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That is not the argument his publisher has chosen to emphasize, or his book's subtitle would be flipped to read A Believer Presents the Evidence for Science. But it may be the one with the best prospects. Students of the debate note that atheists are more dogmatically opposed to God than Evangelicals are to evolution, if only because aggressive creationism is neither a long-standing evangelical position nor a unanimous one. According to Edward Larson, a Pulitzer- prizewinning historian of the evolution debate at the University of Georgia, American support for it, now near 50%, hovered around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reconciling God and Science | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

...difficulty is Iran has been literally non-responsive to the approaches,” MacKay said. “Whether it be...Jahanbegloo, who is currently in custody, [or] the previous engagements by the previous government on the Kazemi case, their government has simply chosen to ignore those advances...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profs Petition for Release of Iranian-Canadian Scholar | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

...three countries on notice--Iraq, Iran and North Korea--and we attacked one of them pre-emptively," says retired Marine Corps General Joseph Hoar, who commanded the U.S. Central Command from 1991 to '94. "Now we find that was a put-up job. Meanwhile, North Korea and Iran have chosen different routes than what we wanted them to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Cowboy Diplomacy | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

...second challenge. While it doesn't have Klum's star power, Design Star is sharp and addictive, with a memorable cast that includes a pair of ebullient twins, a loopy artist, a tense Janeane Garofalo look-alike and a 30-year-old single mom who, I'm certain, was chosen for her design talent and not because she was once Miss Utah U.S.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV That's a Cut Above | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

...probably one of the best things that could have happened to me. Although I am not Jewish, this period reminds me most of a quote from Reuven Malter’s journey through yeshiva (Hebrew school) in Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen.” “A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work to fill one’s life with meaning,” Reuven’s father advises. One could say that Beijing is my yeshiva: something...

Author: By Mary A. Brazelton, | Title: Flying a Crimson Flag | 7/7/2006 | See Source »

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