Sentences with phrase «beliefs than in facts»

The veracity of the photographic image, however, has always trafficked more in customs and beliefs than in facts.

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, and in the piece they discuss why stories are much more influential than facts (again, a conclusion backed by numerous studies) through their ability to change emotional beliefs in a way that «logical» arguments just can't touch.

The Oxford English Dictionary declared «post-truth» the word of the year — the notion that «objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.»

While these persons and entities may labor under the belief that their actions are entrepreneurial rather than criminal, the fact remains that they are in willful possession of stolen property.

Say, for example, rather than having a committed belief in the right to bear arms, you have identified yourself as a raging bull on some US tech stock, the fact such a bias could lead you to make mistakes when analysing fresh data on that business does not bode well for the success of your portfolio.

That has made belief systems and arguments about facts far more important than they were in Jesus» day.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

So the trick that prejudice plays in the mind is: rather than knowledge leading to the attitude or belief, the attitude or belief pre-exists and forms the so - called «facts» that shape the prejudice and fuel it into action.

They can't come to terms with the idea that there may actually be nothing after we die so they latch on to a belief that gives them comfort... belief in an afterlife, eternity or any version of «god» is nothing more than a coping mechanism for those who can't accept that we are in fact finite creatures that are born, live, and die and are not meant or destined to exist for eternity.

-- both to life and thought is in fact a very proper plea, if for no other reason than that it claims for itself such relevance; but to establish some concept of «relevance» as the criterion of Christian belief is a sad mistake.

That some people may be biologically vulnerable to alcohol addiction has not been proven; in fact, there is no evidence that heredity places a person at greater risk of becoming a heavy drinker than family environment, character, beliefs and conduct.

But the fact that Santa is based on a real person makes belief in him more rational than a belief in gods.

A good argument can be made, in fact, that the person who is solidly grounded in a religious identity is more free to be tolerant than another for whom differing beliefs are a threat.

I.E. the big bang theory which would require belief in the fact that some kinds of Matter ALWAYS existed and that at some point it all exploded and created a universe, a belief i might add, that in my view takes more faith to believe in than most modern religions.

Here we may pause to reflect on the fact that in human experience it is much easier to believe in human survival than it is in the finiteness of human existence.18 The almost universal belief in an «after - life» which developed from primitive man onwards was only to be expected.

And, they'll ignore the fact that the Democratic philosophy is far more in touch with christian beliefs than the GOP.

(Again am not saying anything about Luther * an * beliefs, of which I know very little, other than the fact that they don't believe in predestination in the way that Luther did.

If God leaves it largely up to the individual to be moral or not, there is, nevertheless, some, lingering belief that God may in fact ordain some people to be poorer than others.

There is no way to prove or disprove a higher being, and there is no way to prove or disprove the big bang theory (contrasting beliefs in most people's opinions), but what we do know is the Earth is way older than 6,000 - 10,000 years old, and that is FACT.

Atheism = the belief in facts, science, and logic rather than the fallibility of the human emotion and desire

They described the phrase as «relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief».

This belief is based in more than the fact that Jews and Christians acknowledge, worship, and obey the same God.

Also, I did not discuss the merits or ideas of any religious belief system other than the fact that an atheist doesn't believe in God, and I did not lable anybody anything.

I do agree that religious belief is doing more harm than good to humanity in todays world, I am not sure that enough people have the intellectual ability to embrace the fact that their belief system is not based in reality.

It certainly takes more faith to NOT believe in God than it does to accept the fact that «In The Beginning God created...» (Genesis 1:1) As far as Jesus being a Jew, praise the Lord... it isn't a problem for me to accept Him being Jewish, my joy comes from Jesus Christ, a Jew, accepting my repentance and belief in what He did for me, an undeserving sinnein God than it does to accept the fact that «In The Beginning God created...» (Genesis 1:1) As far as Jesus being a Jew, praise the Lord... it isn't a problem for me to accept Him being Jewish, my joy comes from Jesus Christ, a Jew, accepting my repentance and belief in what He did for me, an undeserving sinneIn The Beginning God created...» (Genesis 1:1) As far as Jesus being a Jew, praise the Lord... it isn't a problem for me to accept Him being Jewish, my joy comes from Jesus Christ, a Jew, accepting my repentance and belief in what He did for me, an undeserving sinnein what He did for me, an undeserving sinner.

In fact the point has been made more than once that the great age of science was prepared by a belief in a god who was himself a scientist and technician, and who would therefore approve of a civilization committed to such an enterprisIn fact the point has been made more than once that the great age of science was prepared by a belief in a god who was himself a scientist and technician, and who would therefore approve of a civilization committed to such an enterprisin a god who was himself a scientist and technician, and who would therefore approve of a civilization committed to such an enterprise.

That isn't what Jesus said or wanted, and your theory is no more representative of the Facts than your belief in an imaginary friend!

In fact the only common ground between Christianity and Islam is the belief that God is infinitely greater than man and is a God to be worshipped and served.

I think you might find it has a lot less to do with science and facts than it does about a person's core beliefs that evolved from the thousands of tiny steps that led them through life up to this moment in time.

The belief, he said stems from the fact that he gets easily infuriated when he listens to the former President «preaching» that there is too much corruption in Ghana than existed before his much acclaimed June 4, 1979 Coup d'état.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

The fact that Ford is from Memphis will hurt him in the rest of the state more than the belief that being in DC has made him out of touch.

Many instructors say they believe evolution and religious beliefs are in conflict, so rather than discuss this with students who may be religious, they stick to only teaching facts about evolution.

However, these computer simulations produced the same pattern of data that is usually interpreted as showing optimism bias, due to the fact that belief scores changed more in response to good than bad news.

Possibly 1 from the most liked elements is the fact that a lot of people that register on these websites have kindred beliefs in understanding that obtaining a compatible partner has really a bit more involved than merely the attraction you need to an individual in physical terms.

What makes this particular finale work is the fact that Mary must look inward to defeat her more powerful rivals, relying on bravery and a firm belief in herself, rather than magic — all of which is a far cry from the shy, two - left - footed young lady we met at the outset.

However, given that the subject is, to say the least, touchy, the fact that this film was even made is worthy of at least some kudos to Maher for having the guts to potentially offend the vast majority of people in the country, and perhaps the world, with his expression of doubt in their beliefs and his own belief that, though many individuals have found great benefit from the ancient scriptures, religion ultimately does more harm than good when looking at it in its totality from a global historical scale.

They describe this as the «circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.

[8] While this assertion may in fact be true, we should note that there is no research on the experience of cats in this particular program, and therefore, at this point, any belief about precisely what happens is based on faith more than on knowledge.

«Medium» is about more than the paranormal; it's about reconciling our past with our present, and the ways in which the truth can slip and slide as we construct narratives based on belief rather than fact.

But after a whole set of La Niña (cool counterpart) dominant years — which led to the popular temperature plateau belief (wrong in very many ways)-- having a clear El Niño year uncovers the global temperature trend line, which is in fact over the first 15 years of the 21st century rising faster than at any time during the 20th century.

I am rather better and more broadly educated in logic, science, and religion (your trifecta of the classical scholar) than most humans (a simple fact that I offer without any particular pride in it) and yet I find that I must turn to my wife the physician constantly lest I speak my beliefs about almost any aspect of medicine and have those casually founded beliefs turn out not to be the best beliefs, the things you want to perpetuate by passing them on.

If there are multiverses that are in fact coupled — quantum bundles of universes, that sort of thing (which is the basis of my story, it being a bit boring to write about a world where the Lord of the Rings Universe really exists as a parallel Universe, only you can't get there from here or ever prove it — then perhaps we might one day be able to demonstrate this, but in the meantime the question is more science fiction or fantasy than something to believe or disbelieve in very strongly, with the usual rational default: Lack of belief pending positive evidence!

That some still talk about «belief» — a matter of faith more so than facts — in findings that have long been accepted by the scientific community speaks volumes about the general public's understanding and acceptance of global climate change.

«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.»

A number of whom seem to be more interested in the cognitive processes of human thinking and in the way that belief systems and the way that information is processed end up being more powerful motivators than the facts in themselves.

These new data, though, show that acceptance of «scientific consensus» in fact has a weaker relationship to beliefs in climate change in right - leaning members of the public than it does in left - leaning ones.

There is a psychological phenomenon I've seen written about wherein someone with a prior belief or bias, when faced with overwhelmingly contradictory facts, often tends to take an even stronger stand in favor of their bias rather than accepting the facts.

The fact that I may have to deal with an employee of a retailer or service provider or public body who has different religious beliefs than mine is just life in the modern and diverse community, and I had better get used to it.

Refusing accreditation to the school, the decision states, «does not, in fact, preclude TWU from opening a law school,» despite TWU's argument that it would not open the school without accreditation from LSUC, and «while... there is a degree of interference with religious beliefs, should that result occur... the motivating force not to open the law school appears to be more economic than it is religious.