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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...
...case brought by Kelly Segraves, 38, director of the San Diego-based Creation-Science Research Center. Like most creationists, Segraves maintains that evolution as taught in U.S. schools is a secular religion. Because it is California policy to teach evolution in biology classes without competing views about the divine origin of the universe, Segraves claimed that the religious freedom of his children was violated...
...think that the discussion about the origin of the affirmative expression O.K. is getting out of hand. Still, I have to disagree with Readers Franklin Courtney Ellis [Jan. 19] and Andrea Galvacs...
...interested to see the origin of the expression O.K. explained as "Old Kinderhook" and then as "Oil is Korrect." Another possible explanation is that O.K. derived from World War I. Each night, soldiers would report the number of deaths in their group to their superior. Thus O.K. would stand for "0 Killed...
...first business of the U.S. with its European allies should turn out to be El Salvador." Yet they seemed uniformly impressed by the evidence and grateful to the Reagan Administration for consulting with them. "We are now inclined to believe that arms of a certain precise origin are being used with the aim of destabilizing El Salvador," admitted a French official last week...