So are its political expression as an ordering framework for society and the contentious concept of jihad.
Although it is being used here to undermine the gene, evolvability is by far the more contentious concept.
This contentious concept tiptoes along the intersection between science and society because it implies that scientific endeavours ought to reap benefits for society.
In a speech marking the occasion, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi called on Malaysians to uphold national unity, a contentious concept in this ethnically and religiously diverse country as conservative Islam continued its encroachment on secular life.
Mr. Foster's involvement fueled a swirl of rumors, irate e-mails and open letters, including one in which Mr. Garatti said — inaccurately, it turns out — that Mr. Acosta wanted to start a "private" school, which is a contentious concept in Communist Cuba.
The term "baroque," applied to the literature of the seventeenth century, has become a somewhat contentious concept in literary studies, and in Germany the term "frühe Neuzeit" (early modern period) seems to have taken over from "Barock".5 However, Margrét Eggertsdóttir does not use the term prescriptively or dogmatically.
However, evolution remains a contentious concept for some theists.
(Cannabis addiction is a contentious concept in the medical world, but there is a general consensus that it is nowhere near as addictive as alcohol, nicotine, or other drugs).
And, frankly, anyone who has been through a contentious divorce can understand concepts like anger, resentment and revenge.
But it can also be added that a crucial difference between the less and more contentious applications of informational concepts is that, in the richer cases, information use is supposed to help explain how biological systems do what they do — how cells work, how an egg can develop into an adult, how genetic inheritance mechanisms make the evolution of complex phenotypes possible.
