Sentences with phrase «not defend your position»

And as for the athiest, unless he has 100 % of all knowlege in the entire universe, he can not defend his position that there is no God, even though the universe declares it to be the case.

As a consequence, they were assailed from many quarters and could not defend their position by better means than ruthless suppression and naked force.

You just quoted a piece form Wengers interview to suit your own agenda and can't defend your position, so you're changing the subject.

You can not defend your position against IRS by saying «But the article on Nolo said I can not pay SE taxes on my earnings!»

I won't defend my position on the title, but it's not what everyone claims it is, but it IS a great foundation for future titles.

What is clear is that you can't defend your position.

This abysmal failure to show us all absolute evidence of illicit money exchanged for fabricated, demonstratively false science papers / assessments is the proverbial «mathematical certainty «that dooms the accusation, and places the whole idea of man - caused global warming in peril of sinking if its promoters can not defend their position against science - based criticism from skeptic scientists.

Common tactic used by dogmatists who can not defend their position and uncomfortable being questioned on that dogma.

Not exact matches

«To defend our position, we don't go wide, we go deep,» Sutter says.

J.P. Morgan's letter to shareholders defending its actions and Jamie Dimon's hold on the CEO - chair position not only missed its mark, it also unwittingly advanced their opponents» cause.

As the head of the National Economic Council Cohn didn't have responsibility for Trump's social positions, and he wouldn't have to defend them publicly.

We cognicenti know that national debts are not of any great economic consequence, but it's impossible to defend that position in public debate.

But what pisses me off is that they don't bother getting in touch with their clients to at least defend their position with their SEC issue that they are having.

Those pushing for change are dismissed as quixotic, he argues, and those who oppose new laws aren't forced to defend their positions.

They were not there t defend their position so they should not have been heard from.

biggles aka bethany is running around censoring everything again... it can't come up with logic or reason to defend its position so it thinks it can silence people by deleting ther comments.

Sometimes on the belief blog, I've been very vocal defending my position because I do not believe... it's time for the theists to do the same.

That's how he can respond to so many people at once, he doesn't actually answer questions or defend his position honestly.

I'm surprised she didn't impress us with her use of the word «libtard», that mark of true intellectuals able to intelligently defend their positions.

And it's not bullying to ask the people who were defending the abuser to please review ALL the information to reconsider their position.

Yet Luther was not about challenging time - honored positions generally, but defending the Great Tradition against little defective traditions that had distorted it.

Perhaps, but I can't help but believe that when people in a position to defend a belief system for this they have no evidence after a while there must be some shred of doubt that sneaks in.

I don't «resort» to personal attacks, because I have defended my positions with sound logic and reasoning.

Defending one's position is not the only valid option at this point, particularly for the called out ones.

Moldy, So you'd infringe on const itutional rights just because you disagree with our position and can not defend yours?

In a famous passage from Science and the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead gives this counsel to scholars in the various historical disciplines: «Do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which [controversialists] feel it necessary explicitly to defend.»

[In light of his position on gender roles, Piper could not bring himself to endorse Sarah Palin as a vice presidential candidate in the 2008 election, but conceded that «defending abortion is far worse a sin for a man than serving as Vice President is for a woman.»]

There were theologians who defended the immaculist position, St. Anselm was thought at the time to have done so, although now we know that the defence was written by his biographer Eadmer and not by Anselm.

Defending his position, he said the introduction of the bonus scheme pre-dated his appointment and he had not sought out the bumper pay awards.

It is not my position, so I won't attempt to defend it.

Especially if he is a priest, or has otherwise received a good and coherent religious formation in youth, he has to go on thinking and not rigidly repeat the formulas he once learnt or simply defend the old positions.

We therefore don't need to defend the position that death appears to be the end of us because that's all that seems to be happening.

With these reservations we might well be of the opinion that the Church in Germany, and not only there, is, on the whole, still tempted to defend old conservative positions rather than to surrender them in order to prepare even now for an inevitable future, despite some conciliar courage to start anew and risk an uncertain future.

For if he had truly grasped the position Arkes defends he would understand that his own judgment — that Arkes is mistaken at points — is itself dependent on moral notions not contingent upon relative circumstances or the contingencies of history.

7Whitehead's position could be defended on other grounds as well: e.g., it gives us a single type of experience for all existing things; it provides a single metaphysical basis for the natural and social sciences; it stresses the difference between the becoming of a not - yet - existing occasion and the relations between existing things.

The construction of a building must no longer be the default position in local churches, where those who do not want to build must defend their position to those who do.

I think you have staked out a position that you can not possibly defend.

I don't feel that you've adequately defended your position.

George N. Boyd argues against the traditional position of the opponents of capital punishment that no crime ever «deserves» the death penalty, and suggests that the debate is not over what murderers deserve, but rather about how society should express and defend its fundamental values.

The positions he has taken with candor and defended with clarity do not bind the conscience of the reader, but they do challenge the reader to make his own equally clear and equally dedicated responses.

The position which has been defended in this book is that Jesus was influenced by the apocalyptic expectations of his time and probably did speak some such words as these, expecting an imminent day of the Lord which did not occur.

I don't know of a more profoundly failed position, or a more poorly defended one, than the assertion that a particular God is real, alive, and intimately involved in the lives of people.

I think the gospels are in very good shape and I think they are as reliable as they do they were first passed out (problem isn't those scriptures — but churches use of those scriptures — out of context a lot of times — to defend their positions).

Jeremy, I can not tell whether you are sincerely confused or if you are disingenously trying to avoid defending the position you have taken.

These essays are crucial for any assessment of MacIntyre's position: Arguments and observations he makes in his books were often first developed in articles, and defended later in other articles, not widely available.

In culture wars, as in philosophical debate, words are often like towns along the battle front: they offer a strategic position and must be fought for and defended, and not relinquished as soon as the enemy advances.

You can say that you don't like the way Tom Tom makes points and say that she lacks integrity, but to throw Jen into there because she's defending Tom Tom's free speech is a stupid, and illogical position.

I do question the education levels of people, but if you are going to make sweeping negative generalizations about gay people, you better be able to defend that position (as I have friends and family that are gay and they are amazing people who don't deserve what is said about them).

Frankly, I think many (if not most) atheists spend equal amounts of time trying to convince theists that they are correct, and generally trying to defend their positions.

Thus, since it is Griffin's contention that this type of experiential grounding is not possible, the burden of proof is on him not simply to defend his position but to demonstrate that my analysis can not justifiably be affirmed.