Word: einstein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thrust of the ID argument - that there are many things not yet explained by the theory of evolution - will be challenged by expert witnesses, on the grounds that it holds true for a variety of other widely taught scientific theories. Plate tectonics, for example or even Einstein's General Theory of Relativity fail to cover all bases. Still, ID'ers will counter, failing to teach kids about the scientific controversy over evolution is tantamount to keeping them ignorant. Except that there is no significant scientific controversy. ID proponents are correct in maintaining that there are legitimate scientists - a relatively tiny...
Anyone whose parents named him Albert Einstein knows the impact of a provocative title. So the actor and filmmaker who renamed himself ALBERT BROOKS can't be surprised that his next project is raising some eyebrows even before it's finished. In Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, which Brooks wrote and is directing, the Broadcast News funnyman plays a comic sent abroad by the U.S. State Department to discover what makes Muslims laugh. Sony Pictures Entertainment passed on distributing the comedy, fearing the title was insensitive, and Brooks fans are debating its offensiveness online. Brooks is keeping...
...many times do we have to rerun the Scopes "monkey trial"? There are gaps in science everywhere. Are we to fill them all with divinity? There were gaps in Newton's universe. They were ultimately filled by Einstein's revisions. There are gaps in Einstein's universe, great chasms between it and quantum theory. Perhaps they are filled by God. Perhaps not. But it is certainly not science to merely declare...
America's atomic project dated from 1939, when Albert Einstein warned Franklin D. Roosevelt that Germany was trying to develop atomic weapons based on an isotope of uranium, U-235. The American nuclear program thus commenced under the sharp prod of fear that Germany would win the race to be the first atomic power. It is fully reasonable to assume that the first U.S. bomb would have been used against Germany had it been available in time...
...ethics or morality, Bekoff, De Waal and a growing number of their colleagues think fairness and cooperation may be the forerunners of those qualities, just as the apelike brain of our distant ancestor Lucy was the forerunner of our own, much more sophisticated minds. After all, Lucy was no Einstein-but without her, the leap from the tiny brains of primitive mammals to the subtle intelligence of an Einstein could never have occurred. --Reported by Dan Cray/Los Angeles and Wendy Grossman/Houston