Word: evolutionism
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The controversy has engulfed not only astronomers, geologists, paleontologists and astrophysicists but even evolutionary biologists. If the cyclic theory is true, the biologists argue, many assumptions about the course of evolution on earth--and even the likelihood of finding complex life forms on other planets--will be overturned. Says Whitmire...
As geology became more precise, scientists determined from the fossil record that at least five great dyings--and numerous smaller events--have occurred in the past 600 million years. Among the more significant: the Cambrian disasters some 500 million years ago, when many species of segmented creatures called trilobites disappeared...
Reagan's evolution from hard-line Soviet baiter to softer-line summiteer dates to an Oval Office parley last fall with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Says a White House aide: "Reagan's notion of personal diplomacy took off from that meeting." He was nudged along by Wife Nancy, a...
Ever since the genetic code was cracked in the 1960s, biologists have believed the language of DNA to be rather like the Latin of the medieval church: universal, fundamental and indispensable. It seemed that all creatures, from men to mice to humble E. coli bacteria, shared the same basic instructions...
"What happened was unjust," said Selma Librarian Patricia Blalock. "Some people reacted badly. But I think you should give a town another chance. We've tried to change." To the Rev. Frederick Reese, a Selma black leader who had invited King to check out the city's denial of voting...