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The most provocative theory in contemporary science-that cosmic rays are the inspirers of biological evolution-was discussed this week by Dr. Gioacchino Failla in the abstruse Journal of Applied Physics. His purpose was to inform physicists about the biological effects of some forms of radiation with which they work...
These natural ionizing rays, Muller theorized, may well cause the small percentage of "spontaneous" mutations (marked inheritable deviations from the ancestral norm) in all forms of life. The success of some mutations in the struggle for existence largely accounts for evolution, which has proceeded through the ages from protozoa to...
Died. Thomas Heney Malone Jr., 69, Vanderbilt University law professor, leading Tennessee lawyer, an amicus curiae on Clarence Darrow's side in the 1925 Scopes evolution trial; in Nashville.
Dr. Niebuhr's "conversion" is a sign of the times. In the easy '20s sin was becoming an archaism, like the devil's tail and angels with six wings. Calvin Coolidge's preacher was against it, but liberal clergymen were accepting the Platonic conception of sin...
But in these chaotic '40s Dr. Niebuhr is not alone in doubting the goodness of man and the certainty of progress. To him sin is not ignorance, but pride and self-righteousness. He finds the good fully balanced by the evil in humanity, sees hope only if man admits...