Creationists Handing Out "Darwin Bibles" to Teachers..

The Christian news service OnewNewsNow.com reported this week that "Several ministries are teaming up to get the Word of God into the hands of public school teachers. One-thousand copies of 'The Charles Darwin Bible' will be given out to teachers at the annual National Education Association convention in San Diego next week. The Bible is published by Holman Bible Outreach International and features commentary by evangelist Ray Comfort. Later this summer Comfort, who is founder of Living Waters ministries, plans to release Darwin's On the Origin of the Species, with special notes aimed at intellectuals and atheists. 'We're publishing Origin of the Species with a special 22-page introduction that, very gently, brings in our perspective and the history of Charles Darwin and where evolution comes from and how DNA shows indisputably that there is an intelligent designer and how Darwin inspired Hitler. We have quotes from Hitler that are just unbelievable, all going in this introduction,' the evangelist explains. 'We want to get a million copies printed. We want to give them away and have a 300-page book available at 99 cents per book. We want Christians to give them away at universities, and let's see if universities ban Origin of the Species. That would be a very interesting thing to happen.' Answers in Genesis donated the Bibles to the NEA Creation Science Educators Caucus to give the Bibles out at the upcoming meeting. ..."

Source: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=579470

Scientists Study at Creation Museum...

Bit, the scientists weren't studying creationism - they were studying creationists! The AP reports on June 25th "In a dimly lit corner of the Creation Museum stands a life-size replica of a wrecking ball labeled 'Millions of Years' demolishing the facade of a brick church. For the more than six dozen paleontologists who visited the museum Wednesday, the ball might as well have read 'Science.' In one of the largest gatherings of critics since the northern Kentucky museum opened two years ago, the scientists in the area for a conference took a field trip to get a glimpse of the marketing tactics used by the other side of the evolution debate. Paleontologists spend their careers studying evolution, and here they were visiting a place where nearly every room is dedicated to disproving it. 'The real purpose of the museum visit is to give some of my colleagues an opportunity to sense how they're being portrayed,' said Arnold Miller, a professor of paleontology at the University of Cincinnati, which is hosting the conference. 'They're being demonized, I feel, in this museum as people who are responsible for all the ills of society.' Miller and other paleontologists object to numerous other aspects of the museum they say imply science is doing more harm than good. For example, multiple rooms are devoted to the great flood, which a strict biblical interpretation might explain was a rebuke for questioning God. The implication, some of the paleontologists say, is that their studies concluding Earth is millions of years old — not thousands as creationists claim — must pose a similar threat to mankind. Scientists also disagree with the depiction of Noah's ark itself. Inside a miniature ark is a compartment holding two small dinosaurs, living alongside the monkeys, cows and other animals. 'It's like a theme park, but the problem is it masquerades as truth,' said Derek Briggs, a Yale University paleontologist. ..."

Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jHAzyd5ZckwZkHs_dNTDSeFhNtKgD991AU9G0

Primitive Primates Probed...

LiveScience/USNews reports on June 23rd that "Using a 54 million-year-old skull, researchers have constructed the first-ever virtual model of a primitive primate brain. 'This is our first glimpse of what an ancestral primate would have looked like in terms of its brain," said Jonathan Bloch, a vertebrate paleontologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History who was part of the modeling team. "And that tells us quite a bit about its behavior and the evolution of things like certain aspects of intelligence.' ..."

Source: http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/plants-animals/2009/06/23/primitive-primates-brain-built.html

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