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A growing number of science students on British campuses and in sixth form colleges are challenging the theory of evolution and arguing that Darwin was wrong. Some are being failed in university exams because they quote sayings from the Bible or Qur’an as scientific fact and at one sixth form college in London most biology students are now thought to be creationists.

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SEATTLE – “Darwin’s attempt to explain the origins of all the magnificent species in the living world in terms of the struggle for survival is easily the dumbest idea ever taken seriously by science,” writes Dr. Granville Sewell in his new book In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design published by Discovery Institute Press.

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LucidBeast tips a mind-bending report at New Scientist on the latest paradigm-breaking work of Carl Woese, one of whose earlier discoveries was the third branch of life on Earth, the Archaea. Woese and physicist Nigel Goldenfeld argue that, even in its sophisticated modern form, Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection applies only to a recent phase of life on Earth. Woese and Goldenfeld believe that horizontal evolution led to the rise of the genetic code itself. "At the root of this idea is overwhelming recent evidence for horizontal gene transfer — in which organisms acquire genetic material 'horizontally' from other organisms around them, rather than vertically from their parents or ancestors. The donor organisms may not even be the same species. This mechanism is already known to play a huge role in the evolution of microbial genomes, but its consequences have hardly been explored. According to Woese and Goldenfeld, they are profound, and horizontal gene transfer alters the evolutionary process itself."

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CHARLESTON, WV, Jan. 26 /Christian Newswire/ — CreationLetter.com is urging churches to celebrate Creation Sunday this February 14th to counter the Clergy Letter Project’s Evolution Sunday, scheduled on the same date.

As the Year of Darwin comes to a close and we enter the Post-Darwin Century, CreationLetter.com is renewing its efforts to answer the challenge the Clergy Letter Project represents to the Source: DefendingGenesis.org

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The origin of Darwin Los Angeles Times Some of their children were Christian. Some of their children were agnostic. None were atheists. My great-grandfather was agnostic. … and more »

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A film that tells the “true story” of 19th-century naturalist Charles Darwin will finally be making its U.S. debut this weekend – nearly four months after its worldwide release.

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Theologians have wrestled with many answers, but the one that fits best with Darwin may be the idea that God works through the natural and moral world not by initial perfection but by evolving process.

Fifty years ago, another book on evolution appeared in English, “The Phenomenon of Man,” by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Like Darwin, Teilhard was a scientist. He was also a Jesuit.

Teilhard’s book argues that God pulls matter upward through evolution. Even though some species fail and become extinct along the way, life forms tend to become more complex and capable of higher and higher awareness of God.

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L.A.’s California Science Center will start the new year defending itself in court for canceling a documentary film attacking Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

A lawsuit alleges that the state-owned center improperly bowed to pressure from the Smithsonian Institution, as well as e-mailed complaints from USC professors and others. It contends that the center violated both the 1st Amendment and a contract to rent the museum’s Imax Theater when it canceled the screening of “Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record.”

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But the assumption that everything can be explained by natural causes is characteristic of materialistic philosophy. This is why atheists want to establish Darwin Day as a secular alternative to Christmas.

The U. S. “Public” Broadcasting System (PBS) has a long history of promoting materialistic philosophy disguised as empirical science. In 1980, PBS brought us Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part Cosmos series, which featured Sagan—in the name of Science—assuring us that “The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”

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An international conference on Darwin in Egypt helped lead to a public discussion of ideas that challenge religious thinking and the national curriculum, and promote critical thinking.

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The admirable Theos project on Darwin concludes with the publication of a study on how British creationists think (pdf). To forestall the entirely predictable accusation that it’s not science if Christians do it, this research was actually carried out on Theos’s behalf by the ethnographic research firm ESRO. By interviewing 50 prominent anti-evolutionists, mostly Christians, but some Muslims and agnostics too, whose views ranged from intelligent design to young earth creationism, the researchers managed to get a picture of a movement whose most interesting characteristic is that it isn’t one. In fact one of their interviewees was taught at Sussex by John Maynard Smith, an experience he describes as “a real privilege”.

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Editor’s note: Stephen Meyer is director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, which supports research challenging “neo-Darwinian theory” and supports work on the theory of “intelligent design.” He is the author of “Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design.” He received his Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University.

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Members of the scientific community are often seen as doubting Thomases, but the reality is more complex. Even Charles Darwin may have made room for God.

Today, a century and a half after Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,” the overwhelming majority of scientists in the United States accept Darwinian evolution as the basis for understanding how life on Earth developed. But although evolutionary theory is often portrayed as antithetical to religion, it has not destroyed the religious faith of the scientific community.

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WACO, Texas (BP)–I recently watched "Darwin's Dilemma," the latest production by Illustra Media supporting the Intelligent Design (ID) view of various findings of science.The DVD is a thorough examin…

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Today, Intervarsity Press (IVP) in the UK publish a new symposium, entitled “Should Christians Embrace Evolution?” edited by leading geneticist Professor Norman Nevin. Andrew Sibley has already posted about it on UD and linked to the preface. Believers in a God-guided Darwinism are preaching that Darwinism is a fact and that the Bible can be reconciled with it. This new book comprehensively refutes both ideas.

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Kirk Cameron's crusade to crush evolution as silly as it sounds Examiner.com As a born-again Christian, Cameron's beliefs compel him to speak out against the theory of how specie gradually evolved through genetic mutations over … Free books used as tools to fight evolutionChristian Science Monitor Unitarian Charles Darwin still controversialSt. Louis Post-Dispatch Anti-Darwin 'Origin of Species' given to studentsChicago Tribune INDYchannel.com -Greensboro News & Record all 115 news articles »

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TAMPA, Nov. 18 /Christian Newswire/ — More than 2,500 people have reserved tickets to attend tonight’s Tampa premiere of The Mysterious Islands, a new film that debunks the conclusions Charles Darwin reached during his storied trip to the Galapagos Islands during the voyage of the HMS Beagle. Shot and directed by the award-winning Jon and Andy Erwin of Erwin Brothers Motion Pictures, the 100-minute documentary is being fe Source: I AM PR

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Christian group hands out controversial book to Virginia Tech students WSLS.com The Christian group, Living Waters, distributed 2000 copies of the 150th Anniversary Edition of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. … Darwin's DescendantSanta Barbara Independent Creationists add to Darwin bookOnline Athens Darwin Comes Back From the Dead, Preaches CreationismNYU Local all 22 news articles »

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Muslim scholars around the world are increasingly rejecting Darwin’s theory of evolution as an “unproven”.

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Scientists presented evidence over the weekend refuting Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution on many levels – including fossil record, natural selection and the origin of man – and his works in geology and other science areas.

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