Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Scientific" creationists challenge the theory of evolution
Over opposition from 90% of the local senior high school science teachers, the seven-member Hillsborough County school board in Tampa, Fla., decided to require science classroom time for theories that challenge evolution. Says John Betz, associate professor of biology at the University of South Florida: "These people think evolution...
Indeed, it is happening. More than a century after Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species in 1859, more than half a century after the Scopes "monkey trial" in 1925 in Dayton, Tenn., the argument between evolution and divine creation has been revived.
Today there is no necessity to be against God because we are for geocentrism and evolution, for democracy and science, for liberality and socialism. No, we can be forthrightly for true freedom, equality, and fraternity...and still believe in God.
Soyinka described the evolution of guerrilla theater, saying that its personality must change in order for the theater to survive as a politically viable organization. Guerrilla theater started out as ltinerant troupes under the aegis of the African governments, commenting on such social issues as illiteracy and health care.