Sentences with phrase «claims of religion»

That there is no evidence for the supernatural claims of any religion?

They also demonstrated that neuroscience is becoming increasingly important for thinking about some of the basic claims of religion.

Both the cognitive claims of religion and its living practice must be grounded in experience.

Asking enough «questions that don't have predetermined answers» will lead you far away from the ridiculously specific claims of religion and into a more compassionate, enlightened, realistic frame of mind.

But one may still question, I think, whether, prior to the emergence of the modem scientific world - picture and the sharp differentiation of the nonempirical claims of religion and metaphysics from the strictly empirical claims of science and ordinary language, these difficulties could be felt as acutely as most of us feel them today.

All these fanciful claims of religion don't spell anything for me.»

But the claims of religion which touch upon things which can be observed and tested in the real world can be proven true or untrue as the evidence for or against those things is discovered.

------------------------ There's a systemmatic approach in taking the claims of any religion and testing them for validity.

The gradual dilution of sustained religious catechism in churches and synagogues means that young people often make their first serious contact with the claims of religion not in the presence or a committed pastor, rabbi or parish priest, but in the classroom of a university or college professor of religion.

The gradual dilution of sustained religious catechism in churches and synagogues means that young people often make their first serious contact with the claims of religion not in the presence or a committed pastor, rabbi or parish priest, but in the...

People of a skeptical disposition commonly suppose that because modern science has provided them with a reason to disbelieve the claims of religion, or because they think it has, modern science must therefore be the generating force behind secularization itself ¯ that historical progression, evident in the West since the Renaissance, in which habits and institutions are less and less influenced by religious doctrine.

It could be that they've examined the claims of religion, found them to be hollow and lacking credibility, so they've abandoned the idea of organized religion as having the answers it claims to have.

The claims of religion and science would get the same weight, but nothing could be taught as the truth.