Bayfield church to offer Vacation Bible School
Calvary Presbyterian Church, 89 E. Mill St. in Bayfield, will offer “Weird Animals Vacation Bible School” from 8:30 to 11:45 a.m. June 9 to June 13.
The Bible school is open to children from age 3 to the sixth-grade. They will participate in Bible-learning activities, sing songs, play teamwork-building games, make treats, experience Bible adventures, collect Bible Memory Buddies and test out Sciency-Fun Gizmos.
Kids will learn to look for evidence of God all around them through God sightings. Each day concludes with “The Tail End” – a celebration to get everyone involved in living what they’ve learned.
Family members and friends are encouraged to join. Kids will join an international mission effort to provide water for school children in India.
For more information, call 884-2189. Registration is available at groupvbspro.com/vbs/ez/calvarykidz.
On-site registration will start at 8:15 a.m. June 9.
Dinosaur to go on display at Creation Museum
PETERSBURG, Ky. – A new exhibit of a 30-foot-long fossil skeleton of an Allosaurus, which resembles a Tyrannosaurus rex, is set to open at a Kentucky museum that asserts dinosaurs lived alongside humans a few thousand years ago.
A release from Answers in Genesis, the Christian ministry that owns the Creation Museum, said about 50 percent of the skeleton’s bones were recovered when it was found in Colorado more than a decade ago. Keeping with its Bible-themed approach, the Creation Museum says the dinosaur died in a worldwide flood about 4,300 years ago. Scientists say the last dinosaurs roamed the Earth more than 60 million years ago.
Museum founder Ken Ham said the new exhibit “will help us defend the book of Genesis and expose the scientific problems with evolution.” The new exhibit is called “Facing the Allosaurus” and has the skeleton as its massive centerpiece. It opens Saturday.
“Evolutionists use dinosaurs to reach children more than anything to promote their worldview,” Ham said. “Our museum uses dinosaurs to help tell their true history according to the Bible.”
The Allosaurus was a large carnivore that lived in North America during the late Jurassic period about 150 million years ago, according to Mark Clementz, a paleontologist at the University of Wyoming.
School board members met privately on Bible class
OKLAHOMA CITY – Emails to school board members and school administrators in a district that approved a Bible-based curriculum show they broke into small groups for meetings with the program’s chief backer to circumvent a law requiring government bodies to meet in public.
The emails obtained by The Associated Press show the April 14 meetings – with Steve Green and other members of the Museum of the Bible curriculum team as well as the president of the Hobby Lobby arts and crafts store chain – occurred just hours before the Mustang School Board approved the course as an elective.
The Mustang superintendent acknowledged insisting on separate presentations at the direction of Green and his public relations representatives. Sean McDaniel said having parents or media there could have been “confusing and awkward.”
Judge dismisses atheists’ challenge to IRS
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A federal judge in Kentucky has dismissed a lawsuit brought by an atheist group challenging tax exemptions for churches and religious groups in the federal tax code.
U.S. District Judge William O. Bertelsman ruled that American Atheists Inc. was speculating about being potentially injured by the tax code or treated differently from other organizations because it’s never sought to be classified as a religious organization or to get its attendant tax benefits.
The New Jersey-based American Atheists sued the IRS in federal court in northern Kentucky in 2013, saying the tax-exempt status granted to religious organizations is discriminatory and should be ruled unconstitutional.
Bertelsman found the regulations for tax-exempt organizations don’t favor any group over another.
American Atheists President Dave Silverman says the organization will appeal.
Herald Staff & Associated Press
