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...thing, there's the issue of human "descent." Evangelicals must absolutely affirm the special creation of humans in God's image, with no physical evolution from any nonhuman species. Just as important, the Bible clearly teaches that God is involved in every aspect and moment in the life of His creation and the universe. That rules out the image of a kind of divine watchmaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can You Believe in God and Evolution? | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

...SENTENCED. MUHAMMAD BOUYERI, 27, Islamic radical who confessed to the November 2004 murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh; to life in prison without the possibility of parole; in Amsterdam. Bouyeri, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent, said he killed van Gogh, a fervent critic of Islam, for insulting the religion and the Prophet Muhammad. Bouyeri remained unrepentant at his sentencing, telling van Gogh's mother, "I don't feel your pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

...months and 28 years in prison. See: Heavy Sentences for Angers Abusers Sentenced. Muhammad bouyeri, 27, Islamic radical who confessed to the November 2004 murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh; to life in prison without the possibility of parole; in Amsterdam. Bouyeri, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent, said he had killed van Gogh, a fervent critic of Islam, for insulting the religion and the prophet Muhammad. Bouyeri remained unrepentant at his sentencing, telling van Gogh's mother, "I don't feel your pain." sentenced. ahmed ressam, 38, the so-called millennium bomber who plotted to attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/31/2005 | See Source »

...turns the pilots make are intended to bleed off speed in order to ease the shuttle down to Earth, but they are a lot more complicated than simply slaloming down a ski slope. The spacecraft's engines are shut off for good once it leaves orbit, meaning its descent is powerless. Flying a brick with wings, as the engineers have often called the ship, has a very fine margin of error. Lose your purchase on the air and go into a spin, and there's almost no way to pull out of it. "The attitude needs to be very, very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Went Wrong? | 7/28/2005 | See Source »

...answers that the Teouma site may help provide are just as precious. The tussle over the origins of the Lapita and Polynesian people has boiled for more than a century, from the 1885 publication of New Zealand scholar Edward Tregear's widely debated theory that Maori were of Aryan descent, to Thor Heyerdahl's attempt, in his epic 1947 raft trip from Peru to Polynesia, to prove that South America was the Polynesians' homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riddle of the Bones | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

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