Sentences with phrase «lose convincing power»

When the argument from creation to Creator had begun to lose convincing power, even before the rise of modern evolutionary thinking, Immanuel Kant proposed that we think of God in relation to our ethical experience rather than cosmology.

The actual situation has been that by the time the encounter with Buddhism became important to Western thinkers in the nineteenth century, the traditional idea of God was already losing convincing power.

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Modern historical, philosophical and scientific thought has come into conflict at so many points with traditional Christian teaching that the latter has been losing its power to convince ordinary people (to say nothing of the intelligentsia).

Second, I am convinced that many mothers (and some forward - thinking fathers) believe the time has come to challenge the assumption that, for better or worse, competition in youth sports must defined solely in terms of winning and losing, and displays of power, dominance and control.

Fonzi's performance is perfectly judged; she knows when to hold back, convincing us of her character's sanity, and yet we never lose sight of her strength, of her power.

As Megan McArdle commented in her discussion of the Peter Gleick affair, After you have convinced people that you fervently believe your cause to be more important than telling the truth, you've lost the power to convince them of anything else.

The problem is with Megan McArdle's Law: «After you have convinced people that you fervently believe your cause to be more important than telling the truth, you've lost the power to convince them of anything else.»