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“We Hold These Truths”: On Design of the Cosmos, Science Uprising Updates Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence could hardly be written today, not if it had to pass muster with our dominant woke corporate-media-political culture. Read More ›
Science Uprising

“We Hold These Truths”: On Design of the Cosmos, Science Uprising Updates Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence could hardly be written today, not if it had to pass muster with our dominant woke corporate-media-political culture. Read More ›
Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC

On Independence Day, Remember Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design

Jefferson thought that there was scientific evidence for design in nature. In 1823, he insisted so in a letter to John Adams. Read More ›
Lake Erie
Photo: Lake Erie, by Jason Zhang [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Nature Rights: “It Can’t Happen Here”?

Now former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, a very influential voice on the left, has endorsed the extreme ideological agenda. Read More ›
Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC
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A Darwinist Deconstructs the Declaration of Independence

Yuval Noah Harari quickly gets down to business, unsentimentally shredding Jefferson’s noble phrases. Read More ›
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suicide
Photo: Germany’s highest court, the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht), by Tobias Helfrich [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

German High Court to Rule on Right to Suicide

If the continent’s most important country embraces the culture of death, the darkness will spread. Read More ›
Eileen Crist
human exceptionalism
Photo: Eileen Crist, via YouTube.

Science Article Castigates “Human Supremacy”

Environmentalism is growing darkly anti-human. That misanthropy has also seeped into science. Read More ›
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On Human and Animal Rights, the Twisted Course of Evolutionary “Philosophy”

Wesley Smith commented earlier on the struggle, via litigation by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), to grant human-like “rights” to an elephant in the Bronx Zoo. Read More ›
elephant
Photo: No, this elephant did not sketch a self-portrait; by Deror Avi [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Here We Go Again: Suing for “Elephant Rights”

Our care and treatment of animals arise from human duties, not conjuring rights for animals out of ideological zeal. Read More ›
Will Universities Embrace Freedom, or Censor Ideas?

Free Speech or “Better Speech”?

What Denyse O’Leary calls “well-intentioned nonsense” will protect no one that needs protecting. Read More ›

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