AMERICA’S WAR ON TERROR – Day 402
The news as reported in The Washington Times:
[Note – All links go to The Washington Times’ website.]
1. President Bush implicitly allowed Israel the right to defend itself should Iraq choose to attack.
[Interesting. What is unclear is how broad that “authority” is.]
Bush sees Israeli retaliation on Iraq
2. Police say they lack a clear picture of who the sniper is.
[First we have a composite, no, wait a moment, guess we don’t – we’re working on it. Folks – this isn’t helping credibility.]
Police lack clear picture of sniper
3. Election 2002 coverage by the Times.
[Good stuff here. This will likely be a permanent fixture until November 5 – so don’t yell at me.]
Election 2002: News, profiles, finance reports
4. Supporter of The Evil One have named a Prime Ministerial candidate in Pakistan.
[It is unlikely this guy will win, but no other party has a majority so this could influence the next Pakistani government. Ugh.]
Bin Laden backer seeks top Pakistan post
5. A former Defense Department worker has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on the charge of spying for Cuba. She said she felt “morally obligated” to help that Nation because of cruel US policies. Her sentence is part of an arrangement in exchange for her cooperation in determining how many secrets were given up.
[Since death was an option, the prosecution should have negotiated only to life in prison. She’d been doing this for 17 years!]
Ex-analyst sentenced to 25 years for spying
6. AAA has pulled their support for red-light cameras in Washington, DC, after that city’s mayor admitted the program is about revenue.
[Now if we can just get rid of these infernal devices once and for all everywhere.]
AAA pulls its support for D.C. traffic cameras
7. North Korea admits it broke a promise made to the UOx42 Administration not to produce nuclear weapons.
[Yet another country that took UOx42 for what he was – a joke. And this Nation continues to suffer as a result.]
N. Korea breaks its promises on nukes
8. Ohio schools will be required to teach the “controversy” of evolution, specifically the Theory of Evolution, its limitations, and other relevant theories (one would presume creationism, though a term “intelligent design” is used).
[The story of creation in Genesis is just that, a story. While it works in a broad sense, it cannot be applied literally. That said, it is still amazing how well the story of creation in Genesis actually fits to what we have learned from science.]
Ohio schools to teach evolution 'controversy'
9. Women intend to target PGA sponsors to get them to pressure the Augusta Golf Club to change its membership policies.
[I really have trouble understanding why folks want so hard to get into a private club where they are not welcome.]
Feminists to pressure PGA Tour sponsors
We shall not rest until we have cut a swath 60-miles wide through the entire left - taking all that is before us with us as we go. We shall leave nothing to the enemy that may be of value to him. We shall show him that he may count on nothing and will be able to keep nothing, not his spirit, not his soul, not that upon which he shall feed. We shall not cease until the moment we have rent through their entire land and have arrived at the sea, with our glorious victory upon us.
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You should some time read Hugh Ross. His story is amazing. He was extremely precocious, graduated from college by age 19, etc. When he was a young man, he decided to use his love for and knowledge of science to prove all religions false. One by one, he took the scriptures of various religions and found statements that could be proven false scientifically. The hardest part, he said, was finding statements to which a scientific inquiry could apply, but once he did, it was easy to show them to be unscientific.
He was not a Christian more than anything else, but he purposely saved Christianity and the Bible for last. He said the first thing he noticed was that the Bible was absolutely full of claims to which a scientific inquiry could be applied. There were many historical references too which could be analyzed for their truth value.
For two years he worked on this, writing provably true statements in one notebook and provably false statements in another. Trouble is, the first notebook was filled and the second notebook had nothing that he could really say was provably false.
In looking at the creation story, he noted that the Bible's creation story was amazingly scientific in that it describes 11 events and those events are recorded in exactly the order our knowledge of science would dictate them to be in. For instance, light must be present for plants to grow, or land must be present for "beasts" to exist. He said that the chances of Moses, with no knowledge of these scientific facts, could not have possibly gotten these 11 events in the right order. The chances against it happening by chance were astronomical. The closest any other creation account came was the Babylonian creation account which correctly ordered 2 of 13 events.
Hugh Ross is considered a heretic by those who take the Bible's creation account literally, but you can decide for yourself if you want to read more here.