Friday, March 24, 2006

Friday Reading

  • Riding the Alligator: Meyer reports on his favorite new pasttime.

  • Archbishop of Canterbury Says, "Stop Teaching Creationism": From The Guardian. Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams says, "If creationism is presented as a stark alternative theory alongside other theories I think there's just been a jarring of categories ... My worry is creationism can end up reducing the doctrine of creation rather than enhancing it."

  • In Other Creationism News: The Arkansas Times reports that some Arkansas educators are forbidden to use the terms "evolution" or "natural selection" or to use hard numbers when referring to the estimated ages of rocks.

  • Natsios Criticizes Iraq Contracts: Andrew Natsios, former director of the U.S. foreign-aid program USAID accuses the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq of hiring "ill-qualified or corrupt contractors." The watchdog group Transparency International warns that the issue of contracts in Iraq could become "the biggest corruption scandal in history."
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