Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transition period for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Such a goal seems all but impossible, however, considering the seriousness of the unresolved issues. Israel wants to talk about a limited form of "autonomy" for the area; Egypt seeks an agreement that would lead to the eventual creation of a Palestinian state...
...help schools achieve these goals I've proposed increasing the state contribution to the costs of education to a full 50 per cent. This, coupled with the creation of a Massachusetts Educational Foundation to encourage innovation and collaboration between public and private institutions and educational establishments will get public education in this state to the position it must occupy in the '90s--a position of excellence...
...Arkansas law had a surface plausibility: it merely required that if public schools teach the theories of "evolution science," they must also teach the theories of "creation science." But last week Federal Judge William Overton had little trouble determining that something constitutionally improper was going on under that surface. "The two-model approach of the creationists is simply a contrived dualism," wrote the judge. Creation science "is not science because it depends upon supernatural intervention, which is not guided by natural law." And since it is not science, "the conclusion is inescapable that the only real effect...
...Overton did not think that questions about Darwin's theory strengthened the creationist claim that their theory should be taught as a science. Under the law, for example, schools were directed to provide students with the evidence for the sudden creation of the universe out of nothing. Overton found that concept wholly religious. Perhaps mindful of a poll showing that 76% of the U.S. public favors the teaching of both theories, the judge was careful not to "criticize or discredit any person's testimony based on his or her religious beliefs." But, he noted, no group...
Fundamentalist lawyers believe they will make a better fight of it in an upcoming federal trial on a similar law in Louisiana. Unlike Arkansas, Louisiana will not have to defend as pure science the hardline beliefs in a worldwide flood at the time of Noah, or the "relatively recent" creation of the world-about 10,000 years ago. The Louisiana law, says Attorney General William Guste, "requires only the teaching of facts that point to creation and does not say what facts. The Arkansas law mixes science and religious teaching. Louisiana's law does...