Word: argumentativeness
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...even faculty to look into the potential costs of delivering cable TV via the campus’s computer network. He said he would like this group to determine the costs for students of receiving cable so that by the fall, “we could stop having this argument [over getting cable] every year [that ends] without anyone actually doing anything...
Lots of legal experts greeted the Valerie Plame lawsuit against Vice President Cheney and White House senior officials Karl Rove and I. Lewis Libby with skepticism, largely because it will have to overcome an almost certain argument that Cheney and company are, as federal officials, immune to being sued for on-the-job behavior. But the argument to dismiss the lawsuit outright isn?t so simple to make...
...your article on why high-tech solutions aren't being used to reduce referee errors in football: Football's world governing body - the Fédération Internationale de Football Association - shouldn't be so closed-minded about the effects of modern technology in assisting referees. Its argument that video consultation affects the speed and fluidity of the game may be valid for now. But it must allow for experimentation. Technology evolves. Maybe someday the technology will be improved so that it won't disrupt the game. What we fans want is entertainment, fair play and justice in refereeing...
...Language of God is enlightening but not always convincing. Collins writes at a pace better suited to statements of position than to sustained argument, and he sometimes falls back on familiar polemics by pros like Lewis. His insights on the nature of a God-science overlap, while fresh, are celebratory rather than investigative, budgeting relatively little space to wrestle with instances when the conjunction of the two can induce the philosophical bends (such as faith's understanding of God's place outside human time). (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...
That is not the argument his publisher has chosen to emphasize, or his book's subtitle would be flipped to read A Believer Presents the Evidence for Science. But it may be the one with the best prospects. Students of the debate note that atheists are more dogmatically opposed to God than Evangelicals are to evolution, if only because aggressive creationism is neither a long-standing evangelical position nor a unanimous one. According to Edward Larson, a Pulitzer- prizewinning historian of the evolution debate at the University of Georgia, American support for it, now near 50%, hovered around...