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School boards around the country have been grappling with whether "intelligent design" should be taught in biology classes. I.D., a supposedly more scientific alternative to creationism, insists living organisms are too complex to have evolved semirandomly, a la Darwin, and therefore must have been put together in a more thoughtful, hands-on way by ... someone...
Since Torrance has not yet accepted a new position in Kansas, she will have the opportunity to spend more time with her children, Honor, 3, and Darwin, 1, while she awaits publication of two of her articles...
...April 27 proprietors Steve and Isabel Darwin opened the new shop at 1629 Cambridge St.—right across from the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. According to veteran Darwin’s cook Russ Cowen, business has been good from...
While S.S.E. members know that scorn doesn't prove that a controversial idea is right (people laughed at Darwin, after all, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown), it doesn't prove an idea is wrong, either. "What we do," says Nelson, "is give everyone a respectful hearing. If we think a speaker is doing bad science, we consider it our duty to criticize it. We get our share of lunatics, but they don't hang around long...
...monumental bore. Gaseous generalizations and crackpot theories pour forth Like beer at an Oktoberfest. He thrills to something called the Odic force, "power rays" that flow from healthy bodies. He invokes Einstein's mathematics to justify his own mystical yearnings and "inner vibrations." He attempts to cross socialism with Darwin. He sees Jews as both "economic liberalists" and the organizers of the Soviet Comintern. Then, without a hint of irony or self-doubt, he projects his own faults on intellectuals: "seldom more than a bunch of diseased brains who toss scraps of disconnected and purely synthetically amassed knowledge in dialectically...