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Schools still split over evolution, creationism

by Ryan Secord , Capital News Service. November 2008

LANSING—Fifteen billion years ago the universe began, with the largest explosion of all time that created everything that exists today. As time progressed, molecules created by atoms became more complex, until a molecule came about that could crudely copy itself. This molecule, created unintentionally, copied itself through time until the process became more elaborate, then sprung slowly evolving forms of life. Or so says the perspective of science.

However, some private schools don’t teach evolution and natural selection while teaching creationism instead.

Movie Opens Discussion of Religious, Nonreligious views

by Charles Honey, The Grand Rapids Press. November 2008

After watching “Religulous,” the new Bill Maher movie that gleefully rips religion limb from limb, a group of religious skeptics gathered at a TGI Friday’s last week to celebrate the event. For many of them, Maher’s mockery of religious faith was a kind of coming out for their besieged minority of atheists and agnostics. They were out in force on opening night, helping to fill a theater with more than 75 members of the self-described free-thinking West Michigan Center for Inquiry.

Religious Reality

by Dr. Bob Collins. October 2008

A Letter to the Editor Submitted to the Grand Haven Tribune, September 26, 2008 The hold of the God concept on the human mind is easy to understand. Basically, it is a product of the human mind which has evolved… More »