Wednesday, April 17, 2002

• Court's decision on child porn 'dark day,' ERLC's Land says

  by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 (22 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Supreme Court dealt Congress a defeat in the legislative effort to curb child pornography. Read More

• Intelligent design gets hearing in Ohio

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 (22 years ago)

  Origins options Biologist Jonathan Wells, a fellow at the Discovery Institute think tank and author of the 2000 book, "Icons of Evolution: Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong," was among four participants in a mid-March debate as part of Ohio State Board of Education deliberations over opening the state's science curriculum to the concept of intelligent design. Photo courtesy of John Calvert

        COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP)--When a State Board of Education subcommittee began a scheduled review of Ohio public schools' science curriculum, they had no idea an intense media firestorm would accompany their deliberations.

        At issue: whether the curriculum should be limited to evolution or whether the study of the beginnings of life should include intelligent design, which holds that life is too complex to have just happened.

        Ohio has thus become the first state to formally address the place of intelligent design in the classroom. Read More

• Debate over evolution in schools spans almost 8 decades since Scopes

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 (22 years ago)

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP)--Americans have grappled for nearly eight decades with the question of what to teach public school students about origins science. Read More

• 2 profs take 3000-year look at the human origins debate

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 (22 years ago)

  Designer Universe

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Two professors at Baptist-affiliated Union University have entered the evolution/intelligent design debate via a new book, "Designer Universe: Intelligent Design and the Existence of God," from Broadman & Holman Publishers.

  Jimmy H. Davis is acting dean of the college of arts and sciences and professor of chemistry at Union, located in Jackson, Tenn. Harry L. Poe is vice president of academic resources and information service and associate professor of Christian studies at Union. Read More

• Land says Arafat is detriment in search for Mideast peace

  by Dwayne Hastings, posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 (22 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The road to peace in the Middle East does not lead through Yasser Arafat's besieged headquarters in Ramallah, Richard Land said April 15. Read More

• Powell leaves Mideast unable to achieve ceasefire result

  by Julie Stahl, posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 (22 years ago)

  JERUSALEM (BP)--Secretary of State Colin Powell wrapped up his Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire mission somewhat empty-handed on April 17, saying the term "ceasefire" was "not relevant" at this time, CNSNews.com reported. Read More

• U.S. commission voices alarm over anti-Semitism in Europe

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 (22 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom deplored the recent flurry of attacks on synagogues, other Jewish sites, and individuals in France and Belgium in a statement issued April 15. Read More

• House votes 408-0 for bill to protect housing allowance

  by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 (22 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP)--The House of Representatives weighed in on the legality of a cap on the housing tax exemption for clergy April 16, approving without opposition a bill designed to preserve the longstanding allowance. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Self-indulgence & wheelchairs

  by Larry Burkett, posted Wednesday, April 17, 2002 (22 years ago)

  GAINESVILLE, Ga. (BP)--The United States is a nation of pleasure-seekers without equal in the world. We build billion-dollar industries to produce items so indulgent and trivial that you have to wonder if we're not a little bit nuts. Read More