Sentences with phrase «more elaborate argument»

In the subsequent case of McGinnis v. Watson, [Footnote 40] this principle is again applied and supported by a more elaborate argument.

Since Thomism offers this more elaborate argument, it has survived the critique of Hume much more successfully than has deistic natural theology.

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The argument, as outlined above, therefore collapses and we are left with the striking fact that the later the Gospel the more elaborate becomes the story of the empty tomb, 9 a phenomenon which is perfectly consistent with a developing and expanding tradition, but one which is inconsistent with eye - witness accounts, where one expects more detail and more reliability the nearer one is in time to the event being described.

If God's existence is to be believed at all, we require a far more elaborate and technical argument — or else an acknowledged leap of faith.