Science & Theology News - The Daily Dose: British leaders continue to speak out against creationism

Science & Theology News - The Daily Dose: British leaders continue to speak out against creationism: "Yesterday in The Daily Dose we reported that the Rt. Rev. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and the leader of Anglican believers worldwide, spoke out against creationism. Now others have joined the chorus.

An item from The Scotsman shows that other high-ranking Anglican officials are weighing in on the controversy:

The leader of the Scottish Episcopal Church said yesterday that creationism should not be taught in schools and that a 'false battleground' was pitting science against faith."

AP Wire | 03/20/2006 | House OKs Bible study in public high schools

AP Wire | 03/20/2006 | House OKs Bible study in public high schools: "A bill that allows public high schools to offer classes on the Bible sped through the House Monday, passing overwhelmingly with no debate."

Maureen Farrell: Apocalyptic Times

Maureen Farrell: Apocalyptic Times: "A few years ago, a Time/CNN poll found that that more than a third of Americans search the news for signs of the Apocalypse. Since Sept. 11, they've not had to look very hard. In the immediate aftermath of World Trade Center attacks, for example, the Associated Press reported on Satan's visage in the smoke clouds, an incident Peggy Noonan wrote about in the Wall Street Journal. 'If you are of a certain cast of mind, it is of course meaningful that the face of the Evil One seemed to emerge with a roar from the furnace that was Tower One,' she wrote, before reminding readers that a cross emerged unharmed amid the falling concrete and wreckage."

Faith-based funds boom as investors find religion - Mar. 23, 2006

Faith-based funds boom as investors find religion - Mar. 23, 2006: "NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Are investors losing their religion? No way. Just take a look at the number of dollars flowing into faith-based mutual funds.

According to fund research firm Morningstar, the value of assets held by faith-based funds has jumped nearly seven-fold since 2000 to $15.9 billion this year."

Y! News

Y! News: "Three Christian Activists Rescued in Iraq (AP)
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and British troops Thursday freed three Christian peace activists in rural Iraq without firing a shot, ending a four-month hostage drama in which an American among the group was shot to death and dumped on a Baghdad street."

CNN.com - Family beheaded over 'witchcraft' - Mar 19, 2006

CNN.com - Family beheaded over 'witchcraft' - Mar 19, 2006: "GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) -- A tea plantation worker and his four children were beheaded in India's remote northeast by a mob which accused them of practising black magic, police said on Sunday.

Sixty-year-old Amir Munda, who was also a traditional healer, his two sons and two daughters were killed by angry villagers after a kangaroo court held them guilty of spreading a mysterious disease which killed two people and left many others ill over the last two weeks."

CNN.com - The big bang's 'smoking gun' - Mar 16, 2006

CNN.com - The big bang's 'smoking gun' - Mar 16, 2006: "(AP) -- By the faint cosmic glow of the oldest known light, physicists say they have found evidence that the universe grew to astounding proportions in less than the blink of an eye.

In that trillionth of a second after the big bang, the universe expanded from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of observable space through a process known as inflation. At the same time, the seeds were planted for the formation of stars, galaxies, planets and every other object in the universe."

World | Reuters.co.in

World | Reuters.co.in: "By Deborah Zabarenko

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human-fueled global warming has reached a 'tipping point,' according to a new survey of scientific research that found warming would continue even if greenhouse gas emissions halted immediately.

'It would keep on warming even though we have stopped the cause, which is greenhouse gases from the combustion of fossil fuels,' David Jhirad of the Washington-based World Resources Institute said on Wednesday.

The rate of warming would be slower, Jhirad said in a telephone interview, but a kind of thermal inertia would ensure that global temperatures continue their upward trend.

He referred to a report released by the nonprofit institute this week that analyzed research reports on climate change for 2005.

'Taken collectively, they suggest that the world may well have moved past a key physical tipping point,'"

Norman Solomon | Digital Hype: A Dazzling Smokescreen?

Norman Solomon | Digital Hype: A Dazzling Smokescreen?: " As each new season brings more waves of higher-tech digital products, I often think of Mark Twain. Along with being a brilliant writer, he was also an ill-fated investor - fascinated with the latest technical innovations, including the strides toward functional typewriters and typesetting equipment as the 19th century neared its close.

Twain would have marveled at the standard PC that we take for granted now. But what would he have made of the intrusiveness of present-day media technology - let alone its recurring content?"