With so few statements backed up
by coherent arguments many people in the UK are being exposed to unbalanced accounts of many of the important issues of the day.
Not exact matches
My
argument will be that Whitehead's move from Trend I to Trend II does not involve arbitrariness, that on the contrary this move is not only entirely
coherent, but that it is indeed necessitated
by the basis upon which he proceeded in Trend I.
It is with the idea and in the hope of advancing towards a solution of the problem that I here venture, basing my
argument on the widest possible zoological and biological grounds, to put forward a
coherent view of the «thinking Earth» in which I believe we may find, undistorted but yet embodying the corrections required
by a change of order, the whole process of Life and of vitalization.
This final part of Griffin's
argument for the process theodicy turns on an assumption that he appears to have borrowed
by Hartshorne, viz., that the so - called «social view» of omnipotence is the only alternative to the monopolistic (and thus to the standard) view.9 The critique of the latter thus established the former as (in Griffin's words) «the only view that is
coherent if one is talking about the power a being with the greatest conceivable amount of power could have over a created, i.e. an actual world» (GPE 269).
This is a contrarian group that is re-hashing old
arguments and not using the state - of - the - art scientific literature in good faith to come up with a
coherent analysis that counters the scientific findings synthesized in the IPCC assessment reports, which ARE
by leading experts.
«There is no one out there really presenting a
coherent, informed, mature case on this... It seems to be a very important debate we should be having is going
by default and those who speak loudest and most frequently, regardless of the merits of the
argument, seem to be winning the day.»
Hayden J concludes his damning assessment
by saying that the case for permitting cross examination
by alleged abusers is «redundant of any
coherent contrary
argument».