Neil A. Manson is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and editor of God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science (Routledge, 2003).

Dr. Jay Hollman is a cardiologist at the Ochsner Clinic in Baton Rouge, clinical assistant professor of cardiology at Louisiana State University Medical School and a former president of the American Scientific Affiliation, an organization of Christian scientists. He wrote an essay titled, “Genetics, Medicine and the Image of God” for the Dialogue on Science, […]

Gary B. Ferngren is a history professor at Oregon State University and the author or editor of multiple books on science and religion, including Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction and Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity. He can also be reached via the website contact form.

Nam Soon Song is Ewart Professor of Christian Education and Youth Ministry and director of the Centre for Asian-Canadian Theology and Ministry at Knox College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

An Advocates for Youth report that looks at the period from 1998-2003.

The full report by Mathematica Policy Research Inc. on the effectiveness of four abstinence-education programs. According to the study, released in April 2007, participants “were no more likely than control group youth to have abstained from sex and, among those who reported having had sex, they had similar numbers of sexual partners and had initiated […]

• A poll released Aug. 3, 2005, by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that 78 percent of Americans favor allowing public schools to provide students with birth control information while 76 percent believe schools should teach teenagers to abstain from sex until marriage. Solid majorities in every major religious […]

A January 2004 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, National Public Radio and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, found that 15 percent of Americans want abstinence-only sex education taught in schools, and 46 percent want abstinence taught along with contraception. Only 7 percent said they did not think sex education should be taught […]

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