Opponents of evolution theory have often maintained that social Darwinism is a logical entailment of a belief in evolutionary theory, while biologists and historians maintain that it is rather a perversion of Charles Darwin's ideas.

Opponents to the theory deny the existence of the panthers or claim that witnesses are simply mis-identifying the native lynxes or " bobcats ".

Opponents also argued that the domino theory misrepresented the real nature of the widespread and growing civil opposition that the previous, U. S .- backed regimes in these countries had generated because of entrenched official corruption and widespread human rights abuses, notably in South Vietnam.

Opponents of same-sex marriage in the United States ground their arguments on parenting concerns, religious concerns, concerns that changes to the definition of marriage would lead to the inclusion of polygamy or incest, and other intellectual ideas expressed in natural law theory.

Opponents of quantum indeterminism suggested that determinism could be restored by formulating a new theory in which additional information, so-called hidden variables

Opponents of the " dominant party " system or theory argue that it views the meaning of democracy as given, and that it assumes that only a particular conception of representative democracy ( in which different parties alternate frequently in power ) is valid.

Opponents also refer to a number of scientific publications reporting significant negative effects of irradiated food, for example

Opponents of the design also voiced objection because of Lin's Asian heritage.

Opponents also argue that school choice in the form of vouchers could result in nothing more than a cash-handout for many middle-class and wealthy families already sending their kids to private schools, with disadvantaged families either unable to secure enrollment or unable to cover costs in addition to the vouchers.

Opponents may also see trophy hunting as an issue of morality or animal cruelty, criticising the killing of living creatures for recreation.

Opponents also contend that affirmative action devalues the accomplishments of all those who belong to groups it is intended to help, therefore making affirmative action counterproductive.

Opponents also state categorizing patients based on factors such as social value to the community or age will not work in a heterogeneous society without a common ethical consensus such as the U. S. Doug Bandow of the CATO Institute wrote government decision making would " override the differences in preferences and circumstances " for individuals and that it is a matter of personal liberty to be able to buy as much or as little care as one wants.

Opponents who continue to bet after a player is all in can still bluff each other out of the side pot, which is also to the all in player's advantage since players who fold out of the side pot also reduce competition for the main pot.

Opponents also saw a cartoon in the supplement as racist and criticised another article in which Irving wrote that the British press was owned by Jews.

Opponents also note its small size, serving approximately 900 homes in relation to the surrounding districts that serve between 4, 400 to 8, 700 households and have a lesser tax burden.

Opponents of prohibition pointed out that while it was historic, it was also detrimental to the normal development of the city, and that no visitor ever came to town to look at the dry law.

Opponents, however, are also able to return a Guard Impact after receiving a Guard Impact, allowing for stalemate clashes until one opponent missed the subsequent timing.

Opponents of NATO's involvement also argued that the situation in Serbia and Yugoslavia posed no threat to any of the NATO members.

Opponents also criticised him for relying too much on the advice of his friends.

Opponents of sodomy laws criticized Bowers not only for its result but also because of the Court's dismissive treatment of the liberty and privacy interests of gay people.

Opponents of the notion of " moral clarity " also note that organizations such as al Qaida and neo-Nazis also believe that their own point of view is one of " moral clarity ", which justifies them to take whatever action they feel necessary against what they see as the " forces of evil ".

Opponents also proposed a $ 10 auto tax and $ 25 truck tax to pay for the cost of Metro expressways instead of paying the costs from property taxes and wanted Metro to finish the Gardiner and Don Valley expressways before starting any others.

Opponents also included the Australian Medical Association.

Opponents of the 2003 merger between the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties also charged Alliance members with infiltration.

Opponents accused him of involvement in the killing in 2000 of journalist Georgiy Gongadze ( see also SBU, " Cassette Scandal ", Mykola Mel ' nychenko ), which he has always denied.

Opponents and spectators are also generally allowed to collect citations in this manner, and some tournaments send scouts to rounds to facilitate the collection of cites for every team at the tournament, information which is sometimes published online.

Opponents also criticized him for renaming the Boulder Dam after President Hoover.

Opponents of the Lydia scenario point to the fact that coins of that era have been totally absent from archeological finds in Sardis, capital of Lydia.

Opponents of that interpretation point out that he did not attend the funeral ( he generally did not attend funerals ) and immediately left Paris with Diaghilev for a performance of Les noces ( The Wedding ) by the Ballets Russes at Monte Carlo.

Opponents, by contrast, point out that property owners and operators can indeed feel terror.

Opponents point out that the practice of offshore outsourcing by countries with higher wages leads to the reduction of their own domestic employment and domestic investment.

Opponents of this approach point out that many of the terms in question carry male denotations and connotations in the original Hebrew and Greek.

Opponents of quotas object that one group is favored at the expense of another whenever a quota is invoked ( i. e., 8 out of 10 available positions ) rather than factors such as grade point averages or test scores.

Opponents of simplified spellings point to the impossibility of phonetic spelling for a language with many diverse accents and dialects.

Opponents of the three-state strategy point out that the 1789 resolution proposing what is now the Twenty-seventh Amendment did not contain a deadline for ratification.

Opponents to both of these methods point to the large increase in reporting requirements they impose, and claim that they rob industry of necessary flexibility.

Opponents of Mao point out the Cultural Revolution as a time of unprecedented social chaos attributed to Mao's fear of losing power, and the effects of such deep-seated impact from the movement wasted an entire generation of Chinese who would be productive forces in the economy.

Opponents of CCTV point out the loss of privacy of the people under surveillance, and the negative impact of surveillance on civil liberties.

Opponents of clearfelling point out that the clearfell process was unavailable until the arrival of European settlers ( indigenous people practised a mosaic burn system that kept the forest open but didn't remove large amounts of timber ).

Opponents point out that most agriculture in developed nations is produced by industrial corporations ( agribusiness ) which are hardly deserving of sympathy, and that the alternative to exploitation is poverty.

Opponents of the invasion strategy point to a lack of examples in which occupying or peacekeeping forces have met with conclusive success.

Opponents of the rule point out that junior gymnasts are scored under the same Code of Points as the seniors, and train, mostly, the same skills.

Opponents of catch and release point out that fish are highly evolved vertebrates that share many of the same neurological structures that, in humans, are associated with pain perception.

Opponents point out that the practice of sending work overseas by countries with higher wages reduces their own domestic employment and domestic investment.

Opponents point to the logistical disadvantages of trying to promote the mainstream use of a second signing language, and dispute that SEE offers advantages to warrant educational resources which could be put toward encouraging universal adoption of ASL.

Opponents of snus sales maintain, nevertheless, even the low nitrosamine levels in snus cannot be completely risk-free, but snus proponents point out that inasmuch as snus is used as a substitute for smoking or a means to quit smoking, the net overall effect is positive, similar to the effect of nicotine patches.

Opponents of expansion, in the majority in largely rural Randolph County, point out that only 6 % of the trash in the landfill is from Randolph County, whereas most of it is from Miami County.

Opponents of the Apology Resolution point to this official repudiation of the Blount Report as sufficient reason to dismiss any conclusions based on it.

Opponents to Québécois nationalism point to the fact that Quebec is just as ethnically diverse as the rest of Canada and therefore is divisible by different ethnic and language groups, or point to the shared Francophone heritage of the ROC ( Rest of Canada ).