Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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team, this year's evolution has brought them to the top of the food chain.
That is why the Kansas school board decision on evolution is so significant. Not because Kansas is the beginning of a creationist wave--as science, creationism is too fundamentally frivolous and evolution too intellectually powerful--but because the Kansas decision is an important cultural indicator.
Son of Scopes is not quite what it seems either. The twist in the modern saga is the injection of creationism as the scientific alternative to evolution. So, let's be plain. Creationism, which presents Genesis as literally and historically true, is not science. It is faith crudely disguised as...
Religion--invaluable in America's founding, forming and flowering--deserves a place in the schools. Indeed, it had that place for almost 200 years. A healthy country would teach its children evolution and the Ten Commandments. The reason that Kansas is going to have precisely the opposite--the worst of...
It is hard to imagine a more explosive, splintered era in art making than the past 50 years in America. The roll call is dizzying--happenings, body art, minimalism, earthworks, conceptualism, neo-Expressionism, installations--to name just a few of the schools that have swum vigorously or otherwise through public...