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...Jones sharply rejected any suggestion that evolution was somehow at odds with religion. ?Both defendants and many of the leading proponents of ID make a bedrock assumption that is utterly false,? he wrote. ?Their presupposition is that evolutionary theory is antithetical to a belief in the existence of a supreme being and to religion in general. Repeatedly in this trial, plaintiff?s scientific experts testified that the theory of evolution represents good science, is overwhelmingly accepted by the scientific community, and that it in no way conflicts with, nor does it deny, the existence of a divine creator...
...important. Walczak pointed to stories from the plaintiffs of how they had been criticized, shunned, and mocked as ?atheists? when they complained, despite the fact that many of the plaintiffs say they are devoutly religious. ?Dover is exhibit A for what happens when the government injects itself into religious belief,? Walczak said...
...tend to think democracies come truly alive only when we elect or throw out a President or Congressman or Senator. But the truth is that sometimes the democratic spirit is more vibrant in the intervals. Democracy is rooted in the impertinent belief that our rulers are no better than we are and that they are answerable always. We're occasionally amazed to discover that people who are used to power forget that. That's why, every now and again, we have to remind them. In that sense, 2005 was a great year for democracy. Because it was reborn this time...
...from most Harvard students. Much of IOP programming is determined by staff, and student influence is limited almost entirely to a small group of insiders, 20-30 unrepresentative students, for whom the IOP is really home. We set out to tear down these walls under a simple belief: the IOP’s resources should be at the disposal of all Harvard students, rather than the province of a narrow...
...somebody?bold was needed to lift the Japanese economy out of its lost decade and recapture the spark that had once lit the most sustained economic miracle the modern world has seen. But Koizumi's legacy now hangs in the balance. If the same self-confidence, the same belief in his own rightness that helped turn the economy around, ends up alienating Japan's neighbors for a generation, he will not easily be forgiven. And Japan will yearn once more for a political life of the stately dullness...