Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...further among China's many regions, thus affecting the pace of reform. This may intensify the need for the Deng leadership to forge a national vision that goes beyond Communism. Hu Yaobang recently told the party's propaganda department that "the most important political task of literary and artistic creation and performance is to inspire patriotism." But patriotism without a / higher goal can easily curdle into ugly nationalism. "There are obvious dangers to using nationalism here," says a Western diplomat. "The main one is that someday the Chinese will once again go off the chauvinistic deep...
...distinguished career by believing six impossible things before breakfast. In the late 1940s, he, Astronomer Fred Hoyle and Mathematician Hermann Bondi roiled the cosmological community when they countered an early version of the big-bang theory of the universe with their steady state model, which stipulated the continual creation of matter (a concept now completely out of favor). In 1968 Gold was the first to propose that pulsars were rapidly rotating neutron stars (all evidence suggests he was right). In the mid-1960s he sparked another ruckus by predicting that the first spacecraft to land on the moon could encounter...
...church's octagonal sanctuary to preach at the Wednesday-night prayer meeting. His message, | "Live Unto Him," was loosely based upon II Corinthians 5: 14-15. The week concluded with a particularly pleasant chore: mingling amiably with the 3,500 en- tering freshmen at Liberty University, his proudest creation...
...mainstream denominations, revivalist preachers, and emerging millenarians, those who saw signs of the imminent Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Between 1910 and 1915 such groups distributed huge numbers of thoughtful pamphlets titled The Fundamentals that defended the conservative reading of the Bible on subjects ranging from the Creation to the Resurrection of Christ. The series was mailed to every Protestant church worker in the country...
...publishing ^ and broadcasting. Political activism became necessary, as the Fundamentalists saw it, in order to try to counteract numerous unpalatable social trends and policies. Among goads to action: the 1962 and 1963 Supreme Court rulings against school prayer and Bible reading and the 1973 ruling to legalize abortion. The creation of Moral Majority and the "new religious right" resulted partly from the 1978 IRS decision to stop giving automatic tax exemptions to religious day schools and to set racial quotas as the general standard for qualifying. Though some of the schools were begun as segregation academies, many more were nondiscriminatory...