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Volume 7 Number 4May 1997A magazine of public affairs, the arts and theologyWhat I object tointensely is any claimby creationists or onbehalf of creationiststhat their viewemerges from a literalunderstanding of theBible. That is mybailiwick andI will defend it.Creationism as aliteral understandingof the Bible is bunk.-Antony CampbellSee 'Creationis1n!CONTENTS4COMMENT7CAPITAL LETTER8LETTERS14THE MONTH'S TRAFFIC18LIFE AND DEATH MATTERSW.J. Uren teases out the knots of theeuthanasia debate as it is being conductedin research surveys.20SCHOOL DAZEWhat is the future of public education?Morag Fraser interviews Ann Morrow,former Chair of the Schools Council.23SUMMA THEOLOGIAEUtterly unbiblical', p30. ;:AVE NEW WORLDCover drawing and drawings pp2,20-22, 24-26, from the fo lio ofSam Thomas, aged 6.Cover design by Siobhan Jackson.Graphics pp9, 10, 18, 23, 28, 30, 38,40 by Siobhan Jackson.Cartoons p 14, 17 by Dean Moore.Cartoon piS by Peter Fraser.Photograph p21, 22 by Bill Thomas.Photograph p45 by Greg Scullin.Eureka Street magazineJesuit PublicationsPO Box 553Richmond VIC 3121Tel (03) 9427 73 11Fax (03) 9428 4450Spencer Zifcak counts the cost of a lossof autonomy in Australian Universities.27INDEFENSIBLE SPENDINGWe're still spooked by the thought ofinvasion, according to Brian Toohey, andpaying big bucks for our paranoia.28ALL A BIT ON THE NOSEPaul Chadwick puts forward a plan for theretention of some diversity in our printm edia. But don't hold your breath ...29ARCHIMEDES30CREATIONISM! UTTERLY UNBIBLICALWhy swap the theological wealth of theBible for the insipid message of creationism,asks Antony Campbell.35POETRYLate Division and Upper East,by Peter Rose.36ENGLAND HER ENGLANDMargaret Drabble talks with MargaretSimons about the country that makesher furious and fuels her novels.38BOOKSAndrew Hamilton reviews Millennium andReformation, Christianity and the World1500-2000 (p38) and Robert Crotty's TheJesus Question (p41 ); Max Teichmann siftsthrough Samuel Hungtington's The Clashof Civilisations (p39); Brian Toohey assessesAgeing and Money (p42); Alan Wearnereviews a quartet of new poetry (p43); andTim Thwaites goes Climbing MountImprobable with Richard Dawkins (p44) .46FOOLS RUSH INGeoffrey Rush had a distinguished stagecareer long before that award, says GeoffreyMilne.48FLASH IN THE PANReviews of the films When We Wem Kings;Blacluocl