Some defenders of religion enter into polemics with scientists and question their theories, for instance, by opposing the theory of evolution. |
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In an arena often mired in apologetics and polemics, they articulate the intricacies of Mormon origins irenically. |
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All her polemics and essays are written with a disciplined, jargon-free clarity. |
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Here's an update on some of the more attention-grabbing theatrical spoofs and polemics being presented in Seattle and beyond. |
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In political polemics, the mob, particularly the revolutionary mob, has often been characterised as anarchic, violent, out of control. |
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I believe that the only way that we can survive in a multi-religious society is by promoting this sort of healthy discussion, free from polemics. |
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Denominational conflict and polemics continued throughout the later nineteenth century and into the twentieth. |
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And we'll discuss polemics and the recapturing of civility at the center of the country soon. |
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Most Spiritualists were outspoken abolitionists and often engaged in fiery polemics against slavery at lectures and seances. |
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Although I've been accused of trying to sway people with my screeds and polemics, that has never been the case, at least not consciously. |
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I find that when I write well measured critiques such as this, all of my writing for months, maybe years, gets stogged in polemics. |
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The run-up to the 30th anniversary produced a rash of new revelations and bitter polemics. |
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Both albums have a lot of straight polemics, but both also contain a lot of character studies. |
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However, the reports of both bodies were swamped by partisan polemics in the ongoing battle between federal Labor Governments and their political opponents. |
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I have no wish, on this occasion, for sterile polemics with the votaries of intimidation. |
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Much of the frisson we associate with Vorticist polemics, for instance, is generated by the clash of these dual, but not entirely compatible, aims. |
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Instead of illuminating the path to knowledge, such a profusion of polemics leads instead to the promotion of obscurity. |
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Blogs range from offering recipes to requests for prayers, to moving spiritual reflections and writings about saints to polemics about political correctness in the pulpit. |
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My hope is that Rand Paul now recognizes that even the most conservative Americans want to hear about policy, not polemics. |
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The most powerful performance poets blend personal experience with political rhetoric, creating polemics that often have a bitingly satirical edge. |
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The problem is that the experience appears to have left him with an insatiable appetite for polemics. |
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As the fate of the Soviet Union dramatically showed, modern superpowers cannot be sustained by polemics and police forever. |
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Arguments to motivation or nature are a staple of polemics, not news. |
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In the process, she elevated the sapless polemics of identity politics to the lush realm of neorealism. |
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His work thus has the tendency to reproduce the elisions of the religious and political polemics of the sixteenth century while seeking to explain them. |
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As the rest of the world marched towards scientific orientation and professionalism, India wallowed in a whirlpool of politics, polemics and puerile prejudices. |
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By the 1690s, Spinoza's ideas could be found in all the bookshops, and even polemics against him served only to spread the intellectual contagion. |
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But if you like thoughtful polemics, it is worth logging off Facebook to read it. |
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Sometimes I write over-the-top polemics or fantasies just for a giggle. |
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The resolutions of the Security Council and the resolutions of international legitimacy are not mere polemics. |
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For all his caustic polemics, Kristol had an abhorrence of finding himself in the minority. |
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These polemics, though, take on again and again an elegiac ring, as he settles accounts with the great figures who had preoccupied him throughout his life. |
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Newspapers found it cheaper and better for their circulation to indulge in polemics rather than in detailed reporting, and this sensationalized politics still further. |
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It engages historians, philosophers, scientists and the educated lay public alike in a discussion that self-consciously resists the temptation of polemics. |
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This hypothesis introduced an element of racialism into Greek interstate polemics. |
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If you're offended by the polemics, I'll ask you to bear with it, because there is some substance to the presentation as well. |
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It is their responsibility to refrain from polemics in the discussion and focus on objective arguments. |
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Each of these phases and eras produces its own distorted knowledge of the other, each its own reductive images, its own disputatious polemics. |
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Calvin actively participated in the polemics that were exchanged between the Lutheran and Reformed branches of the Reformation movement. |
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This all led mathematicians to target him for polemics and sparked John Wallis to become one of his most persistent opponents. |
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In the 14th century the epiclesis became an issue in the polemics between Greeks and Latins, because all Eastern eucharistic prayers included an invocation of the Holy Spirit while the Roman canon of the mass did not. |
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Add a little linguistic sophistication, a few striking examples of failed integration, a little polemics and you can make yourself snug in your world view and quietly take a nap. |
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But this is a situation as a whole that is best dealt with through efforts on the ground, not through tendentious statements, polemics or unrealistic proposals that do nothing to influence the situation in a positive way. |
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It is prefaced by the former French Minister for Research, Claudie Haigneré, and has already become a reference book for all those who wish to understand and form their own opinion independently of polemics. |
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Lee is, of course, fully aware of this incongruity and it has become fundamental to his live act and his BBC2 series Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, where these polemics will eventually appear. |
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But now that Bob and Rose, the recent drama about a gay man falling for a woman, can find a home on primetime TV, Daldry's announcement will not be met with polemics. |
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Iain's poems vary greatly in length and theme, ranging from discursive meditations on landscape and relationships through highly crafted love poems and take-no-prisoners polemics to witty squibs. |
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Some Spaniards think he was, as recent sales of revisionist polemics show. |
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The issue of security is clearly legitimate, but we cannot fall into the trap of polemics and exploitation deliberately designed to fuel hatred and xenophobia merely for partisan reasons. |
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However, it did combine correct scientific data and false polemics. |
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We heard Ambassador Churkin's polemics, which did not respond to the call we have made for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a return to the status quo ante. |
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As a result of public discussion of his opinions and the polemics accompanying these debates, he states that, since 1978, he has become the target of death threats and that on eight occasions he has been physically assaulted. |
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And yet the concrete benefits people gain from membership of the European Union are hidden by the lofty polemics of Eurosceptics and Europhiles alike. |
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In France, more through their writing style and a talent for polemics. |
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Without a possibility for a dialog none of those sites can rightfully claim to be a public place since their public character is affirmed through a dialog, confrontation, polemics and debate. |
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They consider this a matter of the sovereign choice of all the states concerned but they did not publish official statements on this subject, thereby avoiding polemics with Moscow. |
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Many of Voltaire's prose works and romances, usually composed as pamphlets, were written as polemics. |
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The polemics of racial superiority became inexorably intertwined with romantic nationalism. |
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Two centuries later, feminist literary critics analyzed these feminist polemics, or womanifestos, as texts that embody a struggle between reason and emotion. |
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He wrote many polemics, on subjects from political reform to religion, but is best known for his book from 1830, Rural Rides, which is still in print today. |
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It was during this time that most of his literary polemics appeared. |
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