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Evangelicals Split on Climate Change

Christian universities find their own ground on global warming

By Colleen Barry, Newser Staff

Posted May 15, 2007 10:14 AM CDT

(Newser) – American evangelical Christians diverge on the issue of climate change, with one side calling it a hoax and the other exhorting believers—in the Lord as well as the scientific evidence—to work against global warming. The BBC reports on two Christian universities in Virginia... Read full story »

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