New Jersey

New Jersey is one of the thirteen original colonies that formed the United States. It was the third state to enter into the union.

It is nicknamed "the Garden State." It has 127 miles of coastline, including resort areas such as Atlantic City, Asbury Park, and Cape May.

It is home to two famous old universities: Princeton and Rutgers. They are both colonial colleges, the nine colleges chartered in the colonies before the American Revolution. Princeton traditionally claims 1740 as its year of founding, making it the fourth oldest university in the United States; Rutgers, founded in 1766, is the eighth oldest. Princeton is a member of the Ivy League.

New Jersey is also home to famed theologian Frank Rutgers who, in a landmark debate that occured on May 21, 2006, in front of a crowd of 2,000 scholars and rhetoricians at Westland Baptist University, publicly debunked many of evolutionist Richard Dawkins' theories on evolution and God.