Word: evolutionism
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For all their malevolence and mischief, viruses may have played an important, perhaps crucial, role in evolution. And now, as recombinant DNA technology advances, molecular biologists are engineering viruses that may ! soon benefit rather than devastate humans.
"It's one of the most important trials of the last several decades." So maintains Robert Skolrood, executive director of Televangelist Pat Robertson's conservative National Legal Foundation and chief counsel for the 624 plaintiffs, all Christian Evangelicals. Anthony Podesta, president of the liberal lobby People for the American Way...
Questions of gender will also arise later, when the court considers head on, for the first time, whether affirmative action is appropriate to remedy employment discrimination against women. In addition, the Justices will review a court-ordered promotion plan for blacks imposed on Alabama state troopers. The cases will be...
Ford, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1962 to 1970 and again in 1973, presided over the symposium, "The Harvard Curriculum: Evolution and Innovation 1936-1986."
A judge cannot avoid drawing on historical context and past judicial decisions when ruling on the meaning of a Constitutional passage, said Paul Brest, professor of clinical legal education at Stanford. Otherwise, the judge would be ignoring "the moderating forces of evolution" that acted on the original text. For example...