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EyeoftheBird
Photo credit: LeonardoRamos, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Close Look at Free Will: What Should Our Default Position Be? 

The hypothesis that we have an immaterial mind capable of making free, meaningful decisions, continues to be verified. Read More ›
hospital corridor
charlie gard
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Self-Starvation to Qualify for Assisted Suicide

Once again, the assisted-suicide movement shows itself to be public-policy promise breakers of the most egregious kind and raw zealots for the death agenda. Read More ›
doctor
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Bioethicists: Killing Okay for “Unjust Social Conditions”

I can’t imagine this being true ten years ago before euthanasia became legal. Euthanasia mutates a society’s soul.  Read More ›
premature baby
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Will Laws Protecting the Unborn Endanger Mothers?

A fallacy used by abortionists and their allies is that doctors will be handicapped by having to comply with the law applicable to the care of their patients. Read More ›
Nilgiri Hills
Photo: Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India, by Fruiticos, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

India High Court: Nature Is a “Living Being” with “Rights”

Nature-rights laws generally allow anyone who believes that nature’s “rights” are being violated to sue to prevent the violation and to seek redress. Read More ›
woolly monkey
Photo: A woolly monkey, by Evgenia Kononova, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Read More ›
Yuval Noah Harari
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In Sapiens, Admissions and Overstatements about Human Evolutionary Origins

Harari’s conjecture — “There are no gods” — forms the very basis for everything he says in the rest of the book. Read More ›
Wallace

Watch: A Detective Looks at the Multiverse

In the situation he describes, it would be a very complacent and foolish detective who took the circumstances as simply natural and failed to ask how they got to be that way. Read More ›
Wesley Smith
Texas

Before Texas Senate Committee, Smith Testifies on Medical Coercion Law, “Worst in the U.S.”

Thank you to Wesley J. Smith for fighting what’s often a very lonely fight against the increasingly dehumanizing tendency in contemporary medicine. Read More ›
cows

“Social Justice” Inflates to Include Animals

An article published in Biological Conservation illustrates environmentalism’s metastasizing misanthropy. Read More ›

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