Sentences with phrase «explanations for why»

The movie ridicules both intense faith and, later, the impatience with which «enlightened» nonbelievers try to puncture that faith, and even attempts some bizarre, sometimes drug - fueled metaphysical explanations for why (most) humans can't see the food characters come to life.

They ask their listeners to participate in this cynicism as they grasp so falsely at explanations for why «we» are like this.

There are a number of possible explanations for why vaginal readings might dip, one being possible hormonal fluctuations or for some women their body may have attempted to gear up to ovulate and if it was not successful they may see another attempt.

I think what you need most is to go to someone who will take a very thorough history, i.e. LISTEN to your whole story; and then do some lab testing to check out various possible explanations for why you are frequently feeling fatigued.

This synergistic protection is but one of many potential explanations for why the health benefits of plant - based diets can not be replicated by nutrient supplements.

There are biological and physiological explanations for why seasonal shifts and the cooler temperatures and darker days of winter can leave you feeling less energetic, cause an irregular appetite, impact your sleep and make you feel down during the winter months.

They've just developed a nice self - enclosed system of explanations for why whatever they like to do — because it doesn't take much time or energy — is «best.»

In fact this is one of the explanations for why a pregnant woman goes into premature labor and they can't reverse it — they will empirically treat with high doses of steroids because they know the lung outcome of the infant is better.

Dr. Seppelt gives explanations for why many of the peak - year are synchronized — they occur at about the same time.

She points out that there are alternative explanations for why trees in New York were bigger, such as defensive reactions against pollution in which the plants produce antioxidants.

These data clearly demonstrate the flaws in several frequently offered explanations for why so few women hold science and engineering professorships.

Indeed, string theorists have come up with more fundamental explanations for why only three of the nine spatial dimensions the theory posits should have expanded to observably large size — explanations that make no reference to the possibility or impossibility of creatures like us being around.

But he agrees with DiCicco - Bloom that there are alternative explanations for why the mice changed their behavior — for example, «maybe bacteria are activating nerves in the gut that are communicating with the brain,» he says.

«We were surprised because these are the traditional explanations for why married women are more conservative and Republican,» said Kretschmer.

The study, which used information from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a joint effort by Princeton and Columbia universities, did not produce conclusive explanations for why young Hispanic women were less likely to gain too much weight during pregnancy compared with non-Hispanic women.

So, the session that I went to with those guys and then few other sessions tried to, sort of, tease this out a little bit more and come up with explanations for why this has happened.

«There are many potential explanations for why measles virus proteins can't tolerate insertional mutations, from changing protein stability to changing the structure or function of the proteins,» Heaton says.

«That information would help narrow down the possible explanations for why this star is doing such strange things.»

Song compared two competing theories for how the status of the people we know affect our mental health, as well as two cultural explanations for why that mental health effect can vary across society.

Some climate change deniers have taken encouragement from the pause, saying they show warming predictions are flawed, but Mann, a co-author on the study, notes that «there have been various explanations for why [the slowdown is happening], none of which involve climate models being fundamentally wrong.»

If the space - time jitter is there, Hogan says it could underpin entirely new explanations for why the expansion of our universe is accelerating, something traditionally attributed to the little understood phenomenon of dark energy.

Civil war has nearly broken out among neuropsychologists over this issue, so let me tread lightly here — I will simply say that I have seen no scientific evidence for how such recovered memories might work, no supposed cases of it documented to be legitimate in a way that should satisfy a rigorous scientist, and plenty of scientific explanations for why various claims have not been legitimate.

The usual explanations for why House Speaker Paul Ryan refuses to endorse Donald Trump involve everything from a personal dispute to policy differences.

They offered a range of explanations for why the Conservatives were able to take the seat — from the interventions by Lord Mandelson and Mr Blair in the week before the by - election, to media coverage of Mr Corbyn's previous comments opposing nuclear power.

Based on our internet panel, we previously examined five possible explanations for why the polls went wrong and...

If a tantrum happens after your child is refused something, stay calm and don't give a lot of explanations for why your child can't have what he wants.

Harold said there are a few explanations for why smoking may influence later conduct, including that babies of mothers who smoke may be born smaller or have impaired brain development.

You employ one of these top 10 explanations for why you're so svelte and happy (because those two always go together)-- regardless of if they're true or not.

There are a couple explanations for why favorites would succeed in the first game of the second half.

When I initially wrote this survey, I had about 20 questions, and also had room for people to leave feedback and explanations for why they answered as they did.

«Historians in the future will offer their own explanations for why this happened,» he said, and went on to anticipate their speculations.

it is one of the better explanations for why much of methodology can't work due to cultural disconnect between people.

Explanations for why I see some of your comments as supporting the abusers and heaping onto victims — is «hostile»?

The stories and belief systems changed and evolved over time but before the scientific method came into play, there was little reason not to accept the religious explanations for why the world was the way it was.

What the media usually fails to tell us is that there are numerous quality and convincing explanations for why these are not the bones of the Jesus and Mary of Scripture.

Science classrooms need to teach the controversy — that there are alternate explanations for why things fall the way they do.

There are many possible explanations for why such a person would hate Catholics, but one of the most plausible is that he used to be one.

As for the other two, here are brief explanations for why I believe them: (1) From both internal and external evidence it is highly likely that the writings have passed through many editors, and some probably were compilations of previous writings or even merely sayings.

And just as we have explanations for why our Bible is historically accurate, they have similar explanations for theirs.

There are far more reasonable explanations for why people believe in gods and form religions.

There are all sorts of other explanations for why a people might have such behavior.

Once they imagine a god or a set of gods who are responsible or these things it's almost inevitable that they'll try to come up with explanations for why those gods do the stuff they do.

There were no clear explanations for why they could not sign a fiduciary contract and agree to standards of impartial conduct or agree to charge reasonable fees.

There are a variety of explanations for why corporations aren't investing in their workers or business operations and are increasingly valuing shareholders instead.

While we don't subscribe to facile explanations for why the markets do what they do on any given day, we're sure that policy uncertainty is playing its part.

Behavioral finance is a relatively new field that seeks to combine behavioral and cognitive psychological theory with conventional economics and finance to provide explanations for why people make irrational financial decisions.

There are a couple of possible explanations for why Apple is defying expectations without any truly innovative, new products.

The team offered several possible explanations for why this might be so.

The Kremlin and the White House have provided conflicting explanations for why Kushner met with Gorkov.

An explanation for why big business is so captivated by the capabilities of blockchain technology.