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[Video and Description From Best of Science] — The evolution of mammals within the synapsid lineage (mammal-like-reptiles) was a gradual process that took approximately 70 million years, beginning in the mid-Permian. By the mid-Triassic, there were many species that looked like mammals, and the first true mammals appeared in the early Jurassic. The earliest known [...]

The fact that we would have known practically nothing about the man called Jesus had we none of the four Gospel accounts left behind by his disciples easily escapes attention in a world in which the name is so familiar and revered. Such is our reliance on the gospel accounts of his life by his [...]

Shortly after her "May Day Cry to God for a Nation in Distress" rally this year, the two radio networks that carried Janet Porter's Faith2Action program dropped her due to her Christian dominionist theology. After writing some angry columns about this on World Net Daily, Porter sort of disappeared from the Christian right scene.  She [...]

The Family – The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power They insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations. They claim to disdain politics, but congressmen of both parties describe them as the most influential religious organization in Washington. They say they are not [...]