Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both the Baptist minister in Chicago and PTL's Bakker feel concern for their congregations. But PTL traps its audience in a Pavlovian circle of wealth coupled to religion, a ritual of cash register bell-ringing. Like commercial television, it inflames material appetites and arouses expectations, rather than hopes. Facing...
A. Yes, but this is not new. Every German, since 1945, has thought about the question of how, one day, the Germans could live under one roof in one house. But you must not delude yourselves. We are hoping for evolution in the Communist part of Central Europe in order...
This proposition is not as contradictory as it sounds, since, for one thing, the fact that it takes real (i.e., natural) intelligence to create the artificial kind would seem to give humanity a perpetual edge; and, for another, people are able to hold contraries in their heads simultaneously-a feat...
I feel inestimably uncomfortable writing about religion in these pages: it is as close to a taboo subject as there is in this community. But Boff describes Jesus at one place as the "omega point" of evolution--a goal to be aimed at, though not achieved. I don't know...
I wish to commend your magazine for the bold, incisive look into the terrible threat of nuclear war from which it is unlikely a winner can emerge [March 29]. The prospect of a nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is more than the issue of the '...