Crosstalk Updates

Dr. Jerry Bergman has taught biology, genetics, chemistry, biochemistry, anthropology, geology, and microbiology at the college level for over 32 years. He has 9 college degrees, and over 800 publications in 12 languages, plus 30 books and monographs.

Being politically incorrect can be fatal to anyone’s career--especially when you’re a scientist and your brand of political incorrectness is doubting Darwin.

That’s the subject of Slaughter of the Dissidents, Dr.Jerry Bergman's latest book. This book exposes the anti-Christian persecution that permeates academia and therefore all our institutions. It is the first of five books in a series, with the others also being released, or nearly completed.

Dr. Berman states that we are seeing a fundamental challenge to our civil rights and freedoms in the way Darwin skeptics are being treated in the academic community, and all across America. He says it is time to correct our understanding of the First Amendment, because this discrimination against those who disagree with Darwin is just a small sample of what can happen to anyone, when our those rights are distorted or ignored.

And despite claims to the contrary, many renowned, respected scientists, who have earned doctoral degrees in their specialties from top-ranked universities like Harvard, do not support the theory of evolution, and are not afraid to say so.

Callers asked questions about specific aspects of creation and evolution theories, including "punctuated equilibrium", a literal six-day creation, and the difference between the slow development postulated by evolution, and creation "ex nihilo" (out of nothing) by God who clearly has the power to do so.

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Robert H. Knight is a Senior Writer for Coral Ridge Ministries and a Senior Fellow with the American Civil Rights Union. His latest book is Radical Rulers: The White House elites Who are Pushing America Toward Socialism.

Robert Knight's book, and this Crosstalk program, took a close look at a number of those placed into positions of power and leadership in the Obama administration, starting with Barack Hussein Obama himself. The record shows that throughout his life, Barack Obama has been mentored by--and later has surrounded himself with--individuals who promote socialist ideas, and often advocate activist and aggressive actions in society and in politics to bring them into fruition.

While there have been a few appoints of "czars" by previous administrations to assist in areas not covered by official government agencies or departments, Barack Obama has appointed nearly 40 such "czars" to advise him, and essentially to take control of most areas of our society. Unlike Cabinet officers, most of these "czars" are not "vetted" by the U.S. Senate, and do not require their approval to serve in the Obama administration.

The radical positions of those appointed by Obama were discussed, including:

--Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff
--Mark Lloyd, now at the Federal Communications Commission, who wants conservative talk radio shut down
--Kevin Jennings, the "safe schools czar", who once counseled a student who had been propositioned by a homosexual, to accept it and "use a condom"
--Van Jones, White House environmental adviser, who resigned after his activist past became known, including charges that the Bush Administration orchestrated the attacks on 9/11
--plus Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, Cass Sunstein, and others.

Amazingly, even though much of Barack Obama's past was known during his campaitn for President, the major media outlets largely ignored it. And little was revealed about his "czar" appointees, in some cases not even mentioning them until they made news by withdrawing their nomination or resigning under fire.

Continue reading "Radical Rulers" »

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President Obama is saying he might break out the “nuclear option” when it comes to passing nationalized health care. In this case he’s referring to reconciliation. Reconciliation is the process of passing a bill with just 51 votes as opposed to the normal 61 votes it usually takes in the Senate in order to obtain cloture.

Here’s how it works: The House and the Senate have to pass the same version. Each has passed their own (different) versions at this point in time. This means that lawmakers have 3 options:

1. They can start over, or 2. they can go into Conference Committee and work out the differences between the two bills. This latter option involves merging the two bills into one. The problem with this option is that when it comes out of conference, it would need 61 votes to go to what’s referred to as “cloture”. The Democrats don’t want this option because they don’t have the necessary 61 votes.

Option #3 is the “nuclear option” known as “reconciliation”. This is where the Senate sends its version over to the House and the House passes it. It’s questionable whether there are enough votes in the House to pass the Senate version because some Democrats don’t like what’s missing from the Senate version. However, Nancy Pelosi is saying that if the House will give her the required number of votes to pass the Senate version, it will go to Obama for his signature and at that point it becomes law. She’s basically saying that she’ll come around later with a series of House bills to change or amend the health care bill to make House liberals happy.

Brannon also presented two audio clips. The first one is of a host from MSNBC claiming that the Tea Party movement is giving cover to those who want to kill Black-Americans and Jews.

The second audio clip features Congressman Ron Paul and his son. They comment on how the U.S. appears close to an economic collapse and why the idea that nationalized health care is affordable and won’t add to the national debt is a dubious projection at best.

Continue reading "Best of Crosstalk (First Aired March 3, 2010)" »

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Vic Eliason began this edition of Crosstalk with an audio cut from Americans United for Life Action. The speaker gives an outline of what she feels is the real “end game” for health care reform and what needs to be done to stop taxpayer funding of abortion.

President Obama and the Democrats have set March 18th as the target date for a vote on the pro-abortion Senate health care bill. This means Christians have about two weeks to respond to legislators and communicate their views on this issue. The phone numbers to accomplish this are listed below.

Vic also asked for listener comment on some other stories and issues including:

--Illinois is considering a presumed consent organ harvesting bill. This would allow doctors to harvest organs from citizens that have not given explicit consent to have this done.
--Spy chips hidden in 2.5 million waste bins.
--The idea that the government is the servant of the people may be fading away. We see this as many of today’s civil servants are part of a protected privileged class while at the same time, middle-Americans struggle.
--A bumper sticker says, “Pray for Obama--Psalm 109:8”
--51 critical questions that people want answered by our president.

Continue reading "News Friday" »

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Just like many American homeowners, communities are beginning to experience a growing number of churches that are going into foreclosure, a phenomenon that is not going unnoticed by the secular media.

As Ingrid explains it, ultimately, this is not merely about real estate that churches (and Christian schools) can’t afford. It goes much deeper than that. Claiming that they believe in Jesus, what we have are sick churches and sick Christians that are operating like functional atheists. Instead of getting on their knees exclusively, they instead went directly to the bank, mortgaged their other properties, and now they’re up to their eyes in trouble.

As Christians, we need to be grateful to God for what we have instead of always desiring that which is supposedly bigger and better.

From that perspective, Ingrid mentions an article as well as a video, both of which can be seen by going to http://www.crosstalkblog.com.

--The first is an article by John MacArthur entitled: How Did We Make Such an Evangelical Mess?

--The second item is a 3 minute video by In Jesus Name Ministries that details the persecution of Christians in Orissa, India.

Continue reading "Evangelical Churches in Foreclosure" »

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President Obama is saying he might break out the “nuclear option” when it comes to passing nationalized health care. In this case he’s referring to reconciliation. Reconciliation is the process of passing a bill with just 51 votes as opposed to the normal 61 votes it usually takes in the Senate in order to obtain cloture.

Here’s how it works: The House and the Senate have to pass the same version. Each has passed their own (different) versions at this point in time. This means that lawmakers have 3 options:

1. They can start over, or 2. they can go into Conference Committee and work out the differences between the two bills. This latter option involves merging the two bills into one. The problem with this option is that when it comes out of conference, it would need 61 votes to go to what’s referred to as “cloture”. The Democrats don’t want this option because they don’t have the necessary 61 votes.

Option #3 is the “nuclear option” known as “reconciliation”. This is where the Senate sends its version over to the House and the House passes it. It’s questionable whether there are enough votes in the House to pass the Senate version because some Democrats don’t like what’s missing from the Senate version. However, Nancy Pelosi is saying that if the House will give her the required number of votes to pass the Senate version, it will go to Obama for his signature and at that point it becomes law. She’s basically saying that she’ll come around later with a series of House bills to change or amend the health care bill to make House liberals happy.

Brannon also presented two audio clips. The first one is of a host from MSNBC claiming that the Tea Party movement is giving cover to those who want to kill Black-Americans and Jews.

The second audio clip features Congressman Ron Paul and his son. They comment on how the U.S. appears close to an economic collapse and why the idea that nationalized health care is affordable and won’t add to the national debt is a dubious projection at best.

Continue reading "Nuclear Option on Healthcare Bill?" »

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Vic Eliason opened the phone lines to allow listeners to comment on the following topics of concern to Christians:

--A Texas college campus is locked in a fierce debate after atheist students operate what they call a “smut for smut” campaign that allows the trading of bibles and other religious texts for pornography.

--16 year old Nathan de La Garza, who attends Washington Park High School in Racine, Wisconsin, was sent to the principal’s office for carrying his Bible on his pastor’s recommendation. The assistant principal felt that such an expression of faith could lead to a fist fight.

Continue reading "Bible for Porn Trade /
Christian Student Discrimination" »

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