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Catholic Bishops Decry Potentially Life-Saving Stem Cell Research. To read more …

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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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An historic Darwin Day resolution passed unanimously in the New York State Assembly on Monday, Feb. 11.
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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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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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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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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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The National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine have released Science, Evolution, and Creationism, a book designed to give the public a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the current scientific understanding of evolution and its importance in the science classroom. NAS and IOM strongly maintain that only scientifically based explanations for life should be […]

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The Independent
By Peter Popham in Rome
Published: 04 January 2008
cience is to make way for diplomacy at the Pope’s summer residence, with the dismantling of the astronomical observatory that has been part of Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, for more than 75 years. The Pope needs more room to receive diplomats so the telescopes have to […]

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By Richard Murphy and Alan Trounson
Article Launched: 01/03/2008 01:46:31 AM PST
Across the United States, they are called the lost generation of young scientists. They are the young Ph.D.s and M.D.s who, despite their brilliance and commitment, are unable to establish or adequately support their nascent medical research laboratories because of the federal government’s denial of […]

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