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...last November, the California board of education faltered under pressure from religious right-wingers and overruled the state's curriculum commission to alter a guideline for the teaching of evolution in California's schools. Darwinian evolution will no longer be presented as fact, but as both fact and theory, an equivocation pleasing to the religious right because few understand that to scientists "theory" is not a synonym for mere "hypothesis." Among other concessions, mention of a 1987 Supreme Court decision denying scientific status to so-called creation science will be deleted...
...wind dries them, and then they inflate like lungs and rise on the desert air. They come out of the sea like Portuguese men-of-war and then, amphibious, as if in some Darwinian drama, sail off to litter another of the earth's last emptinesses. Reverse Darwin, really: devolution, a flight of death forms...
...statement that memory is not at all localizable in the brain--evidence to Sheldrake that it's not in there at all--is out-of-date. He overemphasizes the role of acquired characteristics in Darwin's theory of natural selection--saying "it could just as easily be called 'Darwinian inheritance'"--and cites the ideological vendetta against Mendelism under Stalin as scientific authority...
Cambridge attorney Martin C. Foster called the city council "a bipolar political organization--a Darwinian type system...
...fact is that past fare wars have been one of the chief causes of the recent Darwinian merger wave. Says Economist Alfred Kahn of Cornell University, who is widely viewed as the father of airline deregulation: "Instability is the price we pay for competition." Indeed, some 150 airlines have filed for bankruptcy or ceased operation since 1978, as the industry has lurched from occasional feast to occasional famine. The low point for deregulated airlines came in 1982, when the industry suffered an $800 million operating loss. The best unregulated year was 1984, when industry-wide profits hit $2.3 billion...