The Worldview in 5 Minutes - 3/07/2016

Monday, March 7th, in the year of our Lord, 2016.

By Mark Robinette

Popular scientific journal PLOS ONE decided Thursday that it would retract a paper it

published earlier this year that credits the "Creator" with the design of the human hand.  

The paper, titled "Biomechanical characteristics of hand coordination in grasping

activities of daily living," was written by a team of four Chinese researchers, who now

say that they did not properly understand the word “Creator.”  The journal’s decision to

retract the article came after a global coalition of scientists revolted against the journal

for appearing to embrace the theory of intelligent design.  The authors of the paper are

asking for the word “creator” to be changed to “nature” and the article kept in the

journal.

On Friday, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz told attendees​ of the

Conservative Political Action Conference that he thinks America is only one U.S.

Supreme Court Justice away from Christians having to go to prison for their faith.  Cruz

warned the audience that a hypothetical liberal appointee to the high court would

eliminate religious liberty protections, saying, "[T]his election is not about one branch of

government; it's about two."

Cruz had a super Saturday when the first two victories of the night called for him early in

Kansas and Maine.  He also received virtual ties in Kentucky and Louisiana, where he lost

but only received two fewer delegates per state to frontrunner Donald Trump.  Trump

still leads the pack with the most delegates.

Marco Rubio earned very few delegates on ​Saturday​ but won Puerto Rico ​yesterday.  

Bernie Saunders soundly beat Hillary Clinton in Nebraska and Kansas but failed to gain

ground on the frontrunner, who won big in Louisiana.

Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, after officially ending his presidential campaign Friday, told

CNN that he will be chairing the Christian get-out-to-vote organization, My Faith Votes,

and, in his words, he “will still continue to be heavily involved in trying to save our

nation."

Christian Headlines reported its findings that Trump’s victories thus far among

evangelicals have been due to his support among nominal Christians rather than the

truly devout in their faith.

It is what some are calling the judicial “shot heard ‘round the world.”  The Alabama

Supreme Court is defying the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that legalized ​homosexual

marriage nationwide.  The state’s firebrand Chief Justice Roy Moore, quoting the 1974

song “Feelings” and comparing the arguments in favor of same-sex marriage to a Greek

tragedy, accused the high court of relying too heavily on emotional arguments in its

ruling last year that gay couples have a constitutional right to marry, saying, “Based

upon arguments of ‘love,’ ‘commitment,’ and ‘equal dignity’ for same-sex couples, five

lawyers . . . have declared a new social policy for the entire country.”  He then called the

SCOTUS decision “lawless” and condemned​ homosexual relationships as “unnatural.”

Hundreds are dead and thousands displaced in central Nigeria after a series of armed

attacks by Fulani cattle herders, largely Muslim, on Christian farmers in the region.  The

death toll is uncertain.

According to Fox News, the United States military is sending nuclear-capable B-52

aircraft to drop bombs on the Islamic State terror group in the coming days.

Country singer Joey Feek died Friday after a courageous battle with cancer.  Her

husband

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