Sentences with phrase «by irreducible»

We watch other people revolving around him, all good actors playing decent characters, and they seem convinced, swayed, or seduced by some irreducible kernel of truth in Ben Kalmen.

The practical indifference of the Epicurean Mr. Jefferson to enslavement of particular persons and the «white moderate» described by Martin Luther King Jr. to segregation were overcome by the irreducible Christian devotion of American citizens.

«This is because of its failure to be able to get by irreducible complexity.»

Not exact matches

Professor Behe's ideas of «irreducible complexity» have been debunked as pseudo-science by many many people.

By Trapani's account, Maritain was able to show how art and poetry bring together two infinities: the irreducible complexity of human personality («the Self») with the superabundant mystery of being («the Things»).

What is more, he argues that the existence of irreducible complexity is implicitly accepted by the entire worldwide community of molecular biologists.

To understand why Behe's argument is so uncontested in the realm of fact, and yet why so many scientists find the concept of irreducible complexity not only difficult to accept but even impossible to consider, we should start by summarizing the modern understanding of Darwinism, as set out by Richard Dawkins.

The controversy will not be over the facts but over whether Behe has gone «outside of science» by attributing irreducible complexity in biology to «design» rather than to some undiscovered material (i.e., mindless) mechanism.

Structures found in nature are too complex to have evolved step - by - step through natural selection [the concept of «irreducible complexity «1]: Natural selection does not require that all structures have the same function or even need to be functional at each step in the development of an organism.

The problem is illustrated by Descartes» division of the world into mind and extension; it is natural to treat the two as irreducible opposites.

«To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it - the element of the sacred».

, the irreducible complexity problem explained so clearly by md2205 (research the parts of the flagellum bacterium — amazing), probability of something happening — for the many years evolution has been studied and not a single example of a transitional fossil (please research before replying — there have been MANY confirmed fakes) or an evolutionary event in progress.

The review of Phillip E. Johnson's book The Wedge of Truth by Edward T. Oakes shows that the reviewer does not understand the concept of irreducible complexity without which the Intelligent Design movement can not be understood.

Others still, forced to acknowledge what is undoubtedly the fact, that the Gospels, every one of them and in every part of each, bear some trace of the community's response to and understanding of Jesus, seek rather feverishly to recover an irreducible minimum of objective historical fact by methods of literary and historical criticism applied with varying degrees of expertness.

Consequently the soul can only come into existence by the act which is called creation because it does not fashion from what is already there, but constitutes a new being in its irreducible uniqueness, and which therefore presupposes power absolutely independent of any datum, that is to say, God (Denzinger 2327).

Both have their own irreducible essential character, which can only be posited indivisibly, but can not be viewed as formed by the combination of other similar elementary parts.

It is also moderated some by our dedication to the proposition that all men are created equal, meaning that all persons are of infinite and irreducible worth.

There is an irreducible conflict, a radical opposition, between the creative operation of each of these qualities, corresponding each time to a thetic16 judgment, and the ambition that human consciousness can have of verifying them for itself, by itself.

It is unfortunately true that, contrary to his intention, that newspaper article has been understood by many in the US to be directly supportive of the so - called «intelligent design» hypothesis, which invokes divine design through the detection of instances of supposedly irreducible complexity (i.e. un-evolvable organisms).

... Irreducible complexity is a negative argument against evolution, not proof of design, a point conceded by defense expert Professor Minnich.»

I am more of a realist — it is highly unlikely that the universe with all its irreducible complexity and ultra precise design, not to mention our ever increasing plunge towards entropy, came to being by simple chance.

One can avoid a philosophy of simple coordination and a romantic conception of the absolute identity of nature by postulating God - and - the - world as a gestalt, that configuration which is irreducible to the sum of its parts.

Although Professor Behe is adamant in his definition of irreducible complexity when he says a precursor «missing a part is by definition nonfunctional,» what he obviously means is that it will not function in the same way the system functions when all the parts are present.

The data presented by our five senses appear to be so clear, distinct and irreducible that we scarcely recognize the experiential refining process prior to sense perception.

In cosmological description, however, we can not pretend that by coming upon some irreducible particle or pattern of particulate activity we will have reached a firm foundation for a philosophy of nature.

The question of which levels have the radical autonomy introduced by their own internal relations and which are irreducible only by virtue of the internal relations and actions characterizing their parts is always a factual one.

Neville's claim that Platonism is supported by a religious intuition of the «irreducible dualism between Form and chaos» (CG 67) in reality is simply unconvincing; every metaphysics acknowledges the contrast between order and disorder, but there is no reason to think that that contrast — as experienced — is any more genuine or vivid for a Platonist than for an Aristotelian.

To proclaim the criteria by which the Coming King will judge persons and nations, to exemplify those standards in the church as the new society, and to work for their recognition by the world — these are irreducible aspects of the Christian summons to the forgiveness of sins and new life, and to the lordship of the risen and returning King.

Theological education will be adequate to the irreducible pluralism of modes of experiences of God if it includes within the school itself a pluralism of modes of experience of God that are genuinely «other» by reason of different ethnic, sexual, racial, and social locations.

«To try to grasp the essence of such a phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it — the element of the sacred.»

The study «reveals more quantitatively how stress (both self - reported and measured with physiological arousal) is driven by... «irreducible uncertainty,» uncertainty about the state of the world that we can't control,» says Ross Otto, a neuroscientist at New York University.

He imagined that by inventing an alphabet of human thought — a system of characters for irreducible concepts — and then combining these in a calculus of reasoning, mathematicians would be able to solve all scientific and moral matters.

Similarly, in the fourth section, «The irreducible», we are told that, contrary to common intuition, some complicated systems can not be understood by breaking them down into simpler parts.

[To date, there are an increasing number of scientists who have long since departed from that scientific philosophy — and are seeking another more adequate explanation for the lack of transitional life forms in the fossil record or the increasing irreducible complexity of living things at the cellular level which appear to be by design rather than random modification.]

We might even say that James's paintings present us with a content that is irreducible to the individual or a given program, but which is nonetheless circumscribed by concerns about how identity is constructed through painting and its various modes of presentation.

I don't just mean resilience after the fact, but finding ways to incorporate this concept into how we plan, invest and behave, particularly because some of the biggest hard knocks we face are obscured by largely irreducible complexity and uncertainty.

Irreducible imprecision from dynamical complexity can only be asessed by a systematically designed family of models.

Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer.

It is characterized by multiple intersecting and uncertain future hazards to natural and human systems, that are expected to unfold over a very large range of spatial and temporal scales, and whose probabilities may be difficult, or in some cases impossible, to quantify precisely (because of intrinsic and / or irreducible uncertainties about the future).

If you accept that physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer, but in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind, the whole Dawkins playbook falters.

Somewhere the distiction need to be made what uncertainty is irreducible due to chaos and quantum mechanics, and what uncertainty can still be reduced by further gathering of data, better instrumentation, better control, and / or bayesian conditions.

Well, by the many decisions of the Supreme Court, with no state court deciding to the contrary, no state government can meet the «irreducible constitutional minimum» of standing to sue.