The tight timeline and absence of an alternative proposal mean that those who are crafting Indiana's new standards have defaulted to basing them on the Common Core standards. (educationnext.org)
It has to struggle to combine creation by a free act of will with the absence of alternative possibilities for God, and to combine the contingency of the world with the necessity of God's act of creation and with the necessity of God's knowledge of that world. (religion-online.org)
In the absence of an alternative, one can usually doctor up the old theory with suitable amendments, though there may eventually be so many patches and ad hoc adjustments that in the interests of simplicity one starts looking for alternatives. (religion-online.org)