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...attacks on religion with their best-selling anti-religion polemics, which are at least as extreme as a hellfire and brimstone sermon from Jerry Falwell. In a debate so frenzied on each side, John Polkinghorne’s “Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship?? is a refreshing addition to the discourse: its thesis is actually arguable and not merely a didactic attempt at persuasion. Though Polkinghorne’s book will not provide the reader with conclusive answers on the superiority of religion or science, it thoughtfully examines the intersection of the two?...
...criticized three piece on three grounds, alleging parallels with neo-Nazi literature, saying that Walt and Mearsheimer’s characterization that Israeli citizenship is based on “blood kinship?? is a “categorical lie,” and taking issue with the representation of the lobby as all-encompassing...
...Walt and Mearsheimer countered in an interview that “the principle of ‘blood kinship?? refers to the fact that Israel was explicitly founded as a Jewish state and that whether or not you are Jewish is normally a function of ancestry, especially maternal ancestry...
Furthermore, Adomanis writes that Pera, a colony near Constantinople, suffered by forsaking “a greater sense of Western kinship?? and failing to associate itself with Byzantium. This sense of “Western kinship?? is bizarre; modern European states have a good deal more in common, in terms of political and economic infrastructure, with the Ottoman empire that with the antiquated structures of Byzantium or, for that matter, of Pera. The only logical definition Adomanis can have in mind for “Western kinship,” then...
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