Sentences with phrase «accepted explanations as»

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

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

I accept your explanation as a general position of consensus thought.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

On the other hand, belief is simply belief — accepting something as true without an explanation based in fact.

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

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.»

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

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.

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.

I don't think any judge or jury would accept your explanation, and as I learned, neither would God.

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.

There is a non zero possibility that I might win the lotto 5 times in a row, however, if I did, there isnt a person on earth that would accept that non-zero possibility as sufficient explanation.

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.

But Niebuhr had another suggestion: If we can not admit providence as an explanation, perhaps we can accept fortuity instead.

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.

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.

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.

btw the Miller - Urey experiment showed that life can come from something non-living although it is not accepted as the actual abiogenesis explanation.

(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.

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.»

Let us accept, however, Colson's view that the accounts of planetary and stellar formation provided by modern astrophysics do not qualify as «natural explanations.»

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.

It is clear that the process philosophy of science as developed thus far can not accept the deductive model of explanation.

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

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 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.

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.

UTICA, N.Y. — Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente, Jr. and Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi have written U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao demanding an explanation for why a proposal from New York state, Amazon and partners in Central New York was not accepted as part of the department's drone integration pilot program.

«Accepting the notion that breaking down complex concepts from my discipline into very simplified explanations for the understanding of the public does not «dumb down'the work, but in fact gives it greater value, as it can reach more people.»

I mean, there is no question that the scientific community is very strongly on the side of teaching evolution as an accepted and valid scientific explanation.

This is basic stuff, of course, at least for the 53 per cent of the American public that accepts evolutionary theory as a scientific explanation of life's rich diversity.