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Today, several Kansas State Education board members are facing primary election challenges. The leading issue of debate has been changes to the science standard. These changes question the evolution theory with such statements as “Biological evolution postulates an unguided natural process that has no discernable direction or goal.” It also encourages students to seek “more adequate explanations of natural phenomena.”

Opponents see this as an attempt to bring religion into the classroom over science, while supporters see it as inserting objectivity and removing the natural anti-religious bias found in evolution.

The New York Times, CNN, and most other media outlets are reporting on this story. The news should be in tonight whether the conservatives have weathered their first challenge. If they lose their seats, the newly elected education board will reverse the changes made to the science standard.

The New York Times reports the finding of possible evidence that places the civilization of Edom closer to the biblical account than previously thought. The Times states,

Chronology is at the crux of the debate. Exactly when did the nomadic tribes of Edom become an organized society with the might to threaten Israel? Were David and Solomon really kings of a state with growing power in the 10th century B.C.? Had writers of the Bible magnified the stature of the two societies at such an early time in history?

A team of international scientists presented the new evidence of radiocarbon dates from a copper processing center and fortress in the lowlands of what used to be Edom and is now Jordan. These dates are close to the biblical time period of the 12^th to 10^th centuries B.C. The New York Times reported, 

Historians and archaeologists who generally endorse the new findings welcomed the more precise dating of ruins in the under-explored region and the attention focused on copper production in Edomite history. But they cautioned against interpretations that might encourage uncritical reliance on the Bible as a source of early history.

While we do not rely on man’s study of ancient civilization, or archaeology, for our belief in the total reliability of biblical history, it is still encouraging to see unbelievers attempt to rationalize the presence of archaeological evidence for the accuracy of the Bible. Verse by verse, however, they are being forced to acknowledge that the Bible is true.

The University of Alabama has announced the finding of a “crucial missing link in the search for the origin of HIV-1, the virus responsible for human AIDS.” It was discovered in chimp feces in Cameroon. Since the announcement, Science Daily and National Geographic have published articles on the findings. The international community has been seeking to make headway against a pandemic that affected five million people last year. The origin of AIDS is an important find, and is one step closer to the discovery of how HIV first affected humans. Study team member Beatrice Hahn, a professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham stated, "Based on what we know about the biology of these viruses, you need to be exposed to infectious blood or body fluids," she said. "You don't get it by petting a chimp." NG suggests the possibility of humans eating chimps, which is common. However, it would have to include the consumption of raw infected blood which could have occurred through eating undercooked or raw meat.

Could it have been an act of bestiality that caused the virus to jump to humans?  Considering the fact that it is widely believed and taught that chimps are a close relative to humans, together with the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s, when AIDS first emerged…

Somehow, it happened. Hahn said, "We think it's likely that the cross-species transmission took place locally" in the Cameroon. After it first infected humanity it quickly spread to metropolitan areas and throughout the world.

It is interesting to note that the spread of HIV has notoriously involved sexual promiscuity. If biblical guidelines of faithful monogamous heterosexual relationships were followed, AIDS would not be the ever growing problem that it is today.

Yet many "authorities," such as the American Psychological Association, reject “abstinence only” programs as an effective way of preventing HIV/AIDs. It is alleged that “there is little scientific evidence that these programs work.” In reality, abstinence till marriage and faithfulness in marriage is the only 100% guarantee against contracting HIV/AIDs! But it is assumed by the APA that the majority of youth in our society would not follow abstinence and that other “precautions” need to be taught. They fail to recognize however, that “safe sex education” totally undermines the effectiveness of teaching abstinence. Why train and equip students to practice illicit sexuality and then “encourage” them not too? It is like giving a child a loaded gun, showing them exactly how it works and how to fire it and then encouraging them not to fire it.

When will the world realize that God was right all along?