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Street art - graffiti with facial mask on the wall during the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Warsaw, Poland
Photo by Adam Nieścioruk on Unsplash
Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2020
Human Exceptionalism
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Mask Hysteria

Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2020
Human Exceptionalism
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A few days ago, people in a Staten Island grocery store collectively shrieked in panicked terror because a fellow shopper was not wearing a surgical mask. Hysteria quickly ensued, with masked shoppers forming a threatening mob, as some howled, “GET OUT! GET OUT!” and driving the non-masked deviant away from the store. Watching the video on Twitter (of course!) was like seeing people in the Old Testament shrieking “Unclean! Unclean!” at an approaching leper. Read More ›
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Viruses, COVID-19, and Evolution
The Center for Science and Culture
May 28, 2020
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design
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Michael Behe on Viruses, COVID-19, and Evolution

The Center for Science and Culture
May 28, 2020
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design
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In this online Zoom webinar, Dr. Behe will review the biochemistry of viruses in general and COVID-19 in particular. He will use these topical examples to illustrate a fundamental principle: Darwinian and other unintelligent evolutionary mechanisms can change life marginally, in ways that are medically important, yet they cannot explain life’s complex structure. Rather, the elegant molecular structures of life Read More ›

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Eric H. Anderson
May 28, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Book Excerpt: Eric Anderson reads from Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell

Eric H. Anderson
May 28, 2020
Intelligent Design
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On a new episode of ID the Future, Eric H. Anderson reads from his newly co-authored book Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, written to provide a clear and simple introduction to the evolution/ID controversy, and a broad overview of the evidence for design in nature. That evidence includes cosmic fine tuning and the Big Bang, the origin of Read More ›

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Doctor's Hand Injecting Patient With Coronavirus Vaccine
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Wesley J. Smith
May 27, 2020
Human Exceptionalism
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Dershowitz Wrong: Government Can’t Compel You to Take COVID-19 Vaccine

Wesley J. Smith
May 27, 2020
Human Exceptionalism
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Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz has made quite a media stir by claiming that the government can force us all to receive COVID-19 vaccines if one is developed. But And the government certainly doesn’t have “the power to literally take you to a doctor’s office and plunge a needle into your arm.” Read More ›
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USA, VA, Arlington. Gravestones at Arlington National Cemetary.
Scott S. Powell
May 25, 2020
Citizen Leadership
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Memorial Day: Connecting the Past with the Present

Scott S. Powell
May 25, 2020
Citizen Leadership
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The Civil War was America’s most costly war with some 360,222 Union and 258,000 Confederate lives lost. Many historians put the death toll higher, but regardless, the number of Civil War casualties exceeds the nation’s loss in all its other wars combined -- the two World Wars, the Korean and Vietnamese Wars and subsequent wars right up through conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Read More ›
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Discovery Institute
May 21, 2020
Human Exceptionalism
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Wesley Smith Joins Laura Ingraham to Discuss the Dangers of Contact Tracing

Discovery Institute
May 21, 2020
Human Exceptionalism
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Wesley J. Smith, Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism, sat down with Laura Ingraham to express his concerns about using 'contact tracing' as a means of combatting COVID-19. Especially as technocrats continue to use the pandemic as a way to seize power. Read More ›