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...said. Professor of Philosophy Edward J. Hall said there is still a chance intelligent design could be taught in science classrooms. “Keep in mind that creationist sentiments have already had widespread and pernicious effects: namely, many high school biology teachers report that they simply avoid the topic of evolution, so as not to provoke controversy,” he said. Hanken said he attributes the American public’s unwillingness to fully accept evolution partly as a result of this circumvention in schools. “First off, evolution and evolutionary biology are given surprisingly little...
...workplace in America." Throughout the day, the Republican National Committee published a dozen bulletins offering a running critique of the Democrats' questioning, culminating with a 43-point "Summary of Inaccuracies." Democrats also issued more than a dozen documents pointing out supposed contradictions in Alito's testimony, sorted by topic...
...goyim are busy decorating aromatic foliage, I’m camped out in the local movie theater. Plus, it was a Spielberg film. His movies, aside from the ones that suck, are always good. And it was about Israel, a personal favorite subject, and killing terrorists, another sweet topic. The story, as you probably know, revolves around the brutal massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in the titular city. The rest is an intriguing study of the psychological toll of counter-terrorism, its cycles of violence and ethical implications. In other words, the Olympics...
...exclusive report on Steven Spielberg's new film, Munich, generated some unease: Was the director granting too much humanity to the Palestinian terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics? But Spielberg fans eagerly anticipated the filmmaker's take on an emotionally charged topic...
Forget about the cute headlinesproclaiming thatlimbo is in limbo. In fact, limbo, the incomplete afterlife postulated by the Roman Catholic Church for infants who die before being baptized, is on the skids. After a commission of top Catholic theologians wrapped up a December conference that examined the topic, the prognosis was apparently grim: the group's secretary-general told Vatican Radio that the church's teaching on limbo was "in crisis...