Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flavin's reach exceeded his grasp so far that the lines seemed at times only to mock his genuine imaginative creation. Occasionally, he lapsed into blank verse. Lapsed is the word. Or possibly it was the terrible playing...
...Paleontology (the science of extinct vertebrate organisms) at Yale University, one of the leaders in his field, Director of the great Peabody Museum to be opened in New Haven within a few days. He, a believer that "Man . . .like other forms of life, is not the result of instantaneous creation, but of an orderly and long-drawn-out evolution," that "Man comes of a very ancient lineage," which measures "the dignity of his attainment"-he, Professor Lull, is himself an example of the dignity of that attainment: a "fine physical specimen," over 6 ft. in height, sturdy, straight...
...only hope lay in the Christian Religion. Practically everyone agrees with him here. But what has this to do with Evolution? I myself believe in both Christ and Darwin, and fail to see the wisdom of not doing so. True, the theory blows into bits the idea of the Creation as told in the Old Testament. Our Religion is founded on the New Testament, and has little to do with the Old. I think science is strengthening religion, not destroying it. The more we study the facts, and begin to realize that this universe is not a hodge-podge...
...confined to the backwoods of Tennessee, but is nation-wide. Oklahoma passed a law against teaching evolution in the schools, many states will hire no teachers who believe in evolution, while not a few states require by law that the King James Bible with its account of the creation in the Book of Genesis shall be read an taught. Similarly appalling is the list of states where anti-evolutionist laws like that of Tennessee are pending. Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, West Virginia, Arkansas, California, lowa, Illiginia, North Dakota, Minnesota, Oregon, and Arizona...
...EARTH-Archibald MacLeish-Houghton-Mifflin ($1.25). Death is the beginning of creation. Science explains: "The Nitrogen Cycle. . . ." Poet MacLeish says...