CBS Evening News Online Edition - 2004-11-22

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[0:00] Hello, I'm Dan Rather and welcome to the

[0:02] CBS Evening News online edition. Just

[0:04] ahead, houses of horror in Fallujah.

[0:08] We'll show you what door-to-door

[0:10] searches revealed. Also, a report you

[0:12] won't see anywhere else, the Bible

[0:15] versus biology. Eye on America takes a

[0:17] hard look at an issue that divides the

[0:20] nation to this day and call it a new low

[0:23] in tastelessness. We'll report on a new

[0:25] video game that's based on the

[0:27] assassination of President John Kennedy.

[0:30] It's all starting now on the CBS Evening

[0:32] News online edition.

[0:35] The US military said today three more

[0:37] Marines and an Army soldier wounded in

[0:40] Iraq have died. That pushed the number

[0:42] of Americans known to have been killed

[0:44] so far in November past 100. It's the

[0:47] second worst month of the war for US

[0:49] forces. In Baghdad, mortar fire hit a

[0:52] residential neighborhood, killing at

[0:54] least one civilian. A brief intense

[0:57] firefight broke out near hotels in the

[0:59] center of the capital. And CBS's Lee

[1:01] Cowan reports US troops in Fallujah made

[1:04] more gruesome discoveries.

[1:08] >> US commanders say their door-to-door

[1:10] patrols have uncovered nearly two dozen

[1:12] houses of horror in the back streets of

[1:14] Fallujah.

[1:15] >> The face of Satan was here in Fallujah.

[1:17] And and I'm absolutely convinced that

[1:18] that that was true. found by Marines

[1:20] following trails of dried blood or the

[1:22] smell of death. Some rooms were hidden

[1:25] behind fake walls or concealed in

[1:27] basement. Residents told troops they

[1:29] only knew the torture chambers were

[1:30] there because they could hear the

[1:32] screams at night.

[1:33] >> We found numerous houses also where

[1:34] people were just chained to a wall for

[1:36] extended periods of time.

[1:38] >> Marines believe they found the place

[1:39] where British hostage Kenneth Bigley was

[1:41] caged and others where American hostages

[1:44] may have been held. Forensics teams are

[1:46] testing blood on the walls and floors to

[1:48] determine who was held there. And

[1:50] intelligence officials are hoping

[1:52] interviews with those already in US

[1:53] custody can uncover even more. Between

[1:56] US and Iraqi forces, more than 1,400

[1:59] people have been detained in connection

[2:00] with the Fallujah operation. But already

[2:02] more than 400 have been released after

[2:04] it was determined they were

[2:05] non-combatants. Officials concede some

[2:07] of the very people responsible for the

[2:09] abductions could already be walking the

[2:11] streets again, planning to restart what

[2:13] had become Fallujah's most notorious

[2:15] industry.

[2:16] >> We've seen a uh a small business grow

[2:19] out of someone that will do the

[2:21] kidnapping and then sell the person

[2:22] they've kidnapped off to one insurgent

[2:24] group or another and they'll basically

[2:26] give them to the highest bidder.

[2:27] >> A cold reality that will stain this city

[2:30] for generations whether the insurgents

[2:32] return here or not. Lee Cowen, CBS News

[2:36] near Fallujah.

[2:37] >> Two weeks after the election, a CBS News

[2:39] New York Times poll finds most Americans

[2:41] are optimistic about the next four

[2:43] years, but only two out of five believe

[2:45] President Bush will be able to unite the

[2:48] nation. This week, CBS looks at some of

[2:51] the issues that divide the nation.

[2:53] Religious issues, for one, including

[2:55] evolution. More than half of Americans

[2:57] say they believe God created humans. 40%

[3:01] say humans evolved. Two out of three

[3:03] believe both points of view should be

[3:06] taught in schools. And therein lies a

[3:08] battle. As CBS's Mark Stman reports in

[3:11] tonight's Eye on America,

[3:14] high school junior Miller Clark's

[3:16] biology book comes with a controversial

[3:18] disclaimer. This sticker inside says

[3:20] Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is

[3:23] a theory, not a fact, that should be

[3:25] critically considered. In Cobb County,

[3:28] Georgia, it's a new twist to an old

[3:30] controversy that packs schoolboard

[3:32] meetings.

[3:33] >> Darwin considered it a theory and it is

[3:35] still a theory. It has never been proven

[3:37] and never will be. Thank you.

[3:39] >> And pits red parents like creationist

[3:41] Marjorie Rogers.

[3:42] >> Let's give them the evidence and then

[3:43] let them make up their own minds.

[3:45] >> Against blue parents like Jeff Selman.

[3:47] >> It's a religious group that wants to

[3:49] take our country away from us and they

[3:51] can't have it.

[3:52] >> [music]

[3:53] >> Dateine, Dayton, Tennessee. July 11th,

[3:55] 1925.

[3:57] >> Several generations after the famous

[3:59] Scopes Monkey trial.

[4:00] >> The final death struggle between two

[4:02] basic human philosophies, fundamentalism

[4:05] versus modernism.

[4:06] >> Creationists in Cobb County, an affluent

[4:08] conservative community, convinced the

[4:10] local school board that disclaimer was

[4:13] necessary. My interest from the start

[4:15] and all along has been that the science

[4:17] that is presented in the textbooks be

[4:19] accurate, which it has not been, be up

[4:23] to-date, which it has not been, and be

[4:26] evenhanded.

[4:26] >> With the reelection of President Bush

[4:28] and new momentum now behind morality

[4:31] issues, the country could be in for many

[4:33] more collisions like the one in Cobb

[4:35] County. According to the National Center

[4:37] for Science Education, that clash is

[4:39] already ongoing in 24 states. American

[4:43] communities struggling with how best to

[4:45] teach students how human life began.

[4:48] Around Atlanta, many families moved to

[4:50] Cobb County just for the schools, which

[4:52] have the highest SAT scores in Georgia.

[4:55] 13 different textbooks touch on

[4:56] evolution, and every one of them has the

[4:59] sticker. A halfozen parents opposed to

[5:01] the stickers sued in federal court as a

[5:04] violation of church and state. Jeff

[5:06] Selman is one of them.

[5:08] >> Does creationism have any place in a

[5:10] science course?

[5:11] >> Not at all. I defend every American's

[5:13] right to believe any which way they want

[5:15] to. I'll stand shoulderto-shoulder with

[5:16] them to defend that right. And on the

[5:18] other hand, I'll stand toe-to-toe and

[5:20] nose tonose with them to defend our

[5:22] right to keep our education pure. A

[5:25] judge's ruling on the sticker could come

[5:26] at any time in this evolution of a

[5:29] familiar collision between biology and

[5:32] theology. In Cobb County, Georgia, I'm

[5:35] Mark Straman for I in America.

[5:37] >> It's here again November 22nd. Like

[5:40] September 11th, an unforgettable dark

[5:42] day on the American calendar. The day in

[5:45] 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was

[5:48] murdered. Today, CBS's Bob McNamera

[5:51] reports, a Scottish company marked the

[5:54] anniversary by releasing a video game

[5:56] that has disappointed and outraged the

[5:58] Kennedy family.

[6:00] >> President's car is now turning on to

[6:01] Helm Street. 41 years down the

[6:03] information superighway, the video game

[6:06] JFK Reloaded may have pushed the

[6:09] cultural bounds of bad taste to a record

[6:11] low. On screen, you are assassin Lee

[6:14] Harvey Oswald with the presidential

[6:16] motorcade in the rifle's crosshairs. And

[6:20] clicking the computer mouse, shots can

[6:22] be fired on the limousine's lifelike

[6:24] passengers.

[6:26] >> But today on Dallas airwaves,

[6:29] conservative talk shows fired back. Uh

[6:31] boy, circle this day in the calendar

[6:32] because I don't always say it. Ted

[6:34] Kennedy is right. This This is pretty

[6:37] despicable.

[6:38] >> Created in Scotland, the game has a

[6:40] dozen replay angles of the recreated

[6:42] murder scene and sound effects of the

[6:44] rifle firing and reloading. The game

[6:47] makers defend it as educational.

[6:50] >> It's a mature approach. We've tried to

[6:52] take a a dignified approach. We

[6:54] understand the the delicacy of the

[6:56] subject, but at the same time, we

[6:58] believe that it's a valuable

[6:59] contribution.

[7:00] >> But what the game really teaches is

[7:02] disputed by video game violence expert

[7:05] Craig Anderson.

[7:06] >> Basically, you're teaching people how to

[7:09] commit antisocial behaviors, in this

[7:11] case, uh, homicide or or an

[7:13] assassination. The game is sold on the

[7:16] internet for under $10, and its makers

[7:19] are offering a $100,000 prize to a

[7:22] contestant who can most accurately

[7:24] recreate the shots fired on the

[7:26] motorcade. At the real Daily Plaza

[7:28] today, many had heard of the game.

[7:30] >> If somebody wants to make money on that

[7:32] event, so be it.

[7:34] >> Is a little tasteless.

[7:35] >> The day of that doomed journey is burned

[7:37] into the American psyche. And even on

[7:40] its 41st anniversary, it is the source

[7:43] of yet another burning controversy.

[7:46] Bob McNamera, CBS News Dallas.

[7:49] >> More stories are just a click away, but

[7:51] be sure to join me on television for the

[7:53] on air edition of the CBS Evening News.

[7:56] On Tuesday's broadcast, what if your

[7:58] pharmacist refused to fill a

[8:00] prescription on what he calls moral or

[8:02] religious grounds? It's happening more

[8:04] and more. A look at why when CBS's Eye

[8:07] on America special series rolls on.