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For some a battle between science and religion is being fought for the soul of America. The Creationists argue God created the world in six days and want their beliefs given equal status to evolutionary science. Across the divide - evolutionist Scott with creationist Ham Petersburg, Kentucky, is in the middle of North America. It is supposedly within a day's drive of two-thirds of the US population. For the rest, it is just 10 minutes from Cincinnati International Airport. That is why it was picked as the site for a new museum, due to open in a couple of...

That transition from water to land has long fascinated scientists, but the fossil record of how it occurred is still incomplete. The new finding suggests that certain aspects of tetrapod ears and limbs can be traced much further back in "fishy looking" fish than had been previously known, says John Long, head of sciences at Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. "They were just cunningly disguised in the fossil record by their more fishlike overall features," he said in an email interview. "They tell us that evolution progresses steadily but often hides the evidence until a really well preserved fossil like...

I don't like the term 'evolutionist' - would you call a physicist a 'graviationist', or a "weak nuclear force-ist"? I'm a vertebrate palaeontologist, and evolution is an enormously robust theory without which it is virtually impossible to make sense of any of the observations I make in my field. I am not averse to engaging in debate with creationists. I won't call them 'scientific creationists' - what they represent has little to do with science. It is as a simple matter of definition that if you start an investigation stating that anything you discover can only be explained in terms...

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. - --snip -- The twin rafting trips epitomize the parallel universes often inhabited by Americans with polarized positions. Members of both groups said they had signed up for these charters to be surrounded by like-minded people. Indeed, all the American adults on Mr. Vail's boats voted for President Bush last fall, while all but two on the evolutionists' rafts cast ballots for Senator John Kerry.

<p>Faced with those choices, a 61-year-old West Bloomfield man parried away a shotgun barrel as it fired, forcing a buckshot load of lead over his shoulder. The township man then drew his own handgun and shot an intruder inside his garage in the 4800 block of Trailview at 3 a.m. July 4.</p>

A high school science teacher vowed yesterday to continue telling his Inuit students about Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, despite complaints from parents in the northern Quebec community of Salluit. Science teacher Alexandre April was given a written reprimand last month by his principal at Ikusik High School for discussing evolution in class. Parents in the village 1,860 kilometres north of Montreal complained their children had been told they came from apes. "I am a biologist. ... This is what I'm passionate about," said April, who teaches Grades 7 and 8. "It interests the students. It gets them asking questions....

Catholic Radio Presents an Interview with Mr. John Vennari Editor of Catholic Family News The Theory of Evolution: Judged by Reason & Faith The above titled is taken from the book of Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini, Archbishop of Palermo, published in 1959. Cardinal Ruffini was an outstanding Catholic scholar and a solid pre - Vatican II churchman, untainted by the growing Modernism within the Church. On July 1, 1858, Charles Darwin's paper on the Theory of Evolution by natural selection was read to The Linnaean Society of London, but it was the publication of his book "The Origin of Species"...

Sometimes you have to wonder about the New York Times. It printed a long, breathtakingly written, scientific-sounding piece that just had one problem: It wasn’t news. Now, why would it do that? The article, titled “Still Evolving, Human Genes Tell New Story,” was run prominently on the front page of the New York Times last week. The reporter excitedly announced that scientists had found “the strongest evidence yet that humans are still evolving.” That’s big news. What was the evidence? “Researchers have detected,” the story says, “some 700 regions of the human genome where genes appear to have been reshaped...

Breathtaking inanity. "So, what keeps the Earth from falling?" the elderly woman asked the professor. "Well, it's the Sun's gravity and the Earth's momentum that keep it in orbit," he explained. "Nonsense," she said. "It rides on the back of a giant turtle." "So, what holds up the turtle?" the professor asked, with a touch of smugness. Without hesitation, the woman shot back, "It's turtles, all the way down!! An infinite pyramid of turtles does not at all surprise me as an explanation of how the Earth "works." The above story was made famous by Stephen Hawking. I heard a...

Okay, seeing as how a lot of people debate - and, quite often I'm sad to say, with a bit of anger and malice - in the Creation/Evolution threads, I think it's finally time to just bring it to the table. What do you believe in? Creation? Evolution? Intelligent Design? Be specific; what aspects of each do you believe (such as a Christian who believes in evolution, etcetera...)? Remember, be nice.

HARRISBURG — It was surely one of the most anticipated moments in the history of federal jurisprudence, the appearance, finally, of former Dover Area School Board member Bill Buckingham at the Dover Panda Trial. And it did not disappoint. It was, in the truest sense of the word, unbelievable. Really. Unbelievable. At the onset of his stay on the witness stand, Buckingham raised his right hand and swore, or affirmed, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Then, for the record, he stated his name. "William Buckingham." By the time he left the stand, six...

Earlier this year, researchers in Spain made a remarkable scientific discovery. Rats are capable of discerning the rhythms of the human language and can tell the difference between different languages. According to the Reuters story, the "study suggests that animals, especially mammals, evolved some of the skills underlying the use and development of language long before language itself ever evolved." There is only a slight catch with the researchers' evolutionary explanation, it does not make any sense. Rather than support evolution, these findings actually reinforce the Creation model of the world. The research seems to indicate yet another weakness of...

There is a continuing controversy erupting throughout the United States regarding the teaching of evolution as fact in public schools around the country. During the original Scopes “Monkey Trial” in 1925, famed lawyer Clarence Darrow argued that denying the right to teach Darwinian evolution violated fundamental academic freedom. Now, some 80 years later, evolutionists argue that their theory should be the only one taught in schools. This issue of the origins of mankind is being decided by the courts. We have developed a comprehensive strategy to address this issue. In the coming weeks, I will be preparing a major editorial...

Creation Science Demands New Attention The creation science community is in an uproar. They claimed to have found new and compelling evidence that the Universe was indeed created as written in Genesis. Their new find: this memo written by God himself, outlining the time frame for Creation The memo has been authenticated by several authorities on Biblical documentation, including Brother Harry of the Landover Baptist Church in Freehold, Iowa. No word yet from CBS News regarding a possible special.

Papers have been flapping with new headlines about the latest in a long line of alleged dinosaur ancestors of birds. This one is claimed to be a sensational dinosaur with feathers on its hind legs, thus four ‘wings’.1 This was named Microraptor gui—the name is derived from words meaning ‘little plunderer of Gu’ after the paleontologist Gu Zhiwei. Like so many of the alleged feathered dinosaurs, it comes from Liaoning province of northeastern China. It was about 3 feet (1 meter) long from its head to the tip of its long tail, but its body was only about the size...

A friend of mine wanted me to watch a "documentary" by Stevin A Austin on the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens. In this film ( the entire thing which I could not stomach thru) it explains how volcanic eruptions can cause the layering which is found in the the Earth's rocks. I know that such layering caused by volcanic gas and mud, knocking down trees, is not like sedimentary rock, but I can't explain it very well to my friend. Does anyone have a link to a good page explaining Mr. Austin's works from an evolutionist's point of view? Thanks!...