Urban Christian News: Evolution/Creationism Archives

Closing Arguments Begin In Trial for Ex-NASA Worker Fired for Intelligent Design Beliefs

By UCN on April 16, 2012 6:28 AM

David Coppedge, left, is shown outside Los Angeles Superior Court with his attorney, William Becker. (AP)

David Coppedge, a former computer specialist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, spent much of his free time advocating for the idea that a higher intelligence must have had a hand in creation. Now, a judge will decide if his commitment to that belief has also cost him his job.

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Lawsuit Claims NASA Fired Worker for Believing In Intelligent Design

By UCN on March 13, 2012 7:57 AM

David Coppedge, left, is shown outside Los Angeles Superior Court with his attorney, William Becker. (AP)

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has landed robotic explorers on the surface of Mars, sent probes to outer planets and operates a worldwide network of antennas that communicates with interplanetary spacecraft.

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Agnostic David Attenborough Says 'There Might Be a God'

By UCN on January 31, 2012 6:26 AM

Belief in God and evolution not incompatible, says Sir David Attenborough

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Pastors Split On How Old Earth Is, Survey Shows

By UCN on January 10, 2012 2:00 AM

Pastors overwhelmingly believe that God did not use evolution to create humans and think Adam and Eve were literal people, according to a survey by LifeWay Research.

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Meet the Race of Supersoldier Ants

By UCN on January 7, 2012 9:30 AM

McGill Unversity researchers were able to create supersoldier ants, which are a biological anomaly, in the lab. (Alex Wilder/alexanderwilder.com)

This discovery of oversized versions of soldier ants, whose job is to defend the nest, led researchers to create their own supersoldier ants in the lab with the help of a hormone.

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Washington Man Says Arizona Sandstone Formation Is Proof of Global Flood

By UCN on January 3, 2012 12:29 PM

Greg Morgan of West Richland, a nuclear safety engineer at Hanford, shows a photograph he took of The Wave at Paria Canyon in northern Arizona. (Paul T. Erickson/Tri-City Herald)

A swirling, twisting sandstone formation in northern Arizona is evidence of Noah's flood, says a West Richland man who recently visited the unusual geologic phenomenon.

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