A recent blog by Third Way examines several issues in education policy and reveals the outdated logic and arguments that are being used to
debate modern issues.
Not exact matches
Whatever roles philosophical and theological ideas played in the
debates over heliocentrism, biological evolution, and the Big Bang theory, the scientific
issues were eventually settled by more and better data and by considerations that were purely «scientific» in the
modern sense.
But, as they both believed, the
issues for which they contended were
issues in which men's souls were at stake; and they would have agreed on this at least, that the urbanities of
modern theological
debate betokened a failure to appreciate how serious the
issues were.
Some
issues in the
debate are so
modern that older Christian tradition has no wisdom to offer.
Much
modern intellectual
debate, particularly within the popular arena, centers on disputes between religion and science over such seminal
issues as creationism versus evolutionary theory, or theological explanations of the origin of the universe versus the «big - bang theory» of the new cosmology.
A prolific writer on the theological, philosophical and ethical
issues related to the faith - science
debate, Jaki's work can safely be summarised as the intentional repudiation of the
modern, secularist agenda which seeks to place science and Christian faith in radical, philosophical and historical opposition.
In «Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early
Modern English Kitchen,» Wall explores the subversive, witty and largely undocumented ways that women of the period used recipes and food to do everything from read, write and treat illness to wax philosophic about
issues still
debated today.
The 2004 discovery of Homo floresiensis (SN: 10/30/04, p. 275: Evolutionary Shrinkage: Stone Age Homo find offers small surprise) suggested that this apparently close relative of Homo sapiens may have coexisted with
modern humans as recently as 12,000 years ago (see «Little Ancestor, Big
Debate,» in this week's
issue).
Do your best to demonstrate you understand the key
issues,
debates, and values pertaining to
modern nursing in the approach you take.
Scientists continue to
debate when, where, and why domesticated dogs evolved from the ancestors of
modern wolves, but they are clear on one
issue: the physical alterations that mark the transformation.
Tuesday's countdown from 15 - 11 prompted an interesting
debate on the relative merits of Battlefield 3 and
Modern Warfare 3, as well as lots of other juicy
issues.
These
issues and more were
debated during the two - week online conference The
Modern / Postmodern Dialectic: American Art and Culture, 1965 - 2000, held on the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum website during Octobert 2001.
Several events will be part of the project at the Moscow Museum of
Modern Art, including publication of a catalogue and a programme of
debates and round tables revolving around two key
issues: — Merging of private and national interest in the creation of a contemporary art collection.
Indeed, the structure of Callendar (1938) includes a discussion of
issues that frequently trouble newcomers to the
debate (spectral overlap, CO2 dissolution in the ocean) and, in my opinion, IPCC reports are diminished by not including
modern reviews of such topics.