Word: creation
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...great hope. The physical discoveries, which have shaken the spiritual faith of some men, are also shaking the philosophic foundations of materialism. I have noticed a new, extremely encouraging disposition on the part of some leading nonreligious scientists. They are beginning to acknowledge that the concept of divine creation should no longer be dogmatically excluded from rational speculation about the origin of the universe. To my mind, there are today startling possibilities for a religious break-through into the secular mind. The time is ripening for a marriage of religion and science...
Died. Dr. Otto Gessler, 80, post-World War I (1920-28) German Minister of Defense, who sanctioned the German Republic's creation of an illegal "black Reichswehr" in violation of the 100,000-man limit set by the Versailles treaty; of a heart attack; in Lindenberg, Germany...
Thus the Big Three machine-tooled the veto formula that was to make possible the creation of the U.N., while making it impossible to put any real restraints on the only countries capable of world...
Gold is a principal proponent of "continuous creation." He does not believe that the universe came into being suddenly at some remote moment in the past. Instead, he thinks that matter is still being created. It "appears" continuously in the form of single hydrogen atoms out in the empty reaches between the galaxies. At first the lonely atoms form a very thin gas; they draw together by gravitational attraction. At last, after billions of years, the atoms gather into stars, and the stars into galaxies...
General Education Ahf, which has led every year since its creation, has not been considered in the popularity chart because it is a required course...