«Public acceptance of the basic reality of climate change and public
acceptance of the human component of climate change have both risen quite sharply over the last one to two years.»
A recent study suggests the 2013/2014 floods in the UK pushed up public
acceptance of human - caused climate change, particularly among those personally affected.
Similarly, in relation to religiosity the Millennials are the least polarized on
acceptance of human evolution.
Cook surveyed representative samples of Australians and Americans regarding their political ideologies and the effect of consensus on
their acceptance of human - caused global warming.
For example, a 2009 survey found that among Earth scientists, only economic geologists (47 percent) had lower
acceptance of human - caused global warming than meteorologists (64 percent).
Several surveys have found relatively low
acceptance of human - caused global warming amongst meteorologists.
The second study demonstrated a causal relationship, showing that
acceptance of human - caused (anthropogenic) global warming (AGW) increases when the scientific consensus is highlighted.
Both Kahan and Corner have also argued that if consensus messaging could work, then it should have worked by now, whereas American public
acceptance of human - caused global warming in 2014 is lower than in 2003.
Her knowing optimism and
acceptance of human frailty infused that exhibition, as it had so many earlier projects and ones left unfinished at her death.
Just as there is growing
acceptance of human obesity, there is growing acceptance of pet obesity and owners who take insufficient exercise themselves, often don't understand the importance of exercise for their pets.
The 60 percent level of
acceptance of human evolution includes all adults.
The editors assume
our acceptance of human superiority has an objective foundation so obvious that it need not be mentioned.»
I doubt any of today's «churches» could handle an honest
acceptance of human sexuality.
The fruits of the breakdown of
the acceptance of a human «nature» is manifest: the condom mentality, sexual union as a passing pleasure, the broken home, abortion, the unhappy, disturbed, and often criminal child, - for to be loved as primary, is part of the nature of childhood expectation.
But in the teaching of Jesus the contemporaneity of the action envisages a response by man to God that is at the same time a full
acceptance of the human responsibility in face of the divine mercy.
But we must go farther and see that propriety of scale is invariably associated with propriety of another kind: an understanding and
acceptance of the human place in the order of Creation — a proper humility....
There are several possible reasons for meteorologists» lack of
acceptance of humans» role in climate change:
Not exact matches
The disposal
of unsound religious beliefs and practices through the resolute application
of knowledge leading to common
acceptance of their fatal flaws is a well - established and time - honored tradition whose constructive value is populated with hundreds
of noteworthy precedents that serve as benchmarks in the continuing enlightenment
of the
human race.
The growing
acceptance of abortion and euthanasia in Western societies depicts the weak and vulnerable as being outside the
human community.
The fundamental impediment to our
acceptance of embryonic stem cell research has to do with destruction
of the
human embryo.
On November 29, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, secretary
of state, wrote to Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal
of Jordan, the chief organizer
of the letter
of the 138, on behalf
of the pope: «Common ground allows us to base dialogue on effective respect for the dignity
of every
human person, on objective knowledge
of the religion
of the other, on the sharing
of religious experience, and, finally, on common commitment to promoting mutual respect and
acceptance among the younger generation.
Barbara and Randy: I think that all
human beings — regardless
of their
acceptance of an existent God or any religious belief — are capable
of kindness, generousity, and unselfish love because all
human beings are created in God's image.
While glad to see the change
of attitude among conservative Christians with respect to gay civil rights and
acceptance of gays as
human beings, some persons were troubled over other aspects
of the issue.
But when, by contrast, parental love is grounded in the facts
of biological and historical bonding, the child lives in a setting offering the kind
of acceptance human beings need in order themselves to become capable
of adult commitment — a setting in which individuals who are separate but connected can grow and flourish.
Even if there are elements
of the story that we might grimace at, it still reflects the
human heart for grace, love,
acceptance, forgiveness, and being made new.
The reality
of acceptance before God actually is in itself the grateful involvement in the enterprise
of human culture, and always with particular and peculiar concern for the outcast and the suffering ones in the midst
of that enterprise.
A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on
human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater
acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy
of the church
of my family, my childhood, and my life.»
The topic is the salvation
of human beings, and God's judgement
of individual
humans regarding their
acceptance or rejection
of a divine savior.
He condemned and cursed the self - appointed religious leaders who perpetuated the perverted Judaism
of the day through their promotion
of the Talmud and Rabbinic Halachal above the Mosaic Law given by God; those who added to the Scriptures (the Pharisees) and those who subtracted from the Scriptures (the Sadducees) and anyone else who changed the commandments
of God because
of their own
human desires for
acceptance and the honor
of men.
We have reached that point in the evolution
of the
human species where traditional tribalism must be superseded by the
acceptance of the essential unity
of all
human society.
Both in the secular world and in the church, our characteristic approach to
human frailty is not chastisement and dire threats, but understanding; not calling people to repent their sins, but teaching people the gentle arts
of self -
acceptance; not an ethic
of cross-bearing, but an ethic based on the value
of self - actualization.
The self system plays a powerful role in enabling persons to meet the two sets
of basic
human needs — the need for bodily satisfaction (food, sleep, sex, closeness to people) and interpersonal security (esteem, belongingness,
acceptance, the power to meet one's needs).
No one who knows anything
of the darker side
of human life will deny that
acceptance in itself can pass easily into a sentimental condonation
of evil which obscures the truth
of human existence.
Failing to grasp how Paul has made Jesus»
human response to God part
of God's essential gift to
humans means failing to grasp how dispositions
of mutual
acceptance articulate the form
of life possible only because
of that powerful and transforming gift.
If a
human being doesn't need to be exposed to the teachings
of christianity to gain God's
acceptance, then there's no need for religion at all.
If evolution explained only the rest
of life and not
human origins, there would be much more
acceptance.
For example, as early as 20 years ago General Frederick Coutts
of the Salvation Army wrote: «Salvationists are identified with the high ideals
of social justice and
acceptance of the unchallenged rights
of every man as stated in the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights» (
Human Rights and the Salvation Army [Campfield Press, 19681, p. 5)
If I were to guess — and that is all any outsider can do at this point — I would say that the language
of intrinsic value still in the Charter, granting nature some immunity from
human need, language which, as noted, the Earth Charter Commission regards as essential and nonnegotiable, will prove the final stumbling block to official
acceptance.
A second advantage: the process notion
of God avoids a direct conflict with the modern
acceptance of the autonomy
of human existence.
In revealing to us the social structures, categories and expectations by which we exclude those most in need
of acceptance, it unmasks our pretensions, our unjustified feelings
of contentment and self - satisfied smugness in the face
of a world characterized by injustice, hunger and depression
of the
human spirit.
Societies
acceptance of prostitution as a necessary part
of who we are as
human beings, is nothing more than ignoring the truth that we do not see the prostitute as a victim, and even if we did, we would say it's their own fault.
also an
acceptance of God — the
human affirmation
of divine love.
The very realisation
of themselves as Dalit, the very
acceptance of the state
of «dalitness,» is the first step on the way towards their transformation into full and liberated
human beings.1
Not only is IVF the most obvious source
of «fresh» and cryopreserved embryos, but the growing
acceptance of embryo creation and disposal through IVF has shaped our moral imagination, rendering us less and less capable
of seeing any relevant moral claims attending the early embryo as incipient
human life.
But it is also a sign
of the finitude
of our
human existence; and therefore the recognition and
acceptance of it must qualify all that we do in this world.
Many times they were blinded by their own sense
of external righteousness to the
human need in everyone for love,
acceptance, forgiveness, and community.
And what could be better than the assurance
of acceptance by God, in the fullness
of what we have been and done, and granted a place in God's life where our
human accomplishments are safely preserved for ever?
In every case, to be sure, the call requires internal apprehension
of the divine will, the response
of human will, the
acceptance of the yoke
of the kingdom.
Its experience
of the extent to which
human brutality can go,
of the fury that can be unleashed when the
human animal is attacked, its
acceptance in wry cynicism
of the venality
of great and small; its
acceptance, too,
of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power
of reason, how great the strength
of obscure passions; how corrupting
of children the possible love
of mothers and the wrath
of fathers; its portrayal
of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles
of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise
of men, individually and in the collective.
But it depends upon their giving up both their uncritical
acceptance of the present ideology
of modernization identifying it with Christianity and any revival
of primalism in a militant and fundamentalist way in the name
of their self - identity, and evaluating both modernity and tradition in the light
of Christian personalism i.e. the idea
of human beings as persons in community, and all natural and social functions as sacramental means
of communion in the purpose
of God.