An organization dedicated to persecuted Christians worldwide expects life for believers in Iraq will only get worse as American troops are redeployed back to the States.

A small evangelical Christian group in Florida on Saturday plans to burn Korans as a protest against violent Islamic extremists on September 11, the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks against the United States.

The Middle East Media Research Institute has released excerpts from a transcript of a televised sermon by Egyptian cleric Salem Abu Al-Futuh. Airing on Al-Nas TV on August 18, Al-Futuh's predicted that Islam would conquer the entire West, starting with Italy and ending with the Americas.

The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says an American church's plan to burn Korans on September 11 could endanger U.S. troops and damage the overall war effort in that country.

Cuba has released and dropped all charges of "threatening behavior" against a well-known church after his accusers gave contradictory evidence against him, a Christian human rights organization said Monday, September 7.

Members of a home-based church in the city of Ahvaz are worried about one of their own who has not been heard from since his arrest, Worthy News has learned.

Daughters of Cambodia, a Christian outreach and rehabilitation program started by British missionary Ruth Elliott, is working to free girls sold into the sex slave industry, Worthy News has learned.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas have agreed to meet every two weeks to continue U.S. backed direct negotiations for the creation of a Palestinian state within a year despite serious differences that remain between the two sides.

A prayer center complex, known as "Prayer Mountain", was destroyed in China after several elderly Christians were forcibly removed, and then watched helplessly as their building was demolished according to ChinaAid, Worthy News has learned.

A respected church leader in Cuba was unexpectedly arrested on Monday on trumped up charges of "offensive behavior" and "threats" according to a Christian human rights organization.

Recently, the media has been discussing the micro-evolution of a new antibiotic resistant strain of bacteria, dubbed the "NDM-1 superbug." This seems to be a very sad case of one of those things that evolution is pretty good at doing -- making small, incremental improvements upon an enzyme through a step-by step process. That, plus the tendency of bacteria to collect multiple antibiotic resistances, makes this gene a real problem. However, it by no means provides evidence for the ability of evolutionary processes to produce new functions within a cell. The problem is that antibiotics are frequently used -- and...

Assurances that we have nothing to fear from Darwinism are a familiar species of evolutionary apologetics. We're told that Darwinian thinking doesn't threaten morality, religion, or belief in life's having an ultimate meaning. On the contrary, it enhances all things good and fair. Karl Giberson's recent column in the Huffington Post, "How Darwin Sustains My Baptist Search for Truth," deserves to be pinned under glass and put up on a wall as a near-perfect specimen of the genre. Anyone who's honest with himself knows this is all propaganda and wishful thinking, but it refreshes us nevertheless to hear Darwinists themselves...

Late last year, the eminent Christian philosopher and proponent of intelligent design, William Lane Craig, crossed swords in debate with the avid apologist for Darwinian evolution, Francisco Ayala, of the Biologos Foundation. The debate was chaired by philosopher of physics Bradley Monton of the University of Colorado, an ID sympathizer, though a convinced atheist himself. Monton is the author of the book, Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. A fascinating ID the Future interview with Professor Monton can be downloaded here. Following Dr. Ayala's opening statement, Dr. Craig commenced his presentation by carefully setting out the definition...

Here come more threats to academic freedom, not unlike those seen by intelligent design proponents and Darwin skeptics. Over the years we've covered many, many cases like this where someone who expresses doubt about Darwinian evolution is harassed, fired, denied tenure, and so on. "The significance of this is a threat to academic freedom and it's also a threat to academic science," Siegel said. "If scientists have to produce work that meets a certain view to keep their jobs, researchers are going to stop publishing negative findings for fear of being fired."No, they will simply stop researching period in the...

Normal 0 0 1 134 766 6 1 940 11.1287 0 0 0 There is little doubt that hostage-taker James Lee's virulent Social Darwinism was the product of a tragically disturbed man. But can an entire culture fall for the pernicious ideology of Social Darwinism, especially its scientific and political elites? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is an unequivocal yes, as I have documented in my book Darwin Day in America, and as the new documentary "What Hath Darwin Wrought?" persuasively shows. Perhaps the most jarring fact about the troubling views of James Lee is that similar views...

by Jeff Zweerink Twinkle, twinkle little star, My, oh my, how large you are. How’d you get to be so big? When gas pressure and magnetic fields should have prevented you from forming?Okay, so my poem doesn’t rhyme, but it does communicate two important issues regarding stars. First, astronomers [...]

Kenneth Richard SamplesHow can a Christian think about eschatology (the study of “last things”) in a careful and intellectually responsible manner?Let me offer three suggestions for believers to carefully consider when approaching the controversial theological topic of the “end times.”1. Understanding the Bible’s Apocalyptic LiteratureEvangelical theologian and eschatology specialist George Eldon Ladd notes the following: [...]

The fossil record is hardly the record of life in the geologic past that so many scientists incorrectly espouse, assuming a long prehistory for the earth and life on it.

Understanding the geology of Israel would provide background to biblical events, and potential insights as to where and how they happened.

Sept 03, 2010 Political conservatives have often been stunned by lone judges overturning the will of the people. This time, liberals in support of embryonic stem cell research are reeling from the decision of a federal judge that halts funding of such research that was recently energized by the President. Federal Judge Royce Lamberths August 23 ruling was based on the Dickey-Wicker Amendment of 1996 that prohibits funding for research that destroys human embryos. Suddenly, researchers happily using NIH funds (National Institutes of Health) generously made available by the Obama administration (12/17/2008, 01/31/2009, 04/07/2009) are facing the cancellation of their work in mid-stream. Natures editors were up in arms. Not expecting appellate courts to overturn Lamberths injunction, they called for subscribers to pressure Congress to act swiftly: Congress is unlikely to have a huge appetite for a bruising, highly polarizing debate in the weeks immediately preceding Novembers midterm elections. Yet time is of the essence, and a great deal is at stake. The House may revert to Republican control in November, in which case action to affirm the funding would be highly unlikely.... Congress should take up the issue speedily when it reconvenes mid-month. And if ever there was a time for scientists to let members of Congress and the public know what they think, it is now. The urgency seems strange, since most of the momentum is with ethically-untainted adult stem cell research (08/06/2010; see also list below). Furthermore, embryonic stem cell (ESC) researchers are free to seek private or corporate funding. Notwithstanding, reporters are acting as if a calamity has occurred. Nature News told a tear-jerker about Candace Kerr, whose ESC research has been thrown into limbo by the judges ruling. Similarly, PhysOrg printed a Stanford press release describing the woes of Joanna Wysocka, whose research has also been thrown into an uncertain limbo because of it. (Presumably, some limbos are certain, and others are not.) Science Magazines editors said that U.S. research on ES cells has been thrown into a tailspin by the controversial ruling that has left scientists across the country confused, upset, and angry. Even NIH director Francis Collins, an avowed Christian and theistic evolutionist, was upset. He said, This decision has just poured sand into that engine of discovery. PhysOrg reported that the Obama administration reacted quickly to appeal the decision, arguing that the scientific community and the taxpayers who have already spent hundreds of millions of dollars on such research through public funding of projects which will now be forced to shut down and, in many cases, scrapped altogether. A White House spokesman said breathlessly, Were going to do everything possible to prevent the potentially catastrophic consequences of this injunction. In a similar refrain, New Scientist explored the options available to Congress to overturn this shock court ruling that has frozen US government support for work on human embryonic stem cells.Meanwhile, adult stem cell research is humming along as if nothing happened. Here are ten examples of recent findings reported in the last week or two:[10 recent reports provided]Examples of adult stem cell progress toward real benefits to people could be multiplied, but claims of positive results with embryonic stem cells often appear muted, tentative, and rare in the press. PhysOrg reported that researchers at Columbia University have coaxed ES cells into some neuron cell subtypes, but any benefit to humans was put into a nebulous future: the insight may prove useful for devising and testing future therapies for motor neuron diseases. PhysOrg also reported that Natural lung material is promising scaffold for engineering lung tissue using embryonic stem cells, but no clinical trials appear in the offing.

Are the biblical genealogies in Genesis complete as Archbishop Ussher assumed? Examining all the biblical genealogies shows that ancient genealogies are generally telescoped rather than complete.