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Coles has testified in similar cases before.This summer he testified in a Tennessee case inwhich parents said their children were beingtaught Darwin evolutionism, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coles to Testify in Alabama Suit | 10/8/1986 | See Source »

...part, Robertson was sounding more parochial than ever. His speech was directed almost exclusively at the converted, summoning them to war against the "small elite of lawyers, judges and educators" who have "taken the Holy Bible from our young and replaced it with the thoughts of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and John Dewey." Though he ostensibly courts all Republicans, he failed to mention Reagan's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Patrician and the Preacher | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...Seuss book, The Sneetches, and Other Stories among the books she's loved before. Professor Gould, after telling us how he played stickball as a street-kid in New York City, includes Lucky to Be a Yankee by Joe DiMaggio on his list of great books, following Darwin's The Origin of Species...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: An Insubstantial Book | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

During the late 19th century, Henry Adams despaired of the quality of American leadership. "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant," he wrote, "was alone evidence to disprove Darwin." What would Adams have had to say about evolution in the office from Thomas Jefferson, say, to Ronald Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: Yankee Doodle Magic | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...American freedom (the founders reserving freedom pretty much for white male property owners and countenancing the enslavement of blacks, for example). Nor will the star-burst rhetoric discuss the heartlessness of much American freedom, the bleak lives of those who cannot compete. Freedom has a lot of Charles Darwin's logic prowling around in it, hungry for the weaker animals. Says Economist William H. Branson: "What we've seen since 1981 is the difficulty people have if they lose. They shoot themselves. I was talking to a group in Pittsburgh, and a guy got up and said, 'My brother shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom First | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

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