Sentences with phrase «called irreducible»

This omnipresent fact of science is called irreducible uncertainty, because it can never be entirely eliminated.

This is called irreducible complexity — and you can't have a cell spontaneously appear via evolution having billions of functions working — it either all works at once together or it dies.

Not exact matches

That calls for a vaginal theology and a phallic theology, at the very least, which will regard as significant, central and irreducible data for theological reflection the experience of being female or male, including but not confined to genital sexuality.

George Orwell, in his famous essay on Dickens, saw in this philosophical and moral muddle not a weakness but a strength, a generosity of spirit, an openness to the irreducible complexity of mankind's moral situation, an immunity to what he called «the smelly little orthodoxies that are now contending for our souls.»

Seriousness of purpose; the need for measure, endurance, foresight, and self - control; life's irreducible complexity and the hard choices that entails are all things our universities, and those within them who call themselves humanists, should be trying to convey.

So perhaps the intelligent designers might join Darwinian Larry in calling ME too existentialist, although John in his brilliant musings on friendship below actually is right in saying that all I'm saying is that there's an irreducible Augustinian dimension to who we are.

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).

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).

For Aristotle, the family is what Reilly nicely calls the «primary and irreducible element of society.»

Tom Wright calls it the «irreducible minimum», without which this is not the gospel, we are not saved, and without believing, living and sharing this we are not the Church.

But once the interview has passed, you're stuck with irreducible uncertainty — that endless wait for the call that may never come.

It's that irreducible uncertainty — the fact that the job applicant just doesn't know if he's got the job until the call comes through, and there's nothing he can do about it — that really gets to us.

It is called «irreducible imprecision» and has been known about since Edward Lorenz plied his convection models in the 1960's.