Month: April 2005

Keep open mind on intelligent design

Keep open mind on intelligent design Friday, April 22, 2005 ALVIN GROVE It appears that many people opposing the mention of intelligent design in our schools are biased and are unaware of the fact that more than 300 scientists from Yale, Princeton, MIT and Smithsonian signed a public statement declaring that they were “skeptical of

Targeting Kids with Sex, Drugs and Alcohol

MTV Smut Peddlers: Targeting Kids with Sex, Drugs and Alcohol A Report on MTV Programming March 20, 2004-March 27, 2004 By Casey Williams Executive Summary It has been a year since Janet Jackson deliberately exposed her breast to a world-wide audience that included millions of unsuspecting children during the MTV-produced 2004 Super Bowl halftime show,

MTV Peddling Smut to Kids, Study Says

By AFA Journal April 22, 2005 (AgapePress) – A recent report issued by the Parents Television Council (PTC) quantifies what many parents probably suspected intuitively: that MTV, the popular music and entertainment cable network, carries a lot of sexualized programming. Titled “MTV Smut Peddlers: Targeting Kids with Sex, Drugs and Alcohol,” the PTC report says

Scholar Finds Many Vietnam War Myths Being Taught on U.S. Campuses

Scholar Finds Many Vietnam War Myths Being Taught on U.S. Campuses By Jim Brown April 22, 2005 (AgapePress) – An Air Force intelligence officer who served in Vietnam is attempting to debunk myths about the Vietnam War that he says are prevalent and still being taught in many of America’s colleges and universities. Dr. Earl

Montana T-Rex Bone Supports Biblical Story, Not Darwin’s

Creationist: Montana T-Rex Bone Supports Biblical Story, Not Darwin’s By Allie Martin April 22, 2005 (AgapePress) – The president of the creationist Christian apologetics ministry called Answers in Genesis (AiG) says evolutionists are trying to spin the latest archeological discovery to line up with their erroneous theories of the Earth’s history. Recently, scientists in Montana

Knocking Holes in the Theory of Evolution

Most people today have learned about the “theory of evolution” at some point during their grade school years, and assume this theory is fact. Though most people do not know the details behind this theory, who proposed it, and what evidence the theory has been based on. If anyone stops to take a look at

Inside the Mind of a Creationist

In the last year, Silicon Valley has been a center of a showdown over religious beliefs in public schools. Meet the other side. By Najeeb Hasan LYNN HOFLAND often talks faster than he thinks. For Hofland, it seems the circumstances demand it. A creationist, he happily espouses a point of view that mainstream culture considers

Confiscation of Science Books

ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 21 /U.S. Newswire/ — A simmering yearlong dispute over the Gull Lake Community School District superintendent’s order that seventh grade science teachers teach Darwin’s theory of evolution and his confiscation of thirty copies of the book Of Pandas and People, which the teachers had been using for the past two years

Schools Still Violating Students’ Religious Freedom

Plano Schools Still Violating Students’ Religious Freedom By Jim Brown April 20, 2005 (AgapePress) – A Christian attorney says even though it recently modified its policy on the distribution of non-school literature, the Plano (Texas) Independent School District is still trampling the free-speech rights of students. Last December, Liberty Legal Institute (LLI) filed a lawsuit

DePauw Religious Discrimination Case

No More Options for Educator in DePauw Religious Discrimination Case By Jim Brown April 20, 2005 (AgapePress) – A Christian educator has run out of legal options in her religious discrimination case against United Methodist-affiliated DePauw University. Earlier this month, the Indiana Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal filed by Janis Price, education program