Sentences with phrase «accepted explanation for»

At present, there is no well accepted explanation for this sudden, and dramatic cooling of the oceans.

The commonly accepted explanation for the word «zydeco» is that it comes from the old Creole adage, «Les haricots ne sont pas sales,» meaning literally «the beans aren't salty,» a lamentation that times are hard when you can't even have salt for your beans.

Professor Stephan Grilli, an international leader in the study of tsunamis, said the generally accepted explanation for the cause of the tsunami had been the earthquake, the fifth largest ever measured, which created a significant uplift and subsidence of the seafloor.

That is the most widely accepted explanation for the origin of this ancient tongue, termed Proto - Indo - European (PIE).

You honestly believe that you have scientific proof that the most widely accepted explanation for biological diversity in the World, which is supported by overwhelming evidence in the Worldwide fossil record, completely independently verified and validated by genetic mapping and taught in every college and University in the World — is wrong.

And we know there's no one comprehensive and widely accepted explanation for why this happened.

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 ™.

[19] I accept the explanation for the delay.

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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.

This means that even though the other person might accept your apology and explanation for your behavior, you may be required to put extra time in to show that you aren't the person someone assumes you to be.

From investigating how their boss» Uber account started accepting rides for a stranger in Russia to their mind - blowing explanations of convoluted tweets, this show teaches listeners about things they never knew in the most engaging and entertaining way possible.

Instead, he applauded the Liberal government for investing in scientific research and later said he accepted Trudeau's explanation for why Canada needs the Kinder Morgan project.

The most likely explanation, aside from a mistake, in this author's opinion, is to demonstrate that China is unlikely to passively accept tariffs on steel, aluminum, and solar panels — industries the U.S. Trade authorities are looking to penalise shortly for unfair trade practices.

For example, I accept evolution as the best explanation of how we got here.

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.

You could spend all day correlating causation in a classical quantum state with the form and substance of the Holy Spirit yet never publish an accepted study simply because «my god did it» is not a reasonable explanation for things that are not known.

Most atheists are open to natural explanations, but will, for the time being, accept «we don't know (yet)».

@ 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.

Religious motivations are never accepted as fully valid explanations for behaviour.

There can be little question that Whitehead himself accepted this; he believed that the tenderness, sympathy, and love which were shown in Jesus» life and death are in fact the disclosure of the nature of the Divine Reality who is the chief — although not the only — principle of explanation for all that has been, is, and will be.

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.

An atheist denies God and has to accept incredible explanations for everything else.

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, wisdom.

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.

The cardinals voted Friday morning to accept the letters of explanation of two cardinal - electors who are eligible to vote for the next pope but will not attend the conclave: Keith O'Brien of Scotland and Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja of Indonesia.

I accept the natural scientific explanations for the mountains, the universe.

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.

How do you go from «I can't come up with a good explanation for morality» to «therefore I'm going to accept that Catholicism / the Christian God is true»?

The stories and belief systems changed and evolved over time but before the scientific method came into play, there was little reason not to accept the religious explanations for why the world was the way it was.

If we accept this as the correct rendering, then the whole weight of the story falls not upon the importuner, but upon the importuned, for it is his conduct that is singled out for explanation and comment.

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.

In any case, panexperientialism accepts the assumption, which lies behind the scientific search for explanations in terms of efficient causes, that d events are causally conditioned by antecedent events.

The only real difference between views 2 - 4 is how they arrive at an explanation for why we just need to accept what the Bible says and move on.

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.

Here was an explanation of evil ready at hand for the Jews to accept, and the wonder is that, within the confines of the Old Testament, its influence is so slight.

We don't accept Christianity because of its crackin» explanation for evil and suffering.

Is it possible that a man of Barr's education really wonders why some of us would not accept a natural explanation for the formation of stars and planets in light of discoveries made possible by the Hubble telescope?

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.

Let's put elected officials on the science committee who accept science as reasonable explanation for the world around us.

You want us to reject the explanations I listed for logical reasons and then want us to accept the bibles claims which are illogical at their foundation.

Nevertheless, every black except the most naïve has now taken one essential preliminary step to finding a workable solution: he has refused once and for all to accept a white man's explanation of why the problem exists.

most of the religious creationism beliefs exist simply because man - kind, by default, doesn't accept the fact that they will never have an explanation for something.

Job can not for himself accept any of the usual explanations.

Maybe a few breakfast bingers, before scarfing down the cheesecake with some milk drunk directly from the carton, might seek intellectual underpinning for their pig - out — Hey, I'm getting protein from the cheese, fiber from the crust and fruit from the topping — but realists accept that an occasional wanton act of gluttony needs no further explanation than Just because...

Well, I've been roundly criticized by Lunch Tray readers today for accepting so easily my district's explanation on why we use a flimsy spork instead of plastic forks... [Continue reading]

Well, I've been roundly criticized by Lunch Tray readers today for accepting so easily my district's explanation on why we use a flimsy spork instead of plastic forks and knives in our cafeterias.

Sometimes there isn't an explanation for a miscarriage and it makes it even harder to accept.

Refusing to accept Rich's perfectly reasonable and logical explanation for the breakup was a huge mistake on Kathy's part, one that significantly impeded her psychological recovery.

If it is * their * normal and is presented as such, especially in an open adoption situation where all parties are sharing the same reasons and explanations for the adoption, the kid can accept it as their normal after exploring his / her feelings about the situation.