checks and balances
does creationismi deseive equal time?
By RON HUNT
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"Scopes II" conjures up
full-blown images of monkeys,
brilliant scientists, sincere-but
stupid fundamentalists, and the
sheer awe of "billions and bil
lions of years.”
A federal trial in Little Rock.
Ark. — expected to last through
next week — is being called
“Scopes II."
In this nickname we find the
key to the trial and the continu
ing battle over teaching evolu
tion and creation in public
schools
Equal treatment to both
views of the origin of life is
required by the Balanced Treat
ment for Creation-Science and
Evolution-Science Act, passed
in March by the Arkansas legis
lature. and signed into law by
Gov Frank White It would go
into effect in the fall of 1982
Claiming the law is vague
and unconstitutional, the Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union filed
suit in U S District Court in May
"Scopes II" was the tag
given the trial by Bruce Ennis,
an ACLU lawyer He thus likens
the Arkansas trial to the 1925
trial in Dayton. Tenn., of John
Scopes, charged with teaching
evolution in opposition to a
Tennessee law
The 1925 trial was a high
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strung affair Clarence Darrow
traded mental blows with Wil
liam Jennings Bryan Both sides
argued in extravagant terms,
calling the other side, respec
tively, anti-intellectual or anti
God
The ACLU apparently
thinks the Arkansas trial is an
other case of defending
teachers of evolution against
anti-intellectual religious freaks
Thus the "Scopes II” designa
tion
What the ACLU fails to see
is that those who oppose the
teaching of scientific creation
ism (which utilizes scientific da
ta that questions evolution and
supports creation, without
reliance on the Bible) in public
schools are religious and anti
intellectual
Everyone is religious All of
us live our lives with a view of
reality If we didn't live this way
we couldn’t think at all Whether
we say that the material u
niverse is all there is or that a
spiritual creator exists, we have
assumed a starting point for the
rest of our thought This as
sumption is based on faith
Creation cannot be proved,
but neither can evolution The
origin of life is historical; it can’t
be proved by experimentation
Therefore, those who op
pose the teaching of both views
are religiously motivated Ar
kansas state attorneys filed a
brief saying the ACLU suit is
attempting to censor creation
ism. "shutting out from the
marketplace of ideas' those
ideas with which they disagree
because they are incompatible
with their personal, religious or
philosophical views "
Those represented by the
ACLU in this case also are anti
intellectual. in a philosophical
sense Charles Darwin once
wrote. “The horrid doubt always
arises whether the convictions
of man's mind, which has
developed from the mind of the
lower animals, are of any value
or at all trustworthy Would any
one trust the conviction of a
monkey's mind, if there are any
convictions in such a mind7”
If evolution is true, how can
we trust our minds to oDserve it7
Ultimately evolutionists can give
no basis for the intellect; reason
cannot come from non-reason
no matter how many billions of
years they throw into the equa
tion
Calling the Arkansas trial
"Scopes II" reveals the
religious, anti-intellectual bias
of the ACLU in this case
Arkansas legislators don't
want to censor the teaching of
evolution Neither do they want
to censor another view — crea
tionism The Oregon Legislature
should consider a similar
balancing act
Ex-official blasts foreign policy
The Reagan administration is obsessed with
having a confrontation with the Soviet Union," a
former member of the U S State Department said
at a press conference Wednesday in the EMU
Richard Barnet called U S foreign policy
"mindless" and said he is "very pessimistic"
about the short-range prospects of nuclear war
Barnet who served as Deputy Director of
Research for the Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency during the Kennedy administration, also
spoke at a Wednesday night speech sponsored
by the EMU Cultural Forum
"I don't know of a time in my lifetime when
I ve heard from so many people in knowledgeable
positions expressing great worry about the
prospects of nuclear war," he said
Pres Ronald Reagan is operating on an
"exceedingly dangerous assumption" if he thinks
a nuclear war could be limited to Europe said the
senior fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies of
Washington, D C who is currently at work on a
book dealing with United States-Europe relations
It would be equally dangerous to assume that
"if we talk tough, stand firm, and have massive
armament the Russians will back down," Barnet
said
He said if the United States continues its
armament plans, the Soviet Union probably will be
“much more adventurous’ than now
“The Soviet Union is exceedingly anxious to
avoid confrontation
On other topics brought up at the press
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• “The administration is incredibly short
sighted in cutting back alternative energy par
ticularly in renewable resources “
• It's "tragic" that the government doesn't
see employment as the number-one problem
when unemployment of black teen-agers is more
than 50 percent in some areas
• The assumption that heavy defense
spending will lead to more employment is on
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temporary, affect few cities, and lead only to
employment of high-skilled workers in high-tech
nology fields
• “The political parties at the top are ab
solutely bankrupt" because they don't have via
ble economic programs The Democrats are
merely “waiting for Ronald Reagan to stub his
toe, which he seems to be doing."
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