Once the draft exists, he thinks, everything changes, and it was Napoleon's invention of the draft, not any idea present in French philosophy, that changed tactics and warfare.
Each finalist team was given six minutes to pitch its idea, present a live demonstration of the product and answer judges' questions.
He notes that in the Gospels, Jesus makes numerous predictions of his suffering and New Testament scholars say such predictions must have been written in by later followers because there was no such idea present in his day.
The second main disqualifier was the liberal idea (present in the narrative of this entry from the time of the religious wars in Europe) that we need a moral discourse based on reason and not religion in order to avoid the hatred and bloodshed that religion seems to bring with it.
It could be called an Eastern idea present and effective in the Occident.
The G-d vs Satan/Lucifer idea present in some forms of Christianity lends itself to a more dualistic approach.
