Sentences with phrase «old arguments for»

The Church seemed to have accepted that the old arguments for the existence of God had been demolished by science, and it appeared that nobody had any new reasoned approaches to take.

Thinking abilities disabled... check Lobotomy performed, just in case any reasoning faculties are still active... check «GOD H8S F.AGS» T - shirt... check Armed with 2000 year old arguments for invisible old men in the sky that have been refuted on countless occasions... check

This enables him to dust off the old argument for the supremacy of the so - called Anglo - Saxon view of liberty, which he claims only American social conservatives still understand.

Does this website need perspective — you keep regurgitating the same old argument for the sake of clicks — or am I just stuck in the past?

The old argument for first - past - the - post — that it boosts the larger party and so provides stable government — no longer applies.

Second, his exponential for 1962 - 2050, linearized by the logarithmic y - axis, is simply Manacker's old argument for a 0.5 % CAGR, which is completely unphysical.

Not exact matches

In what is likely to be a heated argument over the legacy of Uber's lightning rod of a founder and former CEO, attorneys for both Travis Kalanick and one of the car - hailing company's largest investors, Benchmark Capital, will square off in the first oral argument in the month - old case.

For a minute there I was wondering if Chad was going to trot out the old «they are better off as slaves» argument

The act of impling is an old one and a useful tool for throwing off arguments one rather not have.

Though he verbally defended the old New England idea, it is interesting that he defended it more on the basis of reason and human rights than on the basis of Scripture, and this defense of congregational independence later provided arguments for advocates of the revolution against England.

The same argument applies to the life and medical insurance premiums people pay because there is no cheaper, more efficient public program for dealing with the costs of medical care and old - age security.

There is little need for delusion... and in my experience, our delusions were shattered many times over... so we that are older tend to just ignore the argument of positioning «Holding beliefs lightly» with «Deluding Oneself».

Questions, honesty, challenges to old ideas, and arguments for new ones — these things are almost always met with resistance.

Reference is indeed made to Irenaeus's opposition to Gnosticism, to his discarding of the Marcionites» attempt to get rid of the Old Testament, to his argument for four gospels and four only and to his doctrine of recapitulation, but there is no independent treatment of these issues.

Chesterton's Autobiography is not always a reliable source; but there is corroborating evidence for these protective feelings from his childhood onwards: and since this evidence is virtually unknown, it is probably best here to take this opportunity to publish it for the first time (much of it will appear in my forthcoming book Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy, though I discovered some of it too late for it to be included) rather than repeat old arguments.

Now memory is an old Occidental argument for bolstering personal identity, and it has never been very successful.

@Mike, Ah, the old «Fear of punishment, hope for reward» argument.

We are offered the old argument that perfect love must be purely altruistic, must gain no benefit for self.

The old liberal argument for never doing anything about anything.

i am sorry J.W but i don't believe there is a god of any kind... if there was a god, why would such a so called all powerful being allow for the treatment of its creation by its creation... the argument of free will is an old and tired one... if the existence was true and the laws put in place to honor such a creature were equally upheld by god then i would have been punished a long long time ago and so would have the majority of people... believer or not!

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

In a Christianity Today article entitled «A New Day for Apologetics,» reporter Troy Anderson writes that «people young and old are flocking to hear - and be changed by - winsome arguments for the Christian faith.»

The reader, who understands this, will also understand that our argument has no interest in nor is affected by marginal and non-typicalcases (as, for instance, the older man who marries and may not be capable of actual insemination).

Those who are willing to base their argument permitting abortions entirely on the plurality - of - views doctrine should ask themselves questions like the following: Suppose some people thought it permissible for mothers to kill their disobedient five - year - olds (cf. Deut.

I have not had to appeal to that oldest and best argument for the institution of academic tenure, the unqualified freedom of a scholar to move as his or her research and thinking lead, without being bound by past assumptions or present colleagues.

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

But then I'm not holding my breath — fred has had this same argument time and time again, and has yet to come up with any credible evidence for his particular brand of make - believe — something so obviously rehashed from older mythology.

With characteristic British understatement and with admirable humor (intentional or not), the ghost of the argument for objectivity was firmly laid in the clipped accents of Professor A. S. Peake of the preceding generation of Old Testament scholars, in address to the tale of the flood:

As for the ones I don't respect (as in the ones who can only call names like a 5 year old but never have a substantive argument), I'd rather that they didn't..

These evidences remain very important; but, whether we like it or deplore it, the older type of argument for Christianity based upon the documents and traditions and heroism of the age of the Apostolic Fathers has no longer the evidential power of former days.

Some anti-circumcision groups, however, say the lawsuit's argument for religious liberty is just an excuse to defend old tradition that some frown upon as strange compared with mainstream hospital circumcisions.

(For those of you with a 13 year old's mind: this was a hypothetical argument to illustrate the hypocrisy of conservatives, calling left wingers «America - haters» without examining truly insensitive comments from their own idols.

He condemns ho - mos - exuality even though it is a natural practice (feel free to disagree all you want, but that argument will go nowhere), and his idea of a good marriage is a 13 year old girl being given to a 40 year old man as payment for a land deal, with her bloody sheets being used as a receipt of a good deal, and if she isn't a vir - gin (she could have been ra - ped, or her hy - men could have burst while riding a horse or something) she is to be stoned to death on her parent's doorstep.

Ambiguity is glossed over, the man at Dothan is simply noted, Reuben intervenes because he is oldest brother, and Hamilton makes his own argument for the literary unity of Gen 37, only footnoting the literary studies that support the position.

That old argument came about before dark energy was discovered which requires the first cause to be outside of our 4 dimensions in order for the theory of relativity to hold.

The proximate cause may have been his recognition that some old notes or an essay on Bodily Efficacity could be utilized in the argument for «Strains» (PR IV.4.2 K).

For him it is more important, for the sake of contemporary philosophy, to discover the alternative solutions of these problems, and the arguments given in their support, than to locate old discussions in ancient contexFor him it is more important, for the sake of contemporary philosophy, to discover the alternative solutions of these problems, and the arguments given in their support, than to locate old discussions in ancient contexfor the sake of contemporary philosophy, to discover the alternative solutions of these problems, and the arguments given in their support, than to locate old discussions in ancient contexts.

Oh, the old line, guns don't kill... There is no appropriate application, nor any argument, for having rapid reloading ultra rapid firing guns in cities among the general populace.

An argument could be made that the old puritan was too generous, thinking that God had killed his son for a thought crime rather than for a crime committed by ancestors who lived millennia ago.

Arguments aside, Sebago's improvement is good news for fishermen, who had all but given up on the famous old lake.

yes the same old story but this time with a big difference that changed everything for him and his delusional followers, we've been told all these years that we could not compete against Oil Money and Russian Oligarchs, well Leicester and Spuds shattered that argument.....

I won't go into the fact that no - one knew who he was before he joined us, and all the tired old arguments about what he has done for us, are countered in my book by what we have done for him and his bulging pockets.

Not gonna get in to an argument and I hear you — but haven't we kept hearing the same old boll ** ks now for 20 years — «team A / B / C has improved massively», «no top four this season», «team X / Y / Z is spending wisely and shows real ambition».

I've backed the 68 year - old on a number of occasions, as well as voicing some concerns at times, but as we look destined to miss out on Champions League football for the second season running, I'm not sure there can be any argument against giving the reins over to somebody else.

That tired old argument of «They call it the Hall of Fame for a reason,» might actually mean something after all.

Tebow, a 30 - year - old player who has a defensive ceiling as a bad corner outfielder, hit.226 /.309 /.347 against teenagers and 21 - year - olds, which would suggest that there are, oh, about 100 to 200 players with a better argument for an invitation.

nice to see constructive for and against argument rather then «wengers a old tw*t etc» where have u been?

(Begin old man rant) As for the argument that the best players in the world won't be at the Olympics, eh.

i agree andy but its not just the 4 years of hard work that should be taken into account, firstly the fai hav missed out on millions at a time where money is already tight, and more importantly the fact that given, kilbane, o shea, dunne, duff, whelan and keane may be too old when the next one comes around and for a professional footballer to hav a chance to represent his country on the biggest stage of all taken away in this manner is cruel, there can be no argument against technology when there is so much at stake as for henry being labelled a cheat i do not agree as it came at him so quick and although he in fact handled it twice i do not believe it was pre-meditated like maradonnas effort or that disgusting dive by anelka at 0 - 1... can any1 who watched the game live please tell me how lass diarra stayed on the pitch let alone avoided a yellow??

The 28 - year - old was coveted by a host of clubs and revealed England record goalscorer Rooney offered a compelling argument for choosing the Blues.