Sentences with phrase «best apologists»

The Italian public intellectual Gianni Vattimo is one of the best apologists for this «end of history» consensus.

If that is the best his apologists can say yes he was an epic fail pope.

Like all the best apologists, Hart poses as a common man defending common everyday experience.

Like any good apologist, Ally is scholarly, winsome and devastatingly effective in debate.

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«America is great, because America is good» appears to be Beck's slogan for his 2011 projects and he goes to some lengths to explain the steps he intends to take to ensure this «transformation'takes place («I will admit our wrongdoing, but I will not be a constant apologist for our nations mistakes.

In sum, although a few apologists such as Stephanie Coontz still insist otherwise, just about everyone else in possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution has weakened family ties, and that family ties (the presence of a biologically related mother and father in the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well - being — and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for society.

This was the best excuse several early apologists had as to why earlier pagan stories similar to the Gospels were fake.

@Paul — Actually, I understand them quite well, but chose to use the two distinct terms to bypass some apologists notions of legally sanctioned homicide, i.e. to bypass the «law» to address the underlying «morality.»

This line of apologist argument is at best a draw, but perhaps doesn't even rise to that level because at least we have physical evidence for the singularity.

Hitler was not an Atheist and too many apologists have made that false claim better known as the No True Scotsman fallacy.

Fifth grade science at best, and the apologist's logic is deeply flawed.

The apologists saw Christianity as the fulfillment of the best of Hellenistic monotheistic philosophy, and not infrequently boasted about the superiority of Christianity as a religion and an ethic.

Christian apologist Larry Taunton tells the story of his friendship with the well known atheist Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) More

McGrath is a skilled apologist, with a pragmatic approach to evangelism, is very well - informed in both theology and science (he holds doctorates in both), and he writes very well.

If we can really assure ourselves by natural reason that God exists then that is not an article of faith, and the same goes for Christ's divinity, if, as apologists claim, we have good rational grounds for thinking that he claimed to be divine, that he was neither mad nor a fraud, and that he rose from the dead.

This is the mandate of the apologists on this blog and the best you can hope for is a circuar arguement that always ends up with it is «Gods truth».

OK, so when a Christian renounces their belief in the faerie tale, the apologists are quick to rise up and claim «well, he was never a RealChristian (tm) in the FIRST place!».

Up until then, I'd read a few books written by Christian apologists that make you feel like it's a very well - tested historical event.

The Koran provides me the best evidence when debating muslim appeasers / apologists.

«Why is it necessary that apologists have to bear the burden of trying to put the best possible face on it?»

Despite the best efforts of apologists to refer to biblical slavery as merely indentured servitude or as bf does here as merely «volunteers,» the plain language betrays these interpretations.

Christian apologist Larry Taunton tells the story of his friendship with the well known atheist Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011)

«8 He even echoed the argument that some of the Southern apologists used for very different purposes; namely that the slave is in some degree better off than the factory worker since he never faces the uncertainties of unemployment or the pangs of actual physical want that afflict the latter.

Here he speaks as the apologist of Hinduism, that is, of Hinduism as he interprets it, of a reconstructed Hinduism, or better, of the ideal of Hinduism.

Any apologist worth his salt will tell you this a dead - end argument, and then simply tacking on a re-cap of your beliefs... well, I guess we could all be doing more productive things right now.

If there are early Christian apologists who were making that argument, they could have come up with something quite better — like just studying the scriptures (not just reading — studying) and realize they didn't have to rely on nonprovable arguments.

I made no claim regarding modern capitalism's moral nature whatsoever; I said only that it has none, and that its apologists tend to praise the good it can accomplish and to ignore the evil that it often promotes.

For instance, early Christian apologists couldn't come up with any better excuse for the gospel stories appearing like older stories other than to say the only the newer stories were true and Satan had set up the older ones in advance to throw people off.

The distorted logic of hazing apologists is that the worse a person joining the organization is treated, the better leader and performer he or she will be.

Nkanga is renouned in causing ethnic division and hatred, as military governor in Akwa Ibom state, he brought so much hatred between the Annang and the Ibibios, he banned the Annang language in the state and accused Annang people of putting JUJU on his seat at a function in Ikot Ekpene, He is Godswll Akabio's house boy, a campaign manager who could not win elections for his party in his polling unit, Akpabio is promoting the rivers crisis and so those his apologist Nkanga, Nigerians and the good people of rivers should never take a man like Idongesit Nkanga seriously, he is not regarded as an elder in Akwa Ibom where hails from.

Mr. Cuccinelli is well known for his harassment of Michael Mann, a climate scientist vilified by industry apologists for creating the «Hockey Stick» graph illustrating the increase of average global temperature measurements over the last millennium.

Last week, students in Wisconsin and Michigan stepped up to such an opportunity when CFACT Campus, the student arm of a well - known cabal of fossil fuel apologists, hosted climate change denier Willie Soon at several campus events around the country.

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I'm not an Oasis apologist — Heathen Chemistry was god - awful, and the first single here, «Lyla» does nothing for me — but this is a very good album.

Joanna, our resident Natalie Portman apologist, is backing Portman in the Best Actress Oscar race, which is actually competitive this year.

Lacking good information, it has been easy even for sophisticated Americans to be seduced by apologists who would have the public believe the problems are simply those of poor kids in central city schools.

Report authors, Prof Peterson, Eric Hanushek at Stanford University and Ludger Woessmann at the University of Munich, wrote in Education Next magazine: «Lacking good information, it has been easy even for sophisticated Americans to be seduced by apologists who would have the public believe the problems are simply those of poor kids in central city schools.»

I listened to MacBreak Weekly today and Andy Ihnatko, usually such an IOS apologist, couldn't say enough good things about the Nexus.

Sorry, but anyone who is willing to say the Switch event is better, or even on par with Sony's recent E3 / PSX events is simply a Nintendo apologist in denial.

Now I'm not highlighting this poster's comments to shame him, but rather the opposite; I believe that his posts are useful as a well written example of the types of arguments pay - to - win apologists usually put forward.

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

Describe it as it is without the apologist Pollyanna would be a good start to showing Dr. Lindzen and many others the respect and debt they are owed.

I am also returning to many of the comments above on this thread, since there is a lot of good commentary in response to a couple of angry apologists for Mann et al above.

And the apologists for the policies have been changing tack to «but it's a good thing anyway» to «redistribute» wealth (socialists) or stop «dependence on foreign oil» (warmongers) or «overpopulation» (Malthusians).

Despite Dr. Gleick's apology his apologists are doing their best to spin what he did when he impersonated a member of Heartland's board and created the alleged false «strategy» memo.

Nick is a well known apologist / defender of the AGW story, but I haven't seen one lie of him.

Nick Stokes is a well - known apologist / defender / outright liar in the defence of AGW.

Apologists have deployed the usual range of special pleading excuses trotted out when well - heeled family «professionals» make catastrophic misjudgements.

And whether you're a plastic apologist or not, the material generally holds up better to dings and drops than aluminum.