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Believing Scripture but Playing by Science’s Rules
There is nothing much unusual about the 197-page dissertation Marcus R. Ross submitted in December to complete his doctoral degree in geosciences here at the University of Rhode Island. His subject was the abundance and spread of mosasaurs, marine reptiles that, as he wrote, vanished at the end of the Cretaceous era about 65 million years ago. But Dr. Ross is hardly a conventional paleontologist. He is a “young earth creationist” — he believes that the Bible is a literally true account of the creation of the universe, and that the earth is at most 10,000 years old.
Feb 12, 2007
Topic: Science, Creation/Evolution
RADIO - Global Warming
Dr. Barrett Duke Guests hosts Richard Land Live! on Saturday January 6, 2007
Updated Jan 24, 2007 to point to the FFF version of the broadcast.
Jan 6, 2007
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Life, Cloning, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Human Rights, Legislation, War, Science, Bioethics, Environment
Misleading measure may launch U.S. cloning
A new video available on YouTube marks a late attempt by pro-life forces to avert serious defeat in Missouri Nov. 7, with national implications. Cathy Ruse, speaking for Missourians Against Human Cloning, declares: “Amendment 2 is a fraud. It is an attempt to trick Missourians into approving — in their Constitution — human cloning, the right of biotech firms to do human cloning in Missouri — something Missourians oppose by an overwhelming majority.”
Oct 20, 2006
Gore Calls for Immediate Freeze on Heat-Trapping Gas Emissions
Former Vice President Al Gore called yesterday for a popular movement in the United States to seek an “immediate freeze” in heat-trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases linked by most scientists to global warming.
Sep 19, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, Science, Environment
In Gamble, Calif. Tries to Curb Greenhouse Gases
In the Rocky Mountain States and the fast-growing desert Southwest, more than 20 power plants, designed to burn coal that is plentiful and cheap, are on the drawing boards. Much of the power, their owners expected, would be destined for the people of California.But such plants would also be among the country’s most potent producers of carbon dioxide, the king of gases linked to global warming. So California has just delivered a new message to these energy suppliers: If you cannot produce power with the lowest possible emissions of these greenhouse gases, we are not interested.
Sep 15, 2006
Topic: Science, Environment
‘Embryo-Safe’ Experiment Just Another Fraud
None of the 16 embryos involved in the study by medical director Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) survived. All were harmed; none were viable; none were spared.
Sep 7, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Science
New Questions Emerge Over Stem-Cell Research Claims
Controversy continues to build over a claim that biotechnology researchers produced stem cells without harming embryos, as outside scientists question whether a fundamental element of the reported experiment undercuts the central contention of the research.
Sep 5, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Science
Embryos preserved in stem-cell creation
Scientists yesterday reported that they have devised a way to create human embryonic stem cells that does not harm embryos. Cell extraction was criticized on moral grounds by Richard M. Doerflinger, deputy director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. “It is widely believed that one cell of a very early embryo may separate and become a new embryo, an identical twin,” he said yesterday.
Aug 24, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Social Issues, Science, Issues
In New Method for Stem Cells, Viable Embryos
Biologists have developed a technique for establishing colonies of human embryonic stem cells from an early human embryo without destroying it. This method, if confirmed in other laboratories, would seem to remove the principal objection to the research.
Aug 24, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Social Issues, Science, Issues
Stem Cells: The Hope and the Hype
The stem cell debate is so politically loaded that it’s tough to tell who’s being straight about the real areas of progress and how breakthroughs can be achieved. TIME sorts it out
By NANCY GIBBS
Time Magazine, July 30, 2006
Aug 18, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Legislation, Issues