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Controversy surrounding evolution has had a similarly long shelf life. In 1925, Tennessee made it unlawful for public schools to contradict the "Divine creation of man" by teaching that man instead "descended from a lower order of animals." John T. Scopes, a high school biology teacher in Dayton, taught just that to bring the law into court. Clarence Darrow, the celebrity defense attorney, and William Jennings Bryan, three-time presidential loser and evangelical orator, headlined the opposing legal teams...
...things that were accurate about the effects of tax cuts on revenue and other economic issues,” Nyhan said. “That Mankiw is unwilling to acknowledge that the Bush administration made these claims is exemplary of White House experts who are unwilling to publicly contradict their bosses in the administration...
...final constitution, the language is unique because it specifies that no law can contradict Islam, but in the same sentence, it says that no law can contradict democracy,” Feldman says...
...Upon finishing, I found that I could contradict my thesis about as well as I could defend it, and I still had a list of questions and leads that I wanted to follow. I felt not just relief but wonder that I had finished what began with a bit of unseen evidence, and sadness that the process was over. What began with belief ended with knowledge, experience, and disbelief...
...Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi was quick to clarify that the Pope wasn't excommunicating anyone, and that he did not mean to contradict a recent Vatican document that left it to the conscience of individual politicians to leave the Church on their own if they vote against its teachings. Canon law states that people who participate in abortions - would-be mothers, doctors, nurses - are automatically excommunicated. There has been an ongoing debate about whether this also applies to politicians who vote for abortion legislation. But the Pope's remarks seemed to be a moment of personal candor, leaving...