Evolution

Nearly 80 percent of American voters believe that prayer has healing powers but less than half believe the biblical account of creation as told in the Bible.

A Fox News Poll released Wednesday shows that 77 percent of voters believe prayer could literally help heal someone from illness or injury, while just 20 percent do not. Three percent said they were unsure.

More specifically, 93 percent of those who regularly attend religious services said they believe prayer heals; 91 percent of white evangelical Christians, 89 percent of blacks, 85 percent of conservatives, and 84 percent of those who belong to the Tea Party movement agree. more >>

The American Freedom Alliance will be allowed to present a pro-intelligent design event at the California Science Center, two years after it filed a lawsuit against the center.

In a settlement, the center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, paid $110,000 and invited AFA back to its facility after it previously canceled the pro-intelligent design screening.

"This is an historic victory for the ID movement," said Casey Luskin, an attorney and policy analyst with Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture, in a statement Monday. more >>

Former Utah governor and GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman on Thursday used Twitter to respond to comments made by Texas Governor Rick Perry on global warming and evolution. If his strategy was an attempt to set himself apart from his opponents, it may have worked.

“To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy,” Huntsman posted on Twitter.

Huntsman sent the tweet soon after Perry was asked about both topics while campaigning in New Hampshire. Perry’s spokesman Mark Miner said Huntsman was “entitled to his opinion” but that Perry believes students should learn about both creation and evolution. more >>

As Texas Governor Rick Perry has taken the lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, he has also become a target for some of his opponents struggling to gain a foothold in the race by challenging recent statements he made on global warming and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

At a Wednesday campaign stop in New Hampshire, the nation's first primary state, Perry said that climate change is not being caused by humans.

“I think we're seeing almost weekly, or even daily, scientists that are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change,” Perry said. more >>

A species of ancient eel has recently been discovered living in a reef off the coast of the Republic of Palau in the Pacific Ocean.

Scientists say that the eel has retained characteristics that have only been seen in the fossils of eels from the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs walked the Earth and that it is completely unrelated to any of the 819 species and 19 families of modern eels living today.

They have dubbed the eel a "living fossil." The term was coined by Charles Darwin in his book, On the Origin of Species, to describe species that have very slow evolutionary processes and do not undergo dramatic changes in characteristics over millions of years. more >>

The following is an edited transcript of the audio.

How far should we go in teaching creationism in the church? How important or unimportant is it?

I assume the "-ism" on the end of creation has an agenda in terms of the age of the earth or the age of man or whatever. more >>