26Sep 2025 by Post

Nature Right Pushes Neo-Pagan Mysticism at Highest Academic Levels

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Most recently, the Harvard Kennedy School hosted a symposium on “nature rights” undergirded by “indigenous knowledge.” Source
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24May 2025 by Post

“Nature Rights” Hits the Big Time

Alfred Kobacker and Elizabeth Trimbach Fund, anti-humanism, bioethics, China, ecosystems, endangered species, enforcement, glaciers, habitats, human exceptionalism, human rights, human thriving, humankind, International Day for Biological Diversity, lawfare, Life Sciences, mountain, National Geographic Society, nature rights, rivers, waves
The National Geographic Society — one of the world’s largest and most influential science organizations — is going to pour money into the movement. Source
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24Jan 2025 by Post

The Multiverse Has a Measure Problem

Aaron Zimmer, atoms, Bible, Boltzmann brain, Donald Trump, Dragons, Elie Feder, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, life, measure problem, molecules, naïve multiverse, observers, physical constants, physical laws, physics, Physics to God, Physics, Earth & Space, planets, quantum fluctuations, rivers, Roger Penrose, stars, Taylor Swift, universe
In terms of science, the central problem with the naïve multiverse is that it could explain any observation, so it really explains nothing. Source
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17Apr 2024 by Post

Utah Versus Nature Rights

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Utah is the fourth state — the others are Ohio, Florida, and Idaho — restricting rights to the human realm where they belong. Source
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07Feb 2023 by Post

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

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Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Source
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14Apr 2022 by Post

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

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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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15Feb 2020 by Post

Wonder of Water: Michael Denton at Bridalveil Fall

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On a classic episode of ID the Future, geneticist and biochemist Michael Denton reads the beautiful introduction to his book The Wonder of Water. Download the podcast or listen to it here. He begins at Yosemite’s Bridalveil Fall and explores how water is curiously fine-tuned for life. Indeed, thanks to a unique cluster of properties, water is able to fulfill many roles essential to our living planet. It’s thanks to some of those properties that rivers and streams can leech and carry minerals from rock to various places they’re needed in the biosphere. Water’s unusual properties also make it an ideal medium for our circulatory system. There it serves not only to transfer nutrients and oxygen but also to expel carbon dioxide, excess body heat, and waste products — again, thanks…
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