Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aziz es-Saud. After a long struggle, King Hussein's escort repelled the attackers. The trouble between King Hussein and the Emir of Riyadh is over the demarcation of the eastern boundary of Hedjas, the alleged aspiration of King Hussein to the Caliphate and the mooted creation of a Pan-Arab Confederation with King Hussein as Emperor...
...spread abroad 'correct ideas' as to the way in which the world was created," moving pictures have recently been shown in the Court Avenue Presbyterian Church of Memphis, Tenn. They depict Creation, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Deluge. On Jan. 25, William Jennings Bryan was scheduled to be the speaker on how it all happened...
President Hibben, after describing the remarkable growth of participation in such sports, stated that it was due in large measure to the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, which has been principally responsible for the creation and direction of the system...
...York diocese and seven visiting bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church, resplendent in gorgeous robes and glittering jewelled crowns. Bishop Manning, who pontificated, used the new pastoral staff which was presented by the diocese of London, England. In his subsequent address he predicted that "the Cathedral would be a creation of art and religion in which our whole country will take pride. It will be one of the greatest buildings in the world, it will be a witness for God, and for the things of the Spirit, the power of which will be felt not only in this metropolis...
Much of the present conflict is due to the popular tendency to confuse evolution with Darwinism. The idea of evolution, as opposed to special creation, was known long before Darwin?even to the Greeks, in fact. All that Darwin did was to suggest a plausible explanation of how it might have occurred. Some parts of Darwin's explanation have since been called in question. The influence of natural selection, his favorite theory, is not agreed upon; his emphasis on Lamarck's doctrine of the inheritance of characters acquired by environmental factors such as use and disuse is now largely discredited...