The found object in art has been a subject of polarised debate in Britain throughout the 1990s due to the use of it by the Young British Artists. (en.wikipedia.org)
The work he was describing in the seminar was, as the Institute's on - line notice said, an attempt to «cut through both sides of the increasingly polarised debate about how the universe was created, with atheistic Darwinians declaring the death of God, whilst anti-Darwinian creationists denounce evolution as fraud.» (faith.org.uk)
In other words, in a highly polarised debate, scientific developments are taken to be decisive. (climate-resistance.org)