Oxford debate

This last distinction is rarely mentioned in accounts of the famous Oxford debate.

All his life he was a staunch supporter of the Bible as the ultimate truth and proclaimed this at the famous Oxford debate on evolution.

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Shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939, the Völkischer Beobachter was still "insisting that the Oxford debate was insignificant".

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Real Oxford debates employ large doses of humor and plenty of jousting with facts, with the object of backing one's opponent into an intellectual corner.

Though we do not know the exact words of the Oxford debate, we do know what Huxley thought of the review in the Quarterly:

Following the famous Oxford Debate between Huxley and Wilberforce, Tristram, after early acceptance of the theory, rejected Darwinism.

The most notable of these annual events are the fall Christ College Freshman Production and the spring Christ College Oxford Debates.

The Pharma Award was presented to Cass at the Pharmaceutical Times' Great Oxford Debate in Oxford University's Union.

He also rattled off his grades, describing them as “solid,” and boasted about extracurricular activities that included the Oxford debate club and a nonprofit social networking venture he is working on at Harvard.

Annually the organization and its regional offices carry through a range of events, devoted to the Magdeburg Law, among which are contest for the best essay among school pupils, Oxford debates and information distribution.

This year's Oxford Debate features journalists Peter Hitchens and Simon Jenkins discussing drugs policy, while former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown will host a debate on universal values.

One of the most famous disputes was the Oxford Debate of 1860, in which T.H. Huxley, Darwin's self-appointed "bulldog," debated evolution with Samuel Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford.

After what he produced after 37 minutes - those jinking, stepping, fending 15m subsequently capped by pushing through some 200kg of Queenslanders to score - well, it would take better than an Oxford debate team to argue it.

The Christ College Oxford Debates are a series of formal debates in which two groups of students represent either the affirmative or negative side of a topic they have researched for the previous five or six weeks.

The fossil record at Joggins figures in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and played a role in the Great Oxford Debate of 1860 between Bishop Wilberforce and Thomas Huxley.

Apart from a humorous "re-enactment" of the 1860 Oxford Debate between Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, well-known secularists, such as Richard Dawkins, Lord Avebury and Evan Harris spoke passionately in defence of evolution, logic and common humanity.