Word: fossilizing
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Theological Fossil. On the theory that getting people talking about the church is a big advantage over the customary apathy, Stockwood has encouraged dissent and nonconformity among his 600 clergymen. In a sermon on the existing moral code at Southwark Cathedral last March, his canon librarian, the Rev. Douglas Rhymes, preached that Christ never suggested that "marriage is the only possible occasion of any expression of physical relationship," and charged on to say that "much of the prejudice against homosexuality is on the ground that it is unnatural-but for whom? Certainly not for the homosexual...
...book Honest to God, arguing that Christianity needs a new idea of God. And another Southwark clergyman, the Rev. John Pearce-Higgins, recently took arms against some of the 39 Articles-the declaration of Anglican faith. He called the 400-year-old Articles "in the nature of a theological fossil" and announced that he assented to them under protest...
Lower-unit-cost reactors and higher output make atomic power closely competitive with fossil fuels in such high-cost areas as California and New England. After three years, the Yankee Atomic Electric plant at Rowe, Mass., is producing power within 1 mill per kw-h of conventional costs (about 10 mills). Pacific Gas & Electric's first atomic plant at Humboldt Bay, Calif., which went critical two months ago, is expected to equal natural-gas costs at 9 mills. P. G. & E. plans to build twelve more atomic power plants by 1980, and the AEC estimates that commercial atomic power...
...Fossil Science. The welcome signals reflected from the wire belt were almost drowned out by new protests from radio astronomers. "The experiment is not useful." said Dr. David Heeschen, director of the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Observatory. "It may have a long-range effect on radio astronomy." Said Dr. Harold Weaver, director of the University of California's Hat Creek Observatory: "We object. We may be a fossil science barely after we've been born...
Died. Barnum Brown, 89, curator emeritus of fossil reptiles at the American Museum of Natural History, a spirited scientist who spent a lifetime gathering more relics of extinct prehistoric monster life than any man before him. thereby earning the honorific title "Father of the Dinosaurs"; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Though he was known primarily as a paleontologist, one of Brown's most important works was the authentication of a group of stone arrowheads found in New Mexico that proved man has inhabited North America for 20,000 years, not merely 2,000 as scientists once believed...