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May 9, 2004
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Triassic Park: We need help in fixing up our park. We need to put gravel down on the road, cut some trees down, put up fence, and clean up some trash. If a youth group, or individuals would like to help out, please contact us at ibss@comcast.net.
Museum Project: We still need help in raising money for our museum project.
Religion in the News
When Mother's
Day Is Hard
Taking solace in Scripture's difficult and unsentimental image of motherhood.
By Jenell Williams Paris.
'Frontline'
explores Bush's faith, its role in U.S. politics
Now, with a "born-again" Christian in the White House, many people
are focusing on the role of faith in governing a democracy. (Herald-Leader,
Lexington, Kentucky).
America's
Evangelicals
What does it mean to be an evangelical? Is George W. Bush an evangelical?
Here are the views of Wheaton College historian Mark Noll; Richard Cizik
of the National Association of Evangelicals; Steve Waldman, editor-in-chief
of Beliefnet; and Amy Black and Alan Jacobs, professors at Wheaton College.
(Frontline, PBS).
Catholic
candidates' faith on trial
The question of how Catholic politicians should balance their faith's demands
and their public responsibilities has taken on new life this year with the
presidential candidacy of Democrat John Kerry, a Catholic who backs abortion
rights, and a pivotal Senate race in Colorado that includes three Catholic
candidates. (Denver Post).
Catholic
Life Group to Spend $500,000 Denouncing Kerry-friendly Bishops
Plus more articles from online sources around the world. Compiled by Rob
Moll.
Is the
National Day of Prayer Too Political?
Plus: Babies born for stem cell use, faith-based prisons, Frank Schaeffer
on the military, censoring films, and more articles from online sources
around the world. Compiled by Rob Moll.
Blessed
Are the Lukewarm
Religion is okay with the courts, so long as it doesn't mean anything. A
Christianity Today editorial.
Orthodox
Church split with Greece
The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians has suspended relations
with the head of Greece's Orthodox Church -- a move that could lead to severed
ties between the two churches. (Turks.US).
Proposed
SBC resolution calls for abandoning public schools
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) will consider a resolution next month
urging parents to pull their children out of public schools and educate
them either by home schooling or sending them to Christian private schools.
(Raleigh Biblical Recorder, NC).
Buffy's
got the muscle to inspire our spiritual side
Time and again Buffy had to sacrifice her own desires to save humanity and
the planet. And that is what Jesus Christ wants us to do, too, Kuykendall
told the teens. (Salt Lake Tribune).
Hollywood
riled up over ClearPlay $70 DVD player can filter movie content
A new DVD player —slim, black, looking much like all the rest —is
just starting to show up on Wal-Mart's shelves. But this one has Hollywood
spinning in anger. The $70 player from a company called ClearPlay has built-in
''filters'' (USA Today).
Amazing
Sin, How Deep We're Bound
Finding the courage to trust in grace. By Mark R. McMinn.
America's
Christians launch assault on The Da Vinci Code
The staggering success of The Da Vinci Code, the quasi-historical thriller
which claims that Jesus was a mere mortal and Christianity a sexist conspiracy
to exclude women from positions of power, has spread panic among the clergy
who fear that people will literally take what they read as Gospel. (Telegraph,
UK).
Scholarship
or heresy?
They call it the Jesus Seminar on the Road. Others might call it a heresy-fest
or even blasphemy-palooza. Robert Funk, a highly controversial Bible scholar,
and Bishop John Shelby Spong, the even more controversial former Episcopal
leader of New Jersey, came by Grace Episcopal Church yesterday to gently,
and not so gently, tear down the fundamental stories of the Christian faith.
(White Plains Journal News, New York).
Optional
Gospels Pagels: Gnostic Gospel of Thomas is 'compelling'
Elaine Pagels, a religion professor and author of "Beyond Belief,"
rides a crest of interest in "lost," noncanonical gospels (The
Oregonian).
The
21 gospels
Twenty-one and counting. That's how many gospels, or written accounts of
Jesus' life and sayings, that Bible scholars can count so far (The Oregonian).
Prescription
for health: Forgive freely
In late life, people fare best when they shed grudges and hurts of the past,
says U-M researcher (Ann Arbor News, Michigan).
Science in the News
Archaeology/Anthropology
Scientists
to search for Noah's ark on Turkish mountain
Expedition will study 'man-made object' shown by satellite photos (The
Guardian, UK).
Four-Horned
Altar Discovered in Judean Hills
Yoel Elitzur and Doron Nir-Zevi - A stroll on the West Bank leads to a remarkable
find: a Biblical-era stone altar for animal sacrifice.
Oldest
Evidence of Bedding Found. May 5, 2004
An Upper Paleolithic camp, once submerged by the waters of the Sea of Galilee,
has yielded the world's oldest evidence of bedding, according to Israeli
archaeologists.
Colonizing
Cretans.
Europe's oldest civilization, the Minoans of ancient Crete, were also
the continent's first colonialists, according to investigations in Turkey
and elsewhere. While archaeologists have long been aware of Minoan . trading
activity along the Anatolian coast, excavations at Miletus in southwest
Turkey are revealing how 3,700 years ago they expanded to the Asian mainland
to set up at least one permanent colony. The discoveries lend credence to
an ancient Greek myth of a Minoan colony there.
Astronomy
Big
discovery redraws map of the Milky Way. Paris (AFP) May 05, 2004
A 50-year-old map of the Milky Way will have to be redrawn after Australian
astronomers made the astonishing discovery that our spiral galaxy has a
huge, outflung arm, New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue.
First Data
From Deep Underground Experiment Narrow Search for Dark Matter. Batavia
(SPX) May 04, 2004
With the first data from their underground observatory in Northern Minnesota,
scientists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search have peered with greater
sensitivity than ever before into the suspected realm of the WIMPS.
Mars
Rover Arrival At Deeper Crater Provides A Tempting Eyeful
Scientists and engineers celebrated when they saw the first pictures NASA's
Opportunity sent from the rim of a stadium- sized crater that the rover
reached after a six-week trek across martian flatlands. Multiple layers
of exposed bedrock line much of the inner slope of the impact crater informally
called "Endurance."
Cassini's First
Glimpses Of Titan. Boulder (SPX) May 07, 2004
The veils of Saturn's most mysterious moon have begun to lift in Cassini's
eagerly awaited, first glimpse of the surface of Titan, a world where scientists
believe organic matter rains from hazy skies and seas of liquid hydrocarbons
dot a frigid surface.
NASA Genesis
Spacecraft On Final Lap Toward Home Pasadena CA (SPX) May 06, 2004
NASA's Genesis spacecraft flew past Earth on Saturday in a loop that puts
it on track for home and a dramatic mid-air recovery Sept. 8. The
Genesis mission was launched in August of 2001 to capture samples from the
storehouse of 99-percent of all the material in our solar system the
Sun.
Study May Cast
Doubt On Some 1996 Evidence Of Past Life On Mars. Houston TX (SPX) May
06, 2004
The scientific debate over whether a meteorite contains evidence of past
life on Mars continues to intensify, with colleagues of the team that announced
the possibility in 1996 revealing new findings that may cast doubt on some
of that earlier work.
Hubble
Captures Bug Nebula. May 3, 2004
The Hubble Space Telescope image of the "Bug Nebula" reveals never-before-seen
details of one of the brightest known plantary nebulae.
NASA Technology
Enhanced For Use In Private Sector. Moffett Field (SPX) Apr 29, 2004
NASA software created to help scientists search and organize their research
documents is now available to the general public to help organize complex
computer data.
Biology
Newly-described
Route To Cancer Solves A Mystery In Lung Cancer
Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center are
describing an entirely new way by which cells can become cancerous. And
they say their finding provides an answer to a mystery in lung and other
cancers.
Insulin-producing
Pancreatic Cells Are Replenished By Duplication.
Researchers at Harvard University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
(HHMI) have discovered that insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas
that are attacked in type 1 diabetes are replenished through duplication
of existing cells rather than through differentiation of adult stem cells.
Scientists
'See' Effects of Aging in the Brain
For many people, increasing forgetfulness is an unwelcome side effect of
growing old. But just how the human brain reacts to aging, independent of
specific diseases such as Alzheimer's, has proved difficult to discern.
A recent report identifies a specific section of the brain that is most
vulnerable during the twilight years.
Brain
Cells Show Gender Difference. TUESDAY, May 4 (HealthDayNews)
Injured brain cells die differently in females and males, and that means
the two genders may need different treatments for brain injuries, says a
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh study.
Scientists
Uncover How Brain Retrieves And Stores Older Memories
Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids) and UCLA have pinpointed
for the first time a region of the brain responsible for storing and retrieving
distant memories.
Creation/Evolution
Struggles
in science
Arizona educators revisit controversy over evolution (The Arizona
Republic).
The latest news on evolution education in public schools. Consult NCSE's web site: http://www.ncseweb.org.
Life In The Universe
Could Be Just About Everywhere Denver CO (UPI) May 06, 2004
The chemistry that underlies life on Earth is abundant throughout the universe
-- in comets, in the interstellar medium, in the atmospheres of planets,
in the outer solar system bodies and in living organisms, an astrophysicist
told United Press International.
Surprising
'Ultra-conserved' Regions Discovered In Human Genome
Researchers comparing the human genome with the genomes of other species
have discovered a surprising number of matching DNA sequences in a variety
of vertebrate species, including the mouse, rat, dog, and chicken.
Answers in Genesis: AnswersLIVE: Refuting Compromise’ Audio (scroll down to April 27, 2004).
Earth Science
Snakehead
Fish Reveal Ancient Climate Shifts. May 5, 2004
The infamous, crawling, air-breathing, predatory snakehead fishes that are
making headlines by invading U.S. lakes may be indicators of ancient climate
shifts elsewhere in the world.
Zoology
Trade
Secret of Sticky Spiders Revealed
For an arachnophobe, the sight of a spider making its way up a wall sparks
fear. For a materials scientist, however, it can provide inspiration. New
findings unravel just how a spider manages to stick to ceilings in apparent
defiance of gravity. The discovery could point the way to novel adhesives.