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Vol. 20 No. 11/
ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
Friday, April 9, 1982
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BSU Bridges
the Gulf
By GERALD FIELDS
Bridging the Gulf Between
Nationalities, the title of this
article, is also the theme for
Black Awareness Week held
this week at St. Andrews
College. The first annual
Black Awareness Week,
sponsored by the Black Stu
dent Union, was under the
guidance of advisor. Pro
fessor Jesse Johnakin. It was
created on the behalf of the
St. Andrews atmosphere and
surrounding communities, to
generate a social awareness
of Black achievements in
education.
The week began on April
4th, with the entertaining
music from concert pianist
Raymond Hicks from Ben-
nettsville, South Carohna.
Immediately following the
.pianist, the St. Luke and
Voicesof Love Gospel Choirs
soothed the ears of the au
dience with several hymns.
On April 5, Professor
Jesse S. Johnakin gave a
discourse entitled “Black
Women in Today’s Society”.
The week continued with
another discourse by Dr.
Wilsie Jenkins, Associate
Dean of Students at Fort
Valley State Univeisity, Fort
Valley Georgia. Dr. Jenkins
spoke on the topic “Educa
tion: A Catapult in to the
Future.
On April 7, Dr. Robert
Satcher, vice president of
Voorhees College, gave a
discourse entitled,
“Minorities’ Contributions
to Science”. Immediately
following Dr.Satcher’s
discourse, a poetry reading
was held. It consisted of
readings by various members
of the Black Student Union
and all others that wished to
participate.
The week ended on April
8, with Attorney Paul
EagUn, a graduate of Duke
University Law School,
speaking on the topic,
“Challenging the Redistric-
ting Plan in North Carolina.
President of the Black Stu
dent Union, Gerald Fields,
says he hopes students “have
enjoyed and will continue to
benefit from the well
Dreoared Drosram.”
Blooming dogwoods announce the arrival of spring on
the St. Andrews campus.
Photo by Jeff Aiken
Evolution V s. Creati onism
DR. ROBERT SATCHER
By TERRI DAVIS
Last weekend, St. An
drews held a symposium on
what has become one of the
most hotly debated issues of
our theories on evolution
and creation.
The symposium was
entitled “Teaching Origins in
Public Schools” and its pur
pose (as stated in the schedul
ed program) was to “develop
a series of case statements for
the standard evolutionary
and creation science view
points on the origins of the
earth and humankind”. The
coordinator of the sym
posium was Dr. Thomas
Blackburn of St. Andrews,
Global Glance
By COREY tNGOLD'
This week has been witness to a time of strained rela
tions between Great Britain and Argentina. Argentina
seized a British-controlled territory, the Falkland
Islands and in retaliation the British are sending approx
imately 40 warships to show their concern over the
seizure. . , j • i
Following Secretary of State Alexander Haig s denial
of allowing Northern Ireland’s Protestant leader,
Reverend Ian Paisley to enter the U.S., Bob Jones Jr,
head of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South
Carolina, blasted Haig by saying that Paisley is visiting
for religious not political purposes.
Gasoline prices continue to decrease in the United
States because of the world wide “glut” in oil supplies.
who is a McGaw Professor
of Chemistry.
On Friday, April 2nd two crea
tionists and two evolutionists,
all from North Carolina
State University, presented
lectures on the physical and
biological scientific evidence
of'origins.
Dr. Blackburn explains
that “Creation Science pur
parts to be a scientific
discipline which seeks
evidence for facts that the
earth was recently (on a
geological scale) created by a
supernatural being.” Accor
ding to their calculations as
traced from Adam through
present day man the earth is
approximately 6000 years
old.
He explains that the age of
the earth according to this
theory would be represented
by the last half of an inch on
the time line placed in the LA
building hallway for SAGE
students.
Dr. Blackburn savs that
“the creationist’s attempt to
prove that the evolution
theory is wrong and they at
tempt to account for the
evidence that led to evolution
as paralled with Genesis.
They do this by arguing that
the earth is not old enough
for evolution to have occur
red.”
One of the creationist’s
theories is that the geological
history of the earth was
tuated Dy Noah’s flood and
that all of the fossils
discoverd date from this
flood.
Several questions raised by
the creation scientists Friday
night were: “Does matter
have the capacity for self
organization?” “Are the
laws governing energy exter
nally directed or internally
random?” “Is a sp
ontaneous origin natural?”
“Can the whole of chance
give rise to ordered ex-
I istence?”
These scientists took the
positions that evolution
denies the existence of God
and as one concluded, “life
in this case is without direc
tion and intelligent purpose.
The evolutionists, on the
other hand, base their
theories of origin on Darwin
and according to geological
findings since Darwin. One
way evolutionists measure
the age of the earth is
through studying radio
isotopes in rocks. They
theorize that the earth is ap
proximately 4‘/2 billion years
old.
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