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Teaching creationism in schools does not promote religion any more than evolution does. Both require belief. Actually, the origin of man is more than a matter of science vs. religion. If man was created by a determined act, then we can infer that man is worth something to his creator, and not just an evolved housefly, with no purpose and no destiny...
...wrote music of irresistible power and drive, music that in its uncompromising frankness and depth of expression discomfited audiences used to the prettifications of romanticism. Like other great musical figures - Beethoven and Wagner come immediately to mind - BartÓk was a destroyer as well as a creator. Emerging from the 19th century Western European tradition, he changed it irrevocably...
Even a genius needs practice to bring his talent into full flower. Beethoven, for example, had to get two fairly conventional symphonies under his belt before he revolutionized the form in the Eroica. Wagner, the creator of the German music-drama, required four false starts before he produced The Flying Dutchman. Giuseppe Verdi, the greatest of Italian opera composers, was no exception. Before Rigoletto, his first masterpiece, there came 16 other works, most of which have languished in obscurity for years...
...power was a source of utter astonishment to his contemporaries. When commentators applied the adjective divino to him (as they regularly did, in a conventional way, from the beginning of the 16th century onward), they implied that his talent was godlike in a nearly literal sense: just as the creator of the physical world knows all the secrets of its structure, so Leonardo's insatiable curiosity and apparently tireless power of scrutiny and notation had raised his art to an epic level of knowledge...
...proliferation of crimes of all types." Behind the rhetoric lies a basic question that touches the ultimate reaches of science and the most ancient source of faith. Creationists tend to put it as follows: The existence of a clock implies a clockmaker; the existence of creation implies a creator. The infinite complexity and design of the universe, they claim, could not simply have evolved through blind trial and error...