Show Section Thursday March 21 2002 Pagel The Herald Journal empty in Afghanistan Missionaries WdiMl G Bingham son of Ron and auL mumsa nnev mnonsm or nyiuni rsosnay Item toe Brazl Joao Paaaoa LOS Miaaton Ha wi apaak at 1050 am Sunday In tha NUoy 3rd Vttmt Hyrum North Slaka Cantar KABUL Afghanistan — Hamir Jan who has been a mullah in KAul for 32 years remembers when hjindreds of people came to his mosque every day ’ Today his mosque is mostly die82some and on days empty cleric prays alone year-ol- d The TUiban’s strict approach to Islam fintced every Afian to be a radical Muslim For the six years the militia ruled the country men had to go to the mosque seven times a day and grow long beards — or face public beatings or even jail Women had to quit their jobs cover their Bream aon ol Jeff and Jana Bream of North Logan haa accepted a cal to aarva In tha Florida Orlando Miaakxi Ha apaaka at 2 pm Sunday In tha North Logan 3rd Ward 1880 N 400 East Ha wi anter tha Missionary Training Cantar April 10 ' AaMon Elliott Call aon ol Ron and Kathy Cal of Providanca haa aocaptad a cal to aarva In tha Hungary Budapest LOS Mission Ha apaaka at 10:50 am Sunday In lira Providanca 6th Ward 355 Canyon Rd He enters toe MTC Aprl 3 Qarratt Child aon of Doug and Bronda Chid of North LOgan haa accepted a cal to aerve In lha CaWomia Long Beach LDS Mission Ha apaaka at 9 am Sunday In tha North Logan 5th Ward 2750 N BOO East Ha antaro tha MTC on Match 27 Kant Christensen aon of Jbn and Maigo Chrfatanaan of Milvfile haa accepted a cal to aarva In tha Ruaaia Yekaterinburg LDS Minton Ha apaaka at 1020 am Sunday In tha millvilla jet Ward 110 8 Main Ha enter the Miaaionary Training Cantar on ' April 3 “When the Taliban came they defamed the name of Islam’’ said Jan who is still devoted to his faith “They beat everyone they forced people to (my People became disillusioned in Islam because of the Tal- faces and their entire bodies with burqas and leave their houses only with their husbands or fathers moveBut now that the hard-lin- e ment’s strong grip on Afghan society has been released —7 even in the countryside where support for it was strongest — some people are not sure they want to be Muslim at By Anna Badkhan San Francteoo Chronicle iban” Mazar-e-Shar- ‘Intelligent design’ gains ground in Ohio debate but educators seem skeptical By Richard N Oatilng AP Religion Writer of an Ohio of Education Up for discus- whether high biology students should be told about potential problems with Darwinism and evidence that life on Earth was planned About 100 parents teachers and students showed up for the meeting — which was moved to an auditorium to accommodate the crowd They listened to the pros and cons of a concept knowh as intelligent design which says there’s evidence Stakes of Darrel and Annette Egan of Trenton recently returned from tha South Carolina Columbia LDS Mission Ha speaks at 9 am Sunday In tha Trenton Ward 1200 N 400 Vtest John Ford son of Unda Gerstnsr of Smlthfield has aocaptad a call to serva In tha Florida Jacksonville LDS Mission He will speak at 10:50 am Sunday in tha SmHhftokl 4th Ward 155 W 400 North Ha enters tha Missionary Training Canter April 3 that some form erf intelligence purposely designed nature The board must revamp the state science curriculum by December and some Ohioans want it to include intelligent design or ID alongside Darwin’s theory of evolution in curriculum guidelines for statewide testing' Stephen Meyer of Seattle’s Discovery Institute the leading ID think tank told the board that rather than making ID part of the curriculum it should merely encourage teachers to cover the disagreements about Darwinism the discussion “We just-wan- t opened up because we feel the evidence is runnjng'strongly in our favor” Meyer said after the hear-in- g Ban Glttlnd aon of Jeffry R and Lynda has accepted a cal to Carolina Raleigh LDS Mission He speaks at 10:40 am 8unday In tha 8mHhflekf 2nd Whrd 175 S 100 West He enters the MTC on March 27 GMtos of Smkhftoid servo In the North 8 Jacob GWtUI aon of Steven GtaMI of North Logan and Janet Johnson of Idaho Falls has accepted a call to serve In tha Pennsylvania Pittsburgh LDS Mission He ' speaks at 9 am Sunday In tha North Logan 9th Ward 1105 E 2100 North He enters tha MTC on April 10 Xt" ' V' Andrew Halpingetlno son of Christerie Heipingstine of Logan and Garry Heipings-tln- a of Susahvlle California has accepted a cal to same in tha Texas San Antonio LDS Mission He speaks at 950 am 8unday In tha Brkfgarland Park 2nd Ward 250 W 1200 North Ha enter the Missionary Training Canter on April 3 © Dr Kenneth Miller from Brown University1 Department of MoMctilarBlology Cell Biology and Biochemistry addresses the Ohio State Board of Education Standards Committee during a panel dbcussion March 11 hi Columbus Ohio V Chrtrtoohw Tarry Huote ton of ttw late' Terry F Hugie and Shanrta C Huai of ' Hyrum has accepted a cal to serve Inr the New York UUca LDS Mission Ha speaks at 1 pm8undoy In toe Hyrum 1st Ward 600 N 200 East He enters the MTC Aprl 3 ' —Stephen Mayer Institute Discovery v" v' I ' n £ - 'Ore AP photo iljy The Qfto State Board (rf Education Standarife ' Wtotam Phelps sort of Ned text DeNeioa Photo of Newton recently returned from ' the Lithuania Vilinus LD8 Mission' He speaks at 1050 am Sunday at tha Newton issue 2ndWard128outh100Westv"’ Mika Richardson sonof Mike (Chunk) ' and Ronna Richardson of Hyrum has returned from lha New Zealand Auckland LDS Mission Ha speaks Sunday 1 pm at : toe Hyrum lOtti Ward 111 N 400 VtfssL ' because it uses present-rfe- y language with “significant improvements in scholarship” Tf hard toimagine' more conflict-- 1 Gilbert Bilezikian of Wheaton College in Illinois alo calls it “the ing opinions than what conservative beet translation” while his faculty evankal scholars arelsaying about the New Testament of Txlay’s colleague Gary Burge proclaims it 'r J New' International Version The '“spieaiid” in “every respect’ txxrfc doesn't go on sale until April m But aige Patterson president of Souiheastern Baptist Theological bid ahrady there’s a furor about its ' : Seminary in North Carolina says terminology John Kohlenberger editor of Today’s NIV is “singly dishonest ' ’ v and grossly' unfeir to die writers of standard concordance of mbiical words in Gredc judges it “die finest Scripture Further it is an insuh to ' die English language” English translation available” r- - Ji i Juatln Greg Smith son of Smtth bf ‘8mithflald an0 Greg and Sue Ann Smith of SmkhttskL haa aocaptad a cal to serve to the Washington Seattle LDS Mission He wN - 1 apeakat9amSundaytotha8mlthliald5th i Ward 600 E 120 South Ha enters the sioriary Tabling Center on Aprif 10 1 "i"' ‘'i-- oroon V ' - Ml- J i bibmb ton ov nicnwo snntren Steals of Logan has recently returned from the Argentina Rosario LDS Mission He llto speaks at 9 am Sunday to toa Logan ‘ v Ward 100 B 200 South s A 's -: ' ') Condnuad on CIO ft c l u A i i A - w vivw ryi gender-inclusi- Ij ve : " V1 : 5 y r C ' ' Most major translations used tin- - ditional maJe nouns and pronouns until the New Revised Standard Ver sion of 1989 Tpb RSY and Today's NIV reWork terms about refer-humanity but don’t de-gen- See DARWIN on CIO r ence8 to God or Jesus Christ ‘Today’s NIV” rouses high principles on both sides and high com- -' mercial stakes since evangelicals dominate th4 US Bible market - r Moreover thp Internadomd Bitle ' SqdetyaiklZoiidervari publishers release their disputed New Tfesta- ment just after favorable reception for a rival evangelical translation' die English Standard Version a full Bite widi Old Testament bocshat' Revised updates the decades-oStandard Version kl a !'V- v r Most ID thinkers cluster around the Discovery Institute’s Crater for the Renewal of Science and Cul- hire founded in 1996 and the Access Research Network estalv lisbed at Colorado Springs Cold : r Other scholars joined James Dob- son a popular Christian nujioper-sonalit- y in saying the new translation obscures ’“the true idrati-ty'- of Jesus Christ” and violates die Scriptures — severe charges since evangelical PTOtestants believe God directly inspiidd each Greek and ! Hebrew word in die Bible By Rlchahl iiOetUng AP Religion Witter The US Supreme Court has ruled creationism is too biblical fix public schools and ID proponents sought to distinguish themselves from that label in a long Utah Law Journal article arguing that ID is fit for public schools University of Wisconsin historian Ronald L Numbers an ID opponent and author of “The Creation- ists” agrees the creationist label is inaccurate when it comes to the ID movement But he adds it’s “the easiest way to discredit intelligent ' design” Committee begin a pand discussion to ' consider whether the concept of Intefligent design should be added to the state’s Mi- enca curriculum Hundreds of panihts teachers and atudants gathered to hear ederv- tiste wbo support teaching evolution square off against this proponents of design - i ' ' V' ‘t n running strongly in oiir fever” Todd G Nelson son of Virginia and Gaorga Naiaon of Logan bas been caled to aerve to Ihe Oregon Portland LDS Mission He wN speak at 1250 pm Sunday to tha Cogan 1st Ward 110 W 100 South Ha enters the Mtoatonary Training Cantar April 10L : ’ discussion opened up because we feel the evidence is Ryan Steven Olsen son of Steven L and VeeDawn Olsan of 8mlthfield has accepted a call to serve In tha Georgia Atlanta LDS Mission He speaks ai 2:20 pm 8un(tey to tha SmKhfieid 1st Ward 175 South 100 Waat 4 Whatever the board decides the Ohio discussion has brought new attention to the fledgling ED movement a small academic faction but one that flexes considerable o We just want the 3 - ge 66 ' ’ - : AP photo ' Landon Lae Jacobson son of Roas and Kaye Jaoobson of Ntitoy has bean caled to serve In the Mnois Chicago LDSMiaaion He wit speak at 1250 pm 8unday to lha Nibiey 2rtd Ward 390 W 3200 South Ha enters the Mlaatotiaiy Training Cpnter April VhA “ Ralph and Gloria Holt have aocaptad a cal to serve at the Nauvoo IHnotaTempto They wB apeak at 150 pm Sunday in the Sffllthlletd 6th Ward 600 Eaat 120 South ’ Proponents say evolution is typi- cally taught to mean life emerged on Earth spontaneously and that only undirected natural selection produced the varied life forms But they contend the best evidence indicates that scenario is fantastical ly unlikely Intelligent design arguments touch on everything from the fine-tuned structure of the universe described by modern physics to the information encoded in DNA to make their point But “intelligent design isn’t sci- ence” the board was told by Lawrence Krauss physics chairman at Case Western Reserve University Another opponent Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education warns ID would bring religion into biology classes even though advocates scrupulously avoid naming thie intelligence they see behind the universe : “Look it’s God not a little green man” Scott says “We know that” The Massachusetts Institute of ' Technology Press signaled ID’s growing importance in January issuing an 805-paanthology titled “Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics” That book title depicts ID as a variant of creationism which reads Genesis literally and says the Earth was formed thousands of years ago — rather than billions — all species appeared immediately and a flood engulfed the globe Yet ID actually insists on none of that And while creationists are mostly conservative Protestants ID theorists come from a wider range " of faiths and some are nonreligious were high Monday Caaey Egan son ' matters tithe dassc’diKnm? ddd He entera the MTC on April 10 ' ’ 1980s Now although the country continues to call itself an Islamic state and enforces Shariah law many say that CharNa Edwafda aon of Gian and Barbara Edwards of SmNhffeld has accepted a cal to servo In tha CaMomia Oakland LDS Mission Ha speaks at 12:50 pm Sunday In the SmithfMd 7th Ward 79 E 200 South ’"'1 -- to die religion despite the temporary spread of Buddhism in the 900s the invasion of die pagan troops of Genghis Khan in the 13th century and die atheistic propaganda that marked the Soviet occupation in the Most Afghans say they consider themselves devout Muslims but few pray five times day as the Koran instructs In cities like Kabul and if muezzins’ calls for evening prayer now go virtually unnoticed as men gather in restaurants for dinner instead of going to the mosque KaNan DdnnaM aon of Etoart and Debbie Donnal of Providanca haa aocaptad a cal to aarva In tha ArkanaaaUttla Rock LDS Mission He apaaka at 9am Sunday In tha Providanca 4th Ward Ha enters tha MTC on March 27' ’) Afghanistan ’became Muslim ' 1400 years ago and stayed faithful all ©roaftiidDiniiisinrc Islam no longer plays the leading role it once had “Twenty years ago when the Soviets invaded people were united by Islam’’ said Ali Asghar Paiman deputy minister of planning in the interim government (hat came to power in December ‘‘Now they ate united by their desire to have a free state that respects human rights’’ Paiman may be projecting a bit into the future given the ethnic rifts and wariordism that still plague the country But what does seem clear is that religion as a national priority has been replaced by more pressing |