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Tuesday May 29, 2007
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Scientists should form a closer alliance with mainstream religion in order to better fight extremism, the president of the Royal Society said yesterday.
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Wednesday May 23, 2007
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Answers in Genesis establishes the Earth’s age at 6,000 years by tracing the genealogies in the first book of the Bible. The ministry says the biblical text can never be reinterpreted, no matter what scientific evidence is produced. It says any contradictions that come from science are due to man’s fallible theories.
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Wednesday March 28, 2007
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Some of the exhibits would be the envy of any natural history museum. There also will be an exhibit suggesting that belief in evolution is the root of most of modern society’s evils.
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Thursday February 15, 2007
Schools and Religion • Science and Religion:
The second most powerful member of the Texas House has circulated a Georgia lawmaker’s call for a broad assault on teaching of evolution.
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The new guidelines reflect mainstream scientific views of evolution and represent a political defeat for advocates of “intelligent design,” who had helped write the standards that are being jettisoned.
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Tuesday February 13, 2007
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In his new book Apollo’s Arrow, ambitiously subtitled The Science of Prediction and the Future of Everything, Vancouver-based author and mathematician David Orrell set out to explain why the mathematical models scientists use to predict the weather, the climate and the economy are not getting any better, just more refined in their uncertainty.
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Wednesday January 31, 2007
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A three-year-old controversy over a book espousing a young-earth Creationist view being sold at the Grand Canyon visitors center has resurfaced, with renewed media attention and more they-said, they-said hullabaloo.
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Monday January 22, 2007
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Religion and science can combine to create some thorny questions: Does God exist outside the human mind, or is God a creation of our brains? Why do we have faith in things that we cannot prove, whether it’s the afterlife or UFOs?
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Wednesday January 17, 2007
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A coalition of scientists and religious leaders often at fundamental odds over the issue of the planet’s age and how it came to are now pledging to set aside their disagreements over the origin of life in pursuit of a common goal: protecting the world from global warming, pollution, extinctions, and other reckless human activity.
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Thursday January 4, 2007
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The National Park Service has dragged its feet for three years on a decision about whether to halt the sale of a creationist book saying the Grand Canyon is only thousands of years old, an advocacy group has charged.
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Monday January 1, 2007
Religion, General • Science and Religion:
People’s fascination for religion and superstition will disappear within a few decades as television and the internet make it easier to get information, and scientists get closer to discovering a final theory of everything, leading thinkers argue today.
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Wednesday December 27, 2006
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Linnard-Palmer, a paediatric nurse at California Pacific Medical Centre in San Francisco and a professor of nursing at Dominican University of California in San Rafael, believes that more time, training and money are being spent these days on helping medical personnel deal with religious and cultural issues when it comes to caring for children.
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Wednesday December 20, 2006
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A Minnetonka woman is using freeway signs in Minneapolis and Duluth to direct people to her pro-creationism Web site.
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Wednesday December 13, 2006
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In a letter, officials at the Department for Education and Skills told the group that creationism and its more recent off-shoot, intelligent design, have no place in the national curriculum and schools should refuse to use their teaching materials.
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Thursday November 9, 2006
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The passionate, sometimes rhythmic, language-like patter that pours forth from religious people who speak in tongues reflects a state of mental possession, many of them say. Now they have some neuroscience to back them up.
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Monday October 30, 2006
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The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada is fighting back against the Quebec Ministry of Education, which requires that unlicensed evangelical schools follow the provincial curriculum, including sex education and Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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Tuesday October 24, 2006
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The Quebec Ministry of Education has told unlicensed Christian evangelical schools that they must teach Darwin’s theory of evolution and sex education or close their doors after a school board in the Outaouais region complained the provincial curriculum was not being followed.
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Thursday September 21, 2006
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Tuesday July 11, 2006
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A universal mystical experience with life-changing effects can be produced by the hallucinogen contained in magic mushrooms, scientists claim today.
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Tuesday June 13, 2006
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The scientist who led the team that cracked the human genome is to publish a book explaining why he now believes in the existence of God and is convinced that miracles are real.
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Friday April 28, 2006
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Tuesday April 11, 2006
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Britain's most distinguished scientists today denounced the distortion of scientific knowledge to promote religious beliefs in schools.
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At Northshore Healing Rooms, the prayer team lays hands on and prays over a prayer-request form to gain deeper insight into the needs of the person whose prayer session is about to begin. The Northshore facility, one of eight in the Puget Sound area, operates from a nondescript office in a Bothell business park.
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