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News & Current Events :: Graphic Abortion Billboard Trucks Get Through Medi
2007-08-10 13:10:00
Author: Eric Subject: Graphic Abortion Billboard Trucks Get Through Media BlackoutPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:10 am (GMT -4) Graphic Abortion Billboard Trucks Break Through Canada's Media Blackout Hilary White CALGARY, August 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews .com) - In contrast with the media blackout that pro-life Canadians are used to expecting at their demonstrations, media coverage of the Reproductive Choice Campaign trucks rolling on Calgary streets this week has been lively. The trucks feature three-metre high photos of aborted children and an email address for more information. Local papers and radio stations were joined by CBC and Global News who took video footage, while CTV News Calgary has run a two-minute television news spot three times in the last two days and included the sponsoring group's website address. This coverage constitutes a frenzy compared to the nearly total media blackout that is traditional at pro-life events such as the annual March for Life event in Otta...
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News & Current Events :: Court Rules Against Atheist Group in Church Fundin
2007-08-10 13:02:00
Author: Eric Subject: Court Rules Against Atheist Group in Church Funding BattlePosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:02 am (GMT -4) Court Rules Against Atheist Group in Church Funding Battle Ethan Cole A federal court ruled Wednesday against a national atheist group that filed a lawsuit against the city of Detroit for pledging to reimburse a church for property improvements. “Churches cannot be treated as second class simply because they are religious institutions. They have the same right to reimbursement for physical improvements as all other entities have,” said Dale Schowengerdt, a counsel for the Christian legal group Alliance Defense Fund, in a statement. “No reasonable person would consider a church’s receipt of contractually-promised reimbursement to be a government endorsement of religion. The court agreed that the church was rightfully allowed to be part of the city’s program,” he argued. The City of Detroit Development Agency made a contract with St. John’s Episcopal ...
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Psychology, Anthropology, & Sociology :: RE: Issues Tearing Our Nation's Fa
2007-08-10 12:51:00
Author: Eric Subject: Issues Tearing Our Nation's FabricPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:51 am (GMT -4) Issues Tearing Our Nation's Fabric Chapter 20: School Choice Public education in this country began in the late 18th century as the result of local initiatives designed to help families ensure that their children would have competent math, history, and language skills. Land for public schools was generally donated by farmers or businesses, and citizens helped clear the land, erect schoolhouses, and raise funds to pay teachers. From the beginning, parents and other members of the community worked together to design and plan the nature of their children’s education, and members of the community shared a sense of personal responsibility for the success of the local schools. During the late 19th century, however, under the influence of theorists such as Horace Mann, William James, and John Dewey, the emphasis of public education shifted from a standardized curriculum for all stud...
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News & Current Events :: Health Crisis Looms Over Flood-Wracked South Asia
2007-08-09 23:22:00
Author: Eric Subject: Health Crisis Looms Over Flood-Wracked South Asia Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:22 pm (GMT -4) Health Crisis Looms Over Flood-Wracked South Asia; Children Most Vulnerable Eric Young NEW DELHI – South Asia's ruinous flood, which have affected millions and forced many to become homeless, is becoming a greater health concern as the threat of waterborne continues to rise. In the eastern Indian state of Assam, where up to 3 million people took refuge in emergency camps, receding waters and surging temperatures incited greater fears and concerns over disease outbreaks. "We are really worried about the outbreak of an epidemic in Assam now," said Tarun Gogoi, chief minister of Assam. The U.N. Children's Fund warned in a statement that children are especially vulnerable to the "looming health crisis." "Entire villages are days away from a health crisis if people are not reached in the coming days," Marzio Babille, UNICEF's h...
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News & Current Events :: Study: Prime-Time TV Not Gay Enough
2007-08-09 23:18:00
Author: Eric Subject: Study : Prime-Time TV Not Gay EnoughPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:18 pm (GMT -4) Prime-Time TV Not Gay Enough: Study Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Are U.S. television networks gay enough? Not yet, but ABC is getting close, according to a gay-rights group. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has given the Walt Disney Co.-owned network the highest marks of any of the five major broadcast networks in the group's first-ever report rating depictions of gay, lesbian and transgender characters and issues on prime-time TV. The study assigned grades of "excellent," "good," "fair" or "failing" based on the number of "impressions," or occurrences, of gay characters, discussions or themes counted during 4,693 hours of programming examined from June 2006 through May 2007. No network was rated as excellent. But ABC received a grade of "good" with 171 hours of gay-inclusive TV l...
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Psychology, Anthropology, & Sociology :: RE: Issues Tearing Our Nation's Fa
2007-08-09 21:58:00
Author: Eric Subject: Issues Tearing Our Nation's FabricPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:58 pm (GMT -4) Issues Tearing Our Nation's Fabric Chapter 19: Religious Liberty The principle of religious liberty is older than the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or any of this nation’s founding documents. Before the Charter of New England or the Mayflower Compact, American patriots were motivated by the certainty that only a moral and religious people could govern themselves in freedom. George Washington was chosen to lead the nation as its first president precisely because his peers understood the importance of spiritual wisdom to our experiment in democracy. John Adams, who served as the first vice president and the second president of the United States, said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." His words were not challenged; they were commonly held by a...
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News & Current Events :: Pentecostals Launch Major Thrust to Reach 1 Millio
2007-08-09 21:41:00
Author: Eric Subject: Pentecostals Launch Major Thrust to Reach 1 Million TeensPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:41 pm (GMT -4) Pentecostals Launch Major Thrust to Reach 1 Million Teens Audrey Barrick Thousands of Pentecostal youth from around the country are "Experiencing the Dream" at Indy '07, a National Youth Convention at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis. Students have united this week for the youth event of the Assemblies of God – the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world – to launch a major campus evangelism initiative called Dreaming 2015. "Indy07 is our launching pad for the greatest student evangelism thrust of our lifetime," said Jay Mooney, national Youth Ministries director. "The vision is to reach 1 million American teenagers and have them grafted into a local church by the end of 2015." It's not another new program, Mooney explained, but the "call of the spirit" and a vision for a multitude of underdogs to become ch...
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News & Current Events :: Bush Pledges to Veto Homosexual Hate-Crimes Legisl
2007-08-09 21:33:00
Author: Eric Subject: Bush Pledges to Veto Homosexual Hate-Crimes LegislationPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:33 pm (GMT -4) Bush Pledges to Veto Homosexual Hate-Crimes Legislation Elizabeth O'Brien WASHINGTON, D.C., August 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews .com) - As the contentious "hate crime" legislation that would add sexual orientation as a specially protected class is put before the Senate, after being passed in the House of Representatives, Bush has promised to veto the proposed bill should the Senate vote in its favor, the Washington Times reports Democratic Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Republican Oregan Senator Gordon Smith reintroduced the "hate crime" bill, also known as the "Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act" into the Senate this July, buried as one of many amendments to the Defense Reauthorization bill. The bill's inclusion in the Defense Reauthorization bill forces Bush to choose between denying extra ...
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News & Current Events :: Christians Divesting from US Companies Involved wi
2007-08-09 21:27:00
Author: Eric Subject: Christians Divesting from US Companies Involved with IsraelPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:27 pm (GMT -4) New England United Methodists are Divesting from U.S. Companies Doing Business with Israel WASHINGTON, August 8 /Christian News wire/ -- A task force of the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church is asking its members and investment managers to divest from 20 companies that do business in Israel, identifying them as complicit in Israel's presence in the West Bank. The targeted companies range from large conglomerates like General Electric to the video retailer Blockbuster and the computer systems company Silicon Graphics. The New England Conference, which has lost over 20 percent of its membership over the past eight years, has approximately 93,000 members in 550 congregations in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, eastern Connecticut and Vermont. In 2005 the conference endorsed the idea of divestment and commissioned the ...
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News & Current Events :: Abortion Forum Seeks to 'Crack the Whip' on Dissen
2007-08-09 21:21:00
Author: Eric Subject: Abortion Forum Seeks to 'Crack the Whip' on DissentPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:21 pm (GMT -4) Abortion Forum Seeks to 'Crack the Whip' on Dissent Say 'Silent No More' Leaders STATEN ISLAND, Ny., Aug. 9 /Christian News wire/ -- The leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, the nation's largest network of women and men harmed by abortion, today criticized a NY Salon panel discussion to be held tonight in New York City entitled, "What's So Bad about Abortion?" "This NY Salon event is not a forum or debate," said Janet Morana, SNMAC co-founder. "It's a disciplinary meeting where those in the abortion movement will be told to fall in line. The so called pro-choice side has had defectors lately who can't stomach things like partial-birth abortion or who dare to acknowledge the truth that women suffer emotional or physical hurt from the procedure. Those who profit from abortion will not tolerate such sensitivity. To...
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News & Current Events :: Young Adults Aren't Sticking with Church
2007-08-09 04:57:00
Author: Eric Subject: Young Adults Aren't Sticking with Church Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:57 pm (GMT -4) Young Adults Aren't Sticking with Church Cathy Lynn Grossman Protestant churches are losing young adults in "sobering" numbers, a survey finds. Seven in 10 Protestants ages 18 to 30 — both evangelical and mainline — who went to church regularly in high school said they quit attending by age 23, according to the survey by LifeWay Research. And 34% of those said they had not returned, even sporadically, by age 30. That means about one in four Protestant young people have left the church. "This is sobering news that the church needs to change the way it does ministry," says Ed Stetzer, director of Nashville-based LifeWay Research, which is affiliated with the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. "It seems the teen years are like a free trial on a product. By 18, when it's their choice whether to buy in to church life, many d...
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Protection From The Enemy :: RE: Consumer Christianity
2007-08-09 02:46:00
Author: Eric Subject: Cons umer Christianity Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:46 pm (GMT -4) Consumer Christianity -- Part 2 Consumerism was introduced to humanity in the Garden of Eden. Satan had a self-serving concept that he wanted to sell to a potential customer who had no need—one who, living in a perfect environment, had it all, materially and spiritually. His strategy (comparable to the prevailing methods of 21st-century marketing) was to create a desire where no real need existed, convincing Eve not only that she needed something more but that what she had was somewhat deficient. Moreover, in an effort to beat the Competition, Satan began his pitch by sowing doubt regarding God’s command and its resulting penalty for disobedience. By calling God a liar, the adversary no doubt rattled Eve’s trust in Him: “And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?…And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.” Then, in the wake of...
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News & Current Events :: Warming Draws Evangelicals Into Environmentalist F
2007-08-08 23:00:00
Author: Eric Subject: Warming Draws Evangelicals Into Environmentalist FoldPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:00 pm (GMT -4) Warming Draws Evangelicals Into Environmentalist Fold Juliet Eilperin LONGWOOD, Fla. -- At 8 on a Saturday morning, just as the heat was permeating this sprawling Orlando suburb, Denise Kirsop donned a white plastic moon suit and began sorting through the trash produced by Northland Church. She and several fellow parishioners picked apart the garbage to analyze exactly how much and what kind of waste their megachurch produces, looking for ways to reduce the congregation's contribution to global warming. "I prayed about it, and God really revealed to me that I had a passion about creation," said Kirsop, who has since traded in her family's sport-utility vehicle for a hybrid Toyota Prius to help cut her greenhouse gas emissions. "Anything that draws me closer to God -- and this does -- increases my faith and helps my work for God." He...
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News & Current Events :: Newsweek Article an 'Editorial Rag,' says Warming
2007-08-08 18:59:00
Author: Eric Subject: News week Article an 'Editorial Rag,' says Warming SkepticPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:59 pm (GMT -4) Newsweek Climate Article an 'Editorial Rag,' says Warming Skeptic Jim Brown Newsweek magazine is being compared to "editorial screed that violates basic standards of journalism" over a cover story that refers to global warming skeptics as "deniers." The cover story, titled "The Truth About Denial," claims so-called global warming "deniers" are a "well-funded machine." According to the article, "Since the late 1980s, this well-coordinated, well-funded campaign by contrarian scientists, free-market think tanks, and industry has created a paralyzing fog of doubt around climate change." Marc Morano, a spokesman for Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), says to the contrary, climate alarmism is itself the "well-coordinated, well-funded campaign" being backed by universities, think tanks, w...
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News & Current Events :: Ministry Takes Off in Bolivia
2007-08-08 18:54:00
Author: Eric Subject: Ministry Takes Off in Bolivia Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:54 pm (GMT -4) Ministry Takes Off in Bolivia Ian Fallis Flying is just part of the ministry of missionary pilot Dwayne Block and his wife, Sharon, in Bolivia. Recently, they wrote, "we were able to be involved in transporting our translation checkers to [an] Ese Ejja village to check many Old Testament passages. These passages will be printed and distributed to the believers as they continue to grow in Christ." They were also blessed to be able to attend a conference in the church they attend in Bolivia. This conference helped people in the local churches see how they can be involved in reaching tribal villages. "One of the tribal missionaries, Inocencio, came out and shared what is happening as he works with his own people," the Blocks wrote. "We pray that the Lord will raise up more missionaries to go into the harvest field. There are many villages with very little...
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News & Current Events :: Nias Island Ministry Broadens Into Education
2007-08-08 18:51:00
Author: Eric Subject: Nias Island Ministry Broadens Into Education Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:51 pm (GMT -4) Nias Ministry Broadens Into Education Indonesia (MNN) -- Two years after a massive earthquake rocked Indonesia's Nias Island, the community is still rebuilding. But there are few high schools on the island with a population of 60,000. World Hope International's Keith Norris says they're building a high school dedicated to agriculture and related vocations. "We finished one school year in a borrowed middle school, but we're building our own campus now for this vocational school. We're hoping to finish the construction by the end of May." As a Christian school, Christian teaching including business ethics is central to the young people's development. Key teachers have been recruited from Java--the most advanced island of Indonesia. The vocational school focuses on the food processing industry and seeks to train the Nias people to process the raw foo...
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News & Current Events :: Urban Ministry Branches Out to Alternative Educati
2007-08-08 18:47:00
Author: Eric Subject: Urban Ministry Branches Out to Alternative Education in U.S.Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:47 pm (GMT -4) An Urban Ministry Branches Out to Alternative Education in the U.S. USA (MNN) -- Urban Impact Ministries, affiliated with the Evangelical Free Church of America, ministers to needy and at-risk populations in post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana. Having served the population since 1989, the ministry has grown to include education and discipleship programs for at-risk youth and their families. Their focus is on developing strategic partnerships with other like-minded ministries, agencies, and businesses interested in helping people and changing their neighborhoods. It is about not duplicating services and programs that someone else is already providing; rather, it is about having work teams from all over the country come down and assist UIM in doing ministry in their community. In the days since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and surroundi...
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Protection From The Enemy :: Consumer Christianity
2007-08-08 12:01:00
Author: Eric Subject: Cons umer Christianity Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:01 am (GMT -4) Consumer Christianity -- Part 1 What do I mean by consumer Christianity? Generally, it is any attempt to build the kingdom of God or build up the individual Christian (or attract the potential convert to Christianity) by means and methods that appeal to the flesh, i.e., the deceitful and self-serving heart of man. It had its beginning in the Garden of Eden when Satan manipulated Eve into disobeying God while believing she was enriching herself (Genesis 3:1-6). More specifically related to what’s taking place today, consumer Christianity is an endeavor to help Christian churches grow in size and become more effective through the application of business principles, marketing strategies, and management concepts. It characterizes the most popular venture in Christendom today, which should seem rather odd, if not disturbing, to anyone who has an understanding of both “consumerism” and “Christianity.”...
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News & Current Events :: 2 Canadian Provinces Offer HPV Vaccination to Pre-
2007-08-08 11:18:00
Author: Eric Subject: 2 Canadian Provinces Offer HPV Vaccination to Pre-Teen GirlsPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:18 am (GMT -4) Two Canadian Provinces to Offer HPV Vaccination to Grade-School Girls Judicial Watch refers to "catalog of horrors," of numerous serious side effects to the vaccine in US Elizabeth O'Brien OTTAWA, August 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews .com) - Two Canadian provinces are introducing vaccination for human papilloma virus (HPV) into grade schools this fall despite many uncertainties about the drug's side effects and possible long-term complications. Nova Scotia became the first province to accept the HPV vaccination last month. Since then the governments of Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador have announced their commitment to providing the new drug that is heralded as a protection from cervical cancer caused by the sexually transmitted virus. Newfoundland and Labrador announced yesterday that the province is introducing a $4.6 million program to v...
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News & Current Events :: Beijing Olympic Prayer Countdown Set to Begin
2007-08-08 11:11:00
Author: Eric Subject: Beijing Olympic Prayer Countdown Set to BeginPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:11 am (GMT -4) Beijing Olympic Prayer Countdown Set to Begin Michelle Vu Only one year remains before the much-anticipated Beijing Olympics and Christians are preparing in advance for a spiritual harvest in China. While the Chinese government throws a huge festival on Wednesday – one year ahead of the Aug. 8, 2008 games – Christians will be on their knees praying for persecuted Christians in China and for a spiritual revival in the country. “The Beijing Olympics is only one year away; so we need to blanket Chinese believers right now with our prayers,” urged Open Doors USA President/CEO Dr. Carl Moeller, in a statement Tuesday. “Already there are reports of increased pressure on house church leaders and the expulsion of foreign missionaries,” noted Moeller, referring to the more than 100 foreign missionaries that were expelled from China between April and June as a result of a...
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Inspiration & Devotionals :: The Path to Straight
2007-08-08 10:00:00
Author: NewsFeeder Subject: The Path to Straight Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:00 am (GMT -4) The Path to Straight Margaret Manning "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6 were some of the first Scripture verses I memorized as a child. For some reason, the words seemed to bounce with joy, energy, and a sense of lightness as I learned them. For me, these were very "happy" verses in Scripture--verses that seemed to indicate God's direct guidance for all his children down happy, straight pathways. I inferred that trusting in God's guidance would be the result of seeing the wonderful, straight pathways laid out before me that I would willingly and gladly walk on towards all my goals, desires, and dreams. While these are still precious Scripture verses to me, I have come to understand them differently as an adult. I recognize no...
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Inspiration & Devotionals :: Night of Fire
2007-08-08 10:00:00
Author: NewsFeeder Subject: Night of Fire Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:00 am (GMT -4) Night of Fire Jill Carattini Shortly after the death of Blaise Pascal in 1662, a housekeeper was sorting through closets and clothing and happened to notice something sewn into Pascal's coat. Beneath the cloth was a parchment and inside this was another faded piece of paper. In Pascal's handwriting, on both the parchment and the paper were nearly the same words. Beside hand-drawn crosses, Pascal had carefully written: The year of grace 1654. Monday, 23 November, feast of St. Clement... From about half-past ten in the evening until about half-past midnight. Fire. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob... The God of Jesus Christ... Your God will be my God. More than 30 descriptive lines tell the story (unbeknownst to friends and family) of Pascal's conversion to Christ. He is said to have been reading of the crucifixion when he was suddenly o...
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Prayer & Blessings :: Call To Prayer for Tuesday, August 7, 2007
2007-08-08 10:00:00
Author: NewsFeeder Subject: Call To Prayer for Tuesday , August 7, 2007Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:00 am (GMT -4) Ask God to enrich East Asian churches for sharing the gospel with local children through the Children 4 Christ program. Pray God speaks through the Scripture materials we provide. Then he said to his disciples, 'The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.' Matthew 9:37-38 Read more... Source: Call To Prayer 24x7 Call To Prayer by International Bible Society_________________*The Post Above Was Automatically Inserted* Although we have thoroughly examined the source of this feed before approving it for automation, we are not responsible for any content from this feed source or their website. If you have any issues with the content of this post, please contact Patrick for a resolution.
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Inspiration & Devotionals :: Daily Manna from the Net for Tuesday, August 7
2007-08-08 10:00:00
Author: NewsFeeder Subject: Daily Manna from the Net for Tuesday , August 7, 2007Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:00 am (GMT -4) Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not put out the Spirit's fire; do not treat prophecies with contempt. Test everything. Hold on to the good. Avoid every kind of evil. May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:18-23 NIV Listen (MP3) Read more... Source: Daily Manna from the Net [NIV] Daily Scripture reading by International Bible Society_________________*The Post Above Was Automatically Inserted* Although we have thoroughly examined the source of this feed before approving it for automation, we are not responsible for any content from this feed source or their website. If you have any issues with the content of this post, please contact Patrick for a res...
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Psychology, Anthropology, & Sociology :: RE: Issues Tearing Our Nation's Fa
2007-08-08 09:18:00
Author: Eric Subject: Issues Tearing Our Nation's FabricPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:18 am (GMT -4) Issues Tearing Our Nation's Fabric Chapter 18: Racial Reconciliation Tuesday, October 3, 1995, will long be remembered as a watershed moment in American history. Traffic was stalled, airline flights were delayed, and by 10:00 a.m. Pacific time, businesses all across the country had come to a virtual standstill. Hundreds of newspapers were holding the presses for special editions, television stations had preempted daytime programming, and trading on Wall Street was officially closed until Judge Lance Ito could announce the official verdict in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. The impact of the moment was not that a famous football hero had been charged with a brutal double murder, or even that he was found "not guilty" by a jury, after one of the longest and most sensational trials in history. It was that, in that one split second, as the verdict was being read aloud an...
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Physics, Chemistry, & Biology :: RE: The Nature of Mathematics
2007-08-08 07:13:00
Author: Eric Subject: The Last MagicPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:13 am (GMT -4) The Last Magic Review of "The Applicability of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem" by Mark Steiner (Harvard University Press, 1999) William A. Dembski If mathematics is about finding solutions to well-defined problems, then philosophy is about finding problems in what previously we thought were well-settled solutions. Mark Steiner's The Applicability of Mathematics As a Philosophical Problem mirrors both sides of this statement, admitting that mathematics is the key to solving problems in the physical sciences, but also asserting that this very applicability of mathematics to physics constitutes a problem. What sort of problem? According to Steiner, the reigning "ideology" or "background belief" for the natural sciences is naturalism. Typically naturalism is identified with the view that nature constitutes a closed system of causes that is devoid of miracle, tele...
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Video & Television :: Documentary: "The Privileged Planet"
2007-08-08 05:08:00
Author: Eric Subject: Documentary : "The Privileged Planet "Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:08 pm (GMT -4) The following is a link to an excellent documentary presented by Illustra Media entitled, "The Privileged Planet." This 60-minute documentary explores the following questions: Is the correlation between the existence of complex life and our ability to make scientific discoveries simply a coincidence or the result of blind chance? Or does it point to a deeper explanation? "The Privileged Planet" examines these questions in a remarkable search for evidence of design and purpose within the universe. This is truly a remarkable presentation well worth your time. Enjoy!!! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5 488284265590289530
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News & Current Events :: Physicians & Surgeons for Scientific Integrity Web
2007-08-08 04:56:00
Author: Eric Subject: Physicians & Surgeons for Scientific Integrity WebsitePosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:56 pm (GMT -4) Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity Announces New Website MEIDA ADVISORY, August 7 /Christian News wire/ -- PSSI International, Inc. announces its redesigned website at www.doctorsdoubtingdarwin.com. PSSI's growing membership (currently 264 medical doctors from 15 countries) is skeptical of the claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the origination and complexity of life and therefore dissents from Darwinian macroevolution as a viable theory. This does not imply the endorsement of any alternative theory. Sadly, academic freedom is no longer assured in the United States and other countries. This is especially true when it involves espousing views contrary to the theory of Darwinian macroevolution, which has become the consensus of scientists despite its woeful lack of empirical support. Numerous instance...
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News & Current Events :: Gorged on Politics
2007-08-08 01:20:00
Author: Eric Subject: Gorged on Politics Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:20 pm (GMT -4) Promises, Promises How to really build a 'great society.' Charles Colson with Anne Morse If you're not already weary of the 2008 presidential campaign—some 15 months before we vote—you must be living in a cave without cable or internet access. The 2008 campaign began the day after the 2004 election, making this the first non-stop presidential campaign in history. The media, desperate to sustain interest in the horse race, pursue such earth-shattering stories as: Which candidate owns the most pets? (Sen. John McCain "wins" with three turtles, three parakeets, two dogs, and a ferret.) The states, eager for prime election coverage (and money), keep pushing their primaries earlier and earlier. The campaign is all some people can think about. Everywhere I go, people seem almost frantic to know who I'm for and who I think will win. When I say, "It's too early to tell," they...
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News & Current Events :: Bank Gives Status to Africa's Poor
2007-08-08 01:14:00
Author: Eric Subject: Bank Gives Status to Africa's PoorPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:14 pm (GMT -4) Bank Gives Status to Africa's Poor KIGALI, Rwanda, August 7 /Christian News wire/ -- The poor in Africa are grasping opportunities to work their way out of crippling poverty - with the help of modern banking technology. A partnership between Christian non-profit groups is introducing the benefits of secure banking and ATM cards to thousands of people in Rwanda, a nation recovering from genocide and war. According to the United Nations, Rwanda is one of the least developed countries in Africa. The vast majority of Rwandans have nowhere to keep their earnings safe. Commercial banks are not interested in the poor - and most Rwandans earn just a few dollars a day. In response, Opportunity International - headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois - and Baltimore-based World Relief have joined forces to build a solid banking network for Rwanda's poor. The venture will expand the Urw...
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