Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart of the right-wingers' argument is their lingering hope that, as other generations believed, our species was singled out for a special creation in God's own image. They continue to insist that there are no transitional forms in the fossil record, no "missing links," though the Olduvai Gorge, along with other African sites, provides a procession of evolving hominids, mute but eloquent witnesses to our Darwinian past, including those children of the dawn, the australopithecines, the little "southern apes" who walked like...
...none of that, pro or con, has a thing to do with theories of creation, or the origin of life on earth. In a sense, we are all creationists. We differ ! only on the specifics. The idea of linear time is so embedded in our consciousness that we instinctively believe there must have been a beginning, a creation, a genesis. But on what impulse, whose design? That we can never know...
...mystery of creation, as every real scientist is quick to admit, is not one that science is capable of solving. To some extent, we may learn how it happened, when it happened, but never why, any more than we can bound infinity or clock eternity. Neither scientists nor religious folk can know why the miracle we call life happened, how it acquired such characteristics as thought, a sense of beauty, hope, conscience, love, piety and speculation about itself...
Models of creation -- the how but never the why -- abound among cosmologists, the most widely accepted being the Big Bang, which in no way forbids the existence of a creator who might have touched it off. One recent hypothesis holds that our universe was born as a microscopic ripple in a perfect vacuum, not so very new an idea, since Thomas Aquinas proposed something similar seven centuries ago. Although the good saint was never excommunicated for such heretical views, he was under constant fire from zealots as a sort of premature secular humanist...
Critics often denounce Aquino's first creation in office, the Presidential Commission on Good Government, as a bastion of ineptitude. Charged with the recovery of up to $10 billion that Marcos is said to have looted from the treasury, the commission has recovered nearly $1 billion so far but has been accused of abusing its powers. In one case, for example, Ricardo ("Baby") Lopa, an Aquino brother-in-law who controlled a profitable Nissan auto- assembly plant and 38 other companies before they were seized by the Marcos regime in the early 1970s, was allowed to buy the firms back...