Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quit work at the nearby Pantex plant, which assembles nuclear bombs. Clergy in California and Connecticut have been prominent backers of legislative petitions endorsing a freeze of U.S. and Russian nuclear-weapon production. Says Pastor John Thursby of Lyme, Conn.: "God would not be pleased if we return his creation to him in ashes." Other local congregations are backing a months-long, nationwide Peace March...
...Eighteenth Voyage, for example, Tichy ponders a problem no smaller than the creation of the universe. A scientist friend has proved to his own and Tichy's satisfaction that the cosmos is "a fluke on the largest possible scale." It exploded from a protoatom that could not have existed; it pulses on borrowed energy as aberrantly as the subatomic particle that violates, for a nanosecond, physical laws. After 18 billion years or so, the universe's "monstrous debt" may come due at any time. Tichy figures out a way to repay it and make everything much nicer...
...bulk of the state's case will be presented this week. Its lawyers are arguing that evolution is fully as religious (or nonreligious) as creation science, and that evolution cannot meet the strict definition of science any better than creation science can. "You shouldn't reject creationism just because it comes from the Bible; you test it scientifically," says one state witness, Dr. Norman Geisler of Dallas Theological Seminary. Several scientists will testify that the odds are improbably high that all species arose from a primordial cell through natural selection...
...case inevitably will go to the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the A.C.L.U. is challenging Louisiana's virtually identical law, and creation lobbyists are at work with more than 15 state legislatures as well as textbook publishers and local school boards across the nation. So whatever Federal Judge William Overton rules, perhaps late this week, little will be settled...
...quiet Sunday television interlude before the onslaught of football, a time given over to the earnest sobriety of Washington interviews with public figures, has been broken at last. In place of ABC's Issues and Answers, there now looms the hour-long This Week with David Brinkley, the creation of ABC's Roone Arledge, who also invented Monday Night Football. After a wobbly start, the Brinkley show looks like a true innovation in television journalism. In its eerie interview by satellite with Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and then in its commentary afterward-which matched Gaddafi word...