Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...considerably more confidence than it has in some time-and wants the world to know it. Concludes a long-experienced U.S. observer in Jidda: "The Saudis are determined to get the message across that they are not in immediate jeopardy." Concerned officials and experts in Washington and other capitals tend to agree. The outlines of the Saudis' tripartite campaign...
...creationist movement boasts a number of adherents who have been trained in science. Significantly, few are biologists. Creationists have done almost no original research. In launching their attacks on evolution they tend to pick over data accumulated by science. Among their most frequent points...
...Been: "This monkey mythology of Darwin is the cause of permissiveness, promiscuity, pills, prophylactics, perversions, pregnancies, abortions, pornotherapy, pollution, poisoning and proliferation of crimes of all types." Behind the rhetoric lies a basic question that touches the ultimate reaches of science and the most ancient source of faith. Creationists tend to put it as follows: The existence of a clock implies a clockmaker; the existence of creation implies a creator. The infinite complexity and design of the universe, they claim, could not simply have evolved through blind trial and error...
...that way, however, the question is one of theology, not science. Though the growth of scientific knowledge has unquestionably undercut faith, creationists tend to ignore the fact that the awe-inspiring complexity of the universe, its grand design, has been made known to man mainly through the free inquiry of science. The true study of evolution, moreover, is a humbling experience that gives man only a tiny niche in the vast scheme of the universe. "Never lose a holy curiosity," Einstein once wrote. Says Astrophysicist Robert Jastrow: "Astronomers have proven that the creation of the universe is the result...
...that domes appear geologically stable. They do not have ground water circulating through them to carry off radioactive material. (If such water were present, the soluble salt would long ago have been washed away.) Even if the salt were cracked by heat from radioactive materials, the rupture would tend to close itself, a self-healing characteristic of salt not found in, say, granitic or volcanic rock masses, which are also being investigated as radioactive refuse sites. Says Physicist Neal Carter of the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, which is studying the problem of nuclear-waste disposal...