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SPRING/TOMBALL/CHAMPIONS/KLEIN area:  Trinity Lutheran Church presents a 5 week series on "Debunking Evolution".  The topics each Sunday include:

Jan 1:  Why Creation is important; Icons of evolution                             

Jan 8:  Noah's Flood  Jan 15:  Special Guest Speaker Dr. Jobe Martin!

Jan 23:  Dinosaurs; Thiestic Evolution; Ken Ham video Already Gone (3 simultaneous sessions...your choice!) 

Jan 30:  Age of the Earth

Contact info. available at:  http://www.trinityklein.org/service-times-directions/.  Course series is at 9:30-10:30 Sunday mornings in the old sanctuary/youth chapel.

March 28, 29, 30 Texas Creation School Creation Seminar

Texas Christian School will present their annual three day seminar for high school and home school students and their parents. Speakers will be brought in from all over the nation to present a large selection of seminar sessions in a classroom environment. Speaker schedule and other details available soon.

CALIFORNIA (NEW) CONTINUING: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL): 

From a friend:

...as many of you know there is a lot happening in David Coppedge's lawsuit right now against JPL.  Thankfully, his case recently survived a motion for summary judgment, thanks to some hard work from Bill Becker (and David himself, and many others).  This means his case is probably going to trial sometime in the next few months. It also means that we need people to be putting pressure on JPL to do right by David-i.e. to settle the case in David's favor.  In short, there are things that you can do to help David. Please let me explain.

 If you have an e-mail list, or if you're a blogger (or Facebooker, etc.),  we're asking people to do 2 things this week to help David's case:

 (1) If you have an e-mail list: ASAP Please send an e-mail to your e-mail list asking people to contact JPL and pressure them to do right by David and settle the case favorably.  Below is sample text that you can send them.  You can also link to http://www.discovery.org/jpl for more information.  Be sure to remind people to be respectful in your message, but indicate that as a taxpayer who ultimately pays for the budget of JPL, you think it's wrong to use taxpayer resources to promote discrimination against intelligent design.

 (2) If you are a blogger, Facebooker, Twitterer, etc.: Now through Friday Dec 2, PLEASE post information about David's case supporting him!  Again, below is sample information you can post, and you can refer people to http://www.discovery.org/jpl for more information.     

 Thanks guys-David is one of our own and he needs our support right now.  Happy Thanksgiving.

Stand Up Now for David Coppedge's Right to Speak about Intelligent Design!

Urgent Action Required: Contact the leaders of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and demand they make things right.  

 The Facts  According to a discrimination lawsuit filed in California Superior Court, supervisors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) illegally harassed, demoted and retaliated against computer systems administrator David Coppedge without warning after he occasionally loaned pro-intelligent design science videos to some of his colleagues. Coppedge's actions were deemed inappropriate even though his colleagues were apparently allowed free reign to attack intelligent design in the workplace. After Coppedge filed his discrimination lawsuit, his position was suspiciously terminated by JPL in January 2011. On Nov. 18, 2011, a judge ruled that Coppedge's case presented legitimate issues of fact and law and ordered that the case move forward to a jury trial. Rather than settle the case, the Jet Propulsion Lab has continued to wage legal war on David Coppedge-wasting precious taxpayer dollars in the process.    

 Take Action Now  Your phone calls and emails are urgently needed to get NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab to stop its discrimination against employees who think there is scientific evidence of intelligent design. Contact these JPL leaders right now and ask them to settle the Coppedge lawsuit and stop discriminating against employees who believe the universe was intelligently designed:      

Dr. Charles Elachi, Director of JPL
Office phone: 818 354-5673
Email address: charles.elachi@jpl.nasa.gov
 
Dr. Jean-Lou Chameau, President of Cal Tech [Cal Tech operates JPL under a contract with NASA]
Office phone: 626-395-6301
Email address: chameau@caltech.edu
 
Be respectful in your message, but indicate that as a taxpayer who ultimately pays for the budget of JPL, you think it's wrong to use taxpayer resources to promote discrimination against intelligent design

Previously on the same saga, for reference...

story here:  http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_17275938
more info:  http://www.evolutionnews.org/2010/04/discrimination_lawsuit_filed_a033831.html,
http://www.discovery.org/a/14511

We urge you to contact two individuals to express support for David's free speech and to encourage his complete exoneration and rehiring by NASA.  The first contact is NASA's administrator, Charles Bolden, at 202-358-1010 and charles.bolden@nasa.gov.  The second contact is Texas Congressman Ralph Hall, (R-TX-4), who in the new Congress is chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee that oversees NASA (Phone 972-771-9118, fax 972-722-0907)  If you have Congressman Hall's email, please use that too!  Please politely contact them both.  The message to be communicated to both NASA and Congressman Hall is simple: NASA immediately needs to investigate the harassment, demotion, and firing of intelligent design supporter David Coppedge at its taxpayer-funded Jet Propulsion Lab.  

Note that since we first reported this that additional fax numbers, said to be one of the most effective ways of contacting Congressman Hall, have been sent to us.  Fax and phone numbers for assorted offices are:   

Washington:      fax:202-225-3332 phone:202-225-6673  

Rockwall:        fax:972-722-0907 phone:972-771-9118

Sherman:         fax:903-628-8320 phone:903-628-8309 

Sherman2:        fax:903-868-0264 phone:903-892-1112    

Sulphur Springs: fax:903-439-0874 phone:903-885-8138

Texarkana:       fax:903-794-5577 phone:903-794-4445 

PLEASE FAX and then call to confirm they received the fax! 

San Antonio: 
The San Antonio Bible Based Science Association (SABBSA) usually meets the second Tuesday of each month, 7:00 p.m., at Jim's Restaurant located on the corner of Ramsey and San Pedro, approximately 1 mile outside Loop 410 across from Hovey's Motor Cars.  More info is at www.sabbsa.org.

Dallas-Ft Worth: 
The Metroplex Institute of Origin Science (MIOS) meets at the Dr. Pepper Starcenter, 12700 N. Stemmons Fwy, Farmers Branch, TX, usually at 7:30 pm of the first Tuesday of each month.

Lubbock Area (Crosbyton):
All year: Consider a visit to the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, directed by Joe Taylor. The Museum is definitely worth the visit if you live near or are traveling through the Panhandle near Lubbock. If you call ahead and time permitting, Joe has been known to give personal tours, especially to groups. For more information, visit http://www.mtblanco.com/.