Sentences with phrase «better than the explanation»

However, almost anything is better than the explanation one sometimes hears: that this is a lesson in sharing — Jesus began to share his food, and everyone else decided to do the same!

The study, called «Something to Talk About: Information Exchange Under Employment Law,» concluded that any explanation was better than no explanation at all in improving a candidate's chances to get hired.

Not exact matches

The best explanation for the rise, according to the CEOs, is that oil hit an irrational bottom price of less than $ 35, and is now returning to normal.

Can she lift PepsiCo from a success that requires qualifiers and explanation (Better numbers than struggling Coke!

Good explanation of some differences between growth and dividend stocks, much better than a lot of other stuff I've read that just looks at charts and not the reasons behind them.

Our «Conundrum in the Conundrum» theme questioned this outlook, viewing it better as an explanation for what had already happened rather than an outlook.

Another explanation could be, you were calmer after praying, and did better on the test because having a calm demeanor can be demonstrably better for test taking than being nervous.

To know that we don't know is better than simplistic explanations like «God did it».

Nope, it's not proof, but it's a better explanation for violations of physical laws than I've heard from any atheist.

However, it is abundantly clear that the human race is as it is (this is no more than mere tautology), and so we can see that what may originally seem improbable is in fact the best explanation of a given circu.mstance.

The standard explanations in the legal community emphasize the fierce competition for business among law firms that began when clients started to shop around for the best deal, rather than maintaining their traditional ties with a single firm.

Some think that the bible tells them that the earth has to be less than 10,000 years old rather than the better explanation, that writing did not come into being until close to 6,000 years ago and our oral collective memory couldnt reach too much further back SO it makes sense that the old testament would appear to only reach back 10,000 years.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

The person has not fared especially well at the hands of modern attempts to write about history, which have generally sought to locate historical explanations in the workings of large structures, impersonal forces, and social groups rather than the vagaries and razor - edged contingencies of individual character and agency.

Pew reports that «in their social and political views, young adults are clearly more accepting than older Americans of homosexuality, more inclined to see evolution as the best explanation of human life and less prone to see Hollywood as threatening their moral values.

I happen to agree with Maher that Christians have terrible answers to these sort of moral issues in Scripture, and it is past time we decide to have a better answer than the traditional trite explanations and pat answers of the past.

Why wouldn't this explanation be just as good if not better than a supernatural explanation?

I always wandered what that verse really meant and I think your explanation is a lot better than the other alternatives I've heard

I hope to write more on this topic in the future so that the pertinent biblical texts can receive a fuller treatment and better explanation than what I have provided here.

Today, more than three hundred years after John Locke spelled out his theory that the greatest good is served by each person following his or her own best interests, some economists and politicians are still trying to bend and stretch this outmoded «explanation» of life to fit social realities that say it just doesn't meet human needs today.

I know a young woman seminarian whose approval for ordination was postponed for a year with the explanation by the examining committee that they knew she could stand the postponement better than other, less mature candidates.

When presented with an explanation of the text that challenges our own explanation, our immediate defensive position is to say, «Well, that's wrong because they are importing their own human interpretation into the text rather than letting the text speak for itself the way I do.»

Natural selection is a far better explanation for adaptations than purposive forces, especially considering that the better adapted a species is to its environment, the more certain becomes its extinction should the environment change (or in other words, natural selection is blind to the future).

The final three chapters summarily consider the evidence against and for the virgin birth, arguing that it is neither myth nor indemonstrable truth; instead the evidence for the existence of an historical tradition anteceding the Gospels, ultimately from Mary herself, is more credible than any alternative explanation; hence, for anyone open to the possibility of miracles, there is good evidence to affirm Jesus» virgin birth on the basis of the New Testament's testimony.

The Christian doctrine of the triunitarian nature of God, to which we shall come in the latter part of this chapter, is a symbolic account that gives a better ultimate explanation of what the whole story is about than does some account true (so far as it goes) which is given in scientific (or similar) terms alone.

Rather we are well reminded that the Judaeo - Christian God is the immediate sustainer of all, and that to give a scientific explanation is more evidence for the Creator than against him.

This is true, not because it contains, as it does, more exalted religious ideas than any other book, or expresses them better (this would be an explanation of the Bible's superiority, not of its uniqueness), but because it stands in a unique relation to some unique and supremely significant events.

I personally think there is a much better explanation than the one he presents (I'm writing a book to explain it).

He explains the Theological interpretation of Scripture better than the other books, provides some examples of how to do this with Scripture, and when he does not give an explanation of «how to» do it yourself, explains why such an explanation is impossible (p. 195).

Previously, we learned that Moses did not intend to write a scientific explanation of how the sun, moon, and stars came into existence, but instead wanted the Hebrew people to understand how Yahweh was different and better than the gods of Canaan, Egypt, and Babylon, with which the Hebrew people were familiar.

They are more inclined to accept explanations from official sources, from «experts,» from company officials, from well prepared hand - outs created by public relations experts, than to go to the trouble to dig out opposing views that often are represented by small, inefficient, underfinanced and even unpopular groups.

Dawkins, Krauss, Hawking, etc. develop theories and explanations and expose their theories to other scientists and the public for rigorous review, unlike religion which is no better than unproven myth and astrology.

But the best explanation I can come up with is that it simply doesn't exist, and that its far more important for humanity to take care of its own business than wait for some divine intervention that just won't come.

I'm going to offer a brief explanation of why they're better than plain old roasted potatoes (which are pretty delicious to begin with).

Einkorn is an ancient grain and is actually lower in gluten than modern wheat and is much much better (read a great explanation here as to why einkorn is better).

The non-dairy version (which is not vegan as it still contains egg yolks) turned out even better than the classic — I have no explanation as to why.

I'm sure there are people that know Alicia Keys better than me that have a perfectly valid explanation for those pants.

Unless someone has a good explanation, I'm going to let my mind believe that they were looking for something more than weed by analyzing his trash.

I'm still waiting for an explanation on how our season coming is going to be any better than the last... OH WAIT, NOTHING WILL CHANGE!

Sober, industrious and otherwise well - adjusted men have been known to fall into gargling, sputtering rages as, sitting helplessly before their TV sets, they feel themselves assaulted by Allen's tedious, drawn - out explanations («For the benefit of those not so familiar with the game, the infield fly rule states that, with first and second base or first, second and third occupied and less than two out, a ball which in the judgment of the umpire,» etc..

If you think of us that good than there would be no meaning of explanation.

As I transitioned to coaching track athletes after my competing days (before I started my surgical training), I felt there had to be a better explanation than a muscle «strain» for the varying degrees of hip pain my athletes were experiencing.

Our science kits - I majored in physics in university, and the Walter Kraul science kits that we carry from Germany are absolutely inspirational; they are about a hundred times better than any of the «Follow Step 1 -2-3» and discard a hunk - of - junk in - a-flashy-box science kits you'll find out there, as they offer dozens of different ways to explore and think about what you've built or what you're observing, with excellent booklets with probing questions, offering different levels of explanation or exploration, depending on the child.

All I can tell them is why I feel one thing may be better than something else, and that's usually backed up with some technical explanation.

I did nt know any better than that my case was an well monitored exception with the main rule that the parents make the decisions after explanation by the medical staff about their options.

I feel Talking to kids and explaining why those actions were wrong works so much better than just yelling and punishing without a full explanation...

Full definition and explanation of legal custody, which is different than physical custody in that it allows a parent to make long - term decisions about the child's upbringing and well - being.

Well, so far I couldn't find any other explanation than that in your last sentence.

Part of the explanation is that television news needs pictures to tell stories and is better at telling stories than dealing with issues.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.