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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 4, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, evaporation, Fire-Maker series, steel, Steven Vogel, trees, water}

A Remarkable Mechanism for the Existence of Large Trees

_{Michael Denton
August 4, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physics

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The mechanism represents a unique and stunningly brilliant solution to the problem of raising water to the top of large trees. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Carboniferous Period, charcoal, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, fitness, Goldilocks, iron, lignin, metallurgy, metals, Nature, oxygen, photosynthesis, physiology, radiation, steam engine, trees, wood}

The Role of Lignin for Fire, Explained

_{Michael Denton
August 2, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Without lignin, there would be no woody plants, no wood, no coal, no charcoal, no fire, no pottery, and certainly no iron or metallurgy. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 17, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, act, Aristotle, clouds, contingency, Five Ways, goodness, grass, images, light, mirror, nobility, ontology, Plato, potency, sky, Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas, trees, truth}

Aquinas’ Fourth Way: Light in a Mirror

_{Michael Egnor
October 17, 2019

Faith & Science

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It’s helpful, as with his Third Way, to begin with a metaphor, in order to get an intuitive feel for the proof. 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 ›

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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

5}

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 ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 14, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __cedited, Argentina, autotrophs, brains, environmentalists, humans, insects, microbes, New York Times, orangutan, pain, peas, persons, plant rights, radicals, Switzerland, trees, University of Western Australia, weeds}

Another Push for Plant “Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 14, 2019

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism

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There is increasing wind in the sails of everything-deserves-rights advocacy. Read More ›

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Date
December 21, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, algorithms, DNA, evolution, gratitude, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jerry Coyne, Live Science, memory, nuts, origami, Rice University, Richard Dawkins, Robert Boyle, squirrels, Stephen Hawking, Templeton Foundation, trees, UC Davis, United Kingdom}

Stocking Stuffers: Smart Squirrels, DNA Origami, and More

_{Science & Culture
December 21, 2018

Intelligent Design

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Here’s a collection of short news items of interest from the animal and human worlds. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 30, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, American Scientific Affiliation, antibodies, bacteria, binding site, Christians, Denis Lamoureux, Dennis Venema, Didier Raoult, Discovery Institute, Donald Prothero, evolutionary theory, fruit flies, Immune System, information, insects, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, mammals, mollusks, nylonase, probabilistic resources, protein folds, Randy Isaac, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Tree of Life, trees, UC Davis, whales}

Examining Critiques of Theistic Evolution, a Year After the Volume’s Publication

_{Brian Miller
October 30, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Attacks by Christian theistic evolutionists have often followed the same patterns as those of their secular colleagues. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 16, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Tagged
, __cedited, anti-humanism, autotrophs, book reviews, ecocide, environmentalism, fruit, genocide, New York Times, peas, rationality, science, sexual reproduction, Switzerland, The Hague, trees}

No, Trees Are Not People Too

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 16, 2018

Bioethics, Botany

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Novelist Barbara Kingsolver seriously asserts, in her review of a novel in which trees are characters, that they are people too. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 28, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __edited, Colorado River, environmentalism, forests, lawsuit, lawyer, mining, New York Times, personhood, rivers, Supreme Court, swamps, trees}

Claiming “Person” Status, the Colorado River Sues

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 28, 2017

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

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The river's lawyer and an environmental group win friendly coverage from the New York Times. Read More ›