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Hutchinson and Smith expand Schermerhorn's eight cultural features with three more: (1) a common proper name that identities and expresses the "essence" of the ethnic group; 2) myths of common ancestry (often fictive) that often include great heroes and heroines; and 3) shared historical memories, which can be fictive, as well (Hutchinson & Smith: 6). The Cardinal stated that, "Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense--an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection--is not. Archbishop Christoph Schonborn of Vienna argued in a July 7, 2005 op-ed piece in The New York Times that "evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense--an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection--is not. |
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