St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park Type post Date July 16, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsLife Sciences Tagged , activists, animal rights, animal welfare, courts, elephants, environmentalism, Florida, glaciers, human thriving, humans, Lake Erie, lakes, lawsuit, nature rights, New York Court of Appeals, Ohio, Orange County, rivers Local “Water Rights” Law Invalidated in Florida Science and Culture July 16, 2022 Bioethics, Life Sciences 2 “Nature rights” and “animal rights” activists will keep trying. And there is no denying they are making incremental inroads. Read More ›
lake Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 13, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsScience Reporting Tagged , courts, development, environmentalists, Florida, human rights, humankind, journalists, lakes, law, nature rights, Orange County, radicals, The New Yorker, United Nations Nature Rights: A Lake in Florida Sues Wesley J. Smith April 13, 2022 Bioethics, Science Reporting 4 For a certain class of journalists, practical concerns are of little consequence — or perhaps, just not as much fun to write about. Read More ›
Great Lakes Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 18, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsHuman ExceptionalismScience Reporting Tagged , college students, ecosystem, Enterprise, Florida, Great Lakes, Lake Erie, legislation, nature rights, New York State, Orange County, radicals, Toledo “Great Lakes Bill of Rights” Legislation Introduced Wesley J. Smith March 18, 2022 Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting 3 Based on the chat-room comments, I was viewed by the college students who watched as the skunk at the party for defending human exceptionalism. Read More ›
creek Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 30, 2021 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , anti-human, Congress, Florida, human thriving, nature rights, Orange County, rights Florida Creeks — Yes, the Bodies of Water — Sue to Enforce “Nature Rights” Wesley J. Smith April 30, 2021 Bioethics 3 Do you see the potential for tremendous mischief and severe harm to human thriving that the nature-rights movement intends? Read More ›
Gilson Lents Type post Author Tom Gilson Date October 29, 2020 CategoriesLife SciencesScientific Reasoning Tagged , angiosperms, beauty, California, Christianity, Discovery Institute, Europe, evolutionists, flowering plants, forests, Homo sapiens, homogeneity, humans, intelligent design, logical fallacies, mountains, Nathan Lents, North America, Orange County, physiology, sarcasm, theism, Tom Gilson, Twitter On Fall Foliage, Nathan Lents Comes Up Short Tom Gilson October 29, 2020 Life Sciences, Scientific Reasoning 10 There is nothing in the word “gift” that entails its having been given identically to all persons at all times. That’s not hard, actually. Read More ›