Sentences with phrase «accepted as an article of faith»

Once people accepted as an article of faith that modern science could explain the totality of our world, they had to say that anything which fell outside the scope of science isn't real.

I care about global warming, and I am not particular willing to accept it as an article of faith.

I don't think we should be scared of admitting that we just don't know, if indeed we just don't know (which I believe is a fair reflection of the state of the science)... I do not believe that Fu et al. weightings is some panacea nor that the «cancellation» works on all space and timescales (the statement needs to be * proved * it can not be accepted as an article of faith — that is not the way science works).

Not exact matches

Didn't read the article, so I have no idea how President Obama's faith has been labeled, but as a person who began attending a Christina Church during adolescence, I know that it is very hard to accept a number of tenets of the faith, so I find myself doubting that a person who was raised for a number of years in a Muslim household and whose mother does not appear to have been of a Christian denomination, is likely to have adopted the tenets of the Christian faith.

Both Manning and Newman were unwilling to take him up on this, because at that time they could not accept the idea of organic development as it was seen to contradict the unchanging role of Scripture which was part of Anglican faith and enshrined in the Articles.

And the trade of school autonomy for school accountability is now accepted as a hear article of faith.

Too many influential people have their reputations and their money on the line for them to give up, and too many well meaning people have been convinced to the point of accepting this theory as an article of faith.