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...ruling that it violates the constitutional separation of church and state. Citing Jefferson and Madison, Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. wrote that because four-fifths of the private schools participating in the voucher program are religious, the program robs parents of "genuine choice" between sectarian and secular schools, thus "advancing religion through government-supported religious indoctrination." The decision is the fourth in recent months to bar the use of vouchers in parochial schools, and voucher opponents--mainly teachers' unions and liberal interest groups--see it as a major victory...
...candidate is Albert Einstein. His name is synonymous with genius. Using only his innate intelligence, he developed theories that changed almost every aspect of modern life: science, mathematics, philosophy, even religion. Probably no other person through the ages has had such a profound (and positive) influence on the course of human history. ROB SIDDALL Toronto...
This fact is best seen from a perspective that flourished more than a century ago, as Emerson was fading from the intellectual scene. In the wake of Darwin's theory of natural selection, some anthropologists started viewing all human culture--music, technology, religion, whatever--as something that evolves rather as plants and animals evolve. "In the mental sphere the struggle for existence is not less fierce than in the physical," observed the British anthropologist Sir James Frazer. "In the end the better ideas carry...
...live in the consequences of that immense ambition; we have seen its results, both splendid and ghastly (space exploration, Marxist utopias). If religion taught faith and the mystery of the Causeless Cause (the ultimate secret, God), Newtonism located human intelligence in a cosmos of magnificently impassive reciprocities, celestial mechanics working by God's infinitely reliable and predictable cause and effect. Perhaps Newton merely codified what we intuitively knew (equal and opposite reactions, for example). As Einstein said, "The conceptions which he used to reduce the material of experience to order seemed to flow spontaneously from experience itself, from the beautiful...
Reynolds Price offers a simple solution to the din of millennium madness: respond to the quiet voice of Jesus [RELIGION, Dec. 6]. Price eloquently rewrites the Gospel in words too plain to miss. His work shows that an individual's honest approach will not be turned away. This is one of TIME's most powerful pieces. DENNIS MISNER Grants Pass...