J. K. Rowling Comes Out Against Legalized Assisted Suicide

activism, arts, assisted dying, assisted suicide, bioethics, Children, coercion, disability rights, England, equality, facilitation, gender ideology, Harry Potter, House of Commons, J. K. Rowling, liberals, Neil Murray, physicians, popular culture, prevention, private spaces, suicidal people, Wales, women
Two of the core tenets of liberalism are (supposed to be) protecting vulnerable people from exploitation and promoting equality among all people. Source
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Intelligent Design Is Not Just for Conservatives

1619 Project, Anglo-Saxons, Big Book, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, cisnormative, conservative Christians, conservatives, Darwin’s Bluff, David Berlinski, David Moulton, Discovery Institute, Dover Area School District, Ernst Mayr, Evolution, Evolution’s Rainbow, Francis Crick, George Gaylord Simpson, H.M.S. Beagle, Holly Dunsworth, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, Intelligent Design, J.B.S. Haldane, Joan Roughgarden, Leif Jensen, liberalism, liberals, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Nikole-Hannah Jones, orchids, Origin of Species, pseudoscience, Sewell Wright, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Nagel
After a decade of immersing myself in Darwin studies, evolutionary theory, and intelligent design, I find myself unexpectedly supportive of the iD position. Source
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A “Prepared Mind” for Alfred Russel Wallace

"survival of the fittest", A. P. Mead, Alfred Russel Wallace, At the Edge of History, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, liberals, Loren Eiseley, Louis Pasteur, M. R. A. Chance, Meaning, natural selection, Pithecanthropus, purpose, The World of Life, William Irwin Thompson
Although Wallace receded into the deep recesses of my memory, I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind.” Source
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Luskin: Book Banning? Woke Forces Know All About That; They Practiced on Us

academic freedom, adults, atheists, Big Tech, book banning, book burning, Books, Casey Luskin, censorship, classrooms, conservatives, creationism, curricula, Dawkins Test, Dover Area School District, Evolution, free speech, geologists, government, Homosexuality, Intelligent Design, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, liberals, media, misinformation, natural selection, News, News Media, Of Pandas and People, Parents, Pennsylvania, progressives, racial injustice, Richard Dawkins, scientific literature, students, The Daily Wire, United States, wokeness
"Those 49 words — suggesting that students consult a library book if they wanted to learn more about a scientific idea — were too much for the thought police." Source
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