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The term paleo-orthodoxy (paleo means "primitive," "ancient") is employed to make clear that we are not talking about neo-orthodoxy, a particular movement within twentieth-century Protestant theology that actually was far more attached to assumptions of modernity than is postemodern paleo-orthodoxy.
The Ivy Bush Jonathan 2010
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Were it not for neo-orthodoxy as a popularly recognizable movement, the term paleo-orthodoxy would be an oxymoron.
The Ivy Bush Jonathan 2010
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When he graduates with a B.A. in paleo-geology, he applies to grad schools that will take the paleontological training for Masters/Ph.D. Grandson has his heart set on Alberta, which happens to hire a lot of UNC-CH grads in this program …
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We do not have enough long term paleo-climate data to make any definitely conclusions about global warming.
Baltiblogs 2008
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We do not have enough long term paleo-climate data to make any definitely conclusions about global warming.
Baltiblogs 2008
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We do not have enough long term paleo-climate data to make any definitely conclusions about global warming.
Baltiblogs 2008
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Nor are the "paleo" - records of CO2 "for the past million years" questioned, even as "paleo" - temperature records are completely discredited as being the fraudulent work of politically motivated hacks at the East Anglia CRU.
American Thinker 2009
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All of the properties ascribed to the “reptile brain” are actually occurring in what McLean (the inventor of the reptile brain canard) called the paleo-mammalian brain or limbic system.
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In fact, prior to Trent Lott's idiocy, most conservatives I know would have assumed it did not exist at all-except among the fever swamps of the so-called paleo-Right.
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Yeah, I am one of those disaffected now so called paleo-conservative.
ruzuzu commented on the word paleo
"Experts in early humans dispute some of the tenets of latter-day paleos, including the belief that fasting is beneficial and that the body is unequipped to handle an agriculture-based diet."
From the article "The New Age Cavemen and the City" in the New York Times.
January 11, 2010