In a recent conversation with a rather conservative evangelical friend of mine, I was dumbfounded by one of the arguments he used to support his views on creationism. He trotted out the old argument that a literal exammination of the Old Testament reveals that creation is approximately 6000 years old. Because evolutionary theory describes a process of millions of years, creationists have argued that evolution is contrary to the Bible.
I wrote about how U.S. foreign policy ignites and engenders a variety of crises, especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Such crises are then used to get the citizenry all worked up and panic-stricken, which then enables the government to increase its power over the citizenry.
Washington and Warsaw have signed a deal to deploy part of a US missile shield in Poland, insisting the aim is to ward off Iranian attacks, despite Russian opposition to the move.
Asian stocks have fallen to a two-year low, due mainly to fears the US government will have to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two troubled US mortgage giants.
Four Jordanian nationals who were convicted of killing Israeli soldiers, but transferred last year to serve their prison sentence in Jordan, have been freed.
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