Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the Social Democratic movement was being dismissed only weeks ago by both Labor regulars and Tories as a press creation and a fruitless exercise by a few elitists, no one is laughing now at what the party might achieve. Labor's leader, Michael Foot, pleaded with the defectors "until the twelfth hour" not to leave the party, but the appeal came too late. The Tories are equally fearful that some of their own restive dissidents may find their way to the Social Democrats. Conservative Party Chairman Lord Thorneycroft last week issued a letter asking Tories to stick with...
Indeed, it is happening. More than a century after Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species in 1859, more than half a century after the Scopes "monkey trial" in 1925 in Dayton, Tenn., the argument between evolution and divine creation has been revived...
Just last week, in Sacramento, Superior Court Judge Irving Perluss heard arguments in Segraves vs. the State of California, a case brought by Kelly Segraves, 38, director of the San Diego-based Creation-Science Research Center. Like most creationists, Segraves maintains that evolution as taught in U.S. schools is a secular religion. Because it is California policy to teach evolution in biology classes without competing views about the divine origin of the universe, Segraves claimed that the religious freedom of his children was violated...
...scientific" form, creationism is the brainchild of Christian fundamentalists all across the U.S. Over the past 15 months fundamentalist groups have persuaded legislators in 14 states to introduce laws requiring creationist views in science classes; none has passed. During a presidential campaign swing through Texas, Ronald Reagan was asked his view on the teaching of evolution. His answer (an almost verbatim quotation of positions taken by the Moral Majority and the Rev. Jerry Falwell): "It is a scientific theory only, and it is not believed in the scientific community to be as infallible as it once was believed...
...creation of a Foundation would require "the strong intervention of the Dean (Rosovsky)." Gomes said, adding that the Faculty should express commitment to community ideals. "For the last two decades, social responsibility at Harvard has largely been divorced from academic responsibility," he said...