Sentences with phrase «complex than our theory»

This may be granted at once, but then the point has to be made that the literary relationships between the texts of the synoptic gospels are more complex than any theory of direct relationship imagines.

Keisler describes complexity as the range of things that can happen in a theory — and theories where more things can happen are more complex than theories where fewer things can happen.

Behavior is more complex than the theory proposes.

For example, the links between parenting and schemas are far more complex than our theory predicts.

Not exact matches

goes through this long exposition of how those who attack ID as a religious theory encroaching on science are simple minded and that ID is somehow more complex than that betrays their own beliefs.

However, science has shown repeatedly that future data often supports more complex theories than existing data.

But science can not prove that we are no more than highly complex and evolved parcels of matter — indeed, as we have seen, it can not even pose this as a theory without undermining itself.

The discoveries of Copernicus and the atomic theory are instances of this, and so was romanticism, with its discovery that the human subject is richer and more complex than enlightenment or idealism had allowed, and nationalism, with its new realization of the importance of history and the tradition of peoples.

In the first chapter of Modes of Thought, Whitehead states that it is no less the task of philosophy to set out what he calls»... notions of large, adequate generality» (MT 3) than it is to construct complex systematic theories.

Quantum Mechanics is WAY weirder and more complex than, say, evolution (though I like how you threw the big bang in there — separate theories, dude), but you won't really hear any religious nuts complaining about the exact same process that gives us QM because it doesn't conflict with their ancient mythology.

«We discovered we're not really sure, but heres some wils a ** guesses» is what they seem to amount to, and no different than the one comment about religion trying to baffle everyone with such complex theories.

In one important way, Intelligent Design's argument is in a much weaker position than traditional cosmological arguments, for empirical results in biology could show that the mechanisms of neo-Darwinism are sufficient to explain the existence of complex biological forms, and in this case the motivation for Intelligent Design's theory would collapse.

Whether it's the more basic concepts the seasoned veterans take for granted or complex theories on identifying an edge, social media has bridged the gap between novices and professionals faster than I ever could have anticipated.

The 1980s African debt crisis was created by a variety of factors (much more complex than the commonly attributed «poor African leadership» theory), including irresponsible over-lending by private creditors seeking high returns, the tendency towards one product commodity economies, the targeting of developing countries for high interest loans, the global monetary shock of 1979 - 81, trade protectionism in Northern countries, the depreciation of the US dollar, the prolonged drought of 1981 - 84, among other factors (see African Debt Revisited).

Shermer's article is a shallow and tendentious treatment of a complex subject that does not take proper account of rebuttals to critical attacks on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, in which a comet strike more than 12,000 years ago caused the megafaunal extinction in North America, and misrepresents the state of the argument around my theory that this event wiped out an advanced human society as well.

With standard quantum theory, scientists struggle to predict the exact behavior of anything much more complex than a hydrogen atom.

The fatal flaw of the theory that vitamin A causes osteoporis is paradigmatic: the general approach to nutrition that looks at vitamins as isolated chemicals acting in a vacuum, rather than foods — grand, complex associations of many chemicals that all act in concert — can only bear so much fruit before faltering.

Trying to juggle complex theories of metaphysics and cosmology with simple themes of self - acceptance and the deterioration of the «darkness,» A Wrinkle in Time comes off as a disjointed and miscalculated project, rather than a visual and contemplative journey.

The theory, by the way, is contradicted by at least three other characters, who either have no knowledge of Keller's wrongdoing or, when confronted by the extremity of it, turn their back on it (Even in their limited roles, all of them, especially Franklin and Nancy, are more sympathetic and complex than Keller).

Economists like to talk about equilibrium, because that allows them to publish their complex math papers, but economies are big on variation, things are far more volatile than theory can admit.

While many contemporary artists do utilize complex theories about art, there are other ways to understand art than theories.

General Relativity is far more complex than anything devised by Newton, but it very elegantly accounts for much more of the evidence than Newton's theories.

However, Feynman is no help either, because most of the systems we are interested in are sufficiently complex than any experimental result requires interpretation within the framework of thousands of other results, which are usually more conveniently summarised in terms of theories.

However, the fundamental argument of the AGW theory is that this trace gas (at slightly less than 0.04 % or 400 ppm) is THE key ingredient to controlling a massively complex system such as climate.

We have been focused on climate models rather than on climate dynamics and theory that is needed to understand the effects of the sun on climate, the network of natural internal variability on multiple time scales, the mathematics of extreme events, and the predictability of a complex system characterized by spatio - temporal chaos.

`... rather than on climate dynamics and theory that is needed to understand the effects of the sun on climate, the network of natural internal variability on multiple time scales, the mathematics of extreme events, and predictability of a complex system characterized by spatio - temporal chaos.

I also regret that the Court... missed the opportunity to analyse in more detail the concept of a plurality of legal systems, which is linked to that of legal pluralism and is well - established in ancient and modern legal theory and practice... This general remark also applies to the assessment to be made of sharia, the legal expression of a religion whose traditions go back more than a thousand years, and which has its fixed points of reference and its excesses, like any other complex system.

Within the context of complexity theory, chaos refers to the interaction of cells in an unbelievably complex way to create life, more complexity possibly than the human mind can fathom.

But as is often the case, theory and practice diverge — and the Dhar brothers discovered that the pro bono cases were far more complex than anticipated.

The theory that recruiting great employees is highly difficult is true, but what if your firm was making the recruitment process more complex than it had to be?

Marriage and family therapists are trained in the systems theory of psychology, which views the complex interpersonal dynamics of familial and intimate relationships rather than any one individual as the source of dysfunction.