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Logan Gage: Intelligent Design in a Thomistic Perspective

Dr. Gage warns against “psychologizing those that disagree with us. Especially as philosophers, we don't like to do this." Read More ›
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Photo credit: Pranav Tadepalli, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

What Is Lost with the Rise of AI

Thoreau wrote, "A person's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town." That's what we're losing. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Visit Finger Lakes, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New York State: Rights for Lakes, Waterways

For the future good of human flourishing, we need to take the “nature rights” movement seriously. Read More ›
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Standing O for Jerry Coyne?

Using his power and the prestige brand of his university to bully someone like Eric Hedin was nothing less than loathsome. Read More ›
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Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Read More ›
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Photo: Great Salt Lake, by Brigitte Werner (werner22brigitte), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Utah Versus Nature Rights

Utah is the fourth state — the others are Ohio, Florida, and Idaho — restricting rights to the human realm where they belong. Read More ›
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Photo: Fossil bryozoan, Carboniferous of Ohio, James St. John via Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0 DEED.

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Read More ›
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Image: HMS Beagle at Tierra del Fuego.

“Sacred Cause”? Reconsidering Charles Darwin as Abolitionist

I offer a series of posts here designed to lay out the evidence in detail. It is not merely that Desmond and Moore are selective in the sources they cite. Read More ›
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Photo: St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park, by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Local “Water Rights” Law Invalidated in Florida

“Nature rights” and “animal rights” activists will keep trying. And there is no denying they are making incremental inroads. Read More ›
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Photo: A Volkswagen ID.4, by harry_nl, via Flickr (cropped).

Intelligent Design Gets Its Own Car

Our colleague Daniel Reeves, a VW fan, points out Volkswagen’s ID series. Yep, it stands for "intelligent design." Read More ›

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