Katha Pollitt Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. October 14, 1949
Birthday: October 14
As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.
topic: Christian, Country, Teaching, Jay Gould, Denominations, Christian Denominations, Scandinavians
