Word: argumentativeness
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...divergent from my own,” Aguero, who is also a Crimson editor, writes in an e-mail. “They politicize their events and activities so much that I have no desire or interest to go to anything because they always seem to be the same argument against the President, the government, the conservatives, the military, the Republicans, over and over again...
...credit, the course must use a primary text that reflects “knowledge generally accepted in the scientific and educational communities and with which a student at the university level should be conversant.” Since the BARWS standards are clearly content-neutral, the only possible argument left is that the standards are being imposed in an unusually harsh manner against Christian courses. Calvary and the ACSI have made this argument as well, pointing to classes on Buddhism and Judaism that have been accepted for credit. Again, it is important to consider why the Calvary courses have been...
...other central tenets of Christianity.Three hundred and sixty-nine years later, in the midst of a national debate about God’s place in the classroom, even the University’s divinity faculty—the heirs to that theological mission—reject the latest argument for God’s role in creation: “intelligent design.”The national debate about intelligent design marks the latest front in the battle between proponents of teaching creationism and evolution in public schools. The century-old debate, which reached a pinnacle in the media with...
...aloof animals, most of them the pale sand color of the desert dingo, lie in the sun in their high-fenced enclosure, snuffling and backing away when a stranger arrives. Having bred them for 20 years, Watson's home is full of photos and paintings of dingoes, but her argument for their protection is based less on sentiment than on her belief in their ecological status. "They're Australia's lion - and everyone knows that if you take out the top predator, things go bad," she says, as puppies roll in balls of golden fluff at her feet. "The outside...
...thatSamuel Alito Jr. has beennominated to become an associate justice of the Supreme Court [Nov. 14], will someone please make the argument that the biggest reason he should not be confirmed is his gender? If the Supreme Court is to reflect the nation's demographics, at least half its members should be women. The court's overwhelming maleness isn't a fair representation of the majority of Americans. Surely the legal profession has at least one woman as competent as Alito...