Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Creation science"goes on trial in Arkansas...
...Charles Gray was not impressed by the hubbub. "When this is all over," he reflected, "it won't have changed anyone's mind." Gray surely has it right. The federal trial that began last week in Little Rock, Ark., will lead to a legal ruling on whether "creation science" (secular evidence for, among other things, the supernatural origin of the universe) may be required in public schools where the theory of evolution is taught. But after all the lawyers and experts have finished, after the press has gone, the old Bible Belt battle between Darwin and the Good...
...ones guilty of censorship. When the Arkansas legislature overwhelmingly passed the Balanced Treatment Act last March, the American Civil Liberties Union went on red alert. Though the act explicitly says it is nonreligious, its origins are indisputably Fundamentalist. Such "neutral" bills, requiring that creation science be taught side by side with evolution, have been promoted for years by California's Institute for Creation Research, one of many such groups lobbying against Darwinism. To the A.C.L.U., along with alarmed educators, the local Roman Catholic bishop and an assortment of Protestants and Jews, the law was an unconstitutional state effort...
Next came the scientists. G. Brent Dalrymple of the U.S. Geological Survey attacked creation science at its weakest point: the contention that the earth is some 10,000 years old. It is more like 4.5 billion years, said Dalrymple, who scorned the creation contingent as flat-earthers. Francisco Ayala of the University of California at Davis, an ex-priest turned geneticist, ran a brief seminar on amino acids to show that man and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor, but conceded that God could be behind the whole process...
When Darsee's falsification was discovered, the Medical School immediately stripped him of all his academic and clinical appointments at Harvard and BWH, Daniel C. Tosteson, dean of the Med School, said in a report released earlier this week. Tosteson also announced the creation of an eight-member review committee to investigate Darsee's case and recommend ways to prevent the same kind of thing from recurring...