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Baptist Press - Land: ‘Expelled’ a must-see movie
Apr 18, 2008
Topic: Science, Creation/Evolution
Global Warming Skeptics Insist Humans Not at Fault - Wash. Post
Mar 4, 2008
Topic: Citizenship, Human Rights, Science, Environment
UK: Eco-friendly? Get sterilized…
UK Daily Mail
Meet the women who won’t have babies – because they’re not eco friendly
By NATASHA COURTENAY-SMITH and MORAG TURNER
Last updated at 22:05pm on 21st November 2007
Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers – and a voice calling her Mummy.
But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.
Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.
Nov 27, 2007
Topic: Life, Abortion, Birth Control, Science, Environment
NOW PLAYING: Bella
Bella
Oct 27, 2007
Topic: Family, Parenting, Adoption, Pop Culture, Life, Abortion, Science, Bioethics
Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science
New York Times
Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: June 5, 2007
For Rachel Carson admirers, it has not been a silent spring. They’ve been celebrating the centennial of her birthday with paeans to her saintliness. A new generation is reading her book in school — and mostly learning the wrong lesson from it.
Jul 7, 2007
Topic: Science, Environment
Freedom, not climate, is at risk
Financial Times
Freedom, not climate, is at risk
By Vaclav Klaus
Published: June 13 2007 17:44 | Last updated: June 13 2007 17:44
We are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough – irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6 per cent – for the environmentalists and their followers to suggest radical measures to do something about the weather, and to do it right now.
Jul 7, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, Human Rights, Science, Environment
Gene Shopping? - Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News
David Brooks: America’s new pastime: gene shopping
About 40 percent say they’d use genetic engineering to upgrade their offspring
08:26 AM CDT on Saturday, June 16, 2007
At this very moment thousands of people are surfing the Web looking for genetic material so their children will be nothing like me. They are looking through files at sperm bank sites with Jetson-like names such as Xytex, which have become the new eBays for offspring.
Jun 18, 2007
Topic: Family, Children, Parenting, Life, Science, Bioethics
Study: Religion is Good for Kids
Live Science
By Melinda Wenner
Special to LiveScience
posted: 24 April 2007
09:39 am ET
Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development.
The conflict that arises when parents regularly argue over their faith at home, however, has the opposite effect.
Apr 26, 2007
Topic: Faith, Apologetics, Family, Children, Parenting, Science
USAToday: Court takes harder stance on abortion
Analysis by Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s abortion ruling Wednesday revealed the new court’s approach to one of the most difficult social issues and was a reminder of its rightward turn since the addition of Bush appointee Samuel Alito.
The 5-4 decision, reinstating a ban on the procedure opponents call “partial-birth abortion,” departed from past rulings by giving legislatures more latitude to restrict abortion, particularly when there is debate among physicians over the safety of a procedure. The decision will make it harder for abortion rights advocates to challenge new restrictions on abortion.
Apr 25, 2007
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Legislation, National, Science, Bioethics
WSJ - Environmentalist Perpetuates Malaria
Suffering in Silence
Rachel Carson’s ideas are still popular, with deadly effect.
BY KATHERINE MANGU-WARD
Friday, April 20, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
When the Christian Science Monitor recently declared Al Gore “the Rachel Carson of global warming,” the former vice president must have bubbled over with pride. There is, it seems, no higher compliment one can bestow on an environmentalist.
Next month marks what would have been Carson’s 100th birthday, and festivities abound. The author of “Silent Spring”—the 1962 book that birthed modern environmentalism and made “DDT” a dirty word—Carson is the subject of an exhibit at the National Archives and the star of its Environmental Film Festival this year.
Apr 25, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, National, Science, Environment