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Soon the argument attained a higher judicial level. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, joining in dissent from the 1987 decision, cited testimony that "creation science" merits equal class time with Darwinian evolution as a competing theory of the origin of life...
Unfortunately, the testimony cited by the learned Justice and his Chief was in error, and this error has been allowed to skew the entire debate on the subject. There is no theory of life's origin in Darwin's work. True to his title, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Darwin confined himself to describing the process by which new species, including our own, have evolved from the old. In a letter to American botanist Asa Gray, he dismissed all theological pretensions on his part with the words: "A dog might as well speculate...
...none of that, pro or con, has a thing to do with theories of creation, or the origin of life on earth. In a sense, we are all creationists. We differ ! only on the specifics. The idea of linear time is so embedded in our consciousness that we instinctively believe there must have been a beginning, a creation, a genesis. But on what impulse, whose design? That we can never know...
...turn of the century. Humboldt was not only a scientist but a great popularizer. As Stephen Jay Gould points out in an excellent catalog essay, the first two volumes of his work Cosmos were seen by their 19th century public as the last word on nature and its origins. Humboldt's ideas were what Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species overthrew. For Humboldt, like Linnaeus before him, saw the natural world as a pyramid of unity, "one great whole animated by the breath of life" -- cooperative within its prodigious variety, with more room for God than allowed...
...electronic-funds networks and the secrecy laws of tax havens to shuffle assets with alacrity. The very institutions that could do the most to stop money laundering have the least incentive to do so. According to police and launderers, the basic fee for recycling money of dubious origin is 4%, while the rate for drug cash and other hot money...