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25Nov 2021 by Post

Thanksgiving and the Frailty of Scientific Atheism

atheists, Baruch Spinoza, Betraying Spinoza, consensus, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian materialism, Faith & Science, human exceptionalism, Humanize, Intelligent Design, mainstream media, materialism, Michael Medved, mind-brain question, Rebecca Goldstein, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Lewontin, Salon, Stephen Meyer, Steven Pinker, Thanksgiving, uncanny, Wesley Smith

Our bioethicist colleague Wesley Smith had a very interesting and wide-ranging conversation with Stephen Meyer. Source

04Sep 2021 by Post

Infinity War, Human Exceptionalism, and the Ultimate Resource

Avengers: Infinity War, Creativity, Culture & Ethics, human beings, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, ID The Future, Julian Simon, labor, Labor Day, Marvel Cinematic Universe, materialism, movies, Podcast, Rachel Adams, resources, Thanos

For Labor Day weekend, we celebrate the human creative capacity, and analyze a blockbuster movie. Source

05Mar 2021 by Post

Michael Ruse on Purpose: The Flies in the Ointment

abstract thought, art, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Everett, Darwin Industry, Darwinian theory, Darwinism as religion, Evolution, Faith & Science, Frederic Harrison, hedgehog, human exceptionalism, John Henry Bridges, mathematics, Michael Ruse, music, Noam Chomsky, On Purpose, Pirahã people, Richard Dawkins, scientific reductionism, South America, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Henry Huxley, Whiggishness

Ruse’s chronological snobbery might be forgiven if the claims he makes for Darwinism can be unequivocally substantiated. Source

29Nov 2020 by Post

Pushing Elephant “Personhood”

animal rights, animal standing, animal welfare, animals, Argentina, Bronx Zoo, cattle, chimps, Culture & Ethics, Florida, human exceptionalism, judges, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood, Peter Moulton, writ of habeas corpus

Think cattle herds suing ranchers or lab animals suing universities — not to improve care but to liberate from all human use. Source

23Nov 2020 by Post

Smith: Personhood for Animals? What About Plants?

animal rights, animals, Cass R. Sunstein, Culture & Ethics, Declaration of Independence, human exceptionalism, human rights, ID The Future, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood, PETA, Podcast, Reductionism, The War on Humans, Wesley Smith

Bioethicist Wesley Smith examines the meaning of the term “personhood” and its implications for human rights. Source

09Nov 2020 by Post

What Makes Humans Unique, and Why It Matters

bioethicis, Culture, Culture & Ethics, documentary, human dignity, human exceptionalism, human life, human rights, The War on Humans, Wesley J. Smith

“Universal human rights are at stake," says Wesley Smith. "The intrinsic dignity of human life is at stake." Source

09Oct 2020 by Post

From Birds and Lemurs, Lessons About Human Exceptionalism

Animal Minds, BBC Earth, chimpanzees, Darwinism, David Attenborough, Denyse O'Leary, Deutsches Primatenzentrum, ecology, Evolution, Galileo legend, Günter Bechly, human exceptionalism, lemurs, Mind Matters, nature, primates, ravens, self-degradation

Self-degradation, like the “Galileo legend,” is a vital fuel from Darwinism. Plus, "Another failed prediction" of evolutionary theory. Source

06Oct 2020 by Post

Admit an “Error” by Darwin and Huxley? Here’s How It Could Be Permitted

Aaron Hirsch, Bible, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwinists, dominion, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Evolution, evolutionary theory, golf, human exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Kim Jon-il, Lord Byron, Nautilus, Nicolaus Copernicus, North Sea, On the Origin of Species, overfishing, psychology, T.H. Huxley

As we all know, evolutionary theory, like the famed golf game of Kim Jon-il, contains no errors or weaknesses of any kind. Source

01Sep 2020 by Post

Andrew Sullivan, Meet Richard Sternberg

Andrew Sullivan, canary in the coal mine, cancel culture, censorship, Evolution, free speech, human dignity, human exceptionalism, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Michael Egnor, New York Magazine, News Media, Race, Richard Sternberg, Rod Dreher, scientists, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, The Bell Curve, The New Republic

This is another illustration of what Michael Egnor and others have said: intelligent design was the “canary in the coal mine” when it comes to cancel culture. Source

27Aug 2020 by Post

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution in the Country of the Blind

anatomy, animals, apes, atheists, babies, birth canal, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, childbirth, chromosomes, Creativity, DNA, ductus arteriosus, earthquake, Ecuador, foresight, H.G. Wells, heteropalindromes, human evolution, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, humans, Intelligent Design, invention, Marcos Eberlin, Minnesota, orphan genes, oxygen, P.Z. Myers, parable, Periodic Table, phenotypes, Richard Dawkins, The Country of the Blind, Tree of Life

Fans of H. G. Wells are probably familiar with his 1904 short story, “The Country of the Blind.” Source

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