Sentences with phrase «as absolute fact»

For example, there are those who repeatedly posit as absolute fact that the maize crop failures in 2009 were due to hybrid seeds.

Keep in mind everything in this post is pure speculation based on wants and desires so try not to take any of this as absolute fact.

The way Stone and his star convey each revelation and subsequent step forward in his investigation, you take as absolute fact.

While there are definitely some overall «truths» about eating (like fruit and vegetables are good for you, limiting saturated fats is a good idea, and others) most of the information that are being touted as absolute fact are anything but.

But don't accept current theories as absolute fact.

Yet, Protestant / evangelical Christians will believe as absolute fact, that a first century dead man walked out of his tomb after three days of decomposing, ate a broiled fish lunch with his friends, and then levitated into outer space based on the testimony of... one..., possible, eyewitness» testimony!

Of course Atheists and Agnostics impose their beliefs on religious folk — its called Evolution and its taught as absolute fact throughout most of the world.

Theo another definition of... Philioism (also known as Toperism and kermitism) accepting all knowledge as absolute fact if your a priori beliefs agree with that knowledge no matter how dubious the source.

Not exact matches

«As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining...... to terrorism and airline flight safety,» Trump said in a series of tweets.

As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining....

The fact remains that you seem to think that including religious music is an absolute requirement in any music education, yet you say nothing as to which music should be included and which should be excluded.

No such proof can ever be absolute (e.g., there is no 100 % proof that we exist, the world is flat, or the solar system is helio - centric... but there is such tremendous weight of evidence as perceived by our 5 senses and logic these are accepted as fact and truth).

However I don't go around claiming it's absolute fact, that would be the same as lying.

I do however attack the so called good god with his loving morality, as a way to point out to believers that they are in fact looking up to an absolute tyrant.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

I no longer have to represent my going to God as a departure from time and history.42 In fact, to attain God as the Absolute Future who is also the Fullness of Time, I must perforce be occupied with the present and the tasks of the present, for it is only in and through the present that I can advance into the future.

In fact, however, the Christians as the pilgrim people of God have been given the absolute command to hope, and this includes that they must always abandon also fossilized social structures.

- But, remember, beliefs don't necessarily = (absolute fact) here especially in relationship to these as yet unanswerable cosmological questions.

The fact that Hartshorne can give little meaning to the «absolute Absolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holinessabsolute Absolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holinessAbsolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holiness of God.

Hartshorne attributes this consistent violation of the principle of dual transcendence to the fact that classical theism has placed too much faith in Greek philosophy, and to a Western prejudice according to which absolute independence along with the power to the cause of events is regarded as a superior attribute while relativity and the capacity to be an effect is mistakenly regarded as an inferior attribute.»

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

For Buber the meaning of the symbol is found not in its universality but in the fact that it points to a concrete event which witnesses just as it is, in all its concreteness, transitoriness, and uniqueness, to the relation with the Absolute.

If so, our endeavor becomes once more interpretive, hopefully illuminating such passages as: «In this way God is completed by the individual, fluent satisfactions of finite fact, and the temporal occasions are completed by their everlasting union with their transformed selves, purged into conformation with the eternal order which is the final absolute «wisdom»» (PR 527; italics added).

Most of the traditional ethical values — not killing, stealing, committing adultery, lying, cheating, and so forth — are in fact implied in the I - Thou relation, but not as an absolute code.

The philosophy of absolute idealism, so vigorously represented both in Scotland and America to - day, has to struggle with this difficulty quite as much as scholastic theism struggled in its time; and although it would be premature to say that there is no speculative issue whatever from the puzzle, it is perfectly fair to say that there is no clear or easy - issue, and that the only obvious escape from paradox here is to cut loose from the monistic assumption altogether, and to allow the world to have existed from its origin in pluralistic form, as an aggregate or collection of higher and lower things and principles, rather than an absolutely unitary fact.

meaning by self choice, with dis regard to truth absolute, a Secular, self centered or an atheist, As a matter of fact, word ANIMAL means nothing else, but a atheist, self centered or denier of truth absolute.

In other words, philosophic theism has always shown a tendency to become pantheistic and monistic, and to consider the world as one unit of absolute fact; and this has been at variance with popular or practical theism, which latter has ever been more or less frankly pluralistic, not to say polytheistic, and shown itself perfectly well satisfied with a universe composed of many original principles, provided we be only allowed to believe that the divine principle remains supreme, and that the others are subordinate.

While the objectified facts are invested with a certain levity, no longer fully sedimented, the logical subjects as an indicative system, on the other hand, restrict the freedom of the proposition to apply to any actual entity in absolute generality.

Altizer's position represents his attempt to grasp the inner logic of the Incarnation, though he is fully conscious of the fact that the profanity of contemporary culture plays an essential role in his formulation of a radically immanental interpretation of Christ.31 He presents a telling case against attempts in Christian theology to conceive God as an immutable Absolute wholly unaffected by the contingencies of history.

I do too, and what I observed when I participated in such a group was that in fact, these groups are at least as dogmatic as any Christian church is in cramming down the throats of attendees the notion that «God is whoever / whatever you want he / she / it to be», and there can not be any absolute concept of God.

I do think it is important for people to realize that in science, what people sometimes want to represent as facts are not absolute.

Speaking as someone who does not, in fact, think one can know with absolute certainty that other people exist at all, and therefore «strongly believes» that indeed other «minds» exist, calling the blief that other minds exist nothing more than «blind faith» seems a little out there.

If the history of revelation has reached its final eschatological phase with Jesus Christ, and if the absolute finality of this world's eschatological phase is not only a mere fact, because God will not reveal anything new, but is contained in the very essence of this phase, because the appearance of the God - man can be surpassed only by the direct vision of God himself — then this quality of the revelation in Christ must also apply to man as a free being.

Niebuhr said that the spiritual pride of nations has two aspects in its unconditional claims: «The nation claims a more absolute devotion to values which transcend its life than the facts warrant; and it regards the values to which it is loyal as more absolute than they really are.

Thus the authentic line of development, as the expectation of an immediate advent faded, led to a concentration of attention upon the historical facts of the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus, exhibited in an eschatological setting which made clear their absolute and final quality as saving facts.

Most atheists tend to not have a hypocrisy problem because very few of them profess a belief in moral facts and moral absolutes (I'm a rare breed of atheist who believes that moral absolutes and moral facts are both existent as well as accessible, and that they are not mere personal opinion) and look upon all of it as mere opinion.

Respectfully, I would remind once again, that claiming bible = absolute fact or * concrete * truth, is as you know....

God, constant is not a mystery, as you hind, speculate from hindism, ignorance, but fact of life, truth absolute, nothing can exist without, and foundation of American Consti tution.

However this may be, the fact is plain that for contemporary men and women, not only of a sophisticated sort but also of quite ordinary attainments, the notion of God as absolute power, as unyielding moral dictator, and as metaphysical first cause never Himself affected, has gone dead.

But I shall keep myself as far as possible at present to the more «scientific» view; and only as the plot thickens in subsequent lectures shall I consider the question of its absolute sufficiency as an explanation of all the facts.

Hannah Arendt, in her illuminating book On Revolution (Viking, 1965), exalts the American Revolution as the most successful one and traces that success to the fact that «it occurred in a country that knew nothing of mass poverty and among a people who had a widespread experience of self - government;» She says that one of the blessings in the American situation was that the revolution grew out of a conflict with a limited monarchy, for «the more absolute the ruler, the more absolute the revolution will be which replaces him.»

The first is that the history of the Western concept of love has been influenced by the fact that St. Augustine worked out his interpretation of love in relation to the metaphysics of neo-platonism with its doctrine of God as being - itself, the absolute.

The secularist who regards secularization as a matter of winning complete emancipation from the old heritage, is in fact turning secularism into an absolute, and without realizing it, he is in danger of becoming enslaved to a new form of idolatry.

For one can not logically conclude that ethical theory is impossible if what was demanded of it, namely absolute values, was not in fact necessary as a minimal condition.

Apart from some traditional philosophical influences, this is due mainly to the fact that relativity excluded the universal cosmic «Now» as the substratum of absolute simultaneity; and since such «Now» was naturally viewed as a boundary between past and future events, its elimination was interpreted as a denial of the successive character of the world.

The absolute fact is an historical fact, and as such it is the object of Faith.

In fact, he was downright devilish as a child, absolute murder in a movie theater.

Nobody disputes that the removal of David Dein was as big a blow for Wenger as it was for the supporters.They both worked together to the absolute benefit of Arsenal Football Club.What did Wenger do when left on his own?Did he insist on a Director of Football to handle all the issues Dein dealt with?Did he not illustrate to his Board that they have just removed the conduit that made the partnership work to the benefit of Arsenal Football Club?No.What did Wenger do?He took on everything himself including a massive pay hike on his next contract.Ken - do not be blinkered by the fact Wenger has been paid a kings Ransom for his time at the club.The results and performances are not justified by the continued decline that you openly admit to.Wenger would have us all believe he is the only one capable of getting us out of the quagmire we are in while seemingly failing to acknowledge it was him that got us there.

Even though these arguments are portrayed as absolute, scientific fact, these arguments are better understood as a rhetorical strategy to persuade mothers of the health threats to their children (c.f., Best's (1990) work on the construction of the child - victim).

Here is the reality of my divorce: Despite the fact that the court appointed custody evaluator ruled parenting during the marriage was joint, a vocational evaluation that concluded my ex-wife could make just as much money as me, joint custody of the children post marriage (although in reality they were with me much more often), pretty good evidence my ex-wife committed fraud and perjury and absolute evidence her lawyer maliciously lied in court, I am required by the court to pay her a massive amount of alimony until he day I die.