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1 week ago | evolutionnews.org | Wesley Smith

Peter Singer, the internationally influential emeritus bioethics professor at Princeton, is known as a moral philosopher — which in his case is an oxymoron. Not only has he repeatedly endorsed the moral propriety of infanticide, but he has also yawned at bestiality and suggested experimenting on cognitively disabled people rather than animals if they are not “persons,” among other ethically depraved opinions.

1 week ago | evolutionnews.org | Wesley Smith |Wesley Smith

A bill has been filed in New York that would grant rights to the Great Lakes and all waterways in the state. (A similar law was enacted previously in Toledo, forcing Ohio to pass preemptive legislation.) I have no idea whether it will pass — I would certainly hope not — but it illustrates the profound anti-development/free market agendas behind the entire nature-rights movement.

2 weeks ago | evolutionnews.org | Wesley Smith

The media are such suckers for hyperbolic biotech stories. Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences made headlines for supposedly having genetically engineered a return of dire wolves that disappeared about 12,500 or so years ago, which many stories claimed to now be “de-extinct” after three gene-edited pups were born. Uh, no. The company actually engineered gray wolves to have white fur and (if it works) a larger stature.

3 weeks ago | evolutionnews.org | David Klinghoffer

Ladies and gentlemen, shall we all give a standing ovation to atheist evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne? The Wall Street Journal platformed the University of Chicago emeritus prof today as a champion of free speech and common sense about gender — the existence of ladies and gentlemen as categories jointly exhausting the possibilities with human beings.

3 weeks ago | evolutionnews.org | David Klinghoffer

I’m reading a fascinating book, The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul, by neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and science writer Denyse O’Leary, both of whose bylines you will recognize from Evolution News. You can pre-order it now, by May 31, and get a number of free items along with it, including a full PDF of the anthology Minding the Brain. See here for more details. The book will be published on June 3, 2025.