Sentences with phrase «accepted explanation of»

But once again Occam's Razor presents a barrier: ``... [F] or each accepted explanation of a phenomenon, there is always an infinite number of possible and more complex alternatives, because one can always burden failing explanations with ad hoc hypotheses to prevent them from being falsified... Put another way, any new, and even more complex, theory can still possibly be true.

[F] or each accepted explanation of a phenomenon, there is always an infinite number of possible and more complex alternatives, because one can always burden failing explanations with ad hoc hypotheses to prevent them from being falsified...

However, there is no universally accepted explanation of how the universe got into such a special state... Present cosmological evidence points to an inflationary beginning and an accelerated de Sitter end... This implies an initial holographic entropy of about 1010, which is extremely small by comparison with today's visible entropy.

The giant impact theory is now the widely accepted explanation of the moon's origin.

We emphasize that we do not decide that a state «mandated statement violates the Constitution simply because it disclaims any intent to communicate to students that the theory of evolution is the only accepted explanation of the origin of life, informs students of their right to follow their religious principles, and encourages students to evaluate all explanations of life's origins, including those taught outside the classroom.

There is no definitive, universally accepted explanation of how bubbles form.

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There was a sense that the team was largely accepting of Love's explanation, and that the airing out of issues could have a positive impact on what has become an increasingly fractured locker room.

While the team reportedly accepted Love's explanation, Wojnarowski said much of the locker room remained divided.

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.

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.

The ACCC must be very naive indeed to accept the Water Corporations innocent explanation, they have been taken to task on hundreds of occasions about their claims that the Kwinana RO Plant was run exclusively on renewable energy.

We surveyed a variety of studies about credit card spending and present some of the most widely accepted explanations as presented by leading experts.

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

DO NOT be an apologist or accept the explanation «your mind is too small to understand the greatness of science» or «evolution moves in mysterious ways» when you come upon logical inconsistencies in your belief.

Taking the 31/2 years of the other scriptures into consideration, seems this is a very good explanation, and the most accepted.

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.

What makes Wasserstein's formulation eccentric is his insistence on Arendt's tendencies to accept at face value, without explanation, neo-Nazi historical formulations of the Jewish question and plain old Leninist approaches to the imperial tradition.

HOW CAN U EXPLAIN THE CONCEPT OF A CREATION WITHOUT A CREATOR!??? And because of this unwillingness to accept TRUTH, they themselves have shut out from their minds additional «knowledge» that would eventually lead to the explanation of WHY humanity was created in the first placOF A CREATION WITHOUT A CREATOR!??? And because of this unwillingness to accept TRUTH, they themselves have shut out from their minds additional «knowledge» that would eventually lead to the explanation of WHY humanity was created in the first placof this unwillingness to accept TRUTH, they themselves have shut out from their minds additional «knowledge» that would eventually lead to the explanation of WHY humanity was created in the first placof WHY humanity was created in the first place!

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.

@ 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.

Even if intelligent design turns out to be true, there are an infinite number of explanations, not just the ONE that you blindly accept.

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.

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.

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.

We don't accept incredible explanations of everything else, if we don't know we just say so.

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.

They may have accepted the first chapter of John's Gospel with its explanation of Christ in terms of Greek philosophy, as God's «Logos,» his forth - going - ness.

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.

It is possible that they used Mark in a rather different form to that in which we possess it, or even in two different forms, but the simplest explanation, that they both used substantially our gospel of Mark, is by far the most probable, and is now generally accepted.

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.

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.»

He only tentatively accepted my explanation that in nonliterary circles she was known as Mrs. Hubert Stuart Moore, the wife of a London barrister.

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.

DO NOT be an apologist or accept the explanation «your mind is too small to understand the greatness of God,» «God is outside the Universe» or «God moves in mysterious ways» when you come upon logical inconsistencies in your belief.

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.

The ones I mentioned, as you probably know, are widely accepted as the preferred explanation by a large number of contemporary scientists.

I can see from your perspective of rational thought and logic that I am accepting and acquiescing to an impossibility which is at the least very weird and taken to its fullest explanation, stupid.

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.

Jeremy, your brave posts are certainly doing much to rattle people's theology of indifference, the theology so many of us grew up with — in one Lisa Robinson's explanation, a theology that simply accepted what one's congregational preachers and other favourite «anointed» televangelists, etc would state the Bible stated.

Instead, Kim adds to the metaphysical exclusion principle, already stated, an epistemological corollary «No one may accept both explanations unless one has an appropriate account of how they are related to each other» (SM 257).

DO NOT be an apologist or accept the explanation «your mind is too small to understand the greatness of god» or «god moves in mysterious ways» when you come upon logical inconsistencies in your belief.

(The reader will here please notice that in my exclusive reliance in the last lecture on the subconscious «incubation» of motives deposited by a growing experience, I followed the method of employing accepted principles of explanation as far as one can.

I don't quite know what to think of their stories, but am inclined to accept them at face value, and find their explanations a «mystery».

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.