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...rocked the academic world in 1937 when, as the new president of St. John's College, he instituted a radical curriculum requiring the study of 100 classics; of pneumonia; in Alexandria, Va. Barr felt that colleges should scrap textbooks and introduce students to such authors as Plato, Darwin, Dante, Shakespeare and Marx...
...creationists had sought to show that their "science" was as good as Darwin's. The most impressive scientific witness criticizing Darwinism, Astronomer N.C. Wickramasinghe of University College, Cardiff, Wales, had argued that genetic mutation produces only minor "fine tuning of the evolutionary process." He scoffed at the contention that "monkey genes" or natural selection could explain the appearance of the human race; the odds that "random shuffling" of amino acids would have produced life were, he said, one out of 10 40'000-the equivalent of a tornado blowing through a junkyard and producing a jumbo...
...Overton did not think that questions about Darwin's theory strengthened the creationist claim that their theory should be taught as a science. Under the law, for example, schools were directed to provide students with the evidence for the sudden creation of the universe out of nothing. Overton found that concept wholly religious. Perhaps mindful of a poll showing that 76% of the U.S. public favors the teaching of both theories, the judge was careful not to "criticize or discredit any person's testimony based on his or her religious beliefs." But, he noted, no group...
Your articles "Darwin vs. the Bible" and "Some Bones of Contention" shocked me and raised doubts about the American legislative system and the courts. Americans, who once supported the fighters at the frontiers of knowledge, are now falling back on a mystical comprehension of the world. If this new attitude is adopted by other countries of the Western world, we are in danger of facing the Dark Ages again...
...whether "creation science" (secular evidence for, among other things, the supernatural origin of the universe) may be required in public schools where the theory of evolution is taught. But after all the lawyers and experts have finished, after the press has gone, the old Bible Belt battle between Darwin and the Good Book will go right...