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Coppedge
Photo credit: David Coppedge.

Benoît B. Mandelbrot: A Maverick Who Broke the Consensus

The Mandelbrot set reminds me of the Fibonacci series that, in a similar way, gives rise to aesthetically pleasing patterns in a wide variety of natural phenomena. Read More ›
volcano
Photo credit: Alain Bonnardeaux on Unsplash.

Earth-Religion Mysticism Permeates Academia

The just cause of reasonably protecting nature has been co-opted into a radical international movement to subvert Western civilization. Read More ›
Mount_Taranaki_or_Mount_Egmont,_New_Zealand
Photo credit: Ulrich Lange, Bochum, Germany, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

This Mountain Is Now a “Person” with “Rights” and Even “Responsibilities”

And what responsibilities can the mountain possibly assume? Can it be sued for an avalanche? Ridiculous! Read More ›
Berghof
Photo credit: John West.

Our View of Nature Matters; Here’s Why

I was standing amidst the ruins of the Berghof, Hitler’s retreat near the German-Austrian border, where some of the worst atrocities in history were planned. Read More ›
Chocolate_Hills_overview
Photo credit: P199, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Evolutionary Fitness Landscapes Bolster Design Arguments

Imagine a large area with gentle rolling hills and valleys, or perhaps a rugged terrain complete with steep mountains and impassible gullies. Read More ›
Landscape_of_Jackson_Hole,_October_2010
Photo credit: Larry Johnson, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

More “Nature Rights” Virtue Signaling, Now in Jackson, Wyoming

So, wise city councilors: Do the plants in the ponds have a right not to be eaten by the moose? Do grubs have a right not to be consumed by black bears? Read More ›
John Keats
Photo: John Keats, by William Hilton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Move Over, Keats? Here Is AI-Generated Poetry

This poetry is bad to the point of hilarity, much as some movies are so bad that they're "good." Read More ›
Rio Carrao, Venezuela
Photo: “...a magnificent world of mountains and rivers, jungles and waterfalls...” (Rio Carrao, Venezuela), by Granville Sewell.

Intelligent Design and the Regularity of Natural Law

The laws of nature work together to create a magnificent world of mountains and rivers, jungles and waterfalls, oceans and forests, animals and plants. Read More ›
grass lawn
Photo credit: © Walter Bradley.

Did Life First Arise by Purely Natural Means?

Evolutionary theory and the development of the second law of thermodynamics are two of the three major scientific discoveries of the 19th century. Read More ›

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