Intelligent Reasoning0

• May/June 2006
• May 1, 2006

When a federal court ruled unconstitutional the Dover, Pennsylvania, school board policy promoting "intelligent design" in the science classroom, it also noted the limits of its decision. The court explicitly refrained from taking a position on the validity of the religious belief that a supernatural force played a role in creation. It also made plain

The Idea of Freedom0

• May/June 2006
• May 1, 2006

Protect Religious Rhetoric?0

• May/June 2006
• May 1, 2006

Deeply held religious faith permeates every sphere of life. Spiritual people cannot segregate their religious belief from their mundane, daily life. A robust understanding of religious liberty would not require that they try to do so. As has been discovered by a teacher in British Columbia, when one's religious beliefs contradict secular values, full participation

Freedom of Speech in Democracies0

• May/June 2006
• May 1, 2006

Since the republican form of government presupposes freedom of speech as axiomatic, does it really need a defense? Logically speaking, it would not. Yet, throughout our country, pub

Then God…0

• May/June 2006
• May 1, 2006

Children seem to have an innate fascination with dinosaurs. I know this from my days as a book editor. Children's books on, about or illustrated with pictures of dinosaurs are instant sales stars. I know the appeal of dinosaurs firsthand now by way of my eight-year-old son. Christopher will spend hours at a clip delving

Creation as Prologue0

• May/June 2006
• May 1, 2006

Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species (1859) shattered faith in Creation, God, and other fundamental Bible truths for many readers. Since that time Christian scholars have struggled to establish Creation on scientific grounds: first, through scientific creationism and recently through intelligent design. But in so doing they have unwittingly detached the Creation story from the