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September 28 2010 By virtueonline Survey: Americans don't know much about religion

More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation. And about four in 10 Jews did not know that Maimonides, one of the greatest rabbis and intellectuals in history, was Jewish.

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September 27 2010 By virtueonline Martin Rees: 'We shouldn't attach any weight to what Hawking says about God'

His five-year tenure as head of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of sciences, comes to an end this year. During that time he has presided over the society's 350th anniversary celebrations and a rare "convocation" of fellows - an event that takes place just once every half-century.

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September 26 2010 By virtueonline WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD CARE ABOUT SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY

GMU found a way to deprive me of legal representation by offering the law firm that was representing me a more lucrative contract. The story continues from there. Free to Think is an enjoyable book with many humorous anecdotes of my students, but has a serious side contained in the shocking personal story of censorship and subterfuge. For those interested, there are lots of appendices with supporting documents; it has been recommended by Rev. Canon George Kovoor and Dr. Norm Geisler.

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September 23 2010 By virtueonline The Cause of Poverty: Marriage Absence

It notes, "Marriage Drops the Probability of Child Poverty by 82 percent."

That's stunning. However, 36.5 percent of families headed by a single mother were poor in 2008 while only 6.4 percent of married, two-parent families are poor.

Yet the marriage rate has plunged 51 percent since 1970.

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September 20 2010 By virtueonline Fear and Loathing in America-The Ultimate Tool of Tyrants

America is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions. The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other. Normally mild-mannered individuals caught up in the throes of this disease have been transformed into belligerent zealots, while others inclined to pacifism have taken to stockpiling weapons and practicing defensive drills.

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September 16 2010 By virtueonline The War Between Spirituality and Science Is Over

Mooney is alarmed by the pervasiveness of what he defines as scientific illiteracy among the American public. In his published writings, he associates this "illiteracy" with a "war on science" being fought by anti-evolutionists, those opposed to human embryonic stem cell research, critics of climate change, and assorted others identified as obstacles to scientific advance.

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September 16 2010 By virtueonline "America At Risk: The War With No Name"

It is a war without a name.

"The elites of this country are determined to avoid the truth," said Newt Gingrich, co-host of the film, speaking before it began. "It starts an argument as profound as the argument over Communism between 1945 and 1950 on whether there is a coherent enemy and whether there is a coherent strategy to deal with it."

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September 15 2010 By virtueonline Culturally Focusing on the Family

This expansion of cultural consumption is a welcome development. St. Paul exhorts us to set our minds on whatever is true, good, and beautiful, and he does not cordon off such attributes to institutions or para-church ministries. As Richard Mouw argued in his lectures on common grace, because we await the final consummation of all things, we can find goodness out in the world even while we are simultaneously dismayed at the brokenness of the church.

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September 15 2010 By virtueonline Brothers at arms: Peter Hitchens talks about his faith and his atheist sibling

Almost everyone knows how elder brother Christopher feels, which was laid out in his bestselling book God Is Not Great. In it he wrote that “religion poisons everything,” that it has been the cause of nearly every evil through to this very day, and so awful is religion that teaching it to children should be considered a form of “child abuse.”

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September 15 2010 By virtueonline The Eternal Flame of Muslim Outrage

Indeed, art and graphics have an uncanny way of vitiating the Muslim world's atmosphere. In 1994, Muslims threatened German supermodel Claudia Schiffer with death after she wore a Karl Lagerfeld-designed dress printed with a saying from the Koran.

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