Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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By a curiosity of evolution, every human skull harbors a prehistoric vestige: a reptilian brain.
This atavism, like a hand grenade cushioned in the more civilized surrounding cortex, is the dark hive where many of mankind's primitive impulses originate. To go partners with that throwback, Americans have carried out of their own history another curiosity that evolution forgot to discard as the country...
If science teachers now must teach creationism as well as evolution, which version of creationist dogma do they offer -Christian, Taoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim or polytheism? Religion-based versions of creation should be given in a religion course, not in a science class.
Teaching creationism in schools does not promote religion any more than evolution does. Both require belief. Actually, the origin of man is more than a matter of science vs. religion. If man was created by a determined act, then we can infer that man is worth something to his creator...
White House officials were surprised at Haig's surprise about the Bush assignment. Said one aide: "Hell, if he was so concerned, why didn't he pick up the phone and call one of us and ask what's going on?" More important, they were angry that...