Aenocyon_skeletal_mount_NHMLA Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 9, 2025 CategoriesArchaeologyPaleontologyScience ReportingTechnology 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 3 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 ›
elephant Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date January 11, 2023 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent DesignScience Tagged , convergent evolution, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian mechanism, dolphins, elephants, evolution, foresight, fur, genes, hairlessness, Human, humans, intelligent design, mammals, planning, Science Alert, selection pressure, University of Pittsburgh More Evolution by Devolution: Mammalian Hairlessness David Klinghoffer January 11, 2023 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science 3 The mechanism of Darwinian evolution absolutely works — by breaking genes, when that provides a selective advantage, or turning them off. Read More ›
Platypus Type post Date November 5, 2020 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , biofluorescence, Charles Darwin, convergent evolution, elections, evolution, evolutionary theory, flying squirrel, fur, intelligent design, Mammalia, opossum, platypus, Robin Williams Biofluorescence in the Platypus — Design at Its Whackadoodliest Evolution News November 5, 2020 Evolution, Intelligent Design 3 Those paragraphs are, not surprisingly, a de rigueur nod to evolutionary theory, and as usual, it's pure gloss, no substance. Read More ›
fur-coats Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 22, 2018 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , __k-review, business, clothing, fur, HIV, homeless, lawsuit, medicine, needles, radicalism, restaurants, San Francisco, vermin San Francisco Bans Fur Sales Wesley J. Smith March 22, 2018 Bioethics 2 What happened to consistency? Why not ban leather too? It is animal hide, after all. Read More ›
