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The Nativity is hardly alone among biblical stories to come under the scrutiny of scholars. Even more than the Gospels, the Old Testament has been subjected to exhaustive investigations going back into the 18th century. Faced with mounting scientific evidence for evolution, many biblical critics long ago moved away from...
In California, a similar protest against public school textbooks has resulted in widespread revisions. For nearly a decade, beginning in the 1960s, some Californians who adhered to the biblical view of creation sought to have that theory represented along with evolution in the state's public school science
Among the biblical questions still being pondered by Catholic scholars is monogenism?the belief in one set of Adam-and-Eve "original parents"?as opposed to polygenism, the theory that evolution to human form occurred in many places at roughly the same time. Pius XII's encyclical Humani Generis...
Also: "Art to Wear by Various Artists" at the Evolution Gallery, 142 Newbury St. Sculpture by Andre Derain and Graphics by Henri Matisse at the Pucker/Safrai Gallery, 171 Newbury St.. Paintings by Dan Rosenbluth '75 pottery by the staff of the Radcliffe Pottery Studio at Ticknor Library, Boylston Hall...
Two Cultures. A decade after his death, the problem of properly dressing Aldous Huxley remains, Sybille Bedford's long, affectionately detailed biography notwithstanding. A man whose 69 years spanned and made the most of a number of literary and intellectual styles, Huxley simply does not fit comfortably into critical readymades...