On a more personal level, he also is back in his congressional district in the southeast corner of Wisconsin this week for town-hall meetings, armed with a PowerPoint presentation to buttress his arguments to his many working-class constituents.

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If you keep with the Reverend's evolutionary theology and his proponents' arguments, then many consequences follow.

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He communicated with wit, wisdom and satire and made many of his points by carrying arguments to their logical extreme.

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On the contrary, many of his less-provocative arguments and insights, especially those related to resource scarcity, appear close to prophetic at times.

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As Mr Harbour has a great deal of ground to cover in a mere 143 pages, many of the arguments are compressed, and his style of writing is not polished.

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