Yet just such an unlikely resolution may be in hand for one of the most acrimonious conflicts of recent times:
the debate over human embryonic stem cells....
Not since the days of Clarence Darrow and the «monkey trial» has America been so caught up in
the debate over human origins.
There is a real diversity of informed opinion on how important climate change is going to be to various things that affect humans, and there is a diversity of opinion on how to address this problem, but
the debate over human - induced climate change is over.
With enough evidence from around the world,
the debate over the Human Age could finally be settled.
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The debate over human germ - line engineering — reworking genes in the sperm and egg to create inheritable new traits — sputtered out early in the last decade after gene therapy had a series of notable failures.
If dealing with the public relations nightmare over its on - off - on funding of Planned Parenthood wasn't enough, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure cancer charity last week also got entangled, somewhat bizarrely, in
the debate over human embryonic stem (ES) cell research.
The two researchers analyzed nationally representative surveys collected between 2002 and 2010 with the goal of better understanding how the U.S. public came to form opinions in
the debate over human embryonic stem cell research.
Attempting to find middle ground in the contentious
debate over human embryonic stem cells, President George W. Bush announced 9 August that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be allowed to fund work with embryonic stem (ES) cell lines — but only those lines that have already been derived.
This question might sound familiar, because it was central to the 2001
debate over human embryonic stem cells — a debate that was, back in the months before the 9/11 attacks, considered a significant controversy for George W. Bush's new administration.
Saying the law will lead to an influx of unwanted and unsavory foreigners, as the AKC is doing, is the same kind of fear tactic that taints our country's broader
debate over human immigration.
I was somewhat involuntarily thrust into the center of the public debate over climate change at this very time, when the «Hockey Stick» temperature reconstruction I co-authored, depicting the unprecedented nature of modern warming in at least the past millennium, developed into an icon in
the debate over human - caused climate change [particularly when it was featured in the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC in 2001].
The news that 2005 was the warmest year ever recorded in Australia comes at the end of a year in which, to the extent that facts can settle anything,
the debate over human - caused global warming has been settled.
In this special Cabot Institute lecture, in association with the Bristol Festival of Ideas, Professor Michael E Mann will discuss the science, politics, and ethical dimensions of global warming in the context of his own ongoing experiences as a figure in the centre of
the debate over human - caused climate change.
Sweeping away
the debate over human - made vs. «natural» climate change, and focusing on adaptation to extreme weather, sounds like it may be the best chance to get some real action.
In the midst of heated
debates over human - caused global warming, intelligent, knowledgeable people are now presenting evidence that global cooling is currently under way.
Not exact matches
The Republican Party's fast journey from
debating how to combat
human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew
over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric
over co-operation and conciliation.
The statement on Thursday comes amid a growing
debate over the use of powerful new gene editing tools in
human eggs, sperm and embryos, which have the power to change the DNA of unborn children.
The answer, at least for the near future, is likely to be the same as it in nearly all of the current
debates over robots versus
humans — a hybrid situation where the machines make the
humans better.
In addition to suing
over Clean Power Plan regulations, Pruitt has argued that climate activists should be prosecuted, and that
debate over whether climate change is
human - made should be encouraged in classrooms and Congress — despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the
debate is settled.
This ties into the long standing
debate that has been occurring
over the past year about whether
human workers will be needed if technology becomes increasingly sophisticated.
His apparent assumption that the
debate is
over — «Vehicles that we're producing are capable of full autonomy,» he said — is a little scary, considering how much still needs to be learned about the functioning of fully autonomous cars, and about the interaction of autonomous systems with
humans in the cockpit.
In addition to painting an engaging picture of the saint who, in all his
human frailty, followed Christ's example and died a martyr to charity, De Volder systematically addresses the
debates over Damien's life and spirit.
To take just one example, five hundred years ago, during the Reformation, there was a
debate over just how broken
human nature truly is.
So last night our own Peter Lawler
debated leading Darwinian Conservative Larry Arnhart here at RIT
over the explanatory power of Darwinian evolution to capture to the totality of
human experience in general and American political experience in particular.
Technological possibility will increasingly eclipse the very terms of our
debate over abortion, and I suspect that «abortion politics» as we know it is on its way to being a relic of the past — a particularly brutal way we eliminated
human life back when
humans used to have children.
It assumes one favored outcome of the
debate that is still underway
over who or what is a
human being.
Debate over this issue remains prominent among process theologians to this day and will be discussed more fully in the second part of this paper, but it should be remarked here that Hartshorne has consistently attempted to envision God, in this and in some other respects, after the model of the
human person.
The nature in question in the
debate over marriage equality is
human nature, and specifically the nature of
human sexuality.
This question has been the topic of considerable legal and social
debate over the years since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision»
debate that has only been intensified by the recent controversies
over human embryonic stem cells and
human....
What was needed in the
debates over music during the 1950s and 1960s was a broader theological vision that could help the Cooke's and Lewis's of the world understand the continuity between the sacred and the profane in terms of the shaping and orientation of
human desire.
The concept (and rhetoric) of a profound dichotomy between nature and nurture was superimposed
over the more flexible and synergistic «traditional» understanding of the matter, markedly polarising and distorting the entire, many - sided
debate about the role and weight of heredity and experience in both the natural world and the
human situation.
Ministers are set for a showdown with Tory rebels
over the immigration bill after it was confirmed a crucial amendment backed by restive backbenchers will be
debated in the Commons.The amendment, supported by dozens of Tory MPs, would give ministers rather than judges the final say
over whether deportation would breach the
human rights of foreign criminals.Commons Speaker John Bercow selected the amendment tabled by Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab in the first group for
debate, meaning there will be time for a vote.
Human rights group Liberty echoed Mr Huhne's call for a
debate over the issue, and warned that under current law such a system would be illegal.
He claims some want the UK to get rid of the European Court of
Human Rights, but he wanted a
debate over which prisoners should get the vote.
The field of bioethics has addressed a broad swathe of
human inquiry, ranging from
debates over the boundaries of life (e.g. abortion, euthanasia), surrogacy, the allocation of scarce health care resources (e.g. organ donation, health care rationing) to the right to refuse medical care for religious or cultural reasons.
Fierce
debate still rages
over its significance, but many see it as a crucial piece of evidence in the story of how
humans came to be — one that suggests flowers played a key role in our evolution.
Engle explores the
debate among anthropologists, ever since the AAAS submitted its Statement on
Human Rights to the United Nations in 1947,
over the tensions between the limits of tolerance and cultural relativism with the pursuit of more universal norms of social justice.
Because the results hinted that
human viruses might be similarly manipulated, a
debate broke out
over whether publishing such results would aid terrorists.
«
Over the next 10 years, projects like the Neanderthal genome will lead to a contentious
debate about what it means to be
human,» Rick Potts says.
As «man's best friend» and closest companion animal, the researchers believe that the latest results may offer a new piece of the puzzle
over the reported significant decline in
human semen quality — a controversial subject which scientists continue to
debate.
However, there has been much
debate over when and how a
human - like bipedal gait first emerged in the hominin clade, largely because of disagreements
over how to indirectly infer biomechanics from skeletal morphologies.
The findings fit into the ongoing
debate over whether tools mark the start of modern
human culture, or predate Homo.
Debate over the timing of
human origins will continue despite the new evidence from the child, whose remains came from previous shoreline excavations near the town of Ballito Bay, says Uppsala University evolutionary geneticist and study coauthor Mattias Jakobsson.
The prospect that fighting
human - looking characters can provoke more aggression than unleashing violence against characters with no real - world counterparts could have implications for
debates over gaming, especially as video games become more sophisticated and immersive, Farrar says.
But then we're not twins, or clones — and surely this, the Love Factor, is a term that's conspicuously missing from our modern
debate over the ethics and wisdom of
human cloning.
He says this idea has «very profound» implications for the
debate over the origins of bacterial genes that are present in the
human genome but absent in our closest relatives (Science, 8 June, p. 1903): The amount of conjugation Waters detected is «high enough to readily explain» the possible infiltration of bacterial genesinto our DNA, meaning that conjugation could have happened quickly enough to add genes only to
humans, in the years since they split from the common ancestor they shared with chimpanzees.
Researchers have discovered tell - tale signs of Alzheimer's disease in 20 elderly chimpanzee brains, rekindling a decades - old
debate over whether
humans are the only species that develop the debilitating condition.
The claim echoes those made many times in the emotional
debate over federal funding of new
human embryonic work.
Before this study, scientists
debated how these immune genes can evolve rapidly (which is necessary to keep up with the fast - evolving parasites), whilst also showing little or no evolutionary change in their function
over millions of years, as observed between
humans and chimpanzees.
Zinke acknowledged climate is changing and
humans have had an influence, but claimed there is a lot of «
debate»
over how much of a role
humans have played and what can or should be done to combat climate change.