Word: evolutionism
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WHEN ISRAEL was created in 1948, its founding fathers were concerned that their new country would eventually become a nation state like all others. To them, Israel had to remain on a moral pedestal, almost above reproach, in a constant search for perfection. It was an impossible dream, but one...
Konner believes humans are losing their sense of wonder but denies that this is due to the increasing advances of science and technology. The latter point is debatable, but if, as he advocates, we chose for "the further evolution of the human spirit," our success will be measurable only in...
NORMAN MAILER'S successful first novel, The Naked and the Dead, catapulted him permanently into the public limelight. Ever since then, the author's explanations of the evolution of the hip consciousness of the 1960's, his battle with the feminists, his Pulitzer Prize-winning later books (Armies of the...
Life On Earth (PBS). A tale of wonders, the saga of evolution and the ascent of life, from bacteria to man, lovingly told by British Host David Attenborough.
(11 of 12) supplies into the Indonesian jungles: "Suddenly the people are feeling that they must throw out everything from the past and learn everything new." In rebuttal, missionaries argue that evolution toward modern ways is inevitable and that they can buffer the struggles more humanely for the tribes than...