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Image credit: George Richmond, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

West: Why We Can’t “Just Make Peace with Darwin”

Watch this and then ask a Darwinist friend if he or she can think of one way that the evolutionary perspective has ennobled or uplifted anyone. Read More ›
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Photo: Milwaukee, by Dori, CC BY-SA 3.0 US <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

To Throttle Human Thriving Is the Point of “Nature Rights”

Granting “rights” to nature — including geological features — profoundly undermines the concept of “rights” itself. Read More ›
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Photo: A granite outcropping, by Joshua Mayer, via Flickr (cropped).

World’s Oldest Medical Journal Endorses “Nature Rights”

In other words, we, flora, fauna, and, indeed, geological features such as rivers and granite outcroppings are equal. Read More ›
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Rats Are People, Too!

A philosopher and a bioethicist want a “Jane Goodall” to come forward as “an ambassador for rats.” Read More ›
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Milton and the Psychology of Materialism

It is basically the denial of human exceptionalism. That is, it is hatred of man, in practically every way imaginable. Read More ›
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The Earth: It’s Alive! It’s Alive!

Even James Lovelock, who created Gaia Theory, now worries that environmentalism has become a religion. Read More ›
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Romanticizing a Suicide “for the Earth”

The harsh fact is that Buckel’s suicide was futile. It won’t make a whit of difference toward improving the environment. Read More ›
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Science Article Castigates “Human Supremacy”

Environmentalism is growing darkly anti-human. That misanthropy has also seeped into science. Read More ›

It’s Unfair to Tie Animal Rights to the YouTube Shooting

The YouTube shooter — I don’t believe in naming these people — did not fit the expected profile. Read More ›
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Menu Suggestion from Richard Dawkins

He thinks we are just a collection of carbon molecules and certainly of no intrinsic value simply and merely because we are human. Read More ›

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