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Throughout the day, Ronaldo was “talking and laughing” with his pals, the source tells Us, but “most of his attention was directed at the girl. They didn’t make out, but they were being very affectionate.”

Shirtless and wearing very short men’s swimming trunks, Ronaldo, 25, spent Fourth of July at the pool at NYC hot spot Soho House.

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“The hot chick,” the New York Post reports,Iceberg, was his girlfriend of six months, Russian model Irina Shayk (she is not believed to be the mother of is child).

Even though he just welcomed a son (he is not revealing the mother’s identity), he looked “totally relaxed,” the source tells Us, “not the least bit stressed.”

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Soccer stud Cristiano Ronaldo — who announced over the weekend that he has welcomed a son — took a break from diaper duty over the weekend.

“He was with a small group of friends — two girls and two guys — but he was clearly on a date with one of the girls,” a witness tells UsMagazine.com. “He spent the day canoodling with the hot chick and enjoying dips in the pool.”

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Under the agreement, BP committed to pay $20 billion into an independently managed fund over four years,Juicy Couture t-shirts, suspend dividend payments for the rest of the year and pay $100 million to workers idled by the six-month moratorium on deep-sea drilling that the Obama administration imposed after the spill.

Svanberg promised to make sure damage claims are handled swiftly and fairly.

"We will continue to hold BP and all other responsible parties accountable," Obama said at the White House. "And I'm absolutely confident BP will be able to meet its obligations to the Gulf Coast and to the American people."

An April 20 explosion on an offshore rig leased by BP killed 11 workers and ruptured a deep-sea well. The ensuing spill has fouled 120 miles of U.S. coastline, imperiled multibillion-dollar fishing and tourism industries and killed birds, sea turtles and dolphins.

"I do thank you for the patience that you have during this difficult time," BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said. "I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies who don't care. But that is not the case in BP. We care about the small people."

Obama had pressed BP to set up a fund administered by a third party after hearing first-hand complaints from Gulf Coast residents that BP's claims process was too complicated and the company was paying out too little money.

Chief Executive Tony Hayward, the public face of BP's response to the disaster, will appear on Thursday at a congressional hearing where he will face intense scrutiny over events leading up to the spill and BP's cleanup of the mess.

"THEY'LL NEED MORE"

The deal gave Obama his most tangible success since the crisis began 58 days ago and came after weeks of criticism of his handling of the disaster. It also eased U.S. pressure on BP, whose share price has withered amid uncertainty over the spill's cost to the British energy giant.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Under intense pressure from President Barack Obama, BP Plc agreed on Wednesday to set up a $20 billion fund for damage claims from its huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill and suspended dividend payments to its shareholders.

Obama announced the agreement after White House officials held four hours of talks with BP executives, who emerged to offer an apology to the American people for the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

The fund will be administered by Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration official who oversaw compensation for executives at companies that received federal bailout funds.

While Obama stressed the agreement would not cap BP's total liabilities, Wall Street appeared to cheer the small dose of clarity the deal provided, driving up the company's share price by 1.5 percent in New York.

"If you add it all up together — everybody in shrimping, fishing, the whole industry — by the time this is all gone I think they'll need more than $20 billion," Bartholomew said.

BP said in a statement it would cut three quarters of dividends, significantly reduce its investment program and sell $10 billion of assets to create the fund.

With thousands of Gulf Coast commercial fishermen largely idled by the spill, Louisiana shrimper Clifton Bartholomew, 21, wondered whether $20 billion would be enough.

The commitments are harsher penalties than most investors had hoped for. They had not expected BP to be forced to sell assets and cut investment — moves that would curb its growth.

BP said it would cancel the first-quarter dividend due for payment on June 21 and would not declare interim dividends for the second and third quarters of 2010. The payouts were expected to be about $2.6 billion per quarter, in line with recent quarters.

"STRONG AND VIABLE COMPANY"

Obama stressed BP was "a strong and viable company, and it is in all of our interests that it remain so."

The oil giant represents a large part of investment portfolios in Britain. Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron talked about the issues around the spill last weekend.

BP's shares gyrated in volatile New York trading,Moncler, dropping as much as 5 percent before swinging to positive territory on news of the agreement on the fund, known as an escrow account.

"It's a step in the right direction for BP but unfortunately I cannot say the same for Tony Hayward because it is going to get tougher for him," said Fadel Gheit, managing director of oil and gas research at investment firm Oppenheimer & Co in New York

"Tomorrow he's going to be in the hot seat under glaring lights and tremendous animosity and criticism" at the hearing.

The BP chief executive will tell lawmakers the entire oil and natural gas industry needs to be better prepared for deepwater accidents, according to his prepared testimony.

That is an apparent response to attempts by rival oil companies to distance themselves from BP's disaster at a hearing on Tuesday.

As BP stock saw some relief, shares in Anadarko fell 3.69 percent and Transocean lost 3.09 percent in New York. Anadarko is part owner of the blown-out well and Transocean owned the rig that blew up.

Back in the Gulf, BP said it started a second system to siphon oil from the leak on Wednesday, a day after a team of U.S. scientists raised their high-end estimate of the amount of crude oil flowing from the well by 50 percent to between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels per day.

The $20 billion figure is roughly equal to BP's average annual profits over the past four years. BP is expected to report net profits of $18.9 billion in 2010, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S consensus estimates.

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Breaking the Cease-Fire Between Science and Religion

What is portrayed as the debate between religion and science feels increasingly like watching the very bitter dissolution of a doomed marriage. The relationship started out all roses and kisses, proceeded to doubts and regrets, then fights and silences, a mutually agreed separation, and finally to curses and maledictions: “I wish you were dead!”

In a recent Wall Street Journal opinion article, cosmologist Lawrence Krauss declared “the inconsistency of belief in an activist god with modern science.” Krauss’s essay was the latest eruption of a vituperative argument going on in the scientific community over “accommodationism.”

Accommodationists hold that even atheists should present science to the public as an intellectual activity compatible with religion. Critics of this position include those like University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne, who lashes out at the accommodationists because, as he wrote in an essay in The New Republic, “a true harmony between science and religion requires either doing away with most people’s religion and replacing it with a watered-down deism, or polluting science with unnecessary, untestable, and unreasonable spiritual claims.”

On the accommodationist side, there are forlorn figures like science journalist Chris Mooney. In a new book, “Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future” (Basic Books), Mooney chides popular blogger and University of Minnesota biologist P.Z. Myers, an ebullient atheist, for publicly desecrating a Catholic communion wafer — an “incredibly destructive and unnecessary” act, Mooney complains, “exacerbating tension between the scientific community and many American Christians.”

Anti-accommodationists like bestselling atheist biologist Richard Dawkins, meanwhile, charge the accommodationists with hypocrisy. Says Dawkins in a recent documentary, “They are mostly atheists, but they are wanting to — desperately wanting to — be friendly to mainstream, sensible religious people. And the way you do that is to tell them that there’s no incompatibility between science and religion.” The debate seems to come down to whether religious people are potentially useful idiots, or simply idiots.

Of course, it wasn’t always like this. The origins of modern science, from about 1300 onward, were overwhelmingly religious. Isaac Newton regarded the universe “as a cryptogram set by the Almighty,” in John Maynard Keynes’s phrase. Scientists from Copernicus to Kepler, Boyle, Linnaeus, Faraday, Kelvin and Rutherford all sought to understand God through His creation. Because nature was the product of a mind acting freely, it made sense to them to try to understand that mind through its actions.

In his new book “Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design” (HarperOne), my Discovery Institute colleague Stephen Meyer writes about his days as a Ph.D student at Cambridge University, contemplating the entrance to the great Cavendish Laboratory where Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of DNA’s double helix. In 1871, Christian physicist James Clark Maxwell had instructed that the great door be ennobled by an inscription in Latin from the book of Psalms: “Great are the works of the Lord, sought out by all who take pleasure therein.”

On a crash course with this tradition, however, was the Enlightenment narrative, with its insistence that science is destined to push religion to the margins of intellectual life. A turning point came with the triumph of Darwin’s evolutionary theory, purposefully excluding God, over the evolutionary thinking of Darwin’s contemporaries, including such scientific allies as Charles Lyell, Asa Gray and Alfred Russel Wallace, who saw a role for divine creativity in life’s history. In another new book, “The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin” (Regnery), Benjamin Wiker tells this story well. With Darwin’s victory, envisioning a universe without design or purpose, God seemed on the way to being banished from scientific thought.

Over the ensuing century and a half, tension built as the logical consequences for religion became harder to deny. Yet a détente was generally upheld. In 1999, Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould summed up its terms as a kind of truce under the acronym NOMA, or “Non-overlapping magisteria.”

In this view, science and religion occupy totally separate realms of inquiry. Science is about facts, about reality, while religion is about values. Religion should be respected if it makes no claim to describe anything real and agrees not to challenge any idea accepted by most scientists.

Yet even the terms of NOMA are now being withdrawn. Today in academia, a believer like Evangelical Christian genome scientist Francis Collins, or like Catholic biologist Kenneth Miller at Brown University, can count on being ridiculed by the anti-accommodationists. In academia, where reputation is everything, you would not want to be an ambitious young scientist in their mold.

This is despite the fact that both men strenuously deny that there can be any empirical evidence of God’s creativity in nature. Still faithful to NOMA, they affirm that the history of life could have produced intelligent creatures very different from human beings for God to enter into a relationship with. Perhaps “a big-brained dinosaur, or… a mollusk with exceptional mental capabilities,” as Miller has speculated, surrendering the basic Judeo-Christian belief that the human face and body mysteriously reflect the image of a non-corporeal God.

That may sound as if we’ve come to a final parting of the ways between science and religion. However, it all depends on what you have in mind when you speak of “science.”

Must religion indeed accommodate any scientific idea — even if the idea is wrong, even if it’s bad science, ideologically motivated in its origins, intended to explain nature specifically with the view of keeping God out? If that’s what science requires, then of course there can be no reconciliation.

But remember — alongside the secular Enlightenment view of science, there runs a parallel tradition, seeking to explain nature without preconceptions, secular or otherwise. That way of thinking still exists among individual scientists, though it is in need of a good revival. With that tradition — older, grander, more open-minded, even more enlightened, you could say — there is no need for a truce with faith, no need for a separation, no need for a divorce.

While fields of soldiers lay twisted and prone, squinting through tears at the sky above, where was the god to whom so many sent frenzied prayers?

The question has loomed in the background of the Battle of Gettysburg for 146 years, indeed from the time many of those same soldiers might have whispered it in their final breaths.

And it still lacks a definitive answer.

Still, with hundreds of re-enactors and Civil War scholars in Gettysburg for this year’s annual battle commemoration, there was no shortage of educated opinions on the role of God during calamity.

Some said God existed on the battlefield, through small acts of selfless kindness. Some said God saved souls through scripture tracts so prevalent during the war. And some said God worked through the inspirational speeches and religious devotion of the two sides’ leaders.

But people this weekend agreed that, somewhere in those blood-soaked fields, God was there.

The USCC

John Wega long thought something was slightly off with the standard Battle of Gettysburg story. The former bouncer turned molecular biologist said he used to listen to talks on battle strategy and skirmishes, and he took in statistics on the dead and the wounded.

But the standard story is like a two-legged stool, he said - “Something was always missing.”

Further reflection showed him what was missing was an account of the spirituality of the era and how it affected the men who fought, he said.

And further research pointed him unequivocally to one group - the United States Christian Commission.

The USCC was founded in November 1861 through the YMCA, an organization that had come to American from England only a few years earlier. It was born out of a need to help Union soldiers who, until that time, had little access to care after they were wounded, Wega said.

“(The USCC was) focused 70-percent on the needs of the body and 30-percent on the needs of the soul,” Wega said. “And they were loved and appreciated by the troops.”

According to Wega, the USCC fielded a corps of 5,000 delegates over the course of the war, many of whom traveled with the soldiers, often pulling out the wounded under fire. Solely through the work of volunteers, they helped distribute what, in today’s money, would be more than $1 billion worth of goods, Wega said.

They provided everything from socks to stationery, and, through the use of horse-drawn coffee wagons like the one Wega recently had built by Pennsylvania craftsman Keith Whittenberger, members could serve 108 gallons of coffee, tea and cocoa each hour on battlefields to those in need.

“General Sherman called the USCC one of the wonders of the world,” he said.

And it was this selfless service in the name of Christian brotherhood - with USCC members ministering to the wounded on both sides - that compelled Wega to leave 20 years worth of Harvard Medical School seminars and National Institutes of Health work behind and open a museum dedicated to the USCC.

“God’s vision is not shaded by blue or gray,” he said. “And what (the USCC) did during the fighting is a story that needs to be told.”

As the battle moved on from Gettysburg, many of those 20,000 wounded men still strewn across fields and farm lanes, clinging to Bibles and crying out for salvation, found it in the form of the silver badge of the USCC member, Wega said, and that’s an event that cannot be ignored.

“They say the presence of God

was so thick and heavy here then that if a person couldn’t come to the Lord he might never be saved,” he said.

Wega hopes his museum, located at the Jennie Wade birthplace and “the first memorial to those who served,” can now be a place in Gettysburg where visitors find the spiritual resolution for which Wega himself so long searched.

“We’ve lost the reverence for this place somewhere,” he said. “With 50,000 soldiers laying together, praying together, this is one of the most powerful centers of prayer really in the world, but no one realizes it.”

Southern scripture tracts

“With death all around, people tend to look for morality, for something they can hold on to,” said Alan Farley, who has portrayed a chaplain for about 25 of his 30 years re-enacting.

Farley said on both sides of the fighting chaplains served as “the spiritual leader of the troops.” They would minister to the men by reading scripture, answering questions and holding church services based on their particular religious backgrounds, Farley said.

Chaplains also helped distribute some of the more than 200 million pages of gospel tracts printed and circulated through the armies. These were particularly prevalent in the South, Farley said, and soldiers would come together anxiously to talk about and trade whatever tracts they had on them, as each related a different story of love and salvation through God.

One such tract by the chaplain of the 10th Virginia Cavalry titled “Whither Bound?” reads in part, “Would that this tract might make you so uncomfortable and wretched that you would never rest till you found peace in believing.”

Another encourages steadfastness: “A life of piety is not incompatible with the profession of arms. True religion does not interfere with a man’s duty to his country.”

Such urgings served to galvanize the troops for their difficult duty and to put them in touch with a greater power that could help sustain them through fighting, Farley said.

And these loose-leaf pamphlets helped spur in Confederate Civil War camps what has since been called the Great Revival, an event that drew the men closer together and eventually saw more than 150,000 convert and be baptized during the war, Farley said.

In addition, of the 1,200 or so Confederate chaplains, 13 went on to be consecrated as bishops and 12 later were presidents of major colleges, he said.

Farley can’t fully explain why the South, which had only about half as many chaplains as the North, was blessed with such an overwhelming spiritual revolution. But he said it seems God often provides spiritual renewal before a time of great hardship - in this case the Great Revival before Reconstruction.

“And you have to remember, man is fallen by nature,” Farley said. “To just ask where was God during the war misses that in a lot of cases both governments were already not walking his path.”

Farley said questions about God at the Battle of Gettysburg remind him of Abraham Lincoln’s admonishment not to be concerned with whose side God is on but rather to ask, “Are we on God’s side?”

Where is God?

Today, we’ve gone from the power of prayer making Gettysburg the “Altar of the Nation,” to the most haunted town in America, John Wega said. Where once brave men stood steadfast in line and fought for a cause, now merchants sell trinkets, he said, and where once Christians gave up all they had for strangers, now admission is charged.

“We wouldn’t do that at Normandy or the 9/11 site,” he said. “And here we’re talking about death magnitudes higher than in New York.”

The value of small Christian kindnesses so prevalent during the war has been lost, Wega said, and people will continue to suffer until they rediscover its power to heal.

While speaking at his museum, Wega said he recently received a memorable compliment, as a newly diagnosed cancer patient came up to him after his talk saying, “Thank you, thank you, you’re my Chaplain Eastman.”

The story to which she referred, he said, is one of his favorites.

After being wounded in the leg during the fighting at Gettysburg, Chaplain Eastman - who served with the 72nd New York Volunteers - lay in a field thick with the dead and pooled with blood.

He heard someone calling for help, Wega said, but wasn’t able to stand. So the chaplain slowly, painfully rolled across the bloody-wet field until he reached that man and quietly helped him come to Christ.

Later, Wega said, as Chaplain Eastman lay there looking up at the stars in the heavens, he realized even through the shells and the smells and the smoke, “the glory of God still hadn’t dimmed one bit.”

“And it’s never going to,” Wega said. “We just always have to remember where to look for it.”

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