Tag: property

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 17, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ancestors, blackmail, Death with Dignity, flourishing, forests, groves, Harvard Law School, human thriving, humans, indigenous people, irrationality, lawfare, life cycles, Moon, mysticism, nature, nature rights, neo-paganism, nutrients, oceans, Peruvian bees, property, rivers, soil, students, temperature, toolkit, tree rights, universities, University of Sussex, water, woodlands}

In Latest Statement from a University, Tree Rights Advocacy Is Based on Irrationality

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2026

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

5}

We protect trees and woodlands with laws and regulations without resorting to irrational ideological justifications and materially impeding human thriving. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antarctica, Arctic, Aristotle, bacterial flagellum, bats, biology, biosphere, blood-clotting cascade, blubber, cetaceans, Chance and Necessity, CHNOPS, complementarity, Darwin's Black Box, duality, emergence, Erwin Schrödinger, feathers, function, Jaques Monod, language, marine iguanas, Mass, Michael Behe, penguins, physical reality, property, science of purpose, scientism, specified irreducible complexity, structure, structure-function relationship, telos, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Aristotelianism}

How Life Becomes Comprehensible: A New Scientific Framework

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 4, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

7}

The duality of emergence and specified irreducible complexity must be discarded. In doing so, we create a framework compatible with Thomistic Aristotelianism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 20, 2025

Categories
Genetics
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, American history, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, curator, Dogs, human exceptionalism, human origins, human race, humans, humility, National Museum of Natural History, National Zoo, Nature (journal), non-whites, pride, property, rationality, Sean McDowell, self-hatred, Smithsonian Institution, Trump Administration, Wall Street Journal, whiteness, woke ideology}

Smithsonian Denigrates by Race, Including the Human Race

_{David Klinghoffer
August 20, 2025

Genetics, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

4}

I have not yet heard that the Trump Administration is looking at what the NMNH says about human origins. But reforming the Smithsonian requires it. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 28, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, cosmos, culture, Darwinism, education, evolution, family, human life, marriage, myths, nihilism, police, Portland, property, rioting, Seattle}

How Much of Today’s Anarchic Nihilism Can Be Laid at Darwin’s Feet?

_{David Klinghoffer
July 28, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

See how much malignancy has been justified and advocated by some very smart people in the name of evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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post

Date
April 11, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, C. elegans, comedy, complexity, eukaryotes, evolution, evolutionary theory, How to Build a Worm, jokes, Paul Nelson, property, PZ Myers}

Ontogenetic Depth — A Problem for Evolution That’s Not Going Away

_{Science & Culture
April 11, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Being unable to measure ontogenetic depth is not good news for evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 15, 2017

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __nedited, animal rights, animal welfare, chimpanzees, Connecticut, currency, dolphins, elephants, humans, inflation, law, personhood, PETA, property, zoo}

Elephants Sue for Habeas Corpus

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 15, 2017

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism

3}

The point here isn’t to prevent abuse, if it exists. We have animal-welfare laws for that. Read More ›

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 27, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, __edited, Bolivia, Ecuador, human rights, nature, nature rights, pollution, property, resources, rivers}

Now It’s “Resourcism”!

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 27, 2017

Bioethics, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

3}

Your back forty is seeking legal counsel. Read More ›

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 9, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __tedited, animal rights, animal welfare, anti-human, anti-human exceptionalism, domestication, ownership, PETA, property, slavery}

Animal Rights Means No Dogs or Cats

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 9, 2016

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

4}

Most AR activists, like PETA's zealots, don't state the pet part boldly. The one exception to that general rule is Gary Francione. Read More ›