Word: extinctionism
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The Cosmological Proof. The term applies technically to any argument for God through reflection upon the natural world. But most often "cosmological" refers to sweeping generalizations about ultimate origins and why the cosmos exists at all. Evolutionary schools of thought do not entertain such notions because they fall, by definition...
Can the gentle sea creature be saved from extinction ?
Hefty too: up to 2,200 Ibs. of blubbery bulk. But while Cleveland hailed from New Jersey, the manatee is a native of warmer climes: the rivers of West Africa, the Amazon basin, the shores of the Caribbean, and the coasts of Florida. Now the gentle and once plentiful creature...
SINCE 1978, endangered species have become ever more endangered as Congress has moved to dilute the Endangered Species Act of 1973. President Carter's moves to protect threatened species since he took office have ranged from the ineffectual to the non-existent. His decision in the next budget message to...
This legislation was enacted after the Supreme Court upheld the Interior Department's ban on completing the Tennessee Valley Authority's Tellico Dam because it threatened the snail darter with extinction. After the newly created committee reviewed the Tellico case, and still determined that the dam should not be completed...