Sentences with phrase «answering old questions»

«New technologies mean new possibilities to answer old questions,» says Holm.

Normand Mousseau, physics professor at the University of Montreal, said that the Princeton researchers took an atypical approach to answering an old question: «At low temperatures, can the most stable structure be something that is a glass?

Not exact matches

Now, that seems to people of a certain age and older like a fairly straightforward question with a straightforward answer.

For obvious reasons, Snowden's whereabouts are still unknown, but the 29 - year - old was able to find a secure Internet connection to answer questions from the public.

The pair spent hours rewatching old episodes, coming up with answers for every question that could possibly be asked.

But the short answer for anyone who doesn't want to buy a book is that the standard old - fashioned clinical trial is designed to answer a specific question about a population with lots of different specific characteristics.

For instance, Budge's titles require players to answer a math question that a typical kid can't solve before making a purchase: A game targeted at four - year - olds might ask, «What's nine times eight?»

Four U.S. House Republicans, including the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, on Friday wrote Apple chief executive Tim Cook asking him to answer questions about its disclosure that it slowed older iPhones with flagging batteries.

In the late 1960s the Nobel Prize - winning University of California, Berkeley, economist sought to answer the age - old question of why buying used cars favored the seller over the buyer.

I answered their questions and finished with The old model is dead!

The 33 - year - old Facebook CEO will answer questions from lawmakers in two separate hearings to explain how Facebook collects and handles its users» personal information.

Please do have a play with the Search function in the top - right, as sadly we don't have time to fully answer questions to the level required on all these old posts.

My answer to that question reminds me of my old Harvard law professor who used to say, «Charlie, let me know what your problem is and I'll try to make it harder for you.»

While most of the questions have a Christian element, even an old Pagan like me had no trouble answering all correctly.

As a very old man, one who has worked at developing some kind of understanding of who we are, what we are, why we are here, and where we are going, I can tell you that no one has definitive answers, but without some underlying system of belief about these questions you will not grow old gracefully.

Here is my answer to «who areth you to question... «A stupid comment by a stupid person can not be solved by a hundred geniuses»... old Chinese proverb... older than god.

The questions might be easier to answer had not Amis also framed the book as a kind of challenge to his old friend Christopher Hitchens, whom he sees as exemplary of a class of intellectuals who forever pointed us to the horrors of the Nazis while demurely turning aside from the still greater horrors of Stalinism.

The longer historical purpose of the stories of the Old Testament has been, not to provide answers, but to provoke questions, inspire reflection, lead to meditation, and initiate studious discussion.

They make assumptions, and ask me to represent all blacks by answering that age old question, «what are black people so mad about?»

«The supernatural» is the answer given to the question concerning the source of the new and the destiny of the old.

Both are real and baffling questions to which the reincarnation teaching claims to supply a simple answer: New souls are simply old souls in new bodies.

well done Jerry God would uphold you, God know how to save and spread the gospel, if not we could have not heard in Africa mostly some part Nigeria, up till today some were still in darkness they have not heard about the gospel but when it is time for judgement, surely they must be judge, This question it is only God that can give the accurate answer to it, for it was written that both young and old would appear in the throne of judgement either you a day child or not, for there is / was no repentance after death, and to die its once, thanks.

Unfortunately, my Baptist pastor father used to answer issues regarding the Bible I thought were questionable with the old «you're questioning the Bible, therefore God» to which I would reply «no, I'm questioning your interpretation of the Bible».

Enough trust must be developed between the generations to permit older adults, who have the essential skills and handles of power, to work with youth and young adults in finding workable answers to the crucial questions many youth and young adults are asking, questions such as «What will enable humanity to survive on a livable planet?»

Shawna, Look through the answers to this same question in both «Older Comments» and «Newer Comments.»

And they had to answer practical moral questions, because the people who were abandoning their old gods needed to know what the new God demanded.

This is why, at one point in the book, I grant the Gnostics of old the validity of their questions, though I go on to revile the answers at which they arrived.

If we are completely honest with ourselves (and with the Old Testament text), I think the answer we give to the question «Is it wrong to call God Allah?»

The Real problem is 2000 + year old dogma prevents a true approach to that question that might actually find an answer and satisfy mankind's spiritual needs.

I don't know if your ultimate storehouse of knowledge [the atheist film] re the Hebrew religion includes the answer to my next question, but can you tell us what opinion Moses and the prophets of the Old Testament had regarding Asherah, Baal, et al?

has been around for a long time as well, should we therefore change the answer to that question because it is old?

I appreciate the review since one can't read everything printed; especially those who don't offer new answers for old unsettled questions.

I'm sorry «old ben», but the answer to your question about God and the image displayed on your monitor is no.

I shudder when I read Lawrence E. Toombs's advice to preachers that they should see «the Old Testament related to the New as hope to fulfillment, as question to answer, as suggestion to reality» (The Old Testament in Christian Preaching [Westminster, 1961], p. 27).

For the most part religion subdues metaphysical thought by urging it's followers not to think independently on the big questions of life but rather rely on their doctrine for old outdated answers.

I say the opposite, they are being courageous in admitting that they have no answers to any of these age old questions, no more than organized religion has.

I happened upon your post — I know it's a bit old, but located a possible answer for your question about the Jews at the time of Coponius and the fulfillment of Genesis 49:10 — hopefully this will help:

Then I recall the old Jewish teaching that some questions have no worldly answer or perhaps are better left unanswered at least until the sequel (e.g., Darth Vader's paternal relationship to Luke Skywalker was revealed in the second — or was it the fifth?

For example, the answer to age - old Christian question about what our responsibility is to the Law of Moses is quite simple.

In response to the age old question whether or not there is a tree falling if there is no one present to see or hear it fall, process thought answers that indeed there is such a tree.

* The main purpose of the stories of the Old Testament is to provoke questions and initiate discussion rather than providing answers.

They see it as a slap in the face for some reason (I'm not against them, though, just the idea that somehow a 2000 - year old Middle Eastern carpenter «died for me» (they never have a good answer as to what that really means)-RRB- and question why they spent so much money on my Catholic education.

Without the old master where are we going to get the answers to the great questions of life?»

On the basis of scientific realism, so the claim runs, these questions can now be answered more concretely and often more satisfactorily than was possible with the help of the old religious world - views.

With all the immediate crisies going on, the next time a leftist reporter asks a conservative politician a stupid question like how old is the earth, the politician just needs to answer, «older than you, dimwit, next question».

It is an old trick of religious leaders to frame the answer to serious questions in such a way that the burden is immediately put back on the asker.

I answer a lot of questions: Joseph is four years old now, and he can question like a CIA interrogator, relentless, for hours at a time, until I'm reduced to saying, «No more!

However, this book is thirty years old, and is answering questions about Jesus that few are asking any more.

And so I sat on the couch next to the old and dog - eared magazines and read one more time the list of questions Dr. Phil McGuire wanted his vasectomy patients to answer before he performed The Procedure:

There have been times when, after long on my knees in a cold chancel, a stone has rolled from my mind, and I have looked in and seen the old questions lie folded and in place by themselves, like the piled graveclothes of love's risen body [«The Answer»].