Sentences with phrase «arguments against this fact»

You dismiss this as bla bla because you have no argument against the FACTS have you?

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To add insult to injury, the vast majority of the arguments against crypto lack any hard, verifiable facts.

We all know the arguments against taxing capital gains, if in fact the federal government is considering doing so.

All argument against these plain facts is always argument in a circle.

[Perhaps the strongest argument against Piper's hermeneutical approach to the New Testament household codes is the fact that the very same hermeneutic has been applied to these passages to justify slavery.

In fact, we engage in detail with alternative readings of relevant texts, and offer arguments both for and against our own interpretations.

In fact, today I had planned to write a post speaking out against tentative plans in the Tennessee legislature to adopt immigration policies similar to those that caused such controversy in Arizona, basing my argument on the inherent worth of our Hispanic neighbors.

A very good argument can be made that the attempt to teach the Bible in a «neutral» manner is, in fact, to teach against the Bible, which is hardly neutral.

He can not distinguish questions regarding the existence of the universe from questions regarding its physical origin; he does not grasp how assertions regarding the absolute must logically differ from assertions regarding contingent beings; he does not know the differences between truths of reason and empirical facts; he has no concept of ontology, in contradistinction to, say, physics or evolutionary biology; he does not understand how assertions regarding transcendental perfections differ from assertions regarding maximum magnitude; he clumsily imagines that the idea of God is susceptible to the same argument from infinite regress traditionally advanced against materialism; he does not understand what the metaphysical concept of simplicity entails; and on and on.

My argument against ENDA is not based in a moral judgment about homosexual acts, but in the fact that our times are not those times.

That he chooses to bypass the «guns don't kill people, people kill people» fact only shows that he has no effective argument against it, preferring instead to continue along the path of «don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up».

John, I think the best argument against Pascal's wager is the fact that he underestimates (in the passage I quoted, actually) the cost of wagering for God if it is the case that God doesn't exist.

Against this latter argument there is one decisive factor: the fact that the «eyewitnesses» would have had to be quite different in interest and concern from any men whose influence we can trace in the synoptic tradition.

The most sophisticated theological argument against the conviction that some human beings in fact go to hell has been proposed by Hans Urs von Balthasar in his book Dare We Hope «That All Men Be Saved?»

He has stated elsewhere, for example, that the fact that evil presents no serious logical or probabilistic argument against God's existence or goodness will be cold and abstract comfort to a person who is faced with «the shocking concreteness of a particularly appalling exemplification of evil» (AP 35 - 36).

One of the strongest arguments in recent years for abolishing the death penalty has arisen, not from the moral prohibition against the taking of life, but from the fact that with rare exceptions those who are executed are people who lack the means to secure good legal assistance, or lack the educational background to make full use of such assistance, or lack the social status which brings the case to public attention.11

She repeatedly saw how «someone would toss out a half - baked argument against Christianity that might have sounded impressive offline, but it would be quickly demolished in the flood of facts provided by the internet».

The argument can not be won except against the background of a complete and cogent apologetic for the existence of God, the spirituality of man, the necessity of revelation, the literal truth of the Incarnation, and the nature of the Church that flows from this fact of Divine teaching and ministry through the ages.

The fact that you can't figure out how to write «psychiatrists» or even «shrinks», but have to use the pathetic «physic», which doesn't make any sense at all, is evidence that you're not bright enough to make a cogent argument against gay marriage.

C. S. Lewis» recognition of a fact - value dichotomy within an argument against ethical subjectivism in The Abolition of Man has no doubt contributed something to the frequency with which «values» is used by both Catholics and Protestants who want to defend «traditional values.»

I'm just trying to point out that basing an argument against someone based on the bible is not very convincing, due to the fact that they are quoting it to someone who has no faith in what they believer believes.

It seems that there are further basic arguments which Hartshorne could level against Craighead's claim, charging, for example, that it is a fallacy of composition to assert that because we can conceive of the nonexistence of some things we can conceive of the nonexistence of all things.4 Craighead has in fact anticipated that fallacy charge as it applies in this issue (ECCC 122f).

Finally, the fact that I treat with respect an idea that has much in its favor, that is believed by the great majority of scientists, that has no decisive arguments against it, and that may well turn out to be true — I am speaking here of the scientific theory called neo-Darwinism — is not «appeasement» but intellectual humility and honesty.

However, know that sniffing out only the stories of greed and abuse in the church while ignoring all the stories of actual progress for society that it brings pretty much negates all of your arguments to that of an obsessed critic with nothing better to do than make up facts against the church.

In fact, two gems from Pascal's Pénsées would make for perfect epigrams with which to begin and end Kugel's book: «The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me» (which sums up his argument about the absolute «smallness» and «silence» that circumscribe our existence and lead us to transcendence), and, «The heart has its reasons, which reason can not understand,» (which sums up his argument against rational reductionism).

«This has nothing to do with religion but with the fact that Romney is only recently pro-life and only recently able to articulate an argument against same - sex marriage,» said Richard Land, the public policy chief at the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest evangelical denomination.

This second argument rests on the assumption that capital punishment does in fact reduce the incidence of capital crimes — a presupposition that must be tested against the evidence.

Certainly no argument against it can be based upon the fact that every year we are able to move faster from one point to another, and to destroy more human lives with less expenditure of time and trouble.

He develops his argument against atypically atheistic Darwinism around the fact of evolutionary convergence: «The central point is that because organisms arrive repeatedly at the same biological solution... this provides not only a degree of predictability, but more intriguingly points to a deeper structure to life...» His viewpoint is quite clear: «Metric - sized animals that are the end - result of many billions of years of prior stellar and biological evolution may be the only way to allow at least one species to begin its encounter with God.

The great fact that drives a coach and horses through the theory of evolution, the lack of fossil (or skeletal) evidence for it, is here described dismissively as «one of the arguments against».

«Lightly», perhaps not, but the arguments against its authenticity are, in fact, by no means light, as we have found on further investigation.

If you are going to make a valid argument against Wenger you should learn to ground your argument in facts.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

PS: Don't get me wrong, I respect the fact that you post your optimistic yet contrarian views on here despite all the evidence that keep stacking up as an argument against optimism.

i agree andy but its not just the 4 years of hard work that should be taken into account, firstly the fai hav missed out on millions at a time where money is already tight, and more importantly the fact that given, kilbane, o shea, dunne, duff, whelan and keane may be too old when the next one comes around and for a professional footballer to hav a chance to represent his country on the biggest stage of all taken away in this manner is cruel, there can be no argument against technology when there is so much at stake as for henry being labelled a cheat i do not agree as it came at him so quick and although he in fact handled it twice i do not believe it was pre-meditated like maradonnas effort or that disgusting dive by anelka at 0 - 1... can any1 who watched the game live please tell me how lass diarra stayed on the pitch let alone avoided a yellow??

And it was all made worse by the fact it was against Chelsea, who are not a level above us in my opinion nor are they the better candidates to finish 3rd but that's an argument for another day.

When you're raising or helping to raise a child that is not biologically your own, whether you're a stepparent in a blended family, have adopted or foster children, or are bringing up your grandchildren, kids may sometimes use this fact against you during the heat of an argument.

However, the latest study you've referenced that has you making your final decision to no longer use our BPA - free plastic lunch box containers does not have many facts or a persuasive argument against using BPA - free plastic containers for food storage.

For some reason - which I can partially understand - people keep attempting to characterize me a certain way, and launch strawman arguments against things I did not, in fact say.

The fact that some government interventions have been unhelpful is not a convincing argument against intervention full stop.

Interestingly, one of the strong arguments against having a constitution, by David Ben - Gurion, was specifically the fact that UK has none:)

There are arguments for and against PR (if you mean proportional representation) Charles — the party of my own choice would have gained massively at the last General Election with PR, held the balance of power in fact probably with 4 million votes... but that does not mean that even I think you have to support PR «if you believe in democracy».

But Trump, in fact, may be Cuomo's best argument against Nixon, Arzt said, noting the governor could argue, «You have a novice in Washington, and look at what a mess he's made of the nation, if not the world, in terms of destabilizing it.

In fact, the fact that my mother wears pantyhose isn't an argument against their frumpiness, now that I think about it.)

While shark - like lawyers and a befuddled mad - scientist play fast and loose with the finer points of facts, Nick is tasked with not so much refining tobacco's image, as changing the premise of the argument against smoking.

A card sort allowing pupils to decide which facts support the Design Argument and which facts are against it.

One of the biggest arguments against on - site training is how little employees remember after the fact.

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Using scholarship, reasoning and facts, Berliner and Glass frame compelling, scholarly arguments against vouchers, charter schools, high - stakes testing, and school choice.

School officials and others used the fact that the two schools were slated for Restart in their argument against the takeover.