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Continued from Page 1 it goes to court, it may take longer. In a letter to the editor published in the Emerald on june 22. Brooks and Gaffney also indicated Charles Carter in the matter. Carter served as l^evinson’s campaign manager for his "People's Choice" ticket during the April ASUO elec tions. Charter has not been nam ed in the suit, hut Brooks said they still may include people in thf suit who may have been involved. Levinson apologized for the ad in the |unt! 22 Emerald letters to the editor section and claim ed responsibility for the ad. ''lost a letter in the Emerald doesn't begin to apologize or make the situation better." brooks said "That suspicion (between the Executive and minority groups) can never be cleared." Levinson was hesitant to comment on the suit. As for the legal aspect, he said he has “maintained appropriate legal counsel." Although Levinson took responsibility for the ad. he would not comment other than to say. “There were some ex tenuating circumstances I've only recently i>eeome aware of. Other than that. I can't com ment just now " ^CbfltC Continued from Page 1 five minute response. The floor was then opened to questions from the audience. The mood of the audience, which appeared to contain a sizable pro-creationism majori ty. was generally reserved dur ing the debate, but the high temperature in the lecture hall seemed to take its toll during the three hour event. By the end of the audience questioning period, the audience became significantly more defensive in the face of pro-evolutionary questioners. Only one of the au dience members who question ed the speakers appeared to be pro-creationist. Wagner opened his remarks with a definition of science as that which is observable and measurable within the physical universe. It does not include, he said, the study of human behavior or the metaphsical. "Can you quantify and test the theory?” he asked. "If not then it isn't science." Wagner went on to say that questions of the origins of life are theistic. rather than scien tific. As such, he maintained, discussions of the issue belong "and do occur in the philosophy, not the science department" of public schools. Rather than defend crea tionism as a scientific theory, (iish contended that evolution fails the same tests of scientific validity, and is therefore no more a science than crea tionism. C.ish focused his remarks on what he called "the scientific evidence which sup ports creationist theory Using laws of mathematical probability, the second law of thermodynamics, and citing the "tremendous gaps” in the fossil record, dish concluded that scientific evidence provides "insuperable barriers to evolu tionary thifory," and as such makes the teaching of evolution as much of a theology as any religious interpretation of the origins of life. In addressing the Supreme dourt decision which declared a 1981 Louisiana law mandating instruction in creation science when evolution is taught in public schools unconstitu tional. Wagner assumed a broad interpretation of the decision, while Gish preferred to limit his interpretation to the facts in the particular case. Wagner staled that the Court’s 7-2 majority decision released June lit means that creation "should be excluded from science classrooms." since it violates the legal principle of separation of church and state. Gish said the decision was based on the Court's assump tion of the intent of the Loui siana legislature to "force fun damentalist Christianity in the schools. Even if that were true.” Gish said, "the practical results of the legislation were perfectly constitutional. That is. to re quire all evidence to be taught about the subject of origins." Gish accused evolutionists of exercising "monopolistic con trol of education," said that the law was intended to remedy that. Its purpose was to insure guaranteed academic freedom, according to Gish, and that the Court was in effect calling the legislators of Ixiuisiana "liars” in terms of the intent of the law. STUDENTS EARN $90 AND MORE KLMON1H S,, Donat* blood piAima «tMb I you r* itudytng (Vow can mat# u ' many at atght donation* a vary month ) It's *al# I aa*y baalthy Undo* madlcal < twpanrtalon ta a NEW DONORS: $5 Bonus with this ad EUGENE PLASMA 484-2241 • 1071 Ollv* St. Wolff Tanning *30 *45 I 5 session* 2S sessions Haircuts shampoo ft style *12 *10 women men Designer Nails *35 SnAancerx 99 W. 10th, 2nd Floor Atrium, Downtown Monday-Saturday 8-8 345*3491 Or. 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