Sentences with phrase «adherents see»

And, just as some Bitcoin adherents see a digital currency as a desirable alternative to traditional fiat currencies, some of those opposing a change are simply opposed to change period, at least to changing anything specifically designed by Satoshi.

Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each with its own set of rules.

Not exact matches

The only reason this is news is that the intelligent design people see it as a chance to create some frenzy among their pathetic whack - job adherents.

I'm a retired Presbyterian minister and I've been saying the same things since fundamentalists rose to ascendancy, I hope I've lived to see the day when the new — actually the old — approach to the good old faith will find adherents again!

As former military and private soldier that worked in the Middle East (as well as having been raised in both religions), I've seen and experienced nastiness from adherents of both religions, but 1st prize goes to my sexually repressed, angry little friends from the «Religion of Peace», Islam.

Not only that science and faith are of course not antagonistic, and that the popular opinion that «science will solve all our problems» is fallacious, but also that, from a Church and faith perspective, science and scientists must not be seen as «the adversary,» adherents of some threatening or remote activity.

Sometimes, the best friends a minority can have are adherents of other religions, who see it in their interest to lobby on behalf of the minority.

The task of the missionary today, it was maintained, is to see the best in other religions, to help the adherents of those religions to discover, or to rediscover, all that is best in their own traditions, to cooperate with the most active and vigorous elements in the other traditions in social reform and in the purification of religious expression.

Adherents invariably saw themselves living on the cusp of history, straddling the end of the present age and the beginning of the age to come.

Lewontin thus saw creationism as falsified not so much by any discoveries of modern science as by universal human experience, a thesis that does little to explain either why so absurd a notion has attracted so many adherents or why we should expect it to lose ground in the near future.

It will also be interesting to see if increased participation of New Thought adherents in movements for social change alters the discourse and the strategies of those movements.

Formerly an adherent, I now dismiss her ideas as two dimensional and extreme to the point of absurdity (just like the Tea Party - and we can all see how much good they've done since invading the House.)

Pentecostalism and related «Spirit - filled movements» are rightly seen as a hard - driving engine fueling the global spread of Christianity, but their adherents are often wrongly seen as apolitical, otherworldly enthusiasts bent on «speaking in tongues,» according to two separate studies on the century - old phenomena.

My interlocutor was an adherent to a particularly colorless construal of the beatific vision, one that allows for no real participation of animal creation (except eminently, through us) in the final blessedness of the Kingdom; I, by contrast, hope to see puppies in paradise, and persevere in faith principally for that reason.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

Anybody who can use the internet today will see the ridiculous nature of the religious adherents.

Using the word «cult» is an attempt to have people believe that adherents are brainwashed because there certainly could be no God... or you would have seen Him, right?

But if they arc seen as clues to a personal quality of men's lives, then a sympathetic appreciation of this quality may at least in part be derived from having adherents of that faith as informants17 and perhaps even as friends.18 Of the various ways of finding out what something means to the person concerned, one way is to ask him.

To begin with, the popular media often refer to adherents of traditional revealed religions as «people of faith,» a term that initially seems respectful but, on closer look, can be seen to carry condescending overtones.

Never underestimate the highly narcissistic tendencies among conservative religious adherents to see oneself as the martyr.

He flew to New York to see a teacher named Mooji who specializes in a Hindu philosophy that helps adherents find a sense of self through liberation from worldly concerns.

Go to any OB conference and you will see far more self criticicism and willingness to look at how practice can change based on current research than you will see at a Lamaze conference, a Bradley workshop... or any of the many events I have attended that are popular among natural childbirth adherents.

They're seen as more supportive of global engagement than Bannon and other adherents to Trump's «America First» doctrine.

Adherents of «de-extinction» hope to see al world repopulated with species thought lost to the planet — but there are some major caveats

Doing so increases your satisfaction, lowers your cravings, improves your eating consistency, and keeps you adherent to your plan long enough to see the outcome (weight loss) influenced in your favor.

Horne was an adherent follower of Pritikin but then he saw many people getting cancers and having their arteries going sclerotic from too much grains.

And I'm not getting any of the negative effects usually seen in diehard adherents to calorie restriction.

I've seen his adherents with my own eyes and literally do not comprehend the phenomenon.

The Austrian school does not like government to meddle with any part of the economy: when it does, adherents argue, market distortions abound, creating opportunities for investors who can see them.

Building on the languages of Pop Art, Minimalism and Op Art, Halley, like his fellow Neo-Geo adherents, sought to capture what he saw as the «geometricisation of modern life».

I understand PNS well enough, having seen it put to practice by its adherents who, unlike Judith, were happy to call it by its name.

To see that the only empirical and observed evidence of climate sensitivity was tampered with in IPCC WG1 shows how perverted that organisation has become and how twisted are it's adherents.

Ed, there is one enooormous difference between adherents of a religion and non-climate scientists like me who see the science as compelling.

>> I think it's very ironic that, as I see it, the core belief — call it the religion - of many of the «we can create, we have created, useful and becoming better, AI search algorithm for law» adherents IS < / b) the literal opposite of Mr. Semenoff's apparent belief.

I think it's very ironic that, as I see it, the core belief — call it the religion - of many of the «we can create, we have created, useful and becoming better, AI search algorithm for law» adherents are the literal opposite of Mr. Semenoff's apparent belief.

Ark Investment Management organizer and CEO Catherine Wood is a major adherent to bitcoin, which has seen an ascent of more than 1,300 percent in 2017.

Bitcoin isn't turning out to be the anti-state free - for - all that some of its adherents wanted to see, but — for now — it's entrenching itself in more and more countries.