Newly Discovered Notes Reveal C.S. Lewis’s Early Doubts about Darwin

Famed Christian writer C.S. Lewis has often been regarded as either uninterested in the modern evolution debate or generally supportive of evolutionary theory. But newly discovered notes written by Lewis challenge those views, revealing Lewis’s intense interest in the topic of evolution as well as his early skepticism of Darwin.

The unpublished material is described and quoted from for the first time in the new book The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society, out this month at Amazon.com and other booksellers.  More information, including the download of a free chapter on “C.S. Lewis and Intelligent Design,” is available at www.magicianstwin.com.

“C.S. Lewis’s personal library contained more than three dozen books and pamphlets on scientific topics, many of them focused on evolution,” said Dr. John West, editor of The Magician’s Twin. “Several of the books on evolution contained annotations and underlining by Lewis, including Lewis’s personal copy of Charles Darwin’s Autobiography.”

Discovery Institute - Article Database - Newly Discovered Notes Reveal C.S. Lewis’s Early Doubts about Darwin

Why Are We Surprised With the Push for 'Pedophile Rights'?

 

Last year, many Americans were shocked by reports about a pro-pedophilia conference in Baltimore in which psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, representing institutions like Harvard and Johns Hopkins, sought to present pedophilia in a sympathetic and even positive light. Now, a sympathetic article on the struggles of pedophiles is also causing shockwaves. But why should we be surprised?

Academic articles in scholarly journals have been presenting pedophilia in an empathetic light for years, and, as Matthew Cullinan Hoffman noted, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released a report in 1998 “claiming that the ‘negative potential’ of adult sex with children was ‘overstated’ and that ‘the vast majority of both men and women reported no negative sexual effects from their child sexual abuse experiences.’ It even claimed that large numbers of the victims reported that their experiences were ‘positive,’ and suggested that the phrase ‘child sex abuse’ be replaced with ‘adult-child sex.’” Others have coined the more disgusting term “intergenerational intimacy.”


Why Are We Surprised With the Push for 'Pedophile Rights'?

Obama Touts Bailout After Reports Administration Rejected GM Offer to Cut Government Ties

The Wall Street Journal reports today that General Motors executives have asked the Treasury Department to sell its stake in the giant automaker. The administration has refused.

Oddly enough, today we also learned that the Obama administration is launching a complaint at the World Trade Organization over China's allegedly unfair subsidizing of its auto industry. The United States will charge the Chinese government with subsidizing auto and auto parts producers from 2009 and 2011 to the tune of $1 billion. (Protectionism, it seems, always becomes a vital component of economic policy when a candidate is campaigning in Ohio.)
Remember, when President Barack Obama pursues nationalization, he's making a gutsy call and "saving" the American auto industry. Democrats brought up the bailout 150 times during the Democratic National Convention.  It was such a gutsy call, in fact, that U.S. taxpayers, who rescued the heavily unionized automaker, now own around 26.5 percent of the company.

Yet back in June of 2009, President Barack Obama claimed taxpayers were only "reluctant shareholders" after the government took its stake in General Motors. "What we are not doing - what I have no interest in doing - is running G.M."

Read more: Family Security Matters http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obama-touts-bailout-after-reports-administration-rejected-gm-offer-to-cut-government-ties?f=must_reads#ixzz26ssskDHG
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution

Obama Touts Bailout After Reports Administration Rejected GM Offer to Cut Government Ties

Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities (Interview with Stanley Kurtz)

Recently there has been a spate of videos and movies and columns detailing the radical past and associations of President Barack Hussein Obama. Long before many of these emerged, Stanley Kurtz's book "Radical In Chief-Barack Obama and The Untold Story of American Socialism" meticulously detailed the trajectory that propelled a young and radical student to the White House to implement his goal of a socialist welfare state in America.

In his new book "Spreading the Wealth- How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities" Kurtz cogently argues, again with meticulous research and detail, that "regionalism" a redistributive agenda which would meld suburbs including their schools, utilities and essential services and taxes into cities, is already in place ready for implementation in a second Obama administration.

This is not a new idea and has its roots in the community organizers who trained our President with the argument that rich and essentially white people fled to the suburbs leaving the inner cities to struggle with blight, crime ,poverty, homelessness and poor and failing schools.

To correct this, it was argued, required a major redistribution and "equalization' of wealth.

Read more: Family Security Matters http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/spreading-the-wealth-how-obama-is-robbing-the-suburbs-to-pay-for-the-cities-interview-with-stanley-kurtz?f=must_reads#ixzz26sscEV8x
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution

Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities (Interview with Stanley Kurtz)

Did Obama send a ‘gay’ ambassador to Libya?

 

Did Obama send a ‘gay’ ambassador to Libya?

Christians Arrested for Preaching in New Orleans After Sunset; Police Vow to Target Churches Next | Christian News Network

(And people wonder why this country is in such a moral mess...AW)

A pastor and five members of his ministry team were arrested Friday night in New Orleans, Louisiana for preaching on Bourbon Street after sunset.
Pastor Troy Bohn of RAVEN Ministries (Restoring a Vision and Evangelizing Nations) and his ministry associates were taken into custody as they were sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ after 10:00 p.m. with the many men and women who had gathered on the infamous street.
Bourbon Street is located in the French Quarter, and is most known for its preponderance of bars and strip clubs. It is the center of night life in the city and also a tourist attraction during events like Mardis Gras and the Southern Decadence Festival, which are known for featuring lewd acts in the streets. Bohn called the area his “mission field” as he has been preaching in the city since 1996. He said that he engages in evangelistic activity in New Orleans at least three times a wee
Christians Arrested for Preaching in New Orleans After Sunset; Police Vow to Target Churches Next | Christian News Network

Prayer Alert: "The World Changed Today for Christians"

"These events beg the questions: If the U.S. cannot or will not defend embassies, what will be defended? If the embassy staff, in Libya or elsewhere, is not defended, what will the aid be to any U.S. citizen traveling in a country who may be at risk? Apart from domestic security in the U.S. what does this mean for Christians, churches and missionaries around the globe?" -Mary Marr, Founder CEN

Marr added, "To assist you, your family, church and local Christian community to assess your level of biblical readiness, develop emergency operations plans, build spiritual, emotional, mental and physical resiliency to biblically respond in crisis of all kinds, CEN http://www.christianemergencynetwork.org/ provides three helpful training programs: ReadyChristian, ReadyChurch, and ReadyCity."



Prayer Alert: "The World Changed Today for Christians"

China, Russia quit dollar

(this is not a good sign for us....US Dollar as been world reserve currency for decades, I have heard many audio reports on the results that are expected when the Dollar is overthrown.  Get your financial house in order - which is good advice in any kind of times, but now especially.  AW)

 St. Petersburg, Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday.
China, Russia quit dollar

Blood Red Lunar Eclipses and Solar Eclipses on God’s Holy Days in 2014-2015

Coincidences?  Possibly not......
 


Blood Red Lunar Eclipses and Solar Eclipses on God’s Holy Days in 2014-2015

God's Feast Days and the Second Coming of Messiah (Part 1 of 2) - YouTube

 The time is at hand for the fulfillment of all things, watch and learn.....


God's Feast Days and the Second Coming of Messiah (Part 1 of 2) - YouTube

Islamophilia - WikiIslam

(I learned a new word today....here is it, and it described the attitude of world leaders who are seeing Sharia overtake their countries.  Neville Chamberlain could have been described as practicing Naziphilia when he capitulated to Hitler demands.  We better all learn what this word means. AW)

Islamophilia is a controversial neologism employed by some politicians, sociologists and journalists to describe unwavering and uncritical admiration of the values of Islam, generally associated with an admiration of Islamic civilization. Islamophilia, like its antonym Islamophobia, is not included in renomated dictionaries.

However, many proponents of the term argue that it has existed historically as well, in instances like the wave of orientalism that followed Disraeli's premiership and his support for the Ottoman Caliphate of the time.^[1]
 
Others have also drawn upon purported historical instances of Islamophilia. Karl Binswanger remarked on the "dogmatic Islamophilia" of many orientalists. Jacques Ellul complained in 1983 that "in France it is no longer acceptable to criticise Islam or the Arab countries." As early as 1968, Maxime Rodinson had written, "An historian like Norman Daniel has gone so far as to number among the conceptions permeated with medievalism or imperialism, any criticisms of the Prophet’s moral attitudes and to accuse of like tendencies any exposition of Islam and its characteristics by means of the normal mechanisms of human history.

Understanding has given way to apologetics pure and simple."^[2]



Islamophilia - WikiIslam

Pamela Geller: President Obama Sanctions Blasphemy Laws - Fox & Friends - 9-15-12 - YouTube

Pamela Geller: President Obama Sanctions Blasphemy Laws - Fox & Friends - 9-15-12 - YouTube

The next role for Jose Andres: culinary advisor for “Hannibal,” a future NBC series - Going Out Gurus - The Washington Post

(I don't know how a man could go home and sleep at night after playing such a part, going through the motions, saying the words, showing the emotions....those things get into your soul....dangerous ground. AW)

Lecter is no garden variety flesh eater, says Fuller. The character thinks
of his victims like this: “You are a pig of a human being and you deserve
to become someone’s bacon.”

The next role for Jose Andres: culinary advisor for “Hannibal,” a future NBC series - Going Out Gurus - The Washington Post

Drought nears record levels

 The National Climatic Data Center reported this week that 57.2% of the contiguous USA is "moderately to extremely dry," a percentage topped only during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and during another drought in the mid-1950s.

We've got a long way to go to reach the Dust Bowl, though: At one point, in July 1934, a phenomenal 79.9% of the country was moderately or extremely dry.
Drought nears record levels

U.S. Fed QE3: Stimulus program to buy $40-billion in mortgage debt | Economy | News | Financial Post

 (This sounds good but it isn't....the Fed is buying up $40 billion a month of US property and the Fed isn't even a government entity, it is a private corporation...so who are all these properties going to wind up in the hands of if they are defaulted on?  AW)

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Federal Reserve launched another aggressive stimulus program on Thursday, saying it will buy US$40-billion of mortgage-backed debt per month until the outlook for jobs improves substantially as long as inflation remains contained.


U.S. Fed QE3: Stimulus program to buy $40-billion in mortgage debt | Economy | News | Financial Post

Evidences of incresed demonic possession in this country: Cops: Naked, Bloody Man Gnawed On Woman’s Head During Wild Neighborhood Rampage « CBS Philly

 HAWLEY, Pa. (CBS) – A Doylestown man, who was naked and bleeding profusely, gnawed on woman’s head all while “screaming like an animal” during a wild neighborhood rampage, state police said.

Cops: Naked, Bloody Man Gnawed On Woman’s Head During Wild Neighborhood Rampage « CBS Philly

Media Cover-up: Freedom of the WTC Blind Sheik the goal of Cairo Riots - Atlas Shrugs

Release of '93 World Trade Center Bombing Sheikh behind Egypt's act of war on US Embassy

It seems that bad actors in both Egypt and Libya decided to agitate for the release of Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, aka the “Blind Sheikh.” This is a longstanding cause for al Qaeda and other militants – even though it is inconceivable that Rahman will be released and terrorism on his behalf is itself, in many ways, a pretext.
Rahman is a widely revered character in jihadist circles, having issued fatwas that repeatedly led to terrorism. Osama bin Laden credited Rahman, a long-time friend and ally of al Qaeda’s deceased master, with issuing the fatwa that condoned the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Rahman is serving a life sentence in an American prison for his role in 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which prefigured 9/11, and a follow-on plot against New York City landmarks. Rahman’s spiritual guidance directed those terrorists.

Media Cover-up: Freedom of the WTC Blind Sheik the goal of Cairo Riots - Atlas Shrugs

Violent Muslim Riots Hit Australia; Police attacked, hospitalized "Behead all those who insult the Prophet" - Atlas Shrugs

 

NBC News: Some of the chanting protesters carried placards reading "Behead all those who insult the Prophet."
Several streets, usually thronging with weekend shoppers, were blocked off by police as the protest grew. Police, many wearing anti-riot equipment and some on horseback, used dogs and chemical sprays as they tried to control the protest.

Violence erupts in Sydney over anti-Islam film Radio Australia 

Updated 15 September 2012, 18:45 AEST

Violence has erupted in central Sydney as hundreds of Muslims protest against a controversial film about the Prophet Mohammed. Follow the latest on our live blog.

It is the latest in a series of demonstrations that have killed at least six people in the Middle East. Protestors have also marched through London.
Violent Muslim Riots Hit Australia; Police attacked, hospitalized "Behead all those who insult the Prophet" - Atlas Shrugs

Pakistan Interior Minister pushing Interpol to ban anti-Islam material online | The Daily Caller

If one well-known Pakistani politician gets his way, international law will forbid “anti-Islam” material from the Internet.
Friday afternoon, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik wrote in a series of tweets that he has spoken with and written to the Secretary General of Interpol about enacting an international law to stop all anti-Islam propaganda online.


Pakistan Interior Minister pushing Interpol to ban anti-Islam material online | The Daily Caller

The Student Loan Debt Bubble Is Creating Millions Of Modern Day Serfs

Every single year, millions of young adults head off to colleges and universities all over America full of hopes and dreams.  But what most of those fresh-faced youngsters do not realize is that by taking on student loan debt they are signing up for a life of debt slavery.  Student loan debt has become a trillion dollar bubble which has shattered the financial lives of tens of millions of young college graduates.  When you are just starting out and you are not making a lot of money, having to make payments on tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt can be absolutely crippling.  The total amount of student loan debt in the United States has now surpassed the total amount of credit card debt, and student loan debt is much harder to get rid of.  Many young people view college as a "five year party", but when the party is over millions of those young people basically end up as modern day serfs as they struggle to pay off all of the debt that they have accumulated during their party years.  Bankruptcy laws have been changed to make it incredibly difficult to get rid of student loan debt, so once you have it you are basically faced with two choices: either you are going to pay it or you are going to die with it.

The Student Loan Debt Bubble Is Creating Millions Of Modern Day Serfs