Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Through the Ooze. Scientist Teilhard believes in evolution, not just as a matter of accepting Darwin; evolution for him is the mystical key to existence, the movement of the universe toward God. But God does not appear in Teilhard's book until the very end, and then under a different name...
Died. John Randolph Neal, 83, who precipitated the Dayton, Tenn. "monkey trial" in 1925 by urging Teacher John Scopes to defy state law and teach Darwin's evolution, served as Scopes's chief counsel (though overshadowed by the showmanship of his famed colleague Clarence Darrow), lost the case (Scopes was fined $100) but won the war; in Rockwood, Tenn...
British Biologist Sir Julian Huxley is an atheist, but he concedes that "religion of some sort is probably a necessity." In an address to the Darwin Centennial Celebration at the University of Chicago last week, the grandson of Darwin's friend and defender, Biologist Thomas Huxley, went on to describe what he called a "religion" of the future-although it sounded a lot like the old humanist faith of the past. This "belief-system, framework of values, ideology, call it what you will," said Huxley, will have "no need or room for the supernatural." It will be evolutionary, because...
...tackles, if Bob Pillsbury's head injury does not keep him from play next year, the varsity will have three of the League's finest in Pillsbury, Eric Nelson and Darwin Wile. Mike Sheridan and Bill Greelish give the Crimson uncommon depth at this position...
...SYMPOSIUM ON EVOLUTION, marking the centenary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. Darwin Recalled, Bernard J. Boelen, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University; Biology--Viruses and Evolution, Frederick C. Bawden, M.A.F.R.S., Rothamsted Experimental Station for botanical research, author...