Sentences with phrase «arguing against the theory»

The weird thing is that there is almost no ozone where the temperature is highest, which strongly argues against my theory.

We would be hard - pressed to argue against the theory that they are merely addicted to approval.

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Do you also know that he never gave up arguing against quantum physics, a theory that is successfully used every day?

I love it when someone tries to argue against something and then ends up supporting the theory they are pitted against in their own argument.

Are we not arguing that there is a correlation between happiness and obedience to God (or faith), between unhappiness and revolt against God, according to the ancient theory debated in the Book of Job?

Many religious folks accept evolutionary theory because they know they can't argue against factual evidence.

And if you reply with anything that says that Jesus is a facet or aspect or anything else of God, then you can't turn around and argue against mixing God (s)-- and the theory that Allah, or Yahweh, are other names for the same God, because you've already by < definition argued that God can have multiple aspects — why just the three names for them from Trinity theology?

In 1934 he published Reflections on the End of an Era, in which he continued to argue for a realistic political theory that would set power against power and bring about a more just social system.

Although scientists behave as if their theories are facts, often arguing ferociously against critics, key paradigms of science can shift rapidly and fundamentally when empirical evidence reaches a tipping point.

Chad, do yourself the disfavor of continuing to argue the stupidity that you do that does more harm to your position and the position of creationists than it does to the theory of evolution that you claim to be against.

Some atheists use multiverse theories to argue against the existence of God.

The influence of these older evolutionary cosmologies on Whitehead's thought, moreover, is never carefully examined so much as it is presupposed.1 Against such presuppositions, I shall argue here that evolution and evolutionist theories play no significant role in Whitehead's metaphysics, and that there is no evidence in his major works of any significant influence from earlier process - oriented «evolutionary cosmologies.»

Habermas has argued specifically against trying to make such connections with concrete historical examples, suggesting that evolutionary theories are better viewed as normative guides toward the future than as testable theories.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theTheory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from thetheory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

Therefore, we can hardly argue from the present arrangement against the theory of chance.

While I don't argue against your proposed theory (death before the fall), I would argue against the mountains of spiders and seas of bunnies (or any other creature).

I didn't see anybody argue against that logical theory, or ask for evidence, or call it a «conspiracy theory».

Academically speaking, the theory does make a very important contribution to an evolving and ever - contentious subfield within the discipline, and provides a framework within which to deal with hairy issues of counterfactuals, harm, and benefit when arguing for or against the existence of reparative obligations due to historical injustice.

Critics are against evolutionary biologists accepting this money and argue that evolutionary theory already embraces the best of these ideas.

She argues against Darwinian sexual selection and a range of generally accepted scientific concepts and theories.

The structure argues against existing theories of prion conversion and suggests how the process might actually work.

While one theory holds that the differences reflect species range — that maybe some species simply don't exist in some countries — our data finding microbes typical of the developing world at the mid-stage in Bangladeshi patients argue against that hypothesis.»

Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptics Society, argues that conspiracy theories come from an ancient human tendency to stay on guard against predators.

Its roots can be traced back a century to three - time Democratic candidate for president William Jennings Bryan, who ran fundamentalist campaigns against the theory of evolution, which he argued was causing moral decay in the nation's youth by undermining the authority of the Bible.

Writing for a broad, nonspecialist audience, the author argues against «all of the most famous and influential theories» in the philosophy of mind and for his interpretation of topics such as the mind - body problem, consciousness, and free will.

On it's own merits though, West Of Memphis is a well - assembled, well - argued doc that shows how our advocacy model of trial law can lead to the state spinning stories they know are probably untrue, and then using their authority to stand strong against any alternate theory, no matter how many millions of people believe it.

Osborne takes a theory of decentralization, autonomy, accountability, and choice, tests that theory against real experience, and marshals substantial data to argue that the new systemic approach is succeeding.

Jeffries argued that, in theory, religious schools could find various justifications to discriminate inappropriately against various students.

For instance, modern portfolio theory argues against investing in equities that are dependent on each other — say, energy stocks and the automobile industry — instead, it preaches investment in things that are not correlated, like oil and the technology sector.

I don't so much take issue with the theory or the phenomenon; I should at least pay a token gesture to the fact that I'm not arguing against games which are designed to manifest a flow state.

re: «In the distribution of expert estimates we find no evidence in support of the ** two - camps theory **, as shown in the following graph...» — first this arguing against a falsity put out by scientific incompetents and professional skeptics & deniers.

G&T managed to get their work out there; publishing it in Nature or Science would not have changed the fact that they're arguments just don't hold any water (they didn't do any new science, they just took what was already known, and then tried to use that to argue against what is already known — a search for logical inconsistency, which might have been worthwhile if they'd known what they were doing and if they'd gone after contrarian «theory»)-- unless it were edited, removing all the errors and non-sequitors, after which it would be no different than a physics book such as the kind a climate scientist would use...

In Structure, he was arguing (against Popper) that theory - formation is non-linear and «driven» by paradigm shifts rather than «led» by theory.

I was not arguing against testing, I was arguing for correct testing, for testing that looks what is the real scientific content of the theories and hypotheses, and that is then testing those features using scientifically justified tests.

Remember you're wanting to argue against a very large body of theory, research, statistics and evidence so you need to find good material to support whatever you say.

It's usually used to argue against the GHG theory.

You'll get nowhere arguing against the alarmists or the lukes until you understand kinetic theory, thermodynamic equilibrium, entropy and energy potentials.

Bob (Sphaerica) says: # 265 Re: 2) The fact that we can't account for all heat is an excuse that deniers may not use for inaction or for arguing against a logical, reasoned and considered climate theory.

Nahle's attacks appear to be arguing against Galileo by pointing out paper airplanes, hot air balloons, parachutes, etc, and saying that Galileo's theory is simplistic crap.

In order to get this patent granted, they argued that the patent sets itself apart from the prior art by teaching that there be two different kinds of memory, one for the screen content and a separate one for the audio data that is generated, but Samsung's infringement theory against Apple is that it's sufficient to have two different blocks of memory (even if we're talking about the same physical memory unit).

I'd argue that that's simply wishful thinking that goes against well - established economic theory and data of how innovation and technology enters new sectors.

He has become the subject of smear campaigns and demonstrably false conspiracy theories that say either he has been «coached» by his father, a former FBI agent; or he is a «pawn» for anti-gun campaigners; or he is not a victim but a «crisis actor,» paid to travel to disaster sites to argue against stricter gun laws.

Proponents of this view caution against conceptualizations derived by extrapolating from existing theories of family violence and argue that the unique set of power dynamics calls for explanatory theories specifically geared toward the developmental circumstances of adolescence and parent — child dynamics (Paterson et al. 2002; Peek et al. 1985; Routt and Anderson 2011).