Sentences with phrase «as a layman reading»

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In Zürich, the early practice of calling and ordaining a minister, according to an Order for Preachers written by Leo Jud and Henry Bullinger, was as follows: A commission of examiners consisting of two ministers, two members of the City Council, and two laymen experienced in the reading of the Bible, examined the candidates who either had been proposed or had applied to be called to a vacant ministerial office.

Morton Meyers's style is totally accessible to the layman and very readable, filled with anecdotes and enhanced by the occasional illustration; not only providing an enlightening read but leaving the reader with a wealth of bite - sized «did you know» facts to share on any occasion when the subject of health and medicine comes up, which tends to be an increasingly popular topic as we get inexorably closer to shuffling off our mortal coil!

I've read the article, and it has some interesting problems — or what I, as a layman, see as possible problems:

In a recent interview with The Scientist, David Gelernter offered a semi-skeptical view of human - driven global warming, describing it as his «impression as a layman, hearing, reading, looking around, and noticing how greatly the propensity is among scientists — and among many others — to overestimate mankind's capacity for changing the Earth.»

Particularly as the committe will not be scientists and will require a layman's BRIEF summary of the submission otherwise they will probably not read it and almost certainly will not understand it.

The advantage that the lay policy - maker has over the highly - specialist scientist is that the policy - maker, particularly if he has done his best to read the scientific literature extensively and carefully, may be able to acquire a better overall view of the subject than any specialist who is deeply read in his own specialism but not widely read outside it, though of course the layman will not know anything like as much as the specialist about the narrow field that is the specialist's specialism.

that was an interesting read, a bit heavy going for a layman but informative nonetheless, particularly as to the scale of the task faced.

I welcome critical reactions to my recent video, which I put together as a layman's summary of the science of the skeptic's position (if you have sent me criticisms, I have read them even if I have not gotten back to you — my real life has been crazy lately).