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I knew this was going to happen, but I'm no prophet — it's just what the creationists always do. Frank Pastore follows the lead of our national news media and declares evolution debunked because of recent discoveries in paleontology. You can probably guess which ones.
The first is Chororapithecus,…
Dolphins, such as this individual caught and used by the US Navy, could be granted personhood rights that protect them from such abuse. Image: United Press InternationalIn Douglas Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy it turned out that dolphins were super…
So says the BBC:
The Spanish government has approved a draft law which will legalise homosexual marriages.
The bill gives same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples, including the right to adopt children.
The Roman Catholic Church and conservative opposition have fiercely opposed the…
I had to scan some hominid pictures today; came across this old classic and thought it worth using here.
Produced by Adrienne Zihlman, the picture has been used to support Zihlman's 'pygmy chimpanzee hypothesis' (Zihlman et al. 1978): this being the idea that the Bonobo Pan paniscus is 'the best…
I'm think that establishing explicit guidelines regarding our responsibilities (at individual and societal levels) towards various non-human animals is a good thing. The other great apes are a good place to start. It is wrong, in my opinion, to treat animals as things. That said, saying that the other great apes are part of a "community of equals" goes just a bit overboard.
I don't like it at all, I think its the wrong way to frame a conservation obligation. I do agree we need to rethink our relationships with animals, specifically with great apes however apes nor other animals are not humans. To impose cultural standards for life, like human rights, on non-humans is ignorant.
I went into a deeper debate sometime earlier this month at this link, "Spanish Socialist Party consider simians worthy of human rights."