Christian Polls: Science, like religion, falls short in the evidence stakes
Adrian Bain thinks that there is no evidence for the existence of God (Letters, December 26). What universe is he living in? Or what does he regard as evidence? Like most of the history we know, we have eyewitness accounts of Christ. Just because they deal with material outside the normal testimonies we read does not mean they are not reliable. Science does not have all the answers. It continues to amaze me that people believe that theories such as evolution and the Big Bang are fact. They have...
Christian Polls: REVIEW '98
THE TOP STORIES OF 1998
STATE
1. Jasper killing - A black man in Jasper, James Byrd Jr., was dragged behind a pickup until he was dismembered; three white men were charged with capital murder in what authorities believe was a racially motivated hate crime. 2. Woman executed - Pickax murderer Karla Faye Tucker was the first woman executed in Texas in 135 years, despite a worldwide outcry to spare the photogenic, self-described born again Christian. Polls showed that despite sympathy for Tucker, Texans continued to support...
Christian Polls: Public Prayer in Its Place,
Supreme Court straightens the church-state wall
The issue is heartfelt on both sides: Some parents want to uplift their children through public prayer at government-run schools, while other parents fear their children might be forced to accept someone else's religious beliefs. But the US Supreme Court has come down decidedly on the side of keeping public schools from sponsoring any "particular" practice of public prayer.The court's reasoning is instructive for all communities that face such...
Christian Polls: SERRANO FAVORED IN RUNOFF
Jorge Serrano seems assured of victory in today's presidential runoff, as several parties that lost in the first round throw their support behind the conservative, born-again Christian. Polls have indicated that Serrano, of the Solidarity Action Movement, could defeat publisher Jorge Carpio Nicolle of the National Center Union in a landslide. President Vinicio Cerezo is constitutionally barred from succeeding himself. ...
Christian Polls: WORLD
ALBANIA TO FREE 393 POLITICAL PRISONERS Albania's Communist government, bowing to demands from its fledgling democratic opposition, said yesterday it would free 393 political prisoners from jails. The decision was made at a meeting of parliament's presidium headed by President Ramiz Alia, the state news agency reported in a dispatch monitored in Vienna. The report said the presidium's next meeting would examine the possibility of pardoning ``all other...