Word: doubted
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...entire public school system has been disrupted this fall because of parental objections to textbooks. While complaints have been raised about patriotic, sexual and racial contents, the quarrel with the textbooks is very deeply a biblical issue. Fundamentalists all, the parents contend that the schoolbooks breed doubt of the Bible's literal truth. One contested passage compares the scriptural account of Daniel in the lion's den to the old tale of Androcles and the lion. Another suggests that the biblical story of the Tower of Babel is a myth explaining the origin of languages. "We object to books that...
...human, historical factor in the Bible's composition?a view that goes much farther in explaining its apparent contradictions and deficiencies. Believing critics argue?and experience has sometimes shown?that rigid faith is the most vulnerable to complete destruction. In their view, the believer who can live with some doubt is more likely to keep some faith. An occasionally fallible Bible, therefore, is a Bible that paradoxically seems more authentic...
...breadth, sophistication and diversity of all this biblical investigation are impressive, but it begs a question: Has it made the Bible more credible or less? Literalists who feel the ground move when a verse is challenged would have to say that credibility has suffered. Doubt has been sown, faith is in jeopardy. But believers who expect something else from the Bible may well conclude that its credibility has been enhanced. After more than two centuries of facing the heaviest scientific guns that could be brought to bear, the Bible has survived ?and is perhaps the better for the siege...
...results will no doubt bring a storm of angry calls and letters to the pair who conducted the poll: Professor Peter Blau and a graduate student, Rebecca Margulies, both of Columbia University's sociology department. When they published a more limited poll last year in Change, they were bombarded by protests from irate academics, who questioned their techniques and even their sanity...
Last week the once proud group was in disarray. Rosenfeld, 21, was in hiding after a disciplinary board had forced him to leave Harvard in disgrace. The reputation of Dressier, a respected scientist, had been somewhat tarnished. Most important, serious doubt had been cast on the validity of the transfer factor experiments...