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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Tagged
, "chilling effect", anti-humanism, bioethicists, fauna, flora, Hong Kong, human thriving, humans, medical establishment, misanthropy, natural processes, nature rights, nihilism, prosperity, responsibilities, rights, rivers, speciesism, The Lancet}

World’s Oldest Medical Journal Endorses “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 16, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Medicine

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In other words, we, flora, fauna, and, indeed, geological features such as rivers and granite outcroppings are equal. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 7, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abortion, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, birth, California, Canada, doctors, Finland, France, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, glaciers, Holocaust, human life, insects, Jews, Journal of Medical Ethics, mastectomies, Netherlands, Ontario, Oregon, organ donation, peas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, rivers, Sweden, unborn children, United Kingdom}

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 7, 2023

Bioethics, Botany, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Read More ›

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Date
July 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Life 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 & Culture
July 16, 2022

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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“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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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 4, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Bolivia, Chile, climate change, courts, Ecuador, glaciers, India, laws, Mother Nature, nature, nature rights, prosperity, rivers, United States}

India High Court: Nature Is a “Living Being” with “Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 4, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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Nature-rights laws generally allow anyone who believes that nature’s “rights” are being violated to sue to prevent the violation and to seek redress. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bacteria, Congress, courts, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, habeas corpus, insects, laws, New York State, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water}

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2022

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 17, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, fish, Florida, Native Americans, nature rights, river rights, rivers, salmon, Seattle}

Seattle Power Company Sued for Violating the Rights of Fish

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 17, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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When we give up human exceptionalism, we go a bit mad and soon are eating our own tails. Read More ›

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Date
December 23, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antarctica, calcium, cobalt, enzymes, Flight: The Genius of Birds, Freeman Dyson, Geophysical Research Letters, glaciers, Greenland, ice, Illustra Media, iron, krill, magnesium, manganese, materialists, metals, Michael Denton, molybdenum, PNAS, potassium, Privileged Species, rivers, sodium, The Wonder of Water, vitamin B12}

Glaciers Enhance the Biosphere — By Design

_{Science & Culture
December 23, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Glacial meltwater performs unexpected and surprising roles that benefit life on earth. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 27, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ambient temperatures, Arthur C. Clarke, atmosphere, Carboniferous Period, combustion, earth, enzymes, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, hemoglobin, oxygen, rivers, swamps, water}

Why Do We Not Spontaneously Combust?

_{Michael Denton
July 27, 2020

Intelligent Design

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James Lovelock has pointed out that atmospheric levels of oxygen much above about 25 percent, let alone 30 percent, would cause raging conflagrations today. Read More ›

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Date
February 15, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, biosphere, body heat, Bridalveil Fall, carbon dioxide, circulatory system, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Denton, minerals, nutrients, oxygen, rivers, rock, The Wonder of Water, water}

Wonder of Water: Michael Denton at Bridalveil Fall

_{Science & Culture
February 15, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Thanks to a unique cluster of properties, water is able to fulfill many roles essential to our living planet. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 4, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, American Revolution, Bijan Nemati, Bill Nye, California, chimpanzees, CNN, cosmic fine-tuning, Darwin's Doubt, Declaration of Independence, Frank Tipler, glaciers, Harvard University, human rights, Independence Day, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, nature rights, Nike, Return of the God Hypothesis, rivers, Science Uprising, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Jefferson, trees, V for Vendetta}

“We Hold These Truths”: On Design of the Cosmos, Science Uprising Updates Thomas Jefferson

_{David Klinghoffer
July 4, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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The Declaration of Independence could hardly be written today, not if it had to pass muster with our dominant woke corporate-media-political culture. Read More ›