The Southern Baptist Convention is taking a less skeptical approach to global warming. Convention president Frank Page has signed "A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change,” an initiative that was signed by two previous presidents of the SBC. Speaking for the SBC, Jonathan Merrit of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest says his conviction regarding planet care came when “I learned that God reveals himself through Scripture and in general through his creation, and when we destroy God’s creation, it’s similar to ripping pages from the Bible.”

What do you think? Is destroying creation like ripping pages from the Bible?

 There are some controversial new theories in the news: One is about the "Hobbit" fossils from Flores (it seems there will never be agreement about them); the latest idea is that they were diseased cretins--cretinism being a form of hyperthyroidism, when it doesn't refer to stupid, insensitive people.  There is also a new view on the Grand Canyon, suggesting it is millions of years older than the current long-age ideas say, prompting outcries from geologists who are criticizing Science for publishing such a thing. As long as Science doesn't mind stirring geologists up, why not publish a young earth perspective on the Canyon, say something by Steve Austin? We can hope.

The earliest known photo of Helen Keller has been released. View it at the link.

Could the Phoenicians have brought Hebrew culture--and the Ten Commandments--to North America thousands of years ago? Watch this video and see what you think.