[Sly Fox]

...Offering a scholarship larger than that awarded to the winner of the most recent Miss America Pageant, a Christian apologetics ministry has announced a contest designed to encourage students to defend the Bible and its authority. The competition in "Research Paper Challenge 2007" is open to students between the ages of 14 and 21 -- and sponsor Answers in Genesis (AiG) says it hopes to help raise up the next generation of "scripturally grounded defenders" of the Christian faith. AiG president Ken Ham says science, as it is taught in most of the nation's schools, has a detrimental influence on culture. "Today's public schools are saturated with evolutionary thinking and immorality," says the popular speaker. "By showing youth the gaping holes in evolutionism and pointing to the Bible, we can help rescue this generation from doubt and purposelessness." First prize in the Challenge is a $50,000 scholarship to Liberty University, a Christian college in Lynchburg, Virginia. Details on the contest are available online at ResearchPaperChallenge2007.com. - Jody Brown

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