Tag: grass

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 21, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, China, fossil fuels, grass, human race, human thriving, mining, mosquitoes, natural gas, nature rights, Pachamama, pond scum, resources, scallops, squirrels, trees}

Pond Scum Is Our Equal: That’s Nature Rights for You

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2024

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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Now, a “tribunal” will be held in New York to promote the rights of nature and undermine public support for fossil fuels. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 3, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Medicine
Zoology
Tagged
, Aristotle, cats, Cicero, digestion, Dogs, ethology, Galen, grass, indigenous peoples, intelligence, medicinal plants, orangutan, Plutarch, self-medication, Stanford University}

Animals Using Healing Plants? That’s Old News

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 3, 2024

Life Sciences, Medicine, Zoology

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Recently, an orangutan who successfully treated a wound by applying chewed leaves to it touched off a worldwide media event. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 6, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, beauty, C.S. Lewis, earth, Francis Bacon, frequency, grass, intelligent design, light, nature, reflection, sky, sun, sunlight, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Washington State, water, waterfall, wavelength, winter}

Design in the Beauty of Water and Light

_{Eric Hedin
June 6, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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I remember well, one particularly cold winter, seeing Snoqualmie Falls in Washington State completely frozen throughout its 268-foot drop. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, cud, Dean Kenyon, esophagus, evolution, fossil record, geneticists, Giraffe, giraffe’s neck, grass, heart, intelligent design, jackpot, leaves, Live Science, lottery, mutations, Nature (journal), necks, okapi, Percival Davis, President, rete mirabile, Richard Dawkins, ruminants, South Africa, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe, University of Cape Town, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Evolution’s Tall Tale — The Giraffe Neck

_{Jonathan Witt
March 13, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The engineering marvel that is the giraffe, long neck and all, was intelligently designed. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, building blocks, Charles Darwin, complexity, DNA, electricity, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), grass, James Clerk Maxwell, living systems, Ludwig Boltzmann, magnetism, mountains, oak tree, oceans, proteins, RNA, rocks, sand, Second Law of Thermodynamics, simplicity, soil, sugars}

Did Life First Arise by Purely Natural Means?

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 19, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Evolutionary theory and the development of the second law of thermodynamics are two of the three major scientific discoveries of the 19th century. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 10, 2022

Categories
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, angiosperms, biosphere, carbon, copper, dairy products, earthworms, eggs, erosion, flowering plants, grass, grasses, grasslands, intelligent design, iron, magnesium, maize, meat, metalloenzymes, Michael Denton, moles, monocots, prior fitness, Privileged Species, Science (journal), zinc}

Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses

_{David Coppedge
August 10, 2022

Life Sciences, Science

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Don’t walk on the grass, that “often undervalued” form of life, without looking down. It’s amazing down there. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 26, 2022

Categories
Biology
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, antibiotics, cats, chimpanzees, corals, Dogs, dolphins, elephants, Gabon, grass, health, medicine, pain, parasites, stomach, University of Zurich, West Africa}

These Animals Know How to Self-Medicate

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 26, 2022

Biology, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

The “animals’ pharmacy” mainly aims at treating parasites and wounds using plants and insects. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 17, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, act, Aristotle, clouds, contingency, Five Ways, goodness, grass, images, light, mirror, nobility, ontology, Plato, potency, sky, Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas, trees, truth}

Aquinas’ Fourth Way: Light in a Mirror

_{Michael Egnor
October 17, 2019

Faith & Science

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It’s helpful, as with his Third Way, to begin with a metaphor, in order to get an intuitive feel for the proof. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 2, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, Amazon, Brazil, capitalism, China, Communists, Donald Trump, ecocide, ethnic cleansing, evolution, fish, free market, genocide, grass, human rights, insects, mice, nature rights, New York Times, people, radical environmentalists, snakes, The Hague}

With Amazon Fires as a Pretext, “Ecocide” Advocacy Goes Mainstream

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 2, 2019

Bioethics

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Radical environmentalists intend to thwart human thriving in order to “save the planet.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 5, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __nedited, activists, criminals, development, earth, ecocide, environmentalism, ethnic cleansing, fish, genocide, global warming, grass, insects, Lake Erie, mice, natural resources, natural world, nature, nature rights, people, prison, snakes, The Guardian, The Hague, Toledo, United Nations}

“Ecocide” Would Criminalize Resource Development

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 5, 2019

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Human Exceptionalism

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Note that “peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants” is a very broad term that is not limited to human beings. Rather, it includes everything from grass, fish, and insects, to mice, snakes, and people. Read More ›