SEATTLE, Washington, July 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com for complete article) — Eighty years after the infamous Scope trials, more than 400 scientists from all disciplines have signed onto a growing list of those who are “skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life.”

“Darwin’s theory of evolution is the great white elephant of contemporary thought,” said Dr. David Berlinski, a mathematician and philosopher of science with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture (CSC). “It is large, almost completely useless, and the object of superstitious awe.”

Discovery Institute first published its Statement of Dissent from Darwin in 2001 and a direct challenge to statements made in PBS’ “Evolution” series that no scientists disagreed with Darwinian evolution.

“The fact is that a significant number of scientists are extremely skeptical that Darwinian evolution can explain the origins of life,” said Dr. John G. West, associate director of the CSC. “We expect that as scientists engage in the wider debate over materialist evolutionary theories, this list will continue to grow, and grow at an even more rapid pace than we’ve seen this past year.”

In the last 90 days, 29 scientists, including eight biologists, have signed the “Scientific Dissent From Darwinism.” The list includes over 70 biologists...

...“The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism, which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology, seriously hampers the development of science and hides from students the field’s real problems,” said Professor Voeikov.

“Lately in the media there’s been a lot of talk about science versus religion,” said West. “But such talk is misleading. This list is a witness to the growing group of scientists who challenge Darwinian theory on scientific grounds.” ...

[Don't expect school boards to back down on Darwinism any time soon. They seldom give up any "gains" they have made in attempting to destroy religion. Our comment]

OTTAWA, July 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com for full article) -  Just as Senate approaches the final vote on the gay 'marriage' bill, C-38, Canada's national public radio CBC Radio has aired a commentary by a retired professor from the Royal Military College calling for state control over religion, specifically Catholicism. While parliamentarians dismissed warnings by numerous religious leaders and experts that such laws would lead to religious persecution, former professor Bob Ferguson has called for "legislation to regulate the practice of religion."

"Given the inertia of the Catholic Church, perhaps we could encourage reform by changing the environment in which all religions operate," Ferguson began his commentary in measured tones yesterday. "Couldn't we insist that human rights, employment and consumer legislation apply to them as it does other organizations? Then it would be illegal to require a particular marital status as a condition of employment or to exclude women from the priesthood. "

Ferguson continued, "Of course the Vatican wouldn't like the changes, but they would come to accept them in time as a fact of life in Canada. Indeed I suspect many clergy would welcome the external pressure."

The former professor pitched his idea as a boon to religious freedom.  "We could also help the general cause of religious freedom by introducing a code of moral practice for religions," he said.  "They will never achieve unity so why not try for compatibility? Can't religious leaders agree to adjust doctrine so all religions can operate within the code?"

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Ferguson also suggests 'obvious' prohibitions on religion including preaching of 'hate'. "I won't try to propose what might be in the new code except for a few obvious things: A key item would have to be a ban on claims of exclusivity. It should be unethical for any RRP to claim that theirs was the one true religion and believers in anything else or nothing were doomed to fire and brimstone. One might also expect prohibition of ritual circumcisions, bans on preaching hate or violence, the regulation of faith healers, protocols for missionary work, etc.," says Ferguson.

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[Talk about getting it all wrong. Can you imagine those who brought us the Sponsorship Scandal and Bill C38 in charge of regulating religion and morality? We would do better to have religion regulate politics! Incidentally, we wonder just what Mr. Ferguson's religion is? Our comment]

John Quincy Adams

Hans Christian Anderson

Alexander Graham Bell

George Washington Carver
Charlie Chaplin

Winston Churchill

Agatha Christie

Noel Coward

Leonardo daVinci

Charles Dickens

Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin

Patrick Henry
Stonewall Jackson

Gen. Robert E. Lee
C.S. Lewis

Abraham Lincoln

Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur

William Penn

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Albert Schweitzer

George Bernard Shaw

Mark Twain
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
The Wright Brothers

... and maybe your child

Boy Jesus Image Created from Turin Shroud

By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News

Dec. 23, 2004 — Italian policemen who specialize in the analysis of violent crimes have rejuvenated the image of the bearded man that appears on the Shroud of Turin, one of the most controversial relics in Christendom., producing what they claim is a close possible likeness of Jesus when he was a boy.

Made for "Jesus's Childhood," a documentary that airs on Sunday on the private TV station Retequattro of the Mediaset Group, the computer-generated image has been created with the same procedure used by the police to age the faces of long-time missing people or wanted criminals.

"In this case the experts went backwards. Now we have a hypothesis on how the man of the shroud might have looked at the age of twelve ... While some features, such as the color of the eyes and the hair's length, cut and color, are arbitrary, others come directly from the face impressed on the shroud," Mediaset said in a statement.

It added that the proportions between the eyebrow and nose, and the shape of the lower jaw, are the same as those displayed in the shroud — the piece of linen long believed to have been wrapped around Jesus's body after the crucifixion.

The result is a reassuring image of a blond-haired young boy with magnetic eyes — a speculative picture of how the boy Jesus looked when Mary and Joseph found him sitting in the Temple discussing with the doctors of the law. (article continues in the original)

(for the full article and to see the image, click on the following link. NOTE: Please ignore the second image. It is a poor and misguided attempt by scientists to recreate Jesus from "cultural" information).

dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041220/boyjesus.html