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What is your view on intelligent design...
...America's ongoing and sometimes rancorous discussion about science and God, some stock characters have evolved. There are the vocal proponents of creationism and intelligent design who storm school boards in hopes that either science or local government will conform to their beliefs. Then there are academic atheists who claim increasingly aggressively that science is in the process of proving religion a delusion. But few of the polemicists have the authority to preach beyond their own choirs. Most believers don't care to listen to an atheistic scientist calling the idea of God a mythology created to explain what humans...
...book seems liveliest when Collins turns his guns from atheists on the left to creationists and intelligent designers on the right, urging the abandonment of what he feels are overliteral misreadings of Scripture. "I don't think God intended Genesis to teach science," he says, arguing that "the evidence in favor of evolution is utterly compelling." He has little patience with those who say evolution is just a theory, noting that in his scientific world the word theory "is not intended to convey uncertainty; for that purpose a scientist would use the word hypothesis." The book is hard on intelligent...
...Drawing on her diverse background?and a foundation art course in Britain?Magyar works with more than 90 small local producers and craftspeople who design a range of household items made from indigenous materials. The results are innovative and stylish. Bark cloth?"a wonderful material that is peeled from the trunk of a fig tree and traditionally used as clothing"?is coaxed into purses, cushion covers, jewelry bags, even Christmas stockings. Ugandan village women's basket-weaving skills are applied to banana-leaf and raffia place mats, palm-leaf cutlery trays and millet-stem and raffia lampshades and coasters...
...cool and trendy Banana Boat store locations in Kampala, as well as an export business. With Banana Boat?a nickname for Ugandan canoes?thriving, the multitasking mother of two toddlers is now overseeing the building of a safari lodge in one of Uganda's national parks, while continuing to design new products for the shops. In the works: a range of bark-cloth finger puppets. tel: (256) 772 799 555; bananaboat@infocom.co.ug