Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your article "Putting Darwin Back in the Dock" [March 16] was helpful in dealing with the creationist campaign to have the biblical version of man's origins taught in the schools. But if there are problems with Darwin's theory of evolution, there are also problems with the...
In today's technologically and scientifically advanced society, there is a fundamental body of knowledge with which everyone should be familiar. Just as it is necessary to know basic physiology and the mode by which each of us came into existence, it is necessary to know the modern theories of...
It is precisely this end at which Astro 8 is aimed. The course is a sweeping survey of many different aspects of evolution: atomic, galactic, stellar, geological, molecular, chemical, cellular, neurological, anthropological, and cultural. The course doesn't stop its study of evolution at the present; it also includes lectures...
At least half a dozen top scientific organizations have issued statements warning that scientific creationism is not scientific. Should school boards and legislatures yield to the creationists' innocuous-sounding request for equal time? The answer seems to be no-not if they want pupils to learn biology, as the...
Some quasars have even larger red shifts and perhaps are older and more distant. But quasars, which resemble stars in some ways and in some ways do not, are still so puzzling that astronomers prefer to turn to more familiar phenomena, like galaxies, in their explorations of the universe'...