Tag: Minnesota

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
December 12, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Alabama, biologic institute, California Science Center, Casey Luskin, Charles Marshall, Cornell University, Darwin’s Dilemma, Darwin’s Doubt, Discovery Institute, education, George Church, Granville Sewell, Illustra Media, intelligent design, John E. Jones, junk DNA, Kevin Padian, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Louisiana, Louisiana Science Education Act, Martin Gaskell, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, National Center for Science Education, Nature (journal), New Mexico, Nick Matzke, Pennsylvania, public policy, South Carolina, Ten Myths About Dover, Tennessee, Texas, Thomas Nagel, Times Literary Supplement, University of Kentucky}

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 10, “The Intelligent Design Movement Died After Dover”

_{Sarah Chaffee
December 12, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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In December 2005, Judge John E. Jones ruled that intelligent design is not science, but religion. Critics predicted this would mean the end of the ID movement. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, advance directive, California, Canada, Colorado, compassion, Connecticut, dehydration, disabilities, euthanasia, Hawaii, heart, human life, kidneys, liver, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, mental illness, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, new york, nihilism, Oregon, organ transplant, Terri Schiavo, Vermont, VSED}

A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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A legal battle raged for several years during which the country agonized and argued about the right and moral course. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 2, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, COVID-19, ethnicity, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Minnesota, New York City, obesity, pandemic, race, Racism, therapeutics, U.S. Constitution, United States, Utah, viruses}

Stop Racializing COVID Care

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 2, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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How is any of this constitutional? How do these discriminatory guidelines not break federal civil rights laws? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, lawsuit, Minnesota, Nature, nature rights, pollution, water}

Wild Rice Sues to Stop Repair of Oil Pipeline

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 12, 2021

Bioethics

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Two years ago the Ojibwe tribe granted wild rice the “right to exist,” which could be said to be a synonym for a right to life. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
July 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Science
Tagged
, ad hoc hypotheses, Darwinian theory, data, David Berlinski, fitness, genetics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Marxism, Minnesota, Richard Lewontin, systematics, wisdom, Yiddish}

Richard Lewontin (1929-2021), Mensch

_{Paul Nelson
July 6, 2021

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Science

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As I stood by the lab doorway, Lewontin — who was sitting right down front — looked back towards the door and caught my eye. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 27, 2020

Categories
Anatomy
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, apes, atheism, babies, birth canal, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, childbirth, chromosomes, creativity, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), earthquake, Ecuador, foresight, H.G. Wells, human evolution, humans, intelligent design, invention, Marcos Eberlin, Minnesota, orphan genes, oxygen, Periodic Table, phenotypes, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Tree of Life}

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution in the Country of the Blind

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 27, 2020

Anatomy, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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Fans of H. G. Wells are probably familiar with his 1904 short story, “The Country of the Blind.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 31, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, American Medical Association, assisted suicide, death certificate, democracy, doctors, drugs, euphemism, euthanasia, families, illness, law, lethal injection, lying, medicine, mercy killing, Minnesota, overdose, patients}

Forced to Lie About Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 31, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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In its advocacy memes, the assisted-suicide movement often lies, prevaricates, spins, word engineers, and obfuscates. Read More ›