Category: human exceptionalism

14Apr 2022 by Post

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

animal rights, animals, bacteria, Climate News, Congress, courts, Culture & Ethics, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, germs, habeas corpus, human exceptionalism, individual animals, insects, Laws, Life Sciences, nature right, New York State, plants, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water

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

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19Mar 2022 by Post

“Great Lakes Bill of Rights” Legislation Introduced

college students, Culture & Ethics, ecosystem, Enterprise, Florida, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Bill of Rights, human exceptionalism, Lake Erie, legislation, nature rights, New York State, News Media, Orange County, radicals, Toledo, Tom Linzey, watershed

Based on the chat-room comments, I was viewed by the college students who watched as the skunk at the party for defending human exceptionalism. Source

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10Dec 2021 by Post

Ever Thought You Could Change Someone’s Mind?

atheists, biology, Books, Center for Science & Culture, Discovery Institute, educational outreach, engineers, Evolution, Evolution News, Faith & Science, Howard Glicksman, human exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Michael Denton, orcas, physicians, Richard Weikart, Stephen Meyer, Steve Laufmann, United Kingdom, YouTube videos

Iain was a diehard atheist from the United Kingdom. "I absolutely knew that I would never believe in a creator. It was inconceivable to me," he recalls. Source

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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