Word: speciesism
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Darwin anticipated such doubts, and admitted in The Origin of Species that the eye at first seems to imply an intelligent designer. But then he traced a scenario for the step-by-step evolution of a mere "nerve sensitive to light" into a "living optical instrument."
Behe's claim set Kenneth Miller, a Brown University biologist who is both a Darwinian and a Christian, to thinking. In his book Finding Darwin's God, he argues that if you look at blood clotting in various species you can see how the human version could have evolved one...
One key to the movement's success has been the decision to take no position on how species originated. This made ID a tent big enough to hold everything from old-fashioned creationists to New Agers who believe a "vital force" drives evolution. But one result is that ID simply...
Like many beautiful things, however, cranes are delicate?and they are dying. In Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes (North Point Press; 350 pages), nature writer and novelist Peter Matthiessen records his encounters with each of the 15 species of crane, a series of journeys that takes him through Asia...
Prime Number 250 million monarch butterflies were killed in a freak storm in Mexico, threatening the species, according to the World Wildlife Fund