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• This Tree of Life Is Real
  By Creation-Evolution Headlines
  Imagine a tree that can provide both nutritious food and clean water. Moringa oleifera is such a tree. It grows in Africa and Asia and is being looked at as a life-giving plant that can reduce bacterial contamination of water by 90 to 99.99% by filtering water with its seeds. Science Daily has a picture of the tree’s leaves. “A billion people across Asia, Africa, and Latin America are estimated to rely on untreated surface water sources for their daily water needs,” the article said...
• Supreme Court wades into funeral protests
  By PewForum.org | All News Feeds
  The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the father of a fallen Marine can collect damages from a religious sect that picketed his son's funeral with vulgar placards celebrating the death of American soldiers.
• Individualism and the Death of Liberty
  By Crosswalk.com - Home
  Individuals need to be protected. And if that protection does not come from the loving community of family and Church, the government steps in with all sorts of strings attached.
• Record of Reality: Archaeological Discovery and Scripture
  By Crosswalk.com - News
  Once again, archaeology confirms the accuracy of biblical history. That’s good news, but should it affect how we believers view Scripture?
• What Good Is Natural Selection without Progress?
  By Creation-Evolution Headlines
  Two papers recently claim to have seen natural selection. Neither paper, however, identified a functional advantage that would have tied the differences to benefits that could improve a species.
• Unholy Trinity: Outraged at TBN's Brazen False Teaching
  By Crosswalk.com - Home
  All those who truly love Christ and care about the truth have a solemn duty to defend the truth by exposing and opposing lies that masquerade as truth.
• Huckabee Urges Christians to Engage in 'Rotting' Realms of Culture
  By The Christian Post RSS Feed | homepage
  There are many believers who would view the decision of a pastor to enter into politics as a move away from that which is Christian to that which is secular. And while such a view may be correct, former pastor and governor Mike Huckabee makes it clear that it’s not just “evil” people who go into “evil” places.
• The Progressive Diminishment of Man – New English Review
  By Thinking Christian
  Rebecca Bynum has some marvelous insights on scientism’s impulse to abolish humanity from among humanity: One might recall the great glee with which Jane Goodall’s discovery of the tool-making and using of chimpanzees was greeted (wild chimps were observed stripping the leaves from twigs in order to use them to fish for termites). This was due not to the fact that it raised chimpanzees in our estimation, but rather because it lowered man. Louis Leakey exclaimed, “Now we must redefine tool...
• Bad Attitude: The Newest 'Disorder'
  By Crosswalk.com - News
  In the past several decades we've come up with sympathetic psychological explanations for everything from shoplifting to adultery to murder. Apparently, however, this wasn't enough for the APA.
• Gay Marriage v. Religious Freedom: A Cautionary Tale
  By Crosswalk.com - News
  Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C., has announced changes to its employees' health care benefits. Normally, this wouldn't be big news, but...
• Fish are friends, not food. So says their lawyer.
  By WORLDmag.com | Community
  Will Switzerland vote to provide public defenders to fish? If this story didn’t come from the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal, you would be justified in thinking it was a lark. On Sunday, the Swiss will vote on a referendum that would compel all of Switzerland’s cantons to hire animal lawyers. The rationale: If [...]
• Commentary: Combating the Coarsening of Culture
  By The Christian Post RSS Feed | homepage
  Can something as simple as good manners help to stem the coarsening of our culture? Yes!
• Bibles are “smut”
  By WORLDmag.com | Community
  For three days this week, a student group at the University of Texas at San Antonio has been offering fellow students free pornography in exchange for their Bibles (or any other “holy books”). The organization, named “The Atheist Agenda,” calls its campaign “Smut for Smut.” Members sit at a table in the lobby of the humanities [...]
• Salvo Number 12: Gestapo Sex
  By Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments
  A bit about Salvos new issue, Number 12:Did you know that much of American law directed at sexual crimes (including decriminalizing them) is based on junk science? Further, some of the data used for that science was collected by a pedophile member of Hitlers Gestapo, who was sentenced in Germany in 1957 for sex crimes against children in occupied Poland during the War? His disgusting research via his sexual abuse of children was encouraged by an American professor by the name of Alfred Kinsey, w...
• MacArthur Tells Christians: Don't Fornicate with the World
  By The Christian Post RSS Feed | homepage
  "The church, if it is to be anything, it is to be absolutely distinct from the culture, absolutely distinct from the world, absolutely distinct from unbelievers," said prominent author and evangelical pastor John MacArthur.
• Hologram Preachers Slated to Appear in Churches
  By The Christian Post RSS Feed | homepage
  Holographic preachers are stirring another technology-gone-too-far debate among Christians. While the dust over beaming preachers on a video screen on multi-site campuses has somewhat settled, the new 3D tool is raising more questions and concerns among some believers.
• Yes, Let's Talk About Sex
  By Signs of the Times
  From the description on the youtube page about Kinsey (2004): Lets talk about sex. The life story of Alfred Kinsey, a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and a journey into the mystery of human behavior. Of course, this is just the popular myth about the man and his research. Full knowledge of the events will show that the reality is far from simply being about opening people up to talk about sex. We have two articles in this issue of Salvo in which this is made...
• Losing our independence
  By WORLDmag.com | Community
  As more Americans, especially the unemployed, come to rely on government to take care of them, we risk losing our independence. The Washington Times reports American reliance on government is at an all-time high. This is not our Founders’ America. We seem to have declined from a “can-do” spirit, to “can’t do”—at least without government—and soon, [...]
• Commentary: Orchestrated Anti-Semitism
  By The Christian Post RSS Feed | homepage
  Are the free exchange of ideas, respect for others,and common decency alive on college campuses these days? Sadly, that depends on who’s doing the talking?
• Mad About Babies
  By Signs of the Times
  What’s Sex Got to Do with It? by Jennifer Fulwiler Of all the things I remember about the Texas March for Life in Austin, Texas, last January [2009], the memory that stands out the most is the look on the faces of the counter-protesters who followed us along Congress Avenue and down to the capitol that frosty morning. When I glanced over to see the source of the epithets that were being screamed at us, I met the eyes of one young woman wearing a black bandana over the bottom half of her fa...
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