Sentences with phrase «accepted explanation as to»

There is currently no accepted explanation as to what is causing the observed periodic rapid climatic change events, throughout the last and past glacial periods.

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As a student of human behavior who tries to understand why we do the things that we do (often to no avail), I've had to accept that sometimes there just isn't any explanation for why that person just did that really weird thing.

It may make predictions, but those still depend upon evidence to get them accepted as the best explanation.

Perhaps he should have said, «If you allow yourself to accept fantastic, unsupported claims as explanations for natural phenomena, your world becomes complicated in that natural phenomena that conflict with your nonsensical beliefs are constantly being presented to you.»

That is, if Wilson's purely functionalist explanation of religion were to become widely accepted by religious people, it would then be rendered false» for the adaptive features of religions depend, on Wilson's account, upon religious people thinking it false that their religions are best understood as adaptive social organisms.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

If the requisite disjunctive synthesis can not be explained by appeal to the doctrine that God values all possible worlds, this is not so much because evaluation is logically dependent upon gradations of importance, but because (accepting Christian's explanation of the absence of such gradations in the primordial nature) the logic of the doctrine itself entails that God be inextricably involved in the formation of actual worlds as «circles of convergence,» i.e., in «the orderings effected by individuals in the course of nature.»

Pew reports that «in their social and political views, young adults are clearly more accepting than older Americans of homosexuality, more inclined to see evolution as the best explanation of human life and less prone to see Hollywood as threatening their moral values.

If enough evidence accumulates to support a hypothesis, it moves to the next step — known as a theory — in the scientific method and becomes accepted as a valid explanation of a phenomenon.»

If my understanding as to what would constitute an act which is peculiarly someone's is accepted, then Ogden's explanation of a special act of God is not adequate.

Rather, the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.»

a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.

As difficult and humbling as it may be to accept, the only explanation for all the energy and matter that has been formed into the overwhelming order and design in the natural world, is a Master Designer with unlimited power, intellect, wisdoAs difficult and humbling as it may be to accept, the only explanation for all the energy and matter that has been formed into the overwhelming order and design in the natural world, is a Master Designer with unlimited power, intellect, wisdoas it may be to accept, the only explanation for all the energy and matter that has been formed into the overwhelming order and design in the natural world, is a Master Designer with unlimited power, intellect, wisdom.

The problem is to get [people] to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.

IE «willful» I will not go into deep explanation but simply stated, this passage is not speaking to people who commit sins on purpose but to people who practice sin as an accepted way of life.not people like you and I and the apostle Paul who says in Phillipians 312Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

When they were in doubt about a Quranic verse dealing with God or any of His attributes they were told to accept it as it was stated in the Qur» an with no further explanation or interpretation.

«19 He rejects as untenable the explanation that a concept of «the Holy» leads to community.20 Accepting the revelatory nature of the church, he briefly sketches the New Testament view of the church.

So, without any better explanation, what we are left with is that you basically just accept the natural explanations for everything, but add «as orchestrated by God» to every step.

Richard Lewontin, a Harvard geneticist: «The problem is to get [people] to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.»

And it is against this background that all her later speculation must be examined, just as we, too, however secular and objective we seek to make our investigation of the nature of the world and of man, have come to it through a long heritage of the past that accepted fully the personal explanation of the world.

My point is that in order for it to be accepted as proof by those who prefer the far - fetched explanations, you'd have to point out the fallacies in those explanations, one by one.

Related to the litmus test comments — How about this litmus test: if you don't accept evolution as the only rational explanation for the diversity of life on Earth you can not run for office.

We, as a species... we humanity learned most of what we learned throughout human history only AFTER refusing to accept the old - time explanation «because [insert name of local deity or other spirit, etc.] decreed it should be so.»

If, for example, we accept relativity as an appropriate explanation of reality, then God is related to the world as a changing Becoming, and Jesus is related to God as a changing, growing person.

This precision in fitting the explanation to the evidence should be carried over into philosophy: «The only explanation we should accept as satisfactory is one which fits tightly to its object with no space between them, no crevice in which any other explanation might equally well be lodged; one which fits the object only and to which alone the object lends itself» (CM 11).

I seem to be a lone voice as I refuse to accept the «luck explanation» when things don't go our way.

If at any time during the fiscal year it appears, from cash flow projections or other generally accepted accounting principles, that the revenues available, as projected through the end of the fiscal year, will be insufficient to meet either (a) the amounts appropriated, or (b) expenses anticipated to be incurred through the end of the fiscal year, such that the cumulative effect thereof is a projected year - end deficit in excess of fifty percent of the County's undesignated, unreserved fund balance as of the end of the immediately preceding fiscal year, the County Executive or the Comptroller shall submit a report to the Legislature setting forth the estimated amount of the deficit with appropriate details and explanations.

If you're a child, you accept that as an explanation, but it still didn't make sense to me.»

There is no need to worry, as private lenders are more lenient than banks, accepting any reasonable explanation.

The researchers at HSH.com say that deposits of even as little as $ 100 can require a stream of explanations and paperwork to prove that you aren't laundering money, accepting help for closing costs or are having financial problems.

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Our lenders accept any explanation you give as according to them, you know your priorities best.

Aside from the issues in conveying the story, there are some glaring inconsistencies, such as the invasion being alluded to being widespread yet much of the game treats your actions as if it's a covert affair and the suspension of disbelief necessary to accept the games explanation that everything was subsequently covered up at the end is ludicrous, considering the scale of everything that has come before.

Boris (# 121) points out that contrarians are more than happy to accept the trends calculated for a few distant planets if it obscures the cause of the trends seen on Earth — even though the data which we have on those trends have a great deal more uncertainty associated with them (see Nicholar L's # 88), and as an explanation in terms of solar variability is not credible (ibid.)

If you are willing to dismiss an explanation as being unproven conjecture then there is very little that you will be willing to accept on either side of the debate if you are to remain consistent!

As to «charges of speculation», I have yet to see a reasonable explanation as to the 32 Deg C. offset above the accepted TOA insolation value as being founded in the CO2 balancAs to «charges of speculation», I have yet to see a reasonable explanation as to the 32 Deg C. offset above the accepted TOA insolation value as being founded in the CO2 balancas to the 32 Deg C. offset above the accepted TOA insolation value as being founded in the CO2 balancas being founded in the CO2 balance.

I accept his explanation, which applies to Gavin's flagged quotes at # 108 as well.

In science, a theory is what is generally accepted as an explanation when enough evidence accumulates to support a hypothesis, or initial postulation.

Before we accept AGW there is a lot more work to be done to exclude natural variability as the explanation for the observed changes in temperature and precipitation.

In my experience as doctor, numerous patients seem to be in the same boat — Helicobacter no doubt is part of the story but I find it hard to accept it as an overarching explanation.

3) A scientifically accepted general principle supported by a substantial body of evidence offered to provide an explanation of observed facts and as a basis for future discussion or investigation (Lincoln et al., 1990).

Some explanation please as to why it is not an opposite in definition and accepted meaning?

A larger Universe than ours is a necessary prior for the existence of God, as you seem to accept, and of course you are then left with a need for an even more complex explanation.

His only explanation for my blindness was ideological blinkers, in effect a deep unwillingness to accept that my life as I liked it had irreparably changed, common in middle - aged white men, and that I had changed it through my over-consumption and gas emissions.

Bond found cosmogenic isotope changes at each of the climate change events which it is accepted are due solar magnetic cycle changes but was not able to provide at the time of publishing of his results (2000) an explanation as to mechanism.)

As I read it, three reviewers were said to have been «skeptically biased» by Wagner with no stated reasons other than it is the only explanation for how the paper was accepted even though curiously he also states:

Evidently, the defenders of the CO2 - greenhouse thesis refuse to accept any reproducible calculation as an explanation and have resorted to unreproducible ones»

Note how he always has an obvious explanation for every logic conflict in the AGW hypothesis and how he expects the rest of us to be stupid enough to accept them — as weak as they are.

Generally Accepted Explanations for discrepancy: Greenhouse effect ADDS heat and radiation to surface by some magical mechanism explained vaguely as: backradiation; insulation; slowing of loss of heat by backradiation; or other other claptrapcrap ™.

You don't have to accept all of his explanations as being transparent explanations of his views, or logically consistent, but you at least need to account for the full range of what he said and not cherry - pick from some of what he said to reach certain conclusions about what he meant without even addressing other things that he said about what he meant.