Sentences with phrase «arguing about angels»
Which side would you weigh in on (or are we arguing about angels dancing on the head of a pin)?
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It seems very Anglo - Saxon kind of question to ask if Jesus had a sense of humor - kind of ridiculous like arguing about how many angels can stand on the pin of a needle.
People who waste time arguing about it are like arguing with those asserting angels dance on the head of a pin.
Are you reminded of medieval theologians arguing about how many angels can dance on the tip of a pin?
The real battle over the reform of American public education will not be depend on whether Beltway players and the outlets that cover and opine about them (including this publication) argue about the equivalent of how many angels dance on the heads of pins.
Fighting one another over which of two antiquated modes of money - making is more worthy / noble / artistic / you - name - it is like the old story of the people in Constantinople arguing about how many angels could dance on a pinhead while the city walls were being battered down.
We can now argue about whether the GH warming has reached «equilibrium» over the past 150 years or whether there is still some GH warming «hidden in the pipeline», but IMO that is like arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Arguing about whether the 24 - year period 1988 - 2011 is «statistically significant» sounds to me a lot like the debates on «How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?»
Because the difference between it and zero is so small that arguing about it is «angels on the head of a pin» stuff.
This is a really fun discussion, not only are we arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but we're debating if more than half, most, a preponderance, a majority, the largest part, a greater part, nearly all, etc. etc. of the angels are dancing to a «man made warming» beat or «something else» (hip - hop maybe?).
So let's do experiments instead of arguing about how many angels can dance on a pin.
There's enough self - important academic nutjobs to fill the table already arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
It sort of seems to me like a bunch of academics arguing about how many angels can fit on the head of a pin.