Creation/Evolution - article
Round 2: Conservatives get evolution win
AUSTIN, Texas—A day after failing to uphold a 20-year-old requirement that Texas public high school students evaluate the “strengths and weaknesses” of scientific theories, including evolution, the State Board of Education on Friday morning ratified new standards requiring biology students to “analyze, evaluate and critique” scientific theories. more »
by: Jerry Pierce - Mar 27, 2009 - topic(s): Family, Education, Science, Creation/Evolution
Conservatives lose Texas evolution vote
AUSTIN, Texas—A closely watched effort to keep a 20-year-old requirement that Texas public high school students evaluate the “strengths and weaknesses” of scientific theories, including evolution, failed Thursday in a 7-7 vote by the State Board of Education. more »
by: Jerry Pierce - Mar 26, 2009 - topic(s): Family, Education, Science, Creation/Evolution
Specially made, after all?
Christians have been told since the days of Copernicus, who correctly theorized the earth was not the center of the universe or even the center of the solar system, that there’s really nothing special about our earthly existence. more »
by: William H. Perkins, Jr. - Nov 7, 2008 - topic(s): Science, Creation/Evolution
RADIO: Richard Land interviews Ben Stein
Dr. Richard Land welcomes Ben Stein to the For Faith & Family radio broadcast to discuss the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (in theaters April 18, 2008) as well as the American Civil Rights Movement, 40 years later. more »
by: staff - Apr 18, 2008 - comments: 2 - topic(s): Family, Education, Citizenship, Human Rights, Racial Reconciliation, Science, Creation/Evolution
RADIO: Richard Land interviews Ben Stein
Apr 18, 2008 - topic(s): Science, Creation/Evolution
Baptist Press - Land: ‘Expelled’ a must-see movie
Apr 18, 2008 - topic(s): Science, Creation/Evolution
Watson, Social Darwinism: Old idea re-visited
Nobel Prize winner James Watson has reignited debate about Social Darwinism. In an interview for the London Times on Oct. 14 Watson suggested that people of African decent are not as intelligent as Western-Europeans. more »
by: Alan Branch - Nov 20, 2007 - topic(s): Science, Creation/Evolution
Complexity of life, structure of universe point to designer, conference speakers say
DALLAS — Science, when done right, points powerfully to a designer whose characteristics “just happen to match the descriptions of the God of the Bible,” author and Christian apologist Lee Strobel said April 13-14 during a conference on the theory of intelligent design at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. more »
by: Gregory Tomlin - Apr 25, 2007 - topic(s): Science, Creation/Evolution
Believing Scripture but Playing by Science’s Rules
There is nothing much unusual about the 197-page dissertation Marcus R. Ross submitted in December to complete his doctoral degree in geosciences here at the University of Rhode Island. His subject was the abundance and spread of mosasaurs, marine reptiles that, as he wrote, vanished at the end of the Cretaceous era about 65 million years ago. But Dr. Ross is hardly a conventional paleontologist. He is a “young earth creationist” — he believes that the Bible is a literally true account of the creation of the universe, and that the earth is at most 10,000 years old.
Feb 12, 2007 - topic(s): Science, Creation/Evolution
SBC’s Richard Land to participate in World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, will participate in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2006 in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. more »
Jan 18, 2006 - topic(s): Family, Living, Finances, Science, Creation/Evolution