The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. Psalm 12:8

Thousands beaten, raped in Irish reform schools [Catholic] - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ireland_catholic_abuse

"A climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary punishment, permeated most of the institutions and all those run for boys. Children lived with the daily terror of not knowing where the next beating was coming from," the final report of Ireland's Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse concluded.

Ithaca Journal 4-30-2009 Pope apologizes for abuses in Canada Pope Benedict XVI apologized Wednesday to native Canadians who were physically and sexually abused at church-run [Catholic] boarding schools they were forced to attend, saying he was praying they would heal. From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 Indian children in Canada were forced to attend state-funded Christian schools as an effort to assimilate them into Canadian society. The Canadian government has admitted that physical and sexual abuse was rampant in the schools, with students beaten foe speaking their native languages. 5-4-07 Nearly 150 Roman Catholic clergymen in Ireland's biggest archdiocese have been linked to child sex abuse allegations over the past 67 years. The statistics for Dublin archdiocese were released days before the opening of hearings into how the Church handled abuse claims. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/03/nabuse103.xml.

Richard Bennett was from the Republic of Ireland and trained by the Jesuit priests in his early years. He received eight years of theological instruction and preparation for the priesthood with the Dominicans, completing his education at the Angelicum University in Rome in 1964. He spent 21 years as a Roman Catholic priest in Trinidad, West Indies, 20 years of which he served as a parish priest.

Rome Promotes Evolutionism, Excludes the God of Creation
By Richard Bennett

To better evaluate the Vaticans current position on evolutionism, it is necessary to know of its Project STOQ (Science, Technology, and the Ontological Quest). The Projects publicly stated purpose is to work toward a new philosophical basis by which the integration of science and religion can be traditionally understood. Apparently they deem this an urgent necessity since they claim that there is a lack of a solid tradition of affronting [facing] issues in this way, [i.e., through an integrated view of science and religion]. More at http://www.bereanbeacon.org/articles/Rome_Promotes_Evolutionism.pdf

Technology fuels popularity of intelligent design
Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 7/3/2009 5:00:00 AM
A new Zogby poll shows that a majority of Americans support intelligent design.

According to the poll, only 33 percent stated that they believe in Darwinian evolution, while 52 percent stated they believe life was guided by intelligent design.

Steve Meyer is the director for science and culture at the Discovery Institute. In his new book Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, Meyers suggests that the digital revolution is fueling the popularity of intelligent design.

"In the book I've written, I discuss the evidence of the digital code that's inside life -- the four-character digital code in the DNA molecule. I call it the signature in the cell. Bill Gates says it's like a software program, only more complex than any we've ever written," he notes. "You have at the base of life not just...matter and energy, but you have information as well, and I think that's very intuitively something that arises from an intelligent source, not from undirected processes."

He adds that as people become aware of the scientific discoveries that show the complexity of life and they compare that with the complexity of the technology around them, they tend to question the "textbook" account of the origin of life that basically states that life arose from an undirected process. http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=589042

Egg-laying Echidna Could Not Have Evolved
by Brian Thomas, M.S.*
A research intern for the Wildlife Conservation Society, Muse Opiang, completed the first field study ever conducted on the long-beaked echidna, an egg-laying mammal found only in New Guinea.1 Representing four years and 6,000 man-hours of work, Opiangs field observations include a catalog of dwellings and habits that befit an animal clearly formed with a collection of mosaic features, characteristics shared by various creatures that have been unified into a functional whole.

The study required remarkable effort because echidnas are active only at night and stay mostly underground. The tracked echidnas each ranged through a territory of about 96 acres, and their diet included insects and worms. Echidna dens were found mostly in dense thickets or underground. These details are of particular interest to conservationists developing programs to protect the endangered creatures.

The adult Eastern Long-beaked Echidna possesses a slender, pointed snout used to poke holes in the ground to search for subterranean meals. The echidna has very effective digging claws, and has coarse hair and spines similar to an anteaters. However, it lays eggs like most reptiles, and has a reptile-like sprawling gait and a single opening that releases both waste and gametes. The features in monotremes, a category that includes both echidnas and platypuses, have forced zoologists to change their very definitions of what a mammal is.2

There is no clear evolutionary explanation for the development of the echidna kind. There are Miocene fossils of echidnas, which creation scientists attribute to post-Flood local floods, but the oldest monotreme fossils show little difference from today's animals, so there is no fossil record to indicate they have evolved from any other type of creature.3 Nor is there a clear connection between the echidna and the platypus, which both lay eggs but are otherwise very different animals.

The strange combination of mammalian and reptilian features may defy a Darwinian description of origins, but they fit perfectly with a Creator who is able to shape living forms with whatever features He wants them to have. All indications point to echidnas being uniquely created to live as underground nocturnal creatures and to reproduce only more echidnas. Hopefully, the fruits of this groundbreaking and painstakingly-obtained research will help ensure that echidnas continue to thrive, since they are such marvelous manifestations from the mind of their Maker. http://www.icr.org/article/4763/

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