Biblically conservative Christians today rightly reject recreational sex as a psychologizing of Scripture if undisciplined sexual behavior is justified
by conclusions drawn from modern theories about sexual repression.
But I am a little troubled
by the conclusions you draw.
Not exact matches
That's one
conclusion you can
draw from a new research study, titled «Firming up Inequality,» published this week
by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
These happy vibes are heard
by a founder's «happy ears» — often leading the founder to
draw false
conclusions about the true level of potential VC interest.
The
conclusion that can be
drawn is that those who expected financial deregulation to smooth the cycle
by itself have been disappointed.
A vast increase in oil transport
by rail surely has at least something to do with the accident — if the train hadn't been carrying oil, its destruction might have been less catastrophic — but there will inevitably be debate over the
conclusion to
draw from that observation.
We can
draw two
conclusions from the information conveyed in the two graphs above: 1) the Fed is terrified of letting the stock market move lower and, for now at least, has a solid iron floor beneath the stock market; 2) the credit condition of corporate America has been deteriorating since early 2013, punctuated
by 3 quarters in a row of declining earnings for the S&P 500.
We're also seeing overreactions
by investors who have been quick to
draw conclusions about what it all means before the dust has settled.
Given the debt load in the US and given statements made
by government officials, this seems like a reasonable
conclusion to
draw.
The time period covered is relatively short
by historical standards so it is difficult to
draw significant
conclusions.
And I also encourage you to view some assenting and dissenting views
by those who are professionals and
draw the
conclusion for yourself.
There are way too many assumptions and
conclusions drawn by interpreting data.
By your logic, we can not
draw a definitive
conclusion that the Roman Empire ever existed.
8) «This
conclusion serves to corroborate the inference made
by Soviet archaeologists from their discovery of camel - headed wagons that as early as the first half of the third millennium B.C. two - humped camels were used in Turkmenistan for
drawing wagons...» The Camel and the Wheel, Richard W. Bulliet p155
There has been much spurious research and false
conclusions drawn by those known as «anti-Mormons» to lead people to a bad impression of a man who was about as good a man who ever lived - save Jesus, of course.
One thing that mankind has is the ability to use logic, to be able to reason, to
draw a proper
conclusion based on evidence, a capacity that animals who are governed
by instinct do not have.
If we recognize that in order to
draw conclusions about matters of this sort, we must ask questions not answered
by faith in any direct way, the tone of our debates can be improved.
It is difficult to
draw any
conclusion other than that nuclear war, either
by accident or because of uncontrollable escalation, is not likely to be prevented.
(So
draw your own
conclusions, regardless of what you are ever told
by another human being — because that human being could be saying things that aren't true or real or even SANE.
According to Nagel and Newman, this event led number - theorists to conclude (perhaps wrongly) that mathematics is not the classical «science of quantity,» but «simply the discipline par excellence that
draws the
conclusions logically implied
by any given set of axioms or postulates,» regardless of whether or not they are true.
The
conclusions drawn by Bruce A. Kimball in Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education (Teachers College Press, 292 pp., $ 19.95) are of a different kind.
Whitehead states the wrong: «Mr. Russell, a scholar known in every major university of the world, impelled
by motives which religion dare not disown, has been driven out of academic life and deprived of academic encouragement...» Whitehead «leave [s] the question here,» without
drawing the
conclusion explicitly: restore the lectureship to rectify the wrong.
But this can be explained partly
by the extremity of the
conclusions drawn by some advocates of form criticism, for example
by Professor R. H. Lightfoot in his Bampton Lectures; (History and Interpretation in the Gospels [1934]-RRB- and partly
by the ultraconservatism of men who are incapable of altering their views in later life.
Primary facts are only the experienced psychic phenomena, and all scientific «facts» are the result of
conclusions,
drawn by logical processes of induction and deduction.
The radical
conclusion that they
drew, is that the salvation proclaimed
by the gospel is first and foremost the salvation of society as a whole.
More recent statistics
by anti-abortion groups, however, bear out the
conclusions to be
drawn from the Guttmacher Institute study.
They may perhaps be submerged again for the time being
by a contrary wave of caution, fear of one's own courage, terror of false
conclusions which people may like to
draw.
To help point the way out of the problem I will turn to the writings of Whitehead (particularly his later works),
drawing from his work certain
conclusions which, while not explicitly stated
by him may nevertheless be said to follow from his overall philosophical scheme.
But if this is «what actually happens», it's hard to resist
drawing the
conclusion that in the outcry against Dawkins this summer we saw an extraordinary moment when society expressed moral outrage about itself; when we were provoked
by one of our own common practices.
2) You can maintain your position from a faith perspective, and say this, but then I'd have to seriously question [a] your historical integrity (for example, the historical position of Revelations as canon, although more of a debate than the other texts, was still NOWHERE NEAR contestable enough for you to
draw this sort of
conclusion) and [b] your philosophical integrity (for example, if you dismiss Revelations because it doesn't support your position, i'm going to ask:
by what authority do you think you have the right to discern this?
The process worked incrementally and backward, not toward faith but away from nihilism, fueled
by the rising conviction that the
conclusion I had
drawn long ago was wrong.
This appears to be the only
conclusion to be
drawn from the real and underlying message of the piece, conveyed
by its final one - sentence paragraph: «In short, Summorum Pontificum weakens the unity of the Church
by failing to support the foundational insights of the Second Vatican Council»: the most «foundational» of all those insights, it goes without saying, being the absolute discontinuity between the preconciliar and post-conciliar Churches.
For in that case the assertion of God's sovereignty would be seen as a universal truth which can
by logical reasoning be made intelligible to everyone; the miracle would then be regarded as a universally accredited, extraordinary event, from which the
conclusion may be
drawn that it depends upon a divine cause.
That Jesus was aware with every breath he
drew of the eternal kingship of God everyone will agree; that he believed men could come even now in some real sense and measure under the righteous and loving rule of God is almost equally clear; and only
by the most tortuous methods of interpreting the Gospels can one escape the
conclusion that Jesus expected the kingdom of God as a future supernatural order.
In this story these characters and their situation are not depicted
by analogy but directly, and, in consequence, the hearers are not left to
draw their own
conclusions, but rather are challenged
by the direct statement: «I tell you...» The challenge is the one we have seen throughout this group of parables, the fundamental challenge of Jesus to his hostile contemporaries.
We have names for those who announce upon
drawing up a chair exactly where the conversation is going and with what
conclusions, just as we do for those who insult us
by explaining the joke and telling it again.
Much valuable data could be collected
by studying them in the wild but they already have
drawn their
conclusions.
Fred, we have had a great detailed discussion this last week but as we
drew towards making a
conclusion you lost focus and
by appearances forgot everything we have discussed so far.
This self attends first to the major premise, then the minor premise, and finally,
draws the
conclusion by holding the two premises together and seeing their connection.
«Doc Loren Marks found much of the studies
by the APA were convenience samples and can not
draw a
conclusion in regards to gay parenting and the Mark Regenerus study while some said was flawed is not so flawed after all.
They
drew the
conclusion, for example,
by observing how the angle of the North Star changed as they travelled north.
Thank you Regina... being Wiccan myself, many people I guess I would say fear and discredit what they don't understand
by making false accusations and
drawing wrong
conclusions...
The Faith of a Physicist
by Cambridge physicist and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne is a compendium of
conclusions drawn from decades of dialogue between natural science and Christian theology.
There are problems with the
conclusions drawn by many of the archeologists and so - called Biblical scholars.
(61) 6:28, 34 — «The rational
conclusion from Hume's philosophy has been
drawn by those among the lilies of the field, who take no thought for the morrow» («Uniformity and Contingency» in IS.
Nonetheless, from the starting point of these principles (received
by faith) further
conclusions can be
drawn, and this is done
by philosophical reasoning.
While it might be true to say that Intelligent Design (ID) was not given much credence
by the delegates, it would be quite wrong to
draw any
conclusions from this regarding the value of ID research.
After closely studying these works, J. L. Crenshaw is right in questioning some of the
conclusions drawn by the scholars amplifying the influence of the wisdom literature on the other books of the Bible and inter-testamental literature.
And, in their midst, it makes small jabs at modernity's consequences: the «Modern Churchman» who «
draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief,» the enlightened prison warden — «I came to the
conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression,» and avant - garde architecture — «india - rubber fungi in the recessed conservatory,» a floor that is «a large kaleidoscope, set in motion
by an electric button.»
Similar
conclusions were
drawn from fundamentalist movements in Iran and Lebanon, from Zionist factions in Israel, from heightened conflict between Protestants and Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland, and from the growing audiences being cultivated
by «televangelists» in the United States.