Tag: judges

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, ACLU, Big Bang, biochemists, Biology and Philosophy, books, C. W. Howell, David E. Levin, Del Ratzsch, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), EWTN, First Amendment Law Review, inaccuracies, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Jerry Coyne, John Maddox, Judge John E. Jones, judges, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Mary Katherine Hackney, media, Michael Behe, National Catholic Reporter, New York University Press, North Carolina Law Review, plagiarism, publishers, quotations, Reports of the National Center for Science Education, Roman Catholicism, Skeptical Inquirer, Steve Fuller, The Design Inference, University of Warwick, Wikipedia, William Dembski}

NYU Press Book Makes Fake Behe Quote a Linchpin of Its Case Against Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
August 26, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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It’s quite a chain of errors, from the ACLU to Judge Jones to C. W. Howell. Each makes it worse than the one before. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 18, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, activists, automobiles, Aztecs, beauty, business, copper, Ecuador, emancipation, environmental regulations, fish, flourishing, government, hares, health, human sacrifice, ideologues, indigenous people, Jan van de Venis, judges, language, lawyers, life, lithium, litigation, Māori, modern life, nature, nature rights, New Zealand, Panama, permit requirements, The Water Diplomat, Whanganui River, zoning}

Using Mild Language to Push Radical Nature Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 18, 2026

Bioethics, Ethics, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

6}

Nature rights activists seem nice. They are not verbal bomb throwers. Rather, they deploy passive language. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, ACLU, Discovery Science, Hollywood, intelligent design, John E. Jones III, judges, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Pennsylvania, religion}

At Dover, the Comical Egotism of Judge Jones Had Serious Consequences

_{David Klinghoffer
December 4, 2025

Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

2}

The intrusion of ego in judicial proceedings, as in science and medicine, is not just inappropriate but a professional betrayal. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 25, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Bruce Lipshutz, Dave Farina, Jack Szostak, James Tour, John Sutherland, judges, Lee Cronin, Professor Dave Explains, researchers, Rice University, Steve Benner, Twitter, YouTube videos}

Origin of Life: James Tour’s Sensational 60-Day Challenge to Ten Top Researchers

_{David Klinghoffer
August 25, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

I suppose someone could try to explain why the challenge is unfair or not relevant to the field. That would be very difficult to do. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, Canada, crime, culture, euthanasia, human life, insulin, Jack Kevorkian, judges, murder}

Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 22, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

3}

Canada has fallen off the euthanasia moral cliff by allowing broad categories of people to be killed by doctors as a means of ending “suffering.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, activists, animal rights, animals, Bronx Zoo, children, crime, duties, elephants, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, illness, injury, judges, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, people, rights, slaves, sophistry, women, writ of habeas corpus}

Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 16, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

4}

I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 29, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animal rights, animal standing, animal welfare, animals, Argentina, Bronx Zoo, cattle, chimpanzees, Florida, judges, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood, writ of habeas corpus}

Pushing Elephant “Personhood”

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 29, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

3}

Think cattle herds suing ranchers or lab animals suing universities — not to improve care but to liberate from all human use. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 21, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __cedited, animal standing, animals, Argentina, chimpanzees, Congress, horses, judges, law, lawsuits, litigation, monkeys, Oregon, pets, rationality, San Francisco Chronicle, whales, zoo}

When Horses Sue

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

4}

“Animal standing” would open the courts to lawsuits brought by animals. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 1, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, Alfie Evans, bioethicists, Charlie Gard, doctors, experts, futile care theory, health care, hospital, illness, judges, life support, medicine, parents, patients, technocracy}

Alfie Evans, a Victim of Technocracy

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 1, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

This was about raw power. If Alfie had escaped the diktat, there would soon be others demanding their freedom too. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 24, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, doctors, ID the Future, judges, legislators, Michael Egnor, Ray Bohlin}

Michael Egnor: How Assisted Suicide Corrupts Medicine and Medical Doctors

_{David Klinghoffer
August 24, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

“A doctor killing a patient is analogous to a pilot deliberately crashing a plane.” Read More ›