Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great advantage to Britain's future development that we are able to attract to Britain those dynamic institutions in the United States economy that have made a huge difference to the creation of businesses and jobs," said Gordon Brown, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...side of the debate were creationism advocates Ken Ham, the founder and director of Answers in Genesis, a pro-creation organization; and Russ Humphreys, a physicist at Sandia Laboratories and an adjunct professor for the Institute of Creation Research...
...scientific consensus around evolution is overwhelming," Alters said. He asked what would happen when high school students, trained in creation science, were released to the rest of the world...
They would find no creationist articles published in scientific journals, no research grants for creation science, and few university-level teaching positions for creationism...
Then there are the biological weapons. The 20th century saw the creation of great weapons based on the principles of nuclear physics; the 21st century will see great weapons based on the knowledge of DNA and the genetic code. During the 1980s, the Soviet Union used rudimentary genetic engineering to create incurable strains of Black Death (bubonic plague) that were resistant to drugs. This biotech Black Death was loaded into missile warheads aimed at the U.S. As biotechnology becomes more supple and powerful and as the genetic code of more organisms is unraveled, biologists will learn how to mix genes...