It's just that open theists are so confident in God's intelligence that we don't think God would have to foreknow
an event as a certainty to guarantee this.
Not exact matches
Not only are the meager materials in the Gospels which deal with his earlier life obviously legendary and late, but even within the brief compass of his public career no
certainty is possible
as to the order of
events and little
as to the historicity of a great many particular
events.
Once this ultimate structure of divine - human communion has been actualized in the life of Christ, tried, purged, and refined in the crucible of the Way of the Cross, and given the double - sided efficacy to which we have referred subsequent to the
events of Resurrection and Pentecost, the new aeon is present with a power and
certainty as great
as the size of God and the constancy of the divine love — that is to say,
as great
as a process - relational model of real contingency in the divine - worldly ecosystem will allow, given God's excellence and pre-eminence within that ecosystem.
But it is precisely not «this stone» which,
as a simple
event» or a «simple object,» makes possible this individual sense
certainty and the communication of truth which is built upon this
certainty; rather, it is the structure of the world «embodied» by the stone which performs this task.
The implication of the new subatomic physics was that
certainty was replaced by probability, or the notion of tendencies rather than absolutes: «we can never predict an atomic
event with
certainty; we can only predict the likelihood of its happening»... This directly contradicts the mechanistic model we explored above, and it implies that a subject such
as normal birth needs to be looked at
as a whole rather than its parts...»
I «ve worked at her
events, sent my clients to her
as a coach, and shared business ideas, and I can say with
certainty, that she «s got a level of integrity that is impossible to surpass.
In this example, the inspection is the «future
event or circumstance that can not be predicted with
certainty,»
as stated in the definition above.
As much as we crave certainty, it rarely exists, and it definitely does not exist in the world of financial markets where returns are driven by events that can not be consistently forecaste
As much
as we crave certainty, it rarely exists, and it definitely does not exist in the world of financial markets where returns are driven by events that can not be consistently forecaste
as we crave
certainty, it rarely exists, and it definitely does not exist in the world of financial markets where returns are driven by
events that can not be consistently forecasted.
This calculator can not predict your final superannuation benefit with
certainty because this will depend on your personal circumstances including unexpected
events in your life and external factors such
as investment earnings, tax and inflation.
However, I don't agree that Al Gore is sensationalizing hurricanes — what Gore is saying is certainly in the realm of possibilities, and although Gore's general message is dead on (and I do think is being confirmed by
events such
as rapid arctic melting), I don't expect 100 %
certainty in his predictions (especially since it seems that the lessening of snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro isn't due to global warming.
On another subject, now that we know from Al Gore's researches, that our SUVs, which keep raising the CO2 levels at Mauna Loa, are the direct cause of the Mediaeval Warm Period (remember that was just 800 years before the present rising CO2
event); we can predict with near
certainty, that when everybody who signed on to the Kyoto accords, meets their obligations, resulting in a coming dearth of atmospheric CO2, that is going to directly cause an
event which will become known
as the little ice age which happened in the 1600 to 1840 time range.
You'd be amazed at how many politicians (and I'm thinking of politicians specifically here) take the lack of
certainty in the outcome of an
event as a justification for doing whatever sounds really good to them at that particular moment in time.
Some researchers identified continued mortality
as late
as October 2007 [15], beyond which it was difficult to attribute further mortalities to this bleaching
event with sufficient
certainty.
While most scientists believe extreme weather
events will be more frequent
as heat - trapping carbon dioxide emissions cause global temperatures to rise, Baddour said it was impossible to say with
certainty what the second half of 2007 will bring.
Energy market projections are subject to much uncertainty,
as many of the
events that shape energy markets and future developments in technologies, demographics, and resources can not be foreseen with
certainty.
As I said above, there are many past climate
events for which we lack the data to explain with
certainty, and this is just one of them.
While you can't scientifically attach a single
event to a climate trend, you can predict with reasonable
certainty that such
events will take place
as the climate shifts into further warming.
To the extent that policy makers (such
as those controlling the dam in Queensland) are convinced of that
certainty, foreseeable severe weather
events become unforeseeable (to those policy makers), with sometimes catastrophic consequences.
The longer between an
event and trial, the more unreliable the testimony becomes,
as the brain's need to make sense of history and rationalize past behavior can put
certainty around a recollection that at the time was uncertain.
Whilst this approach provides
certainty that the transaction will operate
as intended, this inherent lack of flexibility can present difficulties when unexpected
events occur such
as:
TheJudge Canada is a market leader in the placement of Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice Litigation Insurance (also known
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certainty and clarity.
(In negligence law, past
events are treated
as as certainties once held probable.)
But the thing is that the cryptocurrency market has so many twists and turns (after all, that's why there's so much potential in the coins
as speculative investments) that even with all the data in the world on hand, there's no
certainty that a split or hacking or news
event won't derail your prediction one way or the other.
The dictionary defines a contingency
as «a future
event or circumstance that is possible but can not be predicted with
certainty.»