Sentences with phrase «explanation was at hand»

Scientists will doubt even the best set of data if they can not explain it, but at least one plausible explanation was at hand.

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Add to all of this the positive comments from execs at the late 2016 all - hands meeting, and you can understand why Quidsi employees are confused by Amazon's explanation for the decision.

When I feel moved by the creations around me, I am astounded at natures ability to exist — simply, with clear explanation, symmetry and logic — on it's own without interference by a higher hand.

But, on the other hand, it is quite unjustified for theists to hold that we must tolerate or swallow the paradoxes or explain them away (by feats of ingenuity so subtle, and verbal methods so remote from intuitive insight or definite logical structures, that only deity could know with any assurance what was taking place), giving as justification the claim that the alternative position of atheism is even more paradoxical (lacking, it may be urged, any principle of cosmic explanation at all).

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Here was an explanation of evil ready at hand for the Jews to accept, and the wonder is that, within the confines of the Old Testament, its influence is so slight.

Does Cobb's diagnosis and prognosis so privilege historical and theological modes of explanation that something much closer at hand is missed, namely religious insti tutional dynamics?

Ironically, Whitehead had at hand an alternative explanation for societies as principles of continuity in a changing world in his passing remarks in Process and Reality to the effect that «a society is, for each of its members, an environment with some element of order in it, persisting by reason of the genetic relations between its own members» (90).

On the other hand, we have seen some awful games from the Gunners before which have not been at the end of a transfer window, so do you accept Wenger's explanation or is it just a convenient excuse?

Optimists on the other hand, are better at finding explanations for bad events, which allows them to «pick themselves up and try again.»

The authors fails to give any theoretical explanation for what complication of planned attended homebirth, that is not present at planned hospital birth could account for 1 in every 625 homebirths dying during labor at the hands of licensed doctors and midwives.

We spent days in a fog of relief and drunk with joy looking at her and simply not really hearing any explanations about the moments before she breathed because we were too fascinated and relieved with the life now in our hands.

In a recently published paper, we show that an important part of the explanation is that the Social Democrats have become unable to reconcile the demands of two groups of voters that have traditionally sup - ported them: on the one hand labour market «outsiders,» who have insecure jobs or no jobs at all; on the other hand labour market «insiders» with stable employment.

I've been equally as frustrated with video games that excessively hold your hand, and that are so paranoid you won't realize you can do x, y, or z, that they beat you over the head with intrusive text, explanations and tutorials (here's looking at you, Skyward Sword).

All of this is entirely consistent with the reliable evidence at hand and it is a lot simpler explanation.

On the other hand, where the path taken by the trial judge through confused or conflicting evidence is not at all apparent, or there are difficult issues of law that need to be confronted but which the trial judge has circumnavigated without explanation, or where (as here) there are conflicting theories for why the trial judge might have decided as he or she did, at least some of which would clearly constitute reversible error, the appeal court may in some circumstances consider itself unable to give effect to the statutory right of appeal.

But after watching a more in - depth technical explanation of the technology at Apple's follow - up Platforms State of the Union, I'm starting to wonder if Apple has a new «pinch to zoom» on its hands: a technology that doesn't just allow for multitouch devices to compete with point - and - click desktop experiences, but in a way, it surpasses them.

This might seem counter intuitive at first; one possible explanation is that these repeat and higher income buyers have first - hand experience with the last housing correction and have become more cautious.