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Success Of Jubilee 2000

The Jubilee line that works Debt-relief campaign Jubilee 2000 can now claim its great victory, thanks to Leviticus – Will Hutton (Saturday October 02 1999 – The Guardian) So who said religion was dead and there was no God? Certainly not the 41 heavily indebted poorest countries after President Clinton’s pledge last week to forgo […]

Culture And Civilization

Subject: Re: Dinosaurs and Job Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:11:17 +1100 From: Richard Kerr < Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Graeme Hunt wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 23:05:14 +1000, Robert Davidson >

Baloney Detection Kit

Based on the book “The Demon Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark” published by Headline 1996. The following are suggested as tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments: Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the facts Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all […]

Quotes For Today: Science

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. — John Calvin Heisenberg may have slept here… Author Unknown Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence […]

Africa

Subject: Re: Dinosaurs and Job Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:17:22 +1100 From: Richard Kerr Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Graeme Hunt wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:11:17 +1100, Richard Kerr > < > wrote: > > >> We’re almost back in the African jungle. [snip] > >[This sentence] falsely characterises African cultures with our […]

History

Subject: Re: Church blasts ‘new age’ Star Wars Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 01:23:03 GMT From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion,aus.religion.christian,nz.soc.religion In <>, Chris Ho-Stuart <> wrote: >You have a good point on the parting of the Red Sea, as I have said. >But your failure to see meaning in anything other than historical >terms, […]

The Power Of One!

Man’s lone bid to prevent brother from buying ‘metho’ to drink -sees major supermarket finally agree to empty shelves A Townsville man’s lone bid earlier this week to prevent his brother buying methylated spirits to drink from a Townsville supermarket – has resulted in the store’s agreement to remove methylated spirits from its shelves. In […]

Does The Self Exist?

Subject: Does the self exist? Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:31:55 +1000 From: Robert Davidson

Freemasonry: The Trojan Horse In The Church

Overview This paper reveals something of the true nature of Freemasonry. You will see it, not in the abstract, but in the concrete. Its true nature is not readily apparent as many fine people do belong to this organization, and of course it is involved in various charitable activities which also give it an appearance […]

Was Einstein An Atheist?

Subject: Re: Is Peter an atheist? Date: 13 Oct 1999 11:33:41 GMT From: Chris Ho-Stuart < >mailto:>> Organization: Queensland University of Technology, Australia Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion,nz.soc.religion In aus.religion.christian Tigger < >mailto:>> wrote: > Peter wrote in message