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The political urge to defend science education against the threats of religious orthodoxy, understandable though it is, has resulted in a counterorthodoxy, supported by bad arguments, and a tendency to overstate the legitimate scientific claims of evolutionary theory ....
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These insights, offered by a contemporary who knew both his subject and the received cultural assumptions that his subject was revising, seem at least to hold their own against the counterorthodoxy that took hold after Mark Twain’s death: that his humor, and anger, amounted to character deformations, and worked fatally against his higher literary potential.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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These insights, offered by a contemporary who knew both his subject and the received cultural assumptions that his subject was revising, seem at least to hold their own against the counterorthodoxy that took hold after Mark Twain’s death: that his humor, and anger, amounted to character deformations, and worked fatally against his higher literary potential.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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