Tag: flora

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Author
Kyle Dillon

Date
July 22, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aesthetic criteria, Albert Einstein, Anthony O’Hear, Artemis II, Arthur Eddington, beauty, Brian Greene, coherence, controversy, disinterested, Earthset, empirical fit, existential, fauna, fittingness, flora, fruitfulness, Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay Richards, John Frame, Mare Orientale, mathematical beauty, Michael Keas, Milky Way, Moon, Nobel Prize, normative, oughtness, philosophers, pleasure, Science and Beauty (series), scientific theories, Serge Brunier, situational, solar eclipse, Steven Weinberg, subatomic particles, The Elegant Universe, The Evidential Power of Beauty, The Privileged Planet, theoretical virtues, Thomas Dubay, triperspectivalism}

Science and Beauty: The Lens of Triperspectivalism

_{Rev. Kyle A. Dillon
July 22, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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To the non-scientist, it may come as a surprise that scientists would appeal to aesthetic standards in evaluating the validity of scientific theories. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 20, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, air bladder, animals, beach, beachcombing, bilaterian animals, brown algae, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, convergent evolution, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran fossils, evolutionary theory, fauna, flora, fossil-hunting, fossils, hemichordate worms, holdfast, kelp, kelp stipe, Kingdom Protista, Margaretia dorus, Pacific Northwest, paleontology, plants, Precambrian strata, protists, rock hammer, Science (journal), tide-pooling, Western Washington}

Beach Stroll Casts Further Doubt on Some Supposed Ediacaran Bilaterian Fossils

_{Casey Luskin
April 20, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

In one instance I found a kelp on the beach with its holdfast still nicely attached. A photo of it is at the top. Read More ›

Artistic image of mother nature. World environment and mother earth day concept

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 9, 2025

Categories
Earth Sciences
Environment & Climate
Ethics
Tagged
, capitalism, China, environmentalism, fauna, flora, free market, human thriving, indigenous people, inspiration, Mother Earth, mountain, nature rights, New Zealand, nonprofit organizations, ownership, prosperity, radical environmentalism, rainforest, river, Russia, stewardship, wealth}

Should We Put Mother Nature on the Board of Directors?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 9, 2025

Earth Sciences, Environment & Climate, Ethics

6}

Nature can’t “own” anything. That’s a human construct. Moreover, nature would be represented by environmental “flesh flake” radicals. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ecology
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambridge University, Ecuador, fauna, flora, geological features, humans, indigenous people, Judeo-Christian tradition, microbes, mountains, nature rights, neo-pagan mysticism, United Nations, volcanoes, Western civilization}

Earth-Religion Mysticism Permeates Academia

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 8, 2025

Bioethics, Ecology, Evolution

4}

The just cause of reasonably protecting nature has been co-opted into a radical international movement to subvert Western civilization. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 19, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal rights, CRISPR, Davos, discrimination, environmentalism, Europe, fauna, flora, genetic engineering, genocide, germ line, humanity, mammals, Munich, nature rights, oppression, PETA, rights, slavery}

Defending Human Exceptionalism in Munich

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 19, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

This matters tremendously because human exceptionalism is the necessary predicate to universal human rights. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 25, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, americans, China, ecocide, fauna, flora, geological features, human rights, industry, liberty, litigation, nature rights, The Guardian, United Kingdom, United Nations, Western civilization}

Granting Rights to Nature Is Being Negotiated at the United Nations

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 25, 2024

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

3}

“Nature rights” and “ecocide” are part of the effort among radicals to destroy Western civilization, the central principle of which is human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
February 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, common sense, design detection, Douglas Axe, Emily Reeves, evolution, fauna, flora, hummingbird, intelligent design, intuition, laws of nature, Rope Kojonen, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theistic evolution}

Bad News for the “Theist on the Street”

_{Stephen Dilley
February 14, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

10}

On Rope Kojonen's model, she no longer has grounds to trust her common-sense intuition of the design of the eagle’s eye. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 11, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, culture, fauna, flora, geological features, lawyers, Mother Nature, nature rights, Pachamama, personhood, radicalism, virtue-signaling}

Company Names “Nature” to Board of Directors

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 11, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Life Sciences

4}

Look what a frivolous culture we are becoming, with the private sector increasingly fueling our intellectual and moral decline. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
November 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, convergence, eagle, Emily Reeves, evolution, evolutionary processes, flora, intelligent design, Ockham’s razor, Rope Kojonen, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theodicy, theology, University of Helsinki}

Is Intelligent Design Compatible with Evolutionary Theory? A Theologian Weighs In

_{Stephen Dilley
November 6, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Of course, a critic might worry that Kojonen’s model violates Ockham’s razor. Why posit two explanations when only one will do? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Tagged
, "chilling effect", anti-humanism, bioethicists, fauna, flora, Hong Kong, human thriving, humans, medical establishment, misanthropy, natural processes, nature rights, nihilism, prosperity, responsibilities, rights, rivers, speciesism, The Lancet}

World’s Oldest Medical Journal Endorses “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 16, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Medicine

4}

In other words, we, flora, fauna, and, indeed, geological features such as rivers and granite outcroppings are equal. Read More ›