Sentences with phrase «cherished beliefs»

Their predictions — based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans — challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy's most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.

Certainly the author shows that most of the cherished beliefs of the climate alarmist clique are wrong.

When your cherished beliefs come under threat there is a tendency to — shall we say, over-react.

From Carl Sagan's magnificent Cosmos episode, «Harmony of the Worlds», about Johannes Kepler, he says of Kepler: «When he found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts.

For someone who pioneered runaway CO2 greenhouse effects (Venus) and human catastrophes (Nuclear winter), AGW would have become one of his long cherished beliefs.

''... or someone who pioneered runaway CO2 greenhouse effects (Venus) and human catastrophes (Nuclear winter), AGW would have become one of his long cherished beliefs.»

In the last few years, discussions of the Anthropocene (the new geological epoch shaped by human activities that we are living in) have begun to re-evaluate some cherished beliefs of modernity, not least the assumption that planetary geography is the given context for the human drama.

All break throughs in science involve going off road, non linear, yet academia tries so hard to keep that from happening because it turns «facts» upside down, rather throwing cherished beliefs into the wind and all directions and so becomes personally threatening to those in whatever chosen field.

It's been my experience that people routinely use heuristics - biases (Tversky & Kahneman) but those cognitive processes may not (I'm not clear on this) involve the active suppression of ideas that occurs in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC), where dissonant ideas are weighed and improperly discarded in order to preserve the integrity of pre-existing cherished beliefs.

But does the work really «challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy's most deeply cherished beliefs», as the Mail would have it?

Or, if they are true believers, they fail to ask critical questions that might challenge their cherished beliefs.

And I discovered that one by one my cherished beliefs about GM turned out to be little more than green urban myths.

Roosevelt had handpicked Taft as his political successor, but when Taft compromised many of Roosevelt's most cherished beliefs, Roosevelt ran against him for the presidency — a decision with consequences that still echo in our own time.

Here, in the service of the man eventually known as Mao Zedong, Bethune contends with Nationalist and Japanese enemies and begins this account of failed loves, cherished beliefs, discoveries, and reversals for the only person who still makes a future seem possible: the daughter he has never seen.

A companion book, 50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education, by David C. Berliner and Gene V. Glass is an academic cannon aimed directly at the most cherished beliefs of private sector forces and right - wing intellectuals.

Because among my most cherished beliefs is that, while I disagree with everything you have to say, I will defend to the death your right to say it.

In a way, I mean, that's largely what this community of explorers and investigators at ChrisKresser.com is all about, continuing to challenge even our cherished beliefs, like the idea that — not that this was a cherished belief for me, but sacred cows, let's say, like the idea that legumes aren't paleo and shouldn't be eaten because they have toxins in them.

Science reserves the highest reward for those of you who disprove our most cherished beliefs.

Others are starker, including increased physical aggression towards anyone critical of one's cherished beliefs.

Sometimes you may feel — and your child may loudly protest — that you're the only parent making a certain decision, but you need to true to your cherished beliefs.

Why women continue to hold on to cherished beliefs in the face of tragedy: why midwives do not fall apart when there is a poor outcome but rally around each other in solidarity, leaving the woman and her family bereft.

Fundamentalism is what many people turn to when they are frightened of challenges to existing values and cherished beliefs, and when alternative leadership falters.

@Christine, It's difficult to say I respect someone when I KNOW their most cherished beliefs and deepest parts of their identities are nothing but vile, intolerant, disrespectful, repugnant, repressive, primitive, murdering, raping, genocidal, and misogynistic.

And I would posit that it's difficult to say you respect someone when you think their most cherished beliefs and deepest parts of their identies are nothing but vile, intolerant, disrespectful, repugnant, repressive, primitive, murdering, raping, genocidal, and misogynistic.

His loyalty to Israel's cherished beliefs therefore took the form of critique and renovation from within; of challenge to traditions and institutions whose true purpose he believed... had been grievously corrupted and distorted.»

He knows how to play on the people's most cherished beliefs.

Issue after issue, Charlie Hebdo mocks, not vice and folly (which are fair game), but many people's most deeply held and cherished beliefs, including their religious convictions.

Many of our most cherished beliefs have gone by the board.

Whereas we ordinarily seek the transcendent to ratify our cherished beliefs, the God of Jesus Christ is opposed to the idols we make of self, nation, race or economic production.

Which means we're going to be pushed and poked on our most cherished beliefs about the Doctor, I imagine.

Our most cherished beliefs about women and men and how they should relate to each other are being challenged and are crumbling around us.

There is no underlying core to human beings, no ultimate basis for our most cherished beliefs, not even any final goal on which all our yearnings and searchings will eventually converge.

All this is to be carried on in the spirit of irony whereby we also face up to the realization that all of our most cherished beliefs and desires are themselves mere products of time and chance.

Even my very conservative Roman Catholic brother gave me kudos when I said that if nothing else, as a Baptist, my two cherished beliefs were in soul liberty and seperation of church and state... so, if god was there and I was completly wrong not to believe in him, then at least he knew every step of my journey, and in the end my salvation, or lack of it, was between me and god.

«A country indifferent to such a question would probably be a country that no longer cherished any beliefs deeply enough to care whether they were transgressed.

More than the assessment, what influenced me the most is this systematic approach to thinking where you decimate your cherished beliefs.

«I do find it a puzzling quality of liberal Christians that they tend to get excited when something that had been a cherished belief or practice of the Church is shown to have been false,» says Rod Dreher, commenting on a new book by a Notre Dame historian who says that the early Church's stories of martyrdom were false.

Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son to be closer to God is religion's equivalent of Feynman's ideal scientist who leans over backwards to prove that he has not been fooled by clinging to a cherished belief.

Not exact matches

Not in a confrontational and dysfunctional way, but in a way that challenges your beliefs and forces you to rethink your most cherished pearls of wisdom.

The abnormalities of atheistic beliefs are in today's timelines littering profusely many cherished religious societies whose fundamentalisms have been a social consistency for many good years... Even though I am distasteful of today's religions in that they are usurping the least wealthy, I see their mismanaging of financial dexterities due each religion's hierarchies needing more money for themselves than for their communal poor folks...

They enter into a time of darkness and confusion, and many of the beliefs they cherish fall under a severe and sometimes deserved...

I wonder if we would be doing the work we do now as a family if we hadn't chosen each other instead of our hero complex or our cherished outcomes or our beliefs.

They have been the cherished heritage of the Hindus for three thousand years; they are to the present day interwoven with the thoughts and beliefs and the moral ideas of a nation.

My mothers a preacher and my father cherishes Buddhist beliefs.

Some individuals find it necessary to modify or discard the ancient confessions of belief, while the Church as a whole continues to be able to assert them in their original form and in the sense in which they were first drawn up; or, the majority may gradually abandon them while certain individuals continue to find them useful and to cherish them.

Why indeed do «Christians» so freely engage in back - stabbing, kicking their own when they're down and behaving like someone murdered a child when all they did was question some cherished religious doctrine or political belief (perhaps the ultimate heresy) of the group.

In the same spirit, one supposes, are the notions that if men really cherished moral truth, they would suppress all beliefs that they considered wrong, and that if men still cared about the....

My own family and the people from my barrio have been my basic formation team and it is from them that I have acquired my most cherished values, beliefs and religious expressions.

Though some of my fellow church folk may wonder that it could be so, I must affirm that it is my belief in the authority of Scripture which led me to the schools I attended, to the beliefs I cherish, to the ministry of teaching I enjoy, to the theological method I apply.

Although social surveys indicate that roughly 80 percent of Americans believe in life after death, it is a belief cherished against the grain of perceived official skepticism; and among academically trained religious thinkers, one finds a greater measure of skepticism than in the population at large.