Heir spends family fortune to discredit evolution theory 12/23/02 Scott Stephens Plain Dealer Reporter If you can't imagine how an ultra-conservative California savings and loan heir could be linked to the shaping of Ohio's new science standards, you probably have never heard of Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson. For years, the reclusive philanthropist and evangelical Christian has channeled millions from his family's fortune to a variety of causes designed to discredit and defeat Darwin's evolution theory that living things share common ancestors but have changed over time. Some of those millions have gone to the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, the nation's best-known, best-organized...
