Apologetics
Marina Mahathir (daughter of Malaysia’s ex-PM) on the Da Vinci Code etc
etc MUSINGS By MARINA MAHATHIR A FRIEND was relating how after her daughter had read the Da Vinci Code, she had wanted to read the Bible. Which is not in itself a bad thing except that she was concerned that an impressionable young mind would not be able to differentiate fact from fiction. Also it […]
Time to evict Big Brothel
Note to non-Australian readers: Big Brother is a dreadful Australian reality TV series featuring 20-somethings doing and saying all sorts of shameful things on TV. Teenagers are lapping it up! Scary! Rowland. ~~~ By Bill Muehlenberg – posted Thursday, 6 July 2006 The latest sexcapade at Big Brother demonstrates that the show is well past […]
Changing Speed of Light
I’ve just got around to perusing one of the items on the CMI website. To say that I was startled is an understatement – I thought that creationists had abandoned this long ago, but it seems I was mistaken, and that they are still flogging a horse which is not only dead, but thoroughly decomposed […]
Half-hearted efforts to halve global poverty
Soundings No. 38, 3 July 2006 by Robert Parham Political advocacy for the goal of the Micah Challenge to halve global poverty by 2015 finds little action among worldwide Baptists, save those in Australia. Baptist World Aid-Australia is “the lead agency for MC, being among the largest funding bodies and providing office space for MC […]
Poverty is not a family value
by Jim Wallis The following is excerpted from Jim Walls’ address at the Sojourners/Call to Renewal Pentecost 2006: Building a Covenant for a New America conference. (You may gave heard a lot about Sentatoer Obama’s statement at this same conference, but I doybt you will hear or see much covergae of THIS soeech!!) We are […]
Islamic Extremist changed to moderate Muslim by words of Jesus
June 21, 2006 5:42 PM By Mark Ellis Senior Correspondent, ASSIST News Service LOS ANGELES (ANS) — As a medical student in Cairo he fell under the influence of one of radical Islam’s most wanted terrorist masterminds. Yet an encounter with the words of Jesus Christ completely altered his perspective—leading him to endorse a peaceful […]
Evangelicals And Islam After 9/11
New Study Shows Changing Evangelical Views On Islam Since 9/11 North Bellmore, NY, Dec. 14, 2005- After the 9/11 terrorists attacks on the U.S., evangelical leaders–from Franklin Graham to Jerry Vines of the Southern Baptist Convention– emerged as the strongest critics and even antagonists of Islam. Numerous surveys have likewise found evangelicals in general to […]
Poker Machines and the Poor
The article below appeared in yesterday’s edition of The Australian. Cabinet blocks move to cut pokies in poor areas Rick Wallace, Victorian political reporter 16 June 2006 A PROPOSAL to remove 1500 poker machines from poor suburbs has been rejected by Premier Steve Bracks’s cabinet amid concerns it would hit government revenue. The plan, from […]
Mercury poisoning (more)
Sunday, June 18, 2006 (Original article – http://jmm.org.au/articles/15706.htm ) There is still considerable on going debate concerning the safety of mercury amalgam dental fillings. Although mercury is known to be a very dangerous toxin, dentists and dental associations continue to defend its use primarily on the basis that many people with a mouth full of […]
The Ethics of the cervical cancer vaccine
Soundings No. 37, 18 June 2006 by Simeon Payne On 8 June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made medical history by unanimously approving the vaccine Gardasil. The vaccine should prevent the cancerous development of two strains of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV 16 &18), which is responsible for 70 per cent of all cervical […]
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