Word: taughtly
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Despite the protests of creationists and their intellectual allies, and such efforts as the Kansas school board's vote last week to expunge evolution from the school curriculum, science has long taught that human beings are just another kind of animal, but most of the time this seems like a technicality. It's not just the obvious differences--language, civilization, technology--that set us apart. Even basic biology suggests that humanity has special status. Virtually every other type of animal comes in multiple varieties: dozens of species of monkeys, antelopes, whales and hawks walk, swim or fly the earth...
...infamous 1925 Scopes trial (leading to the conviction of a Tennessee high school teacher) and that ended only in 1968, when the Supreme Court declared such laws unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds. In a second round in the late 1970s, Arkansas and Louisiana required that if evolution be taught, equal time must be given to Genesis literalism, masquerading as oxymoronic "creation science." The Supreme Court likewise rejected those laws...
First, no other Western nation has endured any similar movement, with any political clout, against evolution--a subject taught as fundamental, and without dispute, in all other countries that share our major sociocultural traditions...
Both trends are new. For as long as there have been stocks, we've been taught that you need a professional broker to help figure out your finances. But the Web has brought monumental changes to investing. Individuals can trade for the same low costs as institutions and can get plenty of timely information. The Web has empowered many people to take over the reins of their portfolios...
...Where today is that land, that taught us courage, And that we loved so passionately?" [Leonid Ivashov...