Eden Found?

Some archeologists think they may have found the location of the Garden of Eden. It's a 12-thousand-year-old temple in Southern Turkey that appears to have been intentionally buried around 8,000 B.C.

Of course, the archologists think the Genesis story is only a "folk tale" or "allegory." Nevertheless, it's an amazing and provocative find.

Have a look.

And now for something completely different. Behold...

The Leonard Nimoy Music Site

"Transforming the Global Demographic"

Will the charismatic revival now sweeping much of the Third World change the politics of those nations? That's the question at the heart of a new Pew Research project. Mark Tooley of the Weekly Standard online has an excellent article. Here's the opening graph:

"NOW NUMBERING OVER 500 million, and probably the fastest growing religious movement in the world, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians are transforming the global religious demographic, especially in Latin America and Africa. They comprise nearly half of Brazil's population, and 25 percent of the United States is Pentecostal or Charismatic."

Speaking of BBC Bias. . .

As the Media Blog at National Review Online reports, the BBC is suing to suppress a government report critical of its coverage of Middle East events.

The Anti-BBC

The left-liberal, anti-American, anti-Israel bias of the BBC news service is breathtaking. They consistently make folks like Katie Couric and Tim Russert look like models of objectivity.

Thus, I'm delighed to see some folks in the UK putting forth an alternative--albeit in a web-only form.

Check out the streaming video news at "18 Doughty Street." I wish them well in further breaking the tax-payer funded monopoly stranglehold the BBC has on the broadcast news business in UK (Rupert Murdoch's Sky News notwithstanding.)