could Rule Elephant a “Person”

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 29, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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This kind of thinking drives me nuts. First, we don’t treat animals as mere things or as being akin to inanimate objects. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 20, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, animal husbandry, animal personhood, animal standing, animal welfare, Argentina, chimpanzees, elephant, Florida, Germany, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, orangutan, PETA, slaves, species barrier}

In Germany, Constitutional Rights for…Pigs

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 20, 2019

Bioethics

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The issue is known as “animal standing,” and activists want to let beasts sue in court to “break the species barrier.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 2, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __edited, animal rights, animal standing, animal welfare, Auschwitz, Bronx Zoo, elephant, extremists, Happy, ideology, liberty, New York City, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood, PETA, Thailand, The Guardian, writ of habeas corpus}

Lawsuit to Declare Elephant a “Person”

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 2, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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“Animal standing” is really a Trojan horse to allow animal rights extremists to seek court rulings enforcing their own ideology. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 17, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, ambiguity, artificial intelligence, bison, computers, context, elephant, Gary Smith, humans, humor, laughter, npr, Robert J. Marks II, Twitter, Walter Bradley Center}

Robert J. Marks: Humor, Ambiguity, and AI

_{David Klinghoffer
June 17, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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Dr. Marks thinks it’s possible that AI may improve in its ability to resolve ambiguous language. Right now it’s not looking so good. Read More ›