Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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All 70 seats reserved for the press were full, and so were the 175 places for spectators. A lonely demonstrator wandered in and out of the courthouse in a monkey suit. But U.S. Marshal Charles Gray was not impressed by the hubbub. "When this is all over," he reflected, "it...
This new case, coming 56 years after the Scopes "monkey trial," was testimony of that. But this time around, claim Fundamentalists, opponents of the new law are the ones guilty of censorship. When the Arkansas legislature overwhelmingly passed the Balanced Treatment Act last March, the American Civil Liberties Union went...
The bulk of the state's case will be presented this week. Its lawyers are arguing that evolution is fully as religious (or nonreligious) as creation science, and that evolution cannot meet the strict definition of science any better than creation science can. "You shouldn't reject creationism...
He may never have been a Galileo of the social firmament, but as a journalist Vance Packard is clear-eyed enough to have seen, before anybody else, that the post-World War II U.S. had got caught up in a compulsive competition for status. The proof came in The Status...
The gradual evolution of the strategic force was emphasized and highlighted by the Presidential campaign and by preemptive actions of the Carter administration to minimize criticism by the Republicans. Having promised to do more, the Reagan administration has been learning the realities--in particular that it cannot have "more" of...