Sentences with phrase «other old argument»

I'm sure it has some technical merit — but I'm reminded of that other old argument... we shouldn't have been forced into bankruptcy, we weren't broke!

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On December 28, 25 - year - old Tyler Barriss called police in Wichita, Kansas, falsely claiming he'd shot his father during an argument and was holding two other people hostage in a home there.

In presenting an argument, I just wish that those who try to tear down the integrity of the Old Testament prophets would at least be honest, transparent, with the other point of view.

Obviously, so the argument goes, if we want to cut teenage pregnancies and abortions we must have access to sexual health services — in other words, teenagers are less likely to get pregnant if they are using contraception; failing contraception, then we should give them access to the morning - after pill, which may be seen as preferable to a twelve - year - old getting pregnant.

Others have pointed to this argument as a «might makes right» argument and I've noted the old axiom that «just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do something.»

The other argument is that the Bible claims that the earth is 6000 years old.

One hates to make old arguments, but if this education teaches (as other sections of the report make clear that is must) the familiar doctrines about how very wrong it is to impose any kind of normative standard on the many forms that peoples» desires can take, on what basis does it exclude pornography or the sexualization of young girls as legitimate forms of the varied human sexual appetite?

you may be ignorant to it, but it's an old argument i and many others have been over before — only the names change.

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

this is an old argument which delusional theists have lost already, so i don't intend to expound on it further other than to point out once more — you're wrong.

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.

The old «Christianity is evil because Christianity has killed millions» argument... If you read the Bible, there are many times that God commanded His people to destroy other groups of people through, gasp, violent means, because those people had rejected Him completely and were ruining the earth, which He had made.

Hartshorne does not tell us what his third argument is, other than that it «is a revision of the old cosmological argument» and «is closely related to the ontological [one], but starts from the idea of reality in general.»

The assemblyman did admit there's some merit to the argument from the other side that the $ 200,000 income threshold is inconsistent with the old $ 200,000 (for individuals) threshold of the millionaire's tax, which will remain in place through the end of the year.

The argument escalated into a physical confrontation, during which the victim, 54 - year - old Robert Echols of Rochester, was pulled to the ground by several other people.

Deondra Brown said arguments that opening a one - year window to revive old cases would cause a flood of legal cases has not been borne out in other states.

«It is the same old excuse of an argument against giving people a say and it's completely at odds with the other rights we already give to 16 and 17 - year - olds, which include the right to work, pay tax, join the armed forces,» Mr Benn said.

Stressing biological continuity between Homo sapiens and other animals is laudable, but exploring the relationship between humans and the occupants of 3 - billion - year - old stromatolites stretches the argument a little.

The other reason being that older women happen to know way more on how to deal with a man and are less prone to the whining or the senseless arguments.

Refuting a Popular Argument by Old - Earth Geologists Gregg Davidson and Ken Wolgemuth Large annotated directory of internet resources on radiocarbon and other radioactive dating methods, including creationists» views and scientific critiques

It's unclear HOW they became friends, WHY nothing ever happened (beyond the truly weak argument of lack of physical attraction), HOW they maintain their old married couple ease, and WHY he doesn't bend over backward like this for any other woman.

Lincoln manages to encompass many aspects of the president's last three months: his arguments with his unstable wife, Mary Todd (Sally Field); his determination to keep their eldest son, Robert (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), out of uniform; his grief over the recent death of their 11 - year - old son, Willie, and the thousands of other sons taken by the war; his magnanimous friendships with the former political enemies who joined his cabinet; and of course his assassination (which Spielberg ingeniously represents with a scene from a children's play).

Honestly, when one of the debates in the film turns into an all - out brawl because one candidate brings up a story the other wrote when the opponent was 8 years old and calls it his «Communist manifesto» (See, one character in the story gives a pot of gold to a leprechaun, and that, according to the first candidate, is an example of his foe's innate belief in the redistribution of wealth), we're laughing in part because we've heard arguments of this variety before and with seemingly more frequency in the past few years.

In other words the old argument that «charges are levied at # 35 but it only costs the banks # 2» has gone.

This is an old argument where one side talks about the convenience of saving anytime and the other talks about the need to make games challenging, but this is a false dichotomy.

She added that China is moving away from the old argument that it has no responsibility to act on emissions yet because, like India and other large emerging industrial powers, it still has per - capita emissions many times lower than those in wealthy countries.

Imagine if you will, someone like me arguing evidence for AGW coming to CFACT and citing an article from, not a top - tier journal, nor even a second - tier, but more like a third - tier journal like the Asia - Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences (which people generally publish in when they can't pass the more rigorous peer review of the more reputable journals), and if that paper were written by a person who's work has had to be corrected by others, not once, not twice, but FOUR times to my knowledge, and every correction takes it back in the opposite direction of what that person was arguing, and if the paper I was citing was this guy making the same old tired argument he's been corrected on before, and if this paper already had evidence of data tampering to get it's conclusions... just imagine the uproar from the usual crowd here.

Of all the lame arguments used to sell Americans on the proposition that wind power, an industry propped up by Soviet - style production quota in 29 states and numerous other policy privileges, deserves another renewal of the 20 - year - old production tax credit (PTC), the lamest is the claim that the PTC helps protect us from extreme weather.

That's why all you see in the comments are the same old repetitive copy - and - paste arguments by Australians such as Captain Kangaroo, Myrrhh, Girma, Peter Lang, Robert I. Ellison, Doug Cotton, Chief Hydrologist, Alexander Biggs, Stefan «TheDenier», and others.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

Among other arguments, it is suggested that this body of historical case law has no persuasive value and, even if relevant to a litigant's issue, is too old to matter.

What's your sense of that kind of age - old argument they should be out catching other criminals?

It is unfortunate that the legal rights aspect of their case would not be eligible for funding under the old CCP, and that funding could be denied altogether if the panel viewed the s. 15 argument as unmeritorious — regardless of the strength of the other Charter claims.

Sure Rob, your argument certainly explains why commissions were at one time 7 % when there were far fewer Realtors in the industry; why the industry was charged with price - fixing and why there are so many old - timers who were accustomed to the 7,6, 5 % rates decry the discount and referral services and why many other companies in other industries have been found complicit in price - fixing.