Harry Potter Casting

More Harry Potter 5 Casting
Source: CBBC Newsround, February 13, 2006


CBBC Newsround reports that more of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix cast members have been revealed.

According to the site, Amelia Bones, the Head of the Magical Law Enforcement Office, will be played by Sian Thomas.

The Dursleys will definitely be back in the fifth film, after their absence from "Goblet of Fire".

Also, Jason Boyd will play Piers Polkiss, Richard Macklin is Malcolm, Charles Hughes is Young Wormtail, Susie Shinner is Young Lily Potter, Auror Dawlish is Richard Leaf and Nick Shim has been cast as Zacharias Smith.

Gary Oldman is currently in talks to return as Sirius Black.

Darwin Day

At Churches Nationwide, Good Words for Evolution
By NEELA BANERJEE and ANNE BERRYMAN, The New York Times, February 13, 2006


On the 197th birthday of Charles Darwin, ministers at several hundred churches around the country preached yesterday against recent efforts to undermine the theory of evolution, asserting that the opposition many Christians say exists between science and faith is false.

At St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, a small contemporary structure among the pricey homes of north Atlanta, the Rev. Patricia Templeton told the 85 worshipers gathered yesterday, "A faith that requires you to close your mind in order to believe is not much of a faith at all."

In the basement of an apartment building in Evanston, Ill., the Rev. Mitchell Brown said to the 21 people who came to services at the Evanston Mennonite Church that Darwin's theories in fact had compelled people to have faith rather than look for "special effects" to confirm the existence of God.

"He forced religion to grow up, to become, really, faith for the first time," Mr. Brown said. "The life of community, that is where we know God today."

The event, called Evolution Sunday, is an outgrowth of the Clergy Letter Project, started by academics and ministers in Wisconsin in early 2005 as a response to efforts, most notably in Dover, Pa., to discredit the teaching of evolutionary theory in public schools.
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