Posted on January 27th, 2009 by armineh
Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent
The Guardian, Tuesday 27 January 2009
Article history
Sir David Attenborough has revealed that he receives hate mail from viewers for failing to credit God in his documentaries. In an interview with this week’s Radio Times about his latest documentary, on Charles Darwin and natural selection, the broadcaster said: “They tell me to [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by armineh
The Independent
If all species were designed, it was hardly by someone intelligent
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Charles Darwin would probably love the fact that the 200th anniversary of his birth is being celebrated with radio shows, documentaries and exhibitions, but he might not have enjoyed the way that furious Christians still despise his theories and try to [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by armineh
The Church of England is to apologise to Charles Darwin for its initial rejection of his theories, nearly 150 years after he published his most famous work.
“The statement will read: Charles Darwin: 200 years from your birth, the Church of England owes you an apology for misunderstanding you and, by getting our first reaction [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by armineh
Catholic Bishops Decry Potentially Life-Saving Stem Cell Research. To read more …
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Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Alex
Our President Arthur Jackson claims that most people of the world would answer the title question with their own question, “Why would you want to?” He further asserts that the beliefs underlying their question have trapped us in a blind alley where we see impossible problems in every direction we look rather than magnificent possibilities. [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2008 by armineh
An historic Darwin Day resolution passed unanimously in the New York State Assembly on Monday, Feb. 11.
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Posted on February 6th, 2008 by Alex
Half of all Americans, including three of the Republican candidates for President, reject the theory of evolution, believing instead in Creationism or its thinly disguised clone, Intelligent Design. The theory of evolution has been under attack since On the Origin of Species was published in 1859 because it changed the world and our place in [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by armineh
A celebration of Darwin’s birth has been held since 1980. Darwin gave humanity the concept of natural selection, which led to the theory of evolution. Lincoln gave humanity the Emancipation Proclamation which led to the theory of slavery as an abomination.
Western civilization now accepts that slavery is evil.
Some persons aren’t convinced about evolution, however.
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Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by armineh
ScienceDaily (Jan. 20, 2008) — New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.
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Posted on January 11th, 2008 by armineh
An intellectual war of words has broken out between two of the world’s leading evolutionists. Oxford University’s Richard Dawkins and Harvard’s Edward Wilson have gone head to head over the evolution of altruism in the animal kingdom, and whether it can have come about as a result of something called group selection.
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