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Indeed, it is happening. More than a century after Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species in 1859, more than half a century after the Scopes "monkey trial" in 1925 in Dayton, Tenn., the argument between evolution and divine creation has been revived...
...state's school board and include a statement that evolution is clearly presented as theory rather than fact. More significant, according to Gerald Skoog, 45, professor of education at Tex as Tech University, textbooks now say less about evolution. Between 1974 and 1977, the section on Darwin's life in Biology, a text published by Silver Burdett, was cut from 1,373 words to 45. Discus sion of the origins of life went from 2,023 words to 322. Text devoted to Darwin's view of evolution shrank from 2,750 words to 296. Sections on fossil...
...Modern Biology, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, stated: "Scientists do not doubt that organisms living today descended from species of previous ages." That sentence was omitted in the 1977 revision. The 1969 text said, "Modern man has probably evolved from primitive, more generalized ancestors." The 1977 version: "Darwin was suggesting that humans may also have evolved from less specialized ancestors." A Holt, Rinehart editor says: "If you're not listed in a state, you can't sell books in a state. And as a publisher, if you take an ideological viewpoint, you may find yourself not listed...
...some respects, OPEC is to the dollar what Charles Darwin was to fundamental Christianity; practically overnight a cartel that controlled most of the planet's known oil reserves demonstrated that financial security was not necessarily descended from paper currency. "The store of value," writes Goodman, "had become oil. The yen, the marks, the dollars, the francs were spent; the oil was saved...
This demand is as unsavory as suggesting the banishment of Darwin's theory because it could potentially be used by Social Darwinists. Society must discuss problems which may arise with new knowledge and its misuse, rather than preventing the possibility of such knowledge by abridging intellectual freedom...