Sentences with phrase «many leaps of logic»

It just amazes me at the leaps of logic a Christian will take in order to make his beliefs sound more realistic.

By calling the unknown God (especially in the Judeo - Christian tradition) you are making some great leaps of logic that I don't think are justified.

No, they really can't because in religion you are trained to bypass leaps of logic you yourself are making while being trained to condemn it in others.

John, I accept (for the most part) your reasoning, but not your final paragraph - I think that is an unjustified leap of logic.

Leaps of logic into fantasyland... Well it seems that even scientists make leaps of logic.

It is a great leap of logic to go from the possibility of a creator to the existence of a soul, or heaven, or hell

That's quite a leap of logic.

To make such a leap of logic is to commit the other glaring error often made by proponents of animal rights and environmental ethics: they fail to see that the rights endowed to animals are not identical with the rights of human beings.

Buddy... how do you make the leap of logic from a creator to a god?

Occam's Razor says that» one should always choose the simplest explanation of a phenomenon, the one that requires the fewest leaps of logic»

Little argument is offered, alternative positions are rarely mentioned and never analyzed nor refuted, no real evidence for his positive proposals is provided, there is page after page of blunt assertion, and after the first chapter I simply lost count of the leaps of logic which larded every section.

Christians have tended to make this leap of logic.

What I was trying to address was YOUR leap of logic.

And with one of the highest reproductive rates in the animal kingdom, this isn't a great leap of logic.

It does not require a Herculean leap of logic to ask, as i did, what other options does he have [that wouldn't waste Michigan's time].

How you made that wild leap of logic from the (questionable) statement that 62 % of adults have trouble falling asleep (perhaps a percentage of them are co-sleeping, no?)

The leap of logic I make here is that members of the public just won't bother to register if they don't share Labour's values.

There are several leaps of logic in what Rifkin is saying, but none of them are unwarranted or particularly unconvincing.

«Even the most generous interpretation of the evidence of the defendants» sexual orientation as relevant — that because he dresses like a woman he likely stole the woman's hair products and shoes — is such an incredible leap of logic as to astound this court.»

In a film of more prepossessing style, the glaring leaps of logic might be easier to overlook, or at least there'd be more incentive to do so, but the cellphone is Soderbergh's enemy as well.

It's a whole lot of techno - hooey, relying on screenwriter - friendly leaps of logic.

But Forest, despite its pedigree and effective score, again by Takemitsu, feels unfocused and incorporates too many bizarre leaps of logic to be an effective film.

The plot itself means very little — characters make massive leaps of logic and we scoot from location to location all in an effort to get to the next action set piece.

Perhaps there, in the newsprint - scented safety of those tri-color panels, its cartoon characterizations, hilariously blunt expository dialogue, and broad leaps of logic would find an appreciative audience, accustomed to prioritizing badassery over all.

It's certainly watchable, and it is very good in spots, but derivative thriller plot devices and ludicrous leaps of logic mar what could very well have been a great modern - day suspenser.

Lawrence is funny most of the time, but the plot is a mess, with bad writing and leaps of logic too blatant to ignore.

It's a watchable experience, but if you're at all bothered by leaps of logic, you'll likely have pulled out all of your hair in frustration long before the final fade - out.

But following Nixon, a misguided conspiracy - laden exercise in paranoia which took even greater leaps of logic and history than his fantasy version of Jim Garrison's investigation of the assassination of JFK, Stone decided (wisely) to take a break from politics and (unwisely) chose to rehash well - worn noir terrain by adapting author John Ridley's neo-noir Stray Dogs.

Their decision to partake in the game just doesn't really make sense, and unfortunately it's just the first of several unresolved plot holes and leaps of logic that Truth or Dare forces the viewer to swallow.

While the original is something of a pedant's paradise, filled with continuity errors, leaps of logic and one grating reference to UNIX, it is still a hugely effective ride from a master movie maker.

Col. Graff (Harrison Ford) commands an army of child warriors «because children make leaps of logic and intuition that adults can't follow.»

The leaps of logic in the plot and farfetched ideas on the judicial system stretch the believability to its maximum proportion, and even if the underlying message of the movie is the culpability of big businesses in tainting juries for their own profits, the contortions made to hold together the story make for some rough patches.

On the downside, there are some serious leaps of logic in the physics and technology of the film, further weakened by a porous plot, and ham - handed handling of the action scenes while on the ground.

In our email exchange, Van der Kleij cautioned against making any computer - to - human leaps of logic and applying these lessons to ordinary classrooms.

It's a leap of logic, not a hard truth, to claim that a multi-dimensional and more complex accountability system is a deliberate effort to obfuscate efforts to shift money intended for low - income students and English learners to general pay raises for teachers, as you imply.

Now here she was, somehow making the cosmic leap of logic from dead flora in a pot to living fauna in the pet classifieds.

Rather ingenious, this leap of intellectual understanding, for it required astute observations about similarities in genetic off spring and the identification of desirable traits and the leap of logic to conclude that breeding certain dogs together would in fact have a beneficial outcome.

Heading back to explore the early days of the XCOM universe, tackling humanities first encounter with the aliens, is a great idea on paper, but the plot of the Bureau quickly falls apart thanks to insane leaps of logic by characters, massive plot holes and all manner of stupidity.

Tony (# 77), The way out of your conundrum may simply be not to get carried away with qualitative rhetoric («far, far greater» or «worry») and leaps of logic and to focus on the specific claims beign made.

However, your leap of logic to concluding that there is no point in doing any forecasts unless we know exactly when the volcanoes will erupt is completely fallacious.

It would indeed be a leap of logic for me to say there is no point in doing forecasts, as you infer.

Both sources are confusing you, RC perhaps because your questions were both too simple and potentially too embarrassing, this article because you make the leap of logic that Patrick alluded to in # 2, that warming climate caused the increase in rainfalll, not warmer weather as is the claim of the researchers.

You have made the leap of logic, not supported by the paper, that global warming has caused increased frequency of thunderstorms in the tropics.

They point to the New Apollo Alliance as a model new approach and, in a startling leap of logic, propose to do away with environmentalism.

inferring support for energy policy from the DoD interest in the above stated risks associated with climate variability and change requires a big leap of logic.

Donna's drivel is replete with stupidity, strained allusions, confused analogies, leaps of logic, trivia and bad faith (and what the hell is with the numbers??).

You have challenged me to examine my own leaps of logic in a few places.

VP I agree with your assessment the the headline of «decades of cooling» is wrong but I never took that leap of logic that you may have alluded to me.

The reason that I am somewhat dismissive of them is that I never seem them presented in context and also I suspect the methodology used to determine the external costs are rife with assumptions and leaps of logic.

I have always found it strange when McIntyre et al consistently make the leap of logic that a poor choice of methodology, such as Mann's PCA, is equivalent to a deliberate deception, and the opposite of their findings being true.