President Bush has acknowledged that he was "unprepared for war" when he arrived in the White House at the start of an administration that would largely be defined by terror attacks at home and military conflict abroad.

Russia's military is planning to upgrade its missiles to allow them to evade American weapons in space and penetrate any prospective missile shield, a Russian general said Monday.

Oil plunged more than 9 percent to $49 a barrel on Monday after OPEC deferred a decision on new supply cuts at a meeting over the weekend.

A former chairman of the Bar Council is calling for an international court for the environment to punish countries that fail to protect wildlife and prevent climate change.

President-elect Barack Obama said on Monday he believed U.S. combat troops should leave Iraq within 16 months of his taking office but he would listen to advice from military commanders.

Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said he is considering talks with members of the US Congress amid hopes for improved ties with the next administration in Washington, the local press reported on Tuesday.

American teenagers lie, steal and cheat more at "alarming rates," a study of nearly 30,000 high school students concluded Monday.

It's official: The USA is in a recession that started in December 2007.

The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden.

President-elect Barack Obama's announcement Monday that Gov. Janet Napolitano is his choice to head the Department of Homeland Security means a Republican will move into the governor's office.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke laid out new steps the Fed might take to lift the economy, as the panel that monitors the U.S. business cycle said the nation has been in recession for a year -- the longest downturn in a quarter century.

The nation's governors urged Congress to pass an economic-stimulus package for states, warning that their collective budget shortfall could rise to $140 billion by mid-2010.

P.Z. Myers and I finally agree on something! In a recent post, I described several actual Darwinian medicine "theories": 'Children Hate Vegetables Because of Ancestral Reproductive Advantage of Avoiding Toxins' or 'We Will Evolve Oiler Skin Because of Frequent Bathing' or 'X-Linked Color Blindness Evolved to Help Paleolithic Male Hunters See Camouflage.' As I pointed out in my original post, these theories are real, and in fact represent the cutting edge of Darwinian medicine. Myers refers to these Darwinian medicine research projects as "silly": No, none of those very silly talks were given. And he's right. What he fails to...

Several Darwinist bloggers have taken exception to my observation that Darwinian stories about the origin of diseases contribute little of significance to medical education, research, or practice. Orac responds: that creationist neurosurgeon with a penchant for laying down hunks o' hunks o' burnin' stupid on a regular basis, that Energizer Bunny of antievolution nonsense, Dr. Michael Egnor has spouted off on evolution again in a way that got my attention. It came in response to a post by PZ about a conference he attended entitled Understanding evolution: the legacy of Darwin, which served as a launching pad for Dr. Egnor...

Materialism Philosophy. The theory that physical matter is the only reality and that everything, including thought, feeling, mind, and will, can be explained in terms of matter and physical phenomena. Superstition 1 a: a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation b: an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition 2: a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary Mind (in a human or other conscious being) The element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives,...

CSC fellow David Klinghoffer has a recent column in the Jerusalem Post which explains how intelligent design is different from creationism and examines the difficulty many religious believers have with Darwin's theory: When Jews and Christians alike aren't being forced into false dilemmas, we are given alternatives to Darwinian theory that can be imagined as reconciling science and theology only if the whole subject is kept cloudy and confused. Thus the two most recent popes have appeared to speak of the Church's comfort with "evolution" but without defining the term. Does it mean an unguided process or a guided one?...

Re: P.Z. Myers' recent post: I'll be spending my day at this symposium, "Understanding evolution: the legacy of Darwin", most of today. It's about to start, so I'm not going to say much before I focus on the lectures, but it is open to the public, so if you're in the Penn neighborhood, come on down to Claudia Cohen hall, room G17 (which we have since learned is the famous old surgical demonstration auditorium), and listen in. I'll report later on the contents of the talks. Im having trouble finding the program Myers is referring to (why wasnt I invited!?),...

Kenneth Richard SamplesIn part two of this series I attempted to explain why it is just for nonbelievers to suffer eternal judgment for a temporal period of sin.I proposed that since God is an infinitely and eternally holy being, sinning against this God means committing an eternal offense. Temporal sins against an eternal God bear [...]

God’s Instructions to “Subdue” and “Rule” Imply the World Was Harsh Before the Fallby Daniel J. Dyke, M.Div., M.Th., and Hugh Henry, Ph.D. Our last article reviewed uses of the words kabash (“subdue”) and radah (“rule”) in the Old Testament beyond Genesis 1. In all cases, they imply strong control exerted in the face [...]

Even born-again Christians struggle with pain and suffering. But what if you had never placed your personal faith in Jesus Christ?

Many otherwise godly men in the Bible had more than one wife. So, does God condone polygamy?

G. K. Chesterton once said, When people stop believing in God, they dont believe in nothing they believe in anything. That seems to be backed up by two recent stories.

Seventh-Day Adventists believe that Christians should worship only on Saturday. However, it is clear from John's writing in Revelation that Christians worshipped on Sunday, even in the first century.