Sentences with phrase «far better assumption»

Even if the current theory of evolution turns out to not be 100 % correct, it is a FAR better assumption than that some Beard Man or Zeus or whatever made us out of magic dust or something.

Not exact matches

No doubt that the scientists are of good repute, but the actual records only go so far, everything else is a calculation based on assumptions.

, That Rylaarsdam's criticism is in part, at least, based on a misunderstanding of Buber's position and a difference in Rylaarsdam's own a priori assumptions is shown by his further statements that «Because of his individual and personal emphasis the notion of an objective revelation of God in nature and history involving the whole community of Israel in the real event of the Exodus does not fit well for him,» that Buber's view of revelation is «essentially mystical and nonhistorical,» and that «the realistic disclosure of Yahweh as the Lord of nature and of history recedes into the background because of an overconcern with the experience of personal relation» — criticisms which are all far wide of the mark, as is shown by the present chapter.)

The background assumption of this book means, finally, that so far as its content is concerned the best hope of saying things of general relevance to persons involved in all types of theological schooling today lies in making some particular and fairly concrete proposals that may turn out to be directly pertinent only to a few types of theological schools but may provoke and help other persons in other types of schools to think through these issues for themselves.

They may go quite far in pointing out how those purposes are not well served by current practices, but as participants they have no leverage for asking about fundamental purposes and assumptions.

Thus far, it has been shown that a philosophical case can readily be made for the assertion that the validity as well as origins of science derive from the assumption of the validity of Western theistic premises.

The further assumption which others make — though perhaps not Dr. Kissinger — is that the American solution is always best.

In doubles, however, you hit the ball as far as you could, the assumption being that two fielders could watch out for cars better than one.

Both answers posted so far present good points, but I believe they miss the key factor here by accepting the faulty assumption of the question, namely, that the sanctions were the main cause of the economic hardships that have contributed to the current protests in Iran.

Well, based on the assumption that a vote is cast in anticipation that the recipient of the vote is going to win, it seems to me that a vote cast for David Cameron or whoever is the leader of the Labour Party at the time of the election is far more likely to see a winner than any vote for the Liberal Democrats will do.

The reviewer wrote, «[i] t would probably... be beneficial to find one or two male biologists to work with (or at least obtain internal peer review from, but better yet as active co-authors)» to prevent the manuscript from «drifting too far away from empirical evidence into ideologically biased assumptions.»

Now the team of behavioural scientists went one step further — and tested a common assumption that more attractive males have better mating success than other males.

This behaviour and further findings from observations can be best explained with an interesting assumption: Although the brightness variations in the gamma ray region also originate from the flare ups in the blazar, they are amplified to different degrees by the gravitational lens effect of individual stars in the foreground galaxy.

The authors conclude that although further research is needed to evaluate the epidemiologic context under which the assumptions of these models hold true as well as the ethical and logistic considerations, it is clear that increased testing is a critical component of controlling the HIV epidemic.

In our study, symptoms of depression occurred in the two weeks before interview and sexual dissatisfaction in the year before interview but, as we don't know when the period of infertility occurred, we can not make assumptions about causality and are in favour of further investigation into the long term impact of infertility on women's well - being.»

Just a sexist assumption of mine) brings up War of the Worlds and Cloverfield, two far, far better films that did more with less... Spielberg's film costing 120 million and Reeves» only $ 25.

The widespread assessment also appears to be that it's been a better than average movie year thus far, despite the assumption that most studios tend to release their weaker films in the first half of the year.

Peele seems more than comfortable taking his time building the story and the relationships of Get Out, working to establish the naivete of Rose and her family, their assumptions about race relations so far from the real world, their good intentions not counting for all that much to a man who deals with prejudice day in and day out.

Given that assumption, it may be further assumed that students who scored similarly on the two exams will have similar math knowledge, i.e., students who scored 617.1 points or better on the PISA test would have been identified at the advanced level had they taken the NAEP math test.

This spreadsheet is offered to reinforce understanding of these concepts, and to further better understand the impact of lower rates of return (and changes to other assumptions) on required contributions to the pension system.

I make no claim to statistical significance — I simply present what I've received, operating on the assumption that some information is far better than none at all.

As far as whether to keep or sell her condo if she moves back to Quebec, can she earn a better «return» on her condo when considering the net rental income and a modest assumption for growth?

(Anchoring to ultra-conservative assumptions used before buying despite seeing far better performance).

The reason I think the rule of thumb is still good, despite the assumptions, is that I don't think a «more accurate» number based on a lot of unpredictable guesses is really better; and it may even be harmful if you use it to justify saving less, or even if you use it to save far too much.

Although the assumption goes well together with the migration of workforce and wildly picturesque mountains and villages, Eastern Europe is far from being abandoned.

It's very clear from the graph that the forecast from scenario c fits the data better than the other two forecasts; that the clearly counterfactual assumptions in scenario c produce a better fit (so far) suggests that scenarios a and b are untrustworthy guides to the future.

The paper is quite well written and a tour de force in many respects, but there are way too many assumptions and extrapolations for anything here to be taken seriously other than to promote further studies.

Far better this than running a dozen GCMs with funamentally different assumptions about climate feedbacks, plotting them on a graph and claiming that as a measure of the uncertainty in the behaviour of the real climate.

Further complicating assumptions of growth is a very interesting analysis published today in Nature by two well regarded US energy experts, Richard Heinberg and David Fridley.

No matter what assumptions we enter, it is clear that we are far better off to get nuclear at least cost — as long as it will give us better total health effects than we have now., which clearly replacement of fossil fuels with nuclear will do.

Very hard to see how you would pin that assumption down without enough error terms to check the assumption (and I don't see 1988 as much better) in fact if you look at the graph it's pretty obvious that a linear fit is not appropriate as the error term is far from random.

In 2008, the Bush administration released a new proposal for fuel economy standards that were slightly better but still far too low; they were determined through a fatally flawed analysis employing numerous assumptions defying common sense and the law, such as a prediction that gas will cost $ 2.36 per gallon in 2020 and an assumption that technological solutions available now can't be employed by automakers a few years from now.

This is far better to do because it avoids the bias of belief, or anti-belief, in any particular scientific assumption (science can easily be derailed by strong culture, e.g. the early twentieth century eugenics episode).

I personally published what was wrong (with) my own original 1971 cooling hypothesis a few years later when more data and better models came along and further analysis showed [anthropogenic global warming] as the much more likely... In fact, for me that is a very proud event — to have discovered with colleagues why our initial assumptions were unlikely and better ones reversed the conclusions — an early example of scientific skepticism in action in climatology.»

Roger Pielke Jr.'s analysis could get us to a better understanding, once he corrects some blatant errors in his assumptions (though he could have gotten fancier and gone farther, I'm sure, with some imagination and the time to waste on a moot point) for general application.

The thunderstorm thermostat hypothesis is far from settled science, but it is clearly a much better hypothesis (in terms of explaining the available data) than the IPCC's assumption that global temperatures are determined primarily by changes in atmospheric CO2 levels.

This positive perception translates to better morbidity and mortality assumptions, leading to further price reductions.

When you have your best information on the bottom half of your first page, or worse on page 2, you're making the assumption that anyone who is interested will get to your good stuff further down the resume.

Further, they warn that while overall, positive psychology interventions have been valuable for improving psychological well - being and for reducing the symptoms of depression, this may have led to an unsupportable assumption that more is better and that strengths (positive traits) and positive emotions have no dark side.