Sentences with phrase «as implausible»

It's not as implausible as you might think.

As implausible as it might seem at first, the average kinetic energy of the molecules that make it 17 km will be the same as the average KE of the molecules at the bottom.

The model has sometimes been criticized as implausible because of its huge resource consumption and emissions of ~ 1700 billion tonnes of carbon (GtC) over the century.

It seems rather unscientific as well as implausible to even try to blame this recent phenomenon on global warming.

Summary: As implausible as those Axe Body Spray commercials where women hunt down a fragranced fellow, Gun * Gal: Double Peace is pure, feverish fantasy.

As implausible as the boy's story sounds, Bryant and May take it seriously when «The Highwayman» is spotted again, striking a dramatic pose at the scene of his next outlandish murder.

Both characters are as implausible as the contrived misadventures that have them crisscrossing paths on the sun - blasted strip malls of Baton Rouge.

As implausible as such naiveté would have been in the late 1980s, when these fictionalized lovebirds are said to have met, Nick barely blinks when he discovers what the rest of the country - if not the world - already knows.

As implausible as it sounds, marrying the benefits of popular exercise styles is more than just a fad.

But, based on Zelinka's interpretation of historical data, he said it «seems premature» to dismiss it as implausible.

Koch and Itzhak Fried, who is both a neuroscientist and a practicing neurosurgeon at UCLA Medical School, recently uncovered evidence for a coding scheme long ago discarded as implausible.

But it's just as implausible for them to have emerged simultaneously out of a prebiotic soup.

This is an outcome not as implausible as some may think.

On reflection, there have been five major post-war shifts in the major parties, and the claim that Labour's challenge is on a greater scale than any of the last four strikes me as implausible hyperbole.

The one was as implausible as the other.

You said «First of all Lin there are evidences of God you just choose to debunk or ignore them as implausible but they still do exist.»

One element of this particular story struck my readers as implausible, although as I argued, «It actually happened that way!»

If a theory is revealed as implausible it ceases to become a theory.

Noting that this would be a pretty awful inflation - adjusted return from a historical standpoint, Ezrati simply dismisses it as implausible: «Such an expectation is far from reasonable, not the least because today's fundamentals are far superior.»

It sounds as implausible as a Facebook - Google merger, or RIM buying Apple: Microsoft becoming the world's coolest consumer tech company.

Not exact matches

The social network's co-founder Dustin Moskovitz pledged to donate $ 20 million to help ensure a Clinton victory because, as he put it, Trump's «proposals are so implausible that the nation is forced to worry that his interest in the presidency might not even extend beyond winning a contest and promoting his personal brand.»

There's a lot of great action here, such as a train chase that is as memorable as it is implausible.

There are huge risks here, as many of the startups launching ICOs are getting regular people to buy into thin or implausible business plans — or, worse, outright scamming them with pump - and - dump schemes.

As I have argued before, except under implausible scenarios (at least 2 - 4 % of GDP transferred every year from the state to households) I can not work out arithmetically any meaningful rebalancing process that is consistent with average GDP growth much above 3 - 4 % during President Xi's 2013 - 23 term in office.

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

(As I've also noted, this is not a practical or optimal strategy by any means, since it has far too much tracking risk and would have required implausible levels of patience, but it's an enlightening fact nonetheless).

Musk's assertion during the conference call that Tesla will «quite likely» be profitable as of the third quarter this year based on strong sales of the Model 3 sounds implausible, since Model 3 production remains a question mark.

In fact, if something is implausible it can't qualify as a theory.

It's a not an implausible claim, as my comments above suggest.

Too often in Jewish - Christian exchanges, Jews play the Holocaust as trump, and Christians, on cue, engage in unseemly and implausible rites of self - denigration.

One who does not believe in God, for example, may find the existence of free, nonhuman, immaterial persons such as Satan quite implausible; one who already believes in the existence of at least one such free, nonhuman, immaterial person — i.e., God — may find it much less implausible.

Pretty much be definition anything defined as outside the realm of physical reality is infinitely implausible, if not necessarily mathematically impossible.

It is not implausible to believe that after preaching in Gundaphar's kingdom in the North, Thomas moved on as all traditions affirm, to preach the Gospel to other kingdoms as well, the kingdoms of south western and south eastern India, until at last he was put to death, perhaps near Madras.

Now, could it possibly be that the reason the answer is out of reach is because the bible was written by numerous, imperfect human beings, under the influence of their own religious biases, and all those writings have been complied, hundreds of years later, by men of equal imperfectness and religious biases, so as to render any logical discussion about what the hell was their intention in writing what the wrote, completely implausible?

Implausible as it...

That ratio strikes me as highly implausible, even taking into account the lengths to which various contending powers went in order to hide the true numbers of losses from their citizenry.

Thus to pose «conciliarism» as an all - purpose tool with which to fix what ails the Church would be, to Newman, an implausible idea, given the historical record.

The Vanishing American Jew: in Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century by Alan M. Dershowitz Little, Brown, 395 pages, $ 24.95 In Chutzpah, his 1991 best - seller, Alan Dershowitz made the wildly implausible claim that American Jews still don't feel fully at home in this country and, as a....

The first possibility would treat God the Father or the Godhead as some sort of vacuous actuality devoid of subjectivity; at any rate it would, like the second possibility, ascribe all divine subjective attributes to the subjectivity of Jesus (who can only have one unified subjectivity, not one divine and one human), which is both implausible and heretical.

He floats high up above any age as a kind of shimmering antithesis, perennially impossible, beautiful, and moving; indeed, he is more attractive the more implausible his values come to seem.

And if that standard is not met, if the explanations are not provided, we can bet with confidence that these cases, now rare, will cease to be rare, precisely as the notion of same - sex marriage has shifted from the unthinkable to the implausible to the realities springing up all around now and demanding acceptance.

Accordingly, when Griffin contends that it is implausible for FWTs to believe «that every basic structural aspect of the world can be justified as necessary to the promotion of creatures with moral and spiritual qualities» (ER 16), he is attacking a straw man.

thinking of panexperientialism as a version of physicalism would not seem to involve an implausible extension of the meaning of «physicalism» as established by prior usage.

The implausible conclusion is that the evolutionary past came into existence only as human beings learned about it.

That verse suggests the creatues on - board the ark would have needed to eat, so food was brought on - board for them, which only makes the story even more implausible, since not only would the ark have needed to house all those animals for about a year according to the Priestly Source version, but also food for them as well.

I'm aware that young earth creationists, such as Ken Ham, try to make the story less implausible by stating that the story refers to «kinds» or «baramins».

If that is all the objection were, determinists could be regarded as holding an implausible, unconfirmable, and scientifically unnecessary position.

There is indeed no good reason to doubt their origin (in approximately if not precisely this same form) in the very historical episode itself; nor is Miriam's role as in some sense leader and conductor of the spontaneous demonstration in any way implausible (compare, for example, the Song of Deborah in Judges 5).

In a sense the answer to this question will respond to our own inquiry as to why teleological thinking seems so implausible today.

At the same time, modern attempts to construct a view of Jesus that omits any emphasis on the death, focusing instead on a message or practice Jesus taught without reference to his own fate — which are implausible as history and often lack distinctive Christian character.