Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article "Putting Darwin Back in the Dock" [March 16] was helpful in dealing with the creationist campaign to have the biblical version of man's origins taught in the schools. But if there are problems with Darwin's theory of evolution, there are also problems with the creation story. Genesis gives two accounts of the beginning. The first and second chapters differ significantly in describing how it came about. The Bible educates Jews and Christians about who created the world and why. It does not teach when or how. I am content to leave that to science...
...science teachers now must teach creationism as well as evolution, which version of creationist dogma do they offer -Christian, Taoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim or polytheism? Religion-based versions of creation should be given in a religion course, not in a science class...
...much better off than Zimbabwe itself-pledged nearly $1.4 billion in aid to the nation once known as Rhodesia. Even tiny, impoverished Sierra Leone weighed in with $90,000. But the pledge that probably pleased Zimbabwe most came from the U.S.: $225 million over the next three years. "The creation of Zimbabwe is one of the most remarkable political and diplomatic achievements of this generation," declared U.S. Delegate M. Peter McPherson, newly appointed head of the Agency for International Development. "In committing our support we are also providing support for peaceful settlements to international conflicts...
...readers of this novel are more fortunate. Whatever its flaws, Creation offers a leisurely guided stroll through a complex era. The book is encyclopedic enough to be short on intrinsic pattern; it is also filled with information, oddities and wonder. -By Paul Gray
...reader forward except the expectation of more information. Vidal provides a multitude of incidents but no strong plot to bind them together. Cyrus abjures suspense; he has the habit of introducing characters by telling what finally happens to them first. Aside from the old man's large memory, Creation is unified by a single irony: Cyrus tells of his search for religious certainty to the person who will one day become an eminent philosopher of materialism. Near the end, Democritus interjects: "Matter is all. All is matter." According to his secretary, then, Cyrus spent his life pursuing phantoms...