The Michigan Daily-Friday, March 6, 1981-Page 3 Scientists testify Calif. schools already allow evolution doubts SACRAMENTO, Calif (UPI) - Two scientists testifying in California's "monkey trial" said yesterday state guidelines challenged by fundamen- talists already permit teachers to tell students Charles Darwin may not have the last word about the origin of life. The second day of the defense's case also featured a high school teacher who told the court he has had students ar- med with Bibles stand up in class and challenge the evolutionary theory. JOHN HORN, A teacher in Hacienda- La Punte Unified School District in Los Angeles County, said he had often faced challenges from students who brought their Bibles to class. "I try to preface what I say by making sure the student understands the scientific theory. There is no intent to say this is what you have to believe," he told the court in the non-jury trial that started Monday., Asked what effect the discussions had on the students' religious beliefs, Horn said: "I think they went away feeling stronger about their faith because they had really gone into the subject." DO STUDENTS HAVE to accept evolution as fact to receive a good grade? "No," he said. "In biology you have to know about these things. You don't have to accept them." Christian fundamentalists who took the state to court say the guidelines go too far in presenting Darwin's 19th cen- tury theory as dogma, not theory. The state presented two eminent university professors who said they found room within the guidelines for teachers to explain that the theory is just that. "We are not gods, authorities, or dogmatists," testified Richard Dicker- son, professor of chemistry at Califor- nia Institute of Technology, on the four- th day of the trial. "We are doing the best we can. He described the state guidelines un- der challenge by the Bible-believing fundamentalists as "a summary of the state of the art. "If the data change," he said, "the theories change. Scientists are oppor- tunists." A second defense witness, William Mayer, professor of zoology at the University of Colorado and director of the Biological Sciences Curriculum study, said, "The California framework is broad enough to give a science tex- tbook writer a lot of latitude." Be an angel . B 1. Read UI Ot itj 764-0558 A DOUBLE-BEROL SPECIAL WBUWONE **GETONE Mother awarded custody Daily Photo by BRIAN MASCK LANSING (UPI) - A struggling welfare mother who sent a daughter to live with relatives after the family was abandoned by her husband cannot be stripped of parental rights for neglect, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. The appeals court, concurring with the Ingham County Circuit Court, said a probate judge exceeded his authority in making the young girl a temporary, ward of the court. THE WOMAN MOVED to Michigan from Kentucky with her 10 children in 1974 after the father had refused to con- tinue supporting them, the court said. She placed the children with relatives and helped pay for their care out of Aid to Dependent Children payments, it said. The daughter in question, living with an aunt and uncle, was made a ward of the court in 1975 and legally placed with the relatives who were reportedly providing good care. Her mother challenged the decision in 1978 and the court, while restoring her custody, retained the child as a ward. The appeals court ruled the probate judge erred in stepping in on the groun- ds the girl was without proper custody and guardianship as provided by law. 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Happy hour 4-8 p.m., 4 p.m.-1a.m. Spartacus Youth League - Rally: "U.S. Hands off El Salvador," noon, diag. Hillel - Shabbat, 1429 Hill: Orth, Minyan, 6:15 p.m., Cons. Minyan, 6:30 p.m., dinner, res. by Fri. noon, 7:30 p.m., Lecture: "The Kibbutz and the Second Generation: Does it still Work?" 8:30 p.m., 1429 Hill. International Student-Fell. - Dinner, meeting; 6:30 p.m., 4100 Nixon Rd. University Duplicate Bridge Club - Open game, inexperienced players welcome, 7:30 p.m., Henderson Room, Michigan League. Task force to review increases in crime WASHINGTON (AP) - Citing ,an "alarming and continuous" increase in violent crime, Attorney General William French Smith ordered a special task force yesterday to deter- mine whether the federal government should make a bolder attempt to ensure domestic tranquility. "There has been no comprehensive examination of the federal role in this area for many years," Smith told his first news conference as attorney general. "The climate of crime today makes such a review necessary." The attorney general also announced - as did President Reagan - that the administration was making almost $1 million in federal funds available to Atlanta authorities to help deal with the "human" problems of youngsters in that city, where 19 black children have been killed in the last 11 years. Two others are missing. Smith said $650,000 would be sent immediately from his department's juvenile justice program, and the rest would follow from other federal agen- cies. The grants will pay for after- school guidance for 1,000 youngsters in the areas where the slayings occurred, a 24-hour hotline for rumor control, and housing care for homeless teen-agers. Smith noted that 30 percent of the nation's households were touched by a serious crime last year, including mur- der, -rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny or theft. 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