bean plant Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date May 9, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsBotanyEnvironment & ClimateFine-tuningHuman ExceptionalismLife Sciences Tagged , animals, autotrophs, complexity, dignity, evolution, house plants, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, light, mainstream media, New York Times, peas, personhood, Swiss Constitution, The Atlantic, Venus flytrap, wildflowers, Zoë Schlanger Again with the “Plants Are Intelligent” Nonsense Wesley J. Smith May 9, 2024 Bioethics, Botany, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences 5 We all know that plants respond to stimuli, such as flowers opening with the sun or growing toward light. Read More ›
Chengjiang fossil site Type post Date January 18, 2019 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, A Meaningful World, Atacama Desert, beauty, Benjamin Wiker, Burgess Shale, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, Chile, China, Crustacea, Darwin's Doubt, DNA, euarthropod, evolution, Ferris Jabr, insects, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, MIT, Ohio State University, Periodic Table, sexual selection, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation, water, wildflowers Early Cambrian Complexity and Other News Science and Culture January 18, 2019 Evolution, Intelligent Design 8 Stephen Meyer’s case for intelligent design in Darwin’s Doubt keeps getting vindicated by new fossils. Read More ›
tree-person-2 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 16, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsBotany Tagged , __k-review, anti-humanism, autotrophs, book reviews, ecocide, environmentalism, fruit, genocide, Natalie Angier, New York Times, novel, peas, rationality, science, sexual reproduction, Swiss Constitution, Switzerland, The Hague, trees, wildflowers No, Trees Are Not People Too Wesley J. Smith April 16, 2018 Bioethics, Botany 3 Novelist Barbara Kingsolver seriously asserts, in her review of a novel in which trees are characters, that they are people too. Read More ›
