Koran book burning not Christian

Comment: Koran book burning is not Christian | News | The Christian Institute: If copies of the Koran are burned by those who claim to be ‘Christian’, will this encourage Muslims to read and consider the Bible? Hardly. . . . The Bible tells Christians: live at peace with all men, as far as it depends upon you. In a democracy we can debate, we can protest, and we can seek to persuade. But we must not deliberately provoke anger or violence.

Editor: And yes, this is a pro-life issue.

Protecting Purity in a Technological Corinth

Page six of Eternal Perspectives online, by Randy Alcorn.

Abstinence program in China a milestone for U.S. evangelicals

Abstinence program in China a milestone for U.S. evangelicals: In Yunnan schools this year, teachers are being trained with a sex education curriculum created by Focus on the Family. The agreement with the Yunnan ministry of education is a milestone for Focus on the Family, which has struggled for four years to make inroads on abstinence in China.

It is also the result of a narrow confluence of interests: Evangelical Christian groups want an entree into China. And Chinese authorities, despite the country's official atheism, want help with controlling population growth and managing the society's rapidly shifting values.

Hailey Barber Says Pro-Lifers Should Scrap Social Issues

Hailey Barber Faces Backlash, Said Pro-Lifers Should Scrap Social Issues: Mississippi Governor Hailey Barber is facing a backlash from pro-life advocates after saying at a breakfast on Wednesday that pro-life advocates should ditch social issues this election cycle in favor of focusing on the economy. He said a candidate's stance on abortion “ain’t going to change anybody’s vote this year." US News

Appeals court lifts ban on stem cell funding

The Checkup - Appeals court lifts ban on stem cell funding: A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted a request from the Justice Department to stay an injunction issued Aug. 23 blocking the funding. In a major victory for supporters of the research, the court said the Obama administration could resume funding the research pending a full appeal of the case.

Legal Analysis: Parsing the Stem Cell Case - ScienceInsider

Legal Analysis: Parsing the Stem Cell Case - ScienceInsider: Does human embryonic stem cell esearch violate the law? And does it make sense to halt federal funding of the work while the courts weigh this question?

Although moral opposition to hESC research is certainly helping drive Sherley v. Sebelius, the case also includes some tricky legal questions. Legal scholars say there are three separate parts to the case, and dissecting each one makes it easier to understand where the judge is coming from—and where the ambiguities lie.

Koran burning examined by Dr. Richard Land

Koran burning on anniversary of 9/11 examined by Dr. Richard Land: Dr. Land has said, 'I think it is appalling, disgusting and brainless ... I think that those of us who find what they are doing abhorrent should say so, and say so publicly and often.' Land added that the church's actions 'besmirch the reputation of our Savior, and that makes it blasphemy.'

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Judge declines to lift stem cell funding ban

Judge declines to lift stem cell funding ban: Royce C. Lamberth, chief U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia, rejected a request by the Obama administration to lift the temporary injunction he had issued pending an appeal of the decision. But Lamberth indicated that his injunction was less restrictive than had been interpreted by the Obama administration.

Fertility treatments: Would you get selective reduction?

Fertility treatments: Would you get selective reduction? - CNN.com A woman writes about her decision to reduce her twin pregnancy. Breath-takingly sad.

Do Genesis 1 and 2 Contradict Each Other? - Answers in Genesis

Feedback: Do Genesis 1 and 2 Contradict Each Other? - Answers in Genesis: Critics and skeptics use this controversy to show the Bible cannot be trusted. Some Christians who believe in billions of years use it in trying to show that these chapters should not be understood in their plain sense. The argument is, however, based on a misunderstanding of Genesis 2.

First tests for stem cell therapy are near

First tests for stem cell therapy are near: Scientists are poised to inject cells created from embryonic stem cells into some patients with a progressive form of blindness and others with devastating spinal cord injuries. That's a welcome step for researchers eager to move from the laboratory to the clinic and for patients hoping for cures. But beyond being loathsome to those with moral objections to any research using cells from human embryos, the tests are worrying many proponents: Some argue that the experiments are premature, others question whether they are ethical, and many fear that the trials risk disaster for the field if anything goes awry.

Peter Singer in SE Michigan

Two Wayne State pro-life organizations, the Christian Medical Association and Metanoia Graduate Christian Union, have invited in Drs. Peter Singer, atheist philosopher from Princeton, and John Patrick, Christian medical ethicist from Ottawa and very well known pro-life advocate (he's helped lead the Hippocratic Registry for doctors), to discuss The Value and Worth of Human Life in three interactions on Thursday, September 16th at Wayne State. Details below.

Would you consider joining one or more of these interactions, and pass along this invitation as well? Singer represents the extreme, perhaps logical, end of materialistic atheism's understanding of humanity. Without hesitation he is advocating for the next step in abortion's logic: infanticide outside the womb. Patrick is a thoughtful, informed responder to these assumptions and proposals.


Discussion 1: The Origin of Human Worth: Do we need God to value humans?
Place: Hilberry A &B in Student Center (2nd Floor) @ 9 AM

Discussion 2: The Future of Human Worth: Life and Death Decisions in Medicine
Place: In Jaffar Lecture Auditorium in Scott Hall at School of Medicine at 12 Noon

Discussion 3: The Main Event-Human Worth at the Beginning: Embryos, Babies, and the Dignity of Human Life.
Place: In the Community Arts Auditorium at 5:30 PM

We urge you to try your best to get to these vital discussions. Direct questions to John Bayon at jbayonjr@yahoo.com

Misquoting Jesus: Answering Bart Ehrman

Without the original renderings, there is no inspired text. Without inspired Scripture, there is no orthodox Christianity, only a jumble of spiritual ideas about Jesus expressed in a diverse body of conflicting texts that have tumbled down to us through the corridors of time. Is this skepticism justified? Simply put, no. STR

Articles on stem cell research by Dr. David Prentice

• "A Stem Cell Victory for Patients," Dr. David Prentice, AOLnews
• ""Smart" Adult Stem Cells Heal Hearts," Dr. David Prentice, Family Research Council
• "Stem Cells for Parkinson's Treatment," Dr. David Prentice, Family Research Council
• "The Media Hearts Embryonic Stem Cells," Dr. David Prentice, Family Research Council
• "More Potential Spinal Cord Injury Treatments," Dr. David Prentice, Family Research Council
• "Recruiting Adult Stem Cells for Faster Bone Healing," Dr. David Prentice, Family Research Council

Rethinking China's one-child policy

Rethinking China's one-child policy: The child in time | The Economist: Rumblings of discontent over the one-child policy have been growing louder, stirred by debate over whether it is needed now that the first children born under it face the prospect of caring for an ever-increasing number of pensioners. A report last month by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a leading government think-tank, said officials were seriously overestimating the fertility rate (the number of children an average woman can expect to have in her lifetime). Rather than suppress the rate, suggested the report, the government should try to lift it.

Mixed Messages from Glenn Beck

Mixed Messages from Glenn Beck: While Beck should not be concerned about what the liberal media think of him or his rally, the fact is that his AWOL status in the cultural war has not gone over well with conservatives who were in this battle for morality when Beck was still a Top 40 DJ and years away from national prominence.

World Youth Conference Ends In Controversy And Chaos

World Youth Conference Ends In Controversy And Chaos � Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute: Though still with troubling language, the final version of the Declaration of Guanajuato was markedly improved from the previous drafts. Pro-lifer lobbyists and delegations, however, expressed deep concern about a document that was released by the official coalition of youth. Drafted by an elite group of youth delegates, many of whom were handpicked and funded by the pro-abortion UN Population Fund, the recommendations included demands for: a redefinition of gender to include the 'spectrum of gender identities,' 'comprehensive sexuality education,' and 'safe abortion.'

Discovery Gunman far from First Eco-Terrorist

Expert: Discovery Gunman far from First Eco-Terrorist: James Lee, the gunman who entered the Discovery Channel building and took three hostages yesterday because he thought the TV station should be doing more to combat overpopulation, might be the first hostage-taking environmentalist gunman. But according to John Berlau, author of Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health, radical environmentalists have long advocated violence to further their goals.

Related: Pro-Life Group Recalls Run-In with Discovery Channel Gunman

Obama Justice Dept Steps in to Defend Embryonic Stem Cell Funding

Obama Justice Dept Seeks Stay of Order Nixing NIH Embryonic Stem Cell Funding: The U.S. Justice Department is requesting a federal judge stay his order stopping the National Institute of Health’s embryo-destroying stem-cell research pending an appeal, saying that cutting off the money to scientists would harm their research efforts.

Editor: Sending in the DOJ seems heavy-handed, doesn't it?

God did not create the universe, says Hawking

God did not create the universe, says Hawking | Reuters: In The Grand Design, co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday.

'Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist,' Hawking writes.

The Mysterious Islands

Mysterious Islands, The�Review by The Dove Foundation: At the far end of the world, there exists a chain of strange islands, steeped in controversy. The Mysterious Islands is the story of one boy and a team of researchers who take an amazing adventure to the heart of the mystery in search of clues that will expose the truth in a centuries-old dispute.

The beautiful documentary was shot at 'ground zero' of Darwinism. It takes viewers deep beneath the ocean waves, among hundreds of white-tip sharks, to the home of slat-sneezing iguanas, on top of volcanic craters and beside giant tortoises that can live to be more that 150 years of age.

Seen through the eyes of 16-year-old Joshua Phillips who join his father and noted researches like Dr. John Morris, this film brings a fresh perspective on the Theory of Evolution. It answers the question: Is the Galapagos a laboratory for evolution or a testimony to the Biblical account of creation?

Is Believing In God Evolutionarily Advantageous?

Is Believing In God Evolutionarily Advantageous? : NPR: Why is it that even determined skeptics can't stop themselves from perceiving the supernatural?

Top Gov't Scientist Asks Stem Cell Judge To Lift Funding Ban

Top Gov't Scientist Asks Stem Cell Judge To Lift Funding Ban : The Two-Way : NPR: It will be a cruel blow to those suffering diseases and conditions that could otherwise be cured if a federal judge doesn't lift his ban on the federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, according to Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes and Health. Collins made the assertion in a filing with U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth who rocked the bioscience and medical worlds with his recent decision.

Editor: This will comfort scientists who questioned Collins' appointment, but disturb the rest of us who agree with the judge.

The Other Dark Exchange: Homosexuality, Part 2

The root of all our problems in this world is that the human race has exchanged the glory of God for other things and that God has handed us over to bear the fruit of this exchange in ten thousand troubles - all of which should call us to repentance and worship rather than rebellion and atheism. Even our physical diseases and our natural calamities are owing to God's judgment on creation for our exchange of his glory for other things. This is crucial for dealing with the origins of homosexuality. I don't think anyone knows for sure what the physical components of homosexuality are. But what if genetic origins were found? What would this imply about the morality and fitness of the behavior? Very little, if nature itself is disordered and in need of redemption. John Piper

Related: 

• Part 1
• Worshiping Images of Ourselves
• What Are We Apart from Christ?