Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncanny memory. He can sing or hum 3,000 pieces of music from popular tunes to grand opera, can name and date all the U. S. Presidents, bound every European country, tell the population of every large city in the world, names and distances from the earth of all the planets, the political effects of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown. the batting averages of all the baseball stars. He has also taught himself to read, write and use the typewriter, knows the Italian, French, German and Greek alphabets, reads people's minds. Interviewed by a sportswriter, George unhesitatingly predicted...
...face, adapted to evangelism. Yet Dr. Barth, a dynamic pulpit orator, filled chapels when he taught at the Universities of Münster, Göttingen and Bonn, today fills the chapel at the University of Basle. And his sermons are of the oldtime hour-long variety. Earth's "crisis theology" can best be appreciated by people who believe the Church is complacent, self-assured, temporizing with crucial issues. Earth preaches that God is "wholly other," not to be comprehended by man nor to be expressed in man's life. With God outside him, man can only listen...
...pinch of slime mold-primitive but living protoplasm-and he will have no difficulty predicating an evolutionary ascent, from that bit of animate substance, which leads to large, complex and reasoning beings like himself. Yet the prime question remains: How did the first bit of life appear on earth...
...that question there are three possible answers: 1) life was planted on earth by divine power; 2) life emerged from nonliving matter by some pregnant combination of chemical circumstances; 3) life was transported to earth in meteorites or some other carrier, from somewhere else in the universe. Quite satisfactory to many people is the first answer, which renders further inquiry into the problem superfluous. Most biologists, however, prefer to make a choice between the second and the third...
With the amused impatience of a godless materialist. Soviet Scientist Oparin waves away the various vitalistic theories which hold that life appeared because of some transcendent animating principle which pervades the universe-or that life has always existed. He also refuses to believe that life was carried to earth in meteorites, since existing meteorites show no sign of containing viable organisms. Dr. Oparin also rejects the theory of free spores or other life-bearing particles driven to earth through interstellar space by impacts from radiation. He holds that ultraviolet or cosmic radiation would kill any such life particles beyond...