Glires Type post Author Günter Bechly Date February 10, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionPaleontology Tagged , beavers, China, Cretaceous, Dan Graur, Darwinism, Early Paleocene, East Asia, Euarchontoglires, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, guinea pigs, mammals, mice, molecular clock studies, Mongolia, Nebraska, Oligocene, Paleocene, PaleoDB, placental mammals, rabbits, rats, rodents, squirrels, stratigraphy Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents Günter Bechly February 10, 2023 Evolution, Paleontology 60 Molecular biologist Dan Graur mentioned his weird idea that guinea pigs are not rodents at a lecture at my university in Tübingen when I was still a student. Read More ›
surgery Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 30, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineScience Tagged , American College of Physicians, Arizona, brain death, cardiac arrest, death, doctors, heart, heartbeat, irreversibility, Jahi McMath, medicine, Nebraska, new york, organ farms, organ-transplant surgery, University of California San Francisco Are Transplant Doctors Causing Brain Death? Wesley J. Smith September 30, 2022 Bioethics, Medicine, Science 4 A new and highly problematic means of obtaining organs is pushing the boundaries of the “dead donor rule." Read More ›
Costco Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date February 8, 2021 CategoriesBioethicsEthicsHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , ammonia, animal rights, animal welfare, chickens, eggs, Facebook, food animals, Ingrid Newkirk, medical experiments, Nebraska, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, pets Costco Chickens and Human Exceptionalism Wesley J. Smith February 8, 2021 Bioethics, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism 5 The impact of too-onerous animal-welfare laws on the diets of people of limited means becomes clear. Read More ›
Dolmens_in_Amadalavalasa 2 Type post Date March 11, 2019 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, Agouti, bacteria, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinians, Darwinism, desert ants, Design Inference, Douglas Axe, Harvard University, intelligent design, Live Science, methodological naturalism, mice, Mount Rushmore, Nebraska, No Free Lunch, Richard Dawkins, Science (journal), Signature in the Cell, South Dakota, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, vertebrate evolution, William A. Dembski Where Design Explains, Darwinism Explains Away Science and Culture March 11, 2019 Evolution, Intelligent Design 9 Immediately you know these structures were designed. How should you know that? How did the scientists know that? Read More ›
darkness Type post Author Michael Egnor Date March 2, 2019 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, abortion, baby, birth, conception, culture, culture of death, darkness, doctors, infanticide, Nebraska, newborns, patients, right to life, U.S. Senate, woman Darkness Rising: As It Turns Out, Not All Newborns Have a Right to Life Michael Egnor March 2, 2019 Bioethics, Medicine 2 The culture of death — the dehumanization of the vulnerable and the unwanted — is fast upon us. Read More ›
eclipse Type post Author Jay W. Richards Date August 14, 2017 CategoriesAstronomyIntelligent DesignPhysical Sciences Tagged , __k-review, Idaho, intelligent design, Kentucky, lunar eclipse, Missouri, Moon, Nebraska, South Carolina, sun, Tennessee, total eclipse, Wyoming Don’t Miss the Solar Eclipse! (Unless You Are Ill, or Trapped in a Dungeon) Jay W. Richards August 14, 2017 Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences 6 C’mon. This is the first time in almost a century that a total eclipse will traverse the fruited plains from coast to coast. Read More ›