Sentences with phrase «incompatible with our common sense»

So the question for this chapter is, since some of the Jesus stories and concepts are so eminently incompatible with common sense — what do we do with them?

We have here a combination of (1) events that are incompatible with our common sense, and (2) events that just don't seem historically very likely.

Something incompatible with common sense and basic values is happening in America.

After years of wrangling, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals laid the case to rest in late 2013, with a firm judgment that: «It is simply incompatible with common sense and experience to hold that defendants were required to design and construct a building that would survive the events of September 11, 2001.»

Not exact matches

On the one hand we do not think that Scripture can be turned into a naïve palaeontology that is incompatible with the evidence of observation and common sense — man could not exist in the traumatic upheavals of primitive geological formation on earth, nor indeed could he co-exist environmentally with dinosaurs.

Furthermore, Underhill LJ explained at § 23, «It seems to me a matter of common sense and common experience that the fact that a person supplying services is only doing so on an assignment - by - assignment basis may tend to indicate a degree of independence, or lack of subordination, in the relationship while at work which is incompatible with employee status even in the extended sense.»