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“Multispecies Society”: Get Ready for Wild Animals’ Rights

The everything-has-rights radicals admit the truth of human exceptionalism while denying that it exists. Read More ›
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A “Right to Flow”: River Rights for the Seine?

Even nonessential activities could be blocked by pretending that the Seine is a person. Read More ›
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Learning to Love Industrial Farming

"Old MacDonald-style farms where soil is nurtured with love and animals have names rather than numbers may sound environmentally friendly." Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: Are Flaws in Our Design Responsible for Bad Things Happening to Good People?

When I lecture, I typically discuss intelligent design as if it were a near-perfect process creating inexplicably complicated living entities. Read More ›
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Icelanders Nominated a Glacier for President to Push “Nature Rights” Movement

Here is a story on “nature rights” activism that, on first impression, leaves one bemused. Read More ›
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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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Gifted Microbes Elevate the Case for Intelligent Design to the Entire Biosphere

Far from being humble, primitive steppingstones to higher life, microbes display superpowers that so-called “higher” forms of life depend on. Read More ›
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Foresight in the Biosphere: Lowly Organisms Help Rescue the Planet from Pollution

Need technology to fight the effects of technology? Look instead to living things that already have solutions. Read More ›
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Photo: Larvae of peppered moths, by Noor MAF, Parnell RS, Grant BS, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Peppered Moths: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

At most, the story shows a change in the proportions of two varieties of the same species. Read More ›
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Wild Rice Sues to Stop Repair of Oil Pipeline

Two years ago the Ojibwe tribe granted wild rice the “right to exist,” which could be said to be a synonym for a right to life. Read More ›

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