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n. - A debater who disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument.

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  • Finally, if ID claims are refuted point-by-point, Dembski calls the refuter an “Internet stalker” or “inhabiting a fantasy life” or “obsessive”.
  • May 22, 2006, 5: 25 pm help with debt problems says: help with debt problems refuter, interdict Islamizations bettering
  • He certainly did not say the last two sentences to me and has added these to his blog to embellish himself as the bold refuter of creationist nonsense.
  • In the words of Christopher Phelps, Bourne was an "elegant refuter of ‘pragmatic’ pretensions in those who believed that the state, even in a time of unleashed...
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