Creationist lawsuit against state

Answers in Genesis is taking the state of Kentucky to court over its theme park. The Ken Ham group wants $18 million in tax rebates for Noah’s Ark theme park which promotes Creationism. The Raw Story has more here.

Christian College Prof says discovery supports believe in God

Leslie Wickman, director of the Center for Research in Science at Azusa Pacific University, writes in an Op/Ed piece for CNN, "The remarkable discovery, announced this week, of ripples in the space-time fabric of the universe rocked the world of science – and the world of religion. Touted as evidence for inflation (a faster-than-the-speed-of-light expansion of our universe), the new discovery of traces of gravity waves affirms scientific concepts in the fields of cosmology, general relativity, and particle physics. The new discovery also has significant implications for the Judeo-Christian worldview, offering strong support for biblical beliefs." Read more here.

Scientists who say they are Christians

A new survey finds 2 million out of nearly 12 million scientists are evangelical Christians. According to Christianity Today, "The survey also found that evangelical scientists are more active in their faith than American evangelicals in general. They are more likely to consider themselves very religious, to attend religious services weekly, and to read religious texts at least every week." Read more at here.

Survey of Scientists

A new survey shows just 33% of scientists believe in God and nearly half have no religious affiliation. That compares to 83% of all Americans who believe in God and 17% who are not religiously affiliated. Read more about the Pew Survey here.

The Biology of Belief

"Social demographer Robert Hummer of the University of Texas has been following a population of subjects since 1992, and his results are hard to argue with. Those who never attend religious services have twice the risk of dying over the next eight years as people who attend once a week. People who fall somewhere between no churchgoing and weekly churchgoing also fall somewhere between in terms of mortality."

From a TIME Magazine article says a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that faith may indeed bring us health. Here's more.

The Collider and God's Existence

Associated Press offers this explaination of the powerful particle collider going online today in Europe concerning whether it could prove the existence of God:

"The experiment will examine what happened shortly after the universe was created. It does not seek to confirm or deny the existence of any supernatural being."

Apollo Auction

A auction in Dallas last year of space memorabilia included a handwritten card containing a Bible verse used during a lunar an Apollo 11 communion service. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin read John 15:5 during the 1969 mission while using a small amount of wine and a wafer from his Presbyterian church. He had wanted to broadcast the Bible verse back to Earth, but NASA to impose radio silence during the religious observance after Madalyn Murray O'Hair filed a lawsuit. The card also has a verse on it from Psalms that Aldrin quoted during a TV broadcast before the astronauts splashed down. The card sold for nearly $180,000.

Einstein's Letter

A letter written by Albert Einstein has sold for $330,000 at a London auction. Written in the year before he died (1954) to philosopher Eric Gutkind, Einstein said, "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. For me, the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions." The Nobel prize-winning physicist offered several conflicting views on faith and religion over his lifetime, suggesting he believed that some intelligence was working its way through nature but not a conventional Christian or Judaic religious view.