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  • Evolution and Intelligent Design0

    According to InterVarsity Press, "The intelligent design theory has become the center of a growing controversy among state boards of education around the country as school board members and parents ask their local school boards to allow intelligent design to be taught in their science classrooms." Intelligent design is a truth-claim about the origin of

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  • Coming up for Air0

    In so many ways we seem at the flood stage of late. The December 2004 Tsunami gave reality to a global fear of an insatiable ocean intent on creating another Atlantis. Hurricane Katrina became the most recognizable of an alphabet-busting succession of storms battering the Americas. Vast stretches of prime ocean property now lie either

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  • Card Sharks And Marks0

    84033561 United States Constitution Fantasy Fight: O'Reilly v. Tyson. If your favorite political color is blue, fantasize flipping Bill O'Reilly into a boxing ring with Mike Tyson. If your political preference runs to red, drop Dan Rather into the ring with Mike. Whatever your political orientation, you can be pretty sure Mike is going to

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  • By What Authority?0

    There is a great principle at the heart of the movement to strike the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance—and from our national customs, our currency, and our public ceremonies. It has very little to do with atheism. It has a great deal to do with authoritarianism. The philosophy behind America's founding is

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  • Buy the Right Kind of Democracy0

    There are more kinds of democracy than kinds of compact cars." The weary citizen, belabored by political oratory and bewildered by news analysts, retreats in confusion to the comparative sim_plicity of automobile ads, time payments, and keeping up with the Joneses. Democracy, like cars, comes with all kinds of sur_face trappings. It comes in Cuba

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  • WWJD?0

    I know that many Christians were startled recently to hear televangelist Pat Robertson call for the elimination/assassination of President Chavez of Venezuela. Astute political observers know that such an idea is not exactly off the table: indeed; it was a failed U.S.-backed coup against Chavez that fed his paranoia. But official U.S. policy forbids such

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