Nature Rights — Now Coming to the United Nations

AKET Fund, Alfred Kobacker, bees, bioethics, commodities, earth religion, economic thriving, Elizabeth Trimbach Fund, fossil fuel, General Assembly, glaciers, Green Party, House of Lords, human exceptionalism, human freedom, indigenous knowledge, minerals, mountains, National Geographic Society, nature, oil, Panama, progress, rivers, timber, trees, United Nations, waves
The potential harm to human thriving and to our self-perception as an exceptional species cannot be overstated. Source
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Learning about Technology, and Relationships, from Wendell Berry

artificial inteligence, arts, Books, chatbots, Claude, community, computers, Counterpoint Press, dependence, ecological health, economic justice, electricity, Energy, energy consumption, ethics, family, Harper’s Magazine, land, machines, nature, peace, political honesty, pollution, prosocial intentions, relationships, Tanya Berry, Technology, thinking, typewriter, water usage, Wendell Berry, work
Berry describes the beautiful working relationship he had with his wife, Tanya. She typed his work on a Royal standard typewriter. Source
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Our Lush World: Considering the Problem of Beauty

"survival of the fittest", beauty, Darwinists, Fire-Maker, geneticists, Giraffe, gratuitous beauty, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligence, intelligent beings, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, nature, problem of pain, scientific discovery, Technology, The American Spectator, The Edge of Evolution, The Story of Everything, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, zoology
“If, on the other hand, one views nature as ingenious artwork that cannot be reduced to the question of utility alone, these problems disappear.” Source
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Irreducible Behe: The Shy Revolutionary Who Took Down Darwin

Albert Einstein, bacterial flagellar motor, biochemistry, cell's, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, Evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, George Gilder, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, microbiology, National Review, nature, New York Times, Paul Nelson, quantum theory, Revolutionary Behe, Robert Boyle, Stephen Meyer, Watson and Crick
The cell for Darwin was a black box. He was, in that sense, blind — and the blindness was the condition in which he formulated his theory. Source
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God Would Not Create Things That Way? Nature Alone Could Not

Charles Darwin, Chicago, chimps, Christianity for Doubters, common design, consciousness, DNA, echolocation, elementary particles, Evolution, Faith & Science, Field Museum of Natural History, fossil skulls, Genesis, George Gaylord Simpson, history of life, humans, Intelligent Design, modern humans, nature, New York Times News Service, nuclear power plants, Origin of Species, paleontologists, paleontology, physics, primates, Smart Phones, supercomputers, Technology, Why Evolution Is Different
Why does God remain backstage, hidden from view, working behind the scenes while we act out our parts in the human drama? Source
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The Science of Theism as a Healing Salve

agnostics, americans, Big Bang, Big Bangs, Catholics, Christianity, Christians, creator, Deity, Discovery Institute, documentary, Faith & Science, faith and science, fine-tuning, Gilead, history of science, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Israel, Jeremiah, Jewish Journal, Jews, media, monotheism, nature, physicists, Protestants, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientific discoveries, Seattle, Singularity, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, United States, universe, weekend
One reason I’m grateful for it is that the film makes a scientific case for theism of a kind that unites. It comes at an important moment for that. Source
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Humans as “Beloved”: A Signature of Intelligent Design

animals, atheists, beauty, bees, Bethel McGrew, birdsong, cats, cosmos, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, dust, Evolution, Faith & Science, flowers, Intelligent Design, light, materialistic narrative, mountain peak, nature, Pale Blue Dot, physics, Prince, princess, sunset, symphony, The Story of Everything, tulips, Wall Street Journal
A few minor shifts in how light interacts with matter and our sense of sight would be dulled to most of the visual beauty that we most appreciate in nature. Source
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Luskin: If Aliens Exist, They Were Designed Just Like We Were

aliens, americans, Big Bang, Casey Luskin, cellular machines, chemicals, cosmos, creator, Disclosure Day, documentary, Donald Trump, Epoch Times, Evolution, extraterrestrials, faith and science, genetic code, government, humans, information, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, living cell, molecular machines, natural selection, nature, office-holders, origin of life, physics, Steven Spielberg, The Age of Disclosure, The Story of Everything, UFOs, unintelligent forces, universe
I’m an agnostic on these purported technologically super-advanced creatures with their physics-defying crafts. Source
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Meyer, Fradd: Atheist Evolutionists Reason as if They Were Theists

Deity, Doubts, Evolution, evolutionary process, evolutionists, Ideas, Intelligent Design, interviews, knowledge, Matt Fradd, monotheists, naturalism, nature, Philosophy of Science, Pints with Aquinas, reality, reason, science, scientific reasoning, Stephen Meyer, The Daily Wire, The Story of Everything, theaters, theism, __featured1
Only a loving Deity who endowed us with reason — a highly unnatural gift! — can explain why we are able to think rationally, including about science. Source
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