Sentences with phrase «accepted the arguments which»

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Yet he doesn't accept the Summers argument that the economy has shifted permanently into a lower gear, a condition called «secular stagnation,» in which savings dwarf investment.

Ken really exposed the arbitrariness of his arguments when he admitted that he cherry - picks which portions of the Bible he accepts as literal and which he accepts as figurative.

But even if we were to accept the proposition of «guided» evolution, we're left with the question of who designed the designer which only leads to arguments of special pleading... I.e. a dead end.

Which in turn means that the sustaining and strengthening of those communities — or, in MacIntyre's terms, those «traditions of moral inquiry» — must be a major task for anyone who accepts these arguments.

Tenderness separated from the source of tenderness thus supports a «popular piety» that goes unexamined, a piety in which liberalism in its decline establishes dogmatic rights, rights that in an extreme» as presently in the arguments for abortion in the political sphere and for «popular culture» in the academic» become absolute dogma to be accepted and not examined.

My argument is that if a reasonable, sane and reliable witness tells me he has experienced something which modern science, in all it's glory can not explain, much less degrade, then the simplest rationale is to accept that he has indeed had an encounter with the supernatural.

For the sake of argument, if the article (which I didn't read) used only words that left no room for doubt (in a sense saying «We know with 100 % certainty that...), would you accept the conclusions?

The current trend would make it likely that gays will become fully accepted by the majority of Christians, perhaps within our lifetime, in which case your argument loses ground, right?

This can be done from many points of view, but I have suggested above that the crucial attack is that which accepts the same data and then shows that the argument does not exclude the presence of contingent elements in God's total nature.

Accept for the sake of argument the logic of intelligent design, based upon the premise that things which are complicated must result from design.

Aware that this line leaves out of account the potential of the child for a full human life, Singer responds that «in a world that is already over-populated, and in which the regulation of fertility is universally accepted, the argument that we should bring all potential people into existence is not persuasive.»

here's the argument to your stupid hedge bet... which is a weak reason to believe by the way... if there is a god, he is the all knowing, all loving, all accepting kind of god and he will recognize those that led good lives and those that led bad ones and regardless of their religious beliefs will judge them on their actions and be allowed into this heaven.

If Chad and others argue that naturalistic evolution must be dismissed because we don't know exactly what happened with gene mutation and transmission frequencies during particular periods of rapid change, then how can we accept a replacement argument in which we don't even know what happens at all?

So - what if they accept flaws in their argument (which I usually get them to do), they ignore the flaws (because, as they say, I have the burden of proof), and begin their arguments on the offensive.

You'd then have to construct some sort of arbitrary criteria by which to dismiss my historical argument and prop up your own, or accept my argument and change your opinion.

For instance, Sanchez seems to uncritically accept the argument that the Pope knew beforehand about the Nazi roundup of Rome's Jews on October 16, 1943, which led to the deportation and transportation of over a thousand to Auschwitz.

Earlier writers had recognized that Volkmar went too far in his attempted demonstration of Mark's dependence upon Paul — he found evidence of such dependence on almost every page of the Gospel — but his view was such a welcome relief from the one - sided Tübingen theory, according to which Mark was a «neutral» in the great apostolic controversy over Jewish Christianity, that the main thesis of Volkmar was accepted without careful scrutiny of his supporting arguments.

Let us turn to another kind of reflection in which the argument that causal efficacy is empirically experienced may be more readily accepted.

So these «internal» arguments against free will theism are purely ad hominem, drawing upon ethical views that free will theists are thought to accept but which need not be shared by the process theist making the argument.

Many philosophers have accepted the assumption on which this objection rests — that there might have been nothing or that the existence of a world is cause for amazement — but it is Houston Craighead who has, in effect, aimed this line of argument against Hartshorne in a critique of the ontological argument (PS 1:9 - 24; RTE 33 - 37).

Some seem to take the liberties of creating convenient truths to justify their failure in accepting factual knowledge in the interest of arguments, which is ludicrous violating all the teachings of the faith, which is all inclusive.

If we accept this argument so far, then does it not follow that there is an activity in evolving entities (their subjective aspect) which is not described in terms of mutation and selection and all other mechanical causes of the evolutionary process?

Whether or not his arguments are accepted, his treatment of the literature illuminating the thought world which informed the letter will prove a major contribution to scholarship.

If not, you implicitly accept that there is a right to contraception, and, if my argument is correct, you have accepted the common reasoning which leads to abortion.

So, I do not accept any argument, especially ones which suggest players leave for fame or laurels.

Now, I can accept the argument that their league is second tier and therefore we leave them out in the cold for the playoffs, but that is an admission that the non-P5 schools (except ND, which went 4 - 8 last season) aren't really eligible for an NCAA championship.

And knowing one family with one child who has separation issues does not an argument make — there are many factors which lead to anxiety issues and there is no reason to accept the idea that a child who has regular close contact with their parent (s) will develop separation issues.

Apart from the argument that we have a moral duty to help those who wish to come to this country (which you may or may not accept), there is an economic case in favour of immigration in that the economy benefits from the availability of cheap labour, and there is a case against in that growth in population especially in the crowded South - East creates a lot of pressure on infrastructure such as housing, transport, hospitals, and schools (and the growth in population is largely due to immigration).

It also accepted the Home Office's argument that sending the man back was not in breach of human rights law, which state that a person can not be sent to a place where they may face torture or ill - treatment.

Prior to this morning, the first, Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, appeared unlikely to prove explosive, while the second, Evenwel v. Abbott, held the potential for fireworks — but only if the justices were willing to accept an especially audacious argument which seems to cut against the explicit language of the Constitution.

In opening arguments on Monday, assistant U.S. attorney Elizabeth Coombe said Bruno accepted a $ 20,000 - a-month consultancy from Jared Abbruzzese for which he did no actual work.

But where treatment choice is in dispute, the usual situation places CAM practitioners against the rest of the medical personnel, in which case they need to have a good line of arguments and a good and widely accepted reputation.

The outcome rests with the Texas State Board of Education, whose 15 members will decide in November whether to accept newly drafted biology textbooks, which may contain creationist arguments.

The most accepted theory establishes that the orbits of these objects, which travel beyond Neptune, should be distributed randomly, and by an observational bias, their paths must fulfil a series of characteristics: have a semi-major axis with a value close to 150 AU (astronomical units or times the distance between the Earth and the Sun), an inclination of almost 0 ° and an argument or angle of perihelion (closest point of the orbit to our Sun) also close to 0 ° or 180 °.

It might actually make your argument sound plausible unlike the ravings of an idiotic Sony / Microsoft fanboy (which it is now) who can't accept that new technology means better advances in gameplay and style.

Autonomy There is a widely accepted argument that one of the biggest advantages of the new curriculum is the autonomy which it gives to educators, however not everyone agrees that this is the case.

Firstly his premise is mistaken, ebooks are not the disruption, merely the manifestation of the disruption (of which more below) and secondly even if we are to accept his categorization of ebooks as the disruption / sustaining innovation, he misses a key point about the nature of the trade publishing industry that undermines his argument.

Cuomo, consistent in accepting poorly documented arguments from Audubon New York and the New York Sportsmen's Advisory Council, also for the second year in a row vetoed a bill which would have declared a moratorium on mute swan eradication.

The co-op has been vastly improved for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 allowing the 2 different players to accept separate hub missions at the same time which has saved a lot of potential arguments among my kids.

I would be * delighted * to see cogent economic arguments in which some economist truly accepts science on AGW and then argues however they want.

In general, if the shape of the daily temperature cycle is changed by increasing greenhouse gases [and there is a sufficiency of theoretical arguments to suggest that it could be (plenty of completely untested hypotheses which are soundly based in accepted physics)-RSB-, then the trends of that shape (the trend of the true 24 - hour average temperature) may bear no resemblance at all to the trend in the average of the daily maximum and minimum.

Natural variability is now widely accepted as making a significant contribution and our argument for a lowered climate sensitivity — which would indicate that existing climate models are not reliable tools for projecting future climate trends — is buoyed by accumulating evidence and is gaining support in the broader climate research community.

Arguments which depend on overturning standard physics, e.g. disproving quantum mechanics, are not interesting until such time as a significant part of the physics world has accepted that there is some merit to them.

You're now claiming — which we must accept if we are to credit your line of argument with any validity — that there has been a change in the relationship between enthalpy and temperature specific to the last fifteen years.

These supporting arguments and evidence take Andy Lacis» expressions — for the most part — from mere assertion or claim into the realm of supported and generally accepted knowledge, about which anyone might express the utmost degree of confidence, conventionally.

I would suggest the important point to accept, for most commenators on this blog, of the Santer paper is not so much the figure of 17 years, which I would agree is probably debatable, but that the concentration on annual figures which we see in «it hasn't warmed since 1998» type arguments is just a nonsense.

And by prove it, I really mean prove it — prove it at the accepted standard of physics, which requires a complete argument down to microscopic physics, plus empirical support.

«Feedbacks» argument: Here Bart argues against low climate sensitivity estimates cited by NIPCC by simply stating that they are much lower than the estimates, which are» accepted» by IPCC or that can «satisfactorily» be modeled by the IPCC models.

he has commented on other skeptical arguments which he accepts.

These groups gladly accept Exxon's support, which enables them to keep churning out misleading reports, to flood newspaper op - ed pages with bizarre arguments against action to curb rampant carbon emissions, and to appear on right - wing TV and radio where they're invited by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck to tick off blatant distortions of climate science without challenge by actual climate experts.