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...sought to show that their "science" was as good as Darwin's. The most impressive scientific witness criticizing Darwinism, Astronomer N.C. Wickramasinghe of University College, Cardiff, Wales, had argued that genetic mutation produces only minor "fine tuning of the evolutionary process." He scoffed at the contention that "monkey genes" or natural selection could explain the appearance of the human race; the odds that "random shuffling" of amino acids would have produced life were, he said, one out of 10 40'000-the equivalent of a tornado blowing through a junkyard and producing a jumbo...
...Monkey Trial Revisited...
...will be in the Reagan White House, where 19 members of the family and close friends will come for Christmas dinner. To accompany the turkey, the President will get his favorite sweet potatoes with marshmaUows and even some monkey bread, a thick, spongy concoction he relishes. The White House is laced with vivid red, green, gold and white decorations. There is a giant bunch of mistletoe in the foyer, a 19½-ft. Douglas fir from Spartansburg, Pa., and the gingerbread house in the State Dining Room has a jelly bean path to the door...
This new case, coming 56 years after the Scopes "monkey trial," was testimony of that. But this time around, claim Fundamentalists, opponents of the new law are the ones guilty of censorship. When the Arkansas legislature overwhelmingly passed the Balanced Treatment Act last March, the American Civil Liberties Union went on red alert. Though the act explicitly says it is nonreligious, its origins are indisputably Fundamentalist. Such "neutral" bills, requiring that creation science be taught side by side with evolution, have been promoted for years by California's Institute for Creation Research, one of many such groups lobbying against...
This is not exactly a novel scenario; the scarier financial writers have been mulling it over for years. But there is something brave about Rollover It undertakes to explain, in dramatic terms, how the international monetary system functions and to speculate on how a monkey wrench could be inserted into the computerized, satellite-linked works by which currency is instantaneously traded round the world. Someone whose most sophisticated investment was a flyer in 1944 war bonds may not be able fully to assess these maneuvers, but it is nice to be asked...