Sentences with phrase «fact of nature»

Mutual responsibilities are created for each member by the biological and psychological facts of our nature as sexual beings dependent upon one another.

This is one of the most fundamental facts of nature.

The erosion of the soil in areas that have been abused for their mineral wealth, the pollution of the air where poor people live, are not just facts of nature; what we have is an ethical judgement on the exploitation of natural resources by the rich at the expense of the poor.

This means that not only is structure present in the world in a sense analogous to that of mind, but those structures must be accessible to reason, that is, they are present or open to mind or reason in the realized fact of nature's web of interconnections (to borrow from Quine).

Peter Brown in analysing this and other texts from Tertullian writes that the «misogyny to which Tertullian appealed so insistently was, in his opinion, based on unalterable facts of nature: women were seductive, and Christian baptism did nothing to change this fact.»

Such an idea too easily leads to the view (the «epistemological» interpretation above) that chance is not a concrete fact of nature, since everything must be methodically planned in advance.

For a century and a half, Darwin's theory has steadfastly explained more disparate facts of nature than any other in the history of biology; the process itself is equally dogged, as Darwin explained: «It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers.»

Fighting back against the scourge of osteoporosis It is a simple fact of nature, at least for now, that the longer we live the more difficult it is for our bodies to replace our cells.

Although it's hard to decide what could knock you off your feet with more ease — smell of a wet dog or their breath, only one of these things can be an indicator of an actual problem, rather than just an unfortunate fact of nature.

The average layperson may have the belief that the SCC is an empirical fact of nature that scientists in white lab coats measure with their equipment.

«One of the most remarkable facts of nature is that certain processes take place in only one direction.

[20] Peter Brown in analysing this and other texts from Tertullian writes that the «misogyny to which Tertullian appealed so insistently was, in his opinion, based on unalterable facts of nature: women were seductive, and Christian baptism did nothing to change this fact.»

Just as the fact of nature and society grows hostile through injustice, so it will be restored to harmony through righteousness.

That Jesus is risen from the dead is a fact of nature.

[20] Religion is therefore a fact of nature and the intellect of man has always been God - dominated.

No two things in nature, PL said, are absolutely equal; mathematical entities are ideals, not facts of nature.

Sadly, when this approach is applied to the Book of Genesis, the profound theological insights which are communicated through its narratives can be lost, e.g. the stars, animals, plants, etc. in fact all of nature, is part of creation, that is, it is created by God, it is not a god (contrary to the pagan understanding of the natural world).

This tragic story of mismanagement, which has already cost so many lives, is due to letting decisions be influenced, not by the facts of nature, but by political propaganda.

Even though it flatly contradicts astronomy, geology and biology, Morris attempts to defend a literal reading of his textbook on the facts of nature: «The Bible teaches that the earth existed before the stars, that it was initially covered by water, that plant life preceded the sun, that the first animals created were the whales, that birds were made before insects, that man was made before woman.»

That can have tragic consequences for which there is ample evidence for those not blind to the facts of nature.

This «solution,» however, merely pushes the problem one step further back: Whence arises the order that is intrinsic to mind (which, as I have emphasized, is also a fact of nature)?

But it is reasonable to infer from the fact of nature's intrinsic continuity with our own mental experience that there must be at least a rudimentary type of feeling that binds all things to one another.

And religion as a fact of Nature and a necessity of Nature in human history logically precedes science.

How, in other words, might we be able to join our hope that they have abiding significance with the fact of nature's becoming and impermanence?

Indeed, the very division of the sexes, eloquently depicted in Genesis, and a fact of nature as studied by the sciences, was an event that occurred in view of the Christ to come.

Some of the youngest, brightest minds have been trapped in a 1970s intellectual framework because they are hypnotized into accepting old software designs as if they were facts of nature.

Maybe the imprecision of scientific titles is a sign that scientists have their priorities straight — a fact of nature elucidated is a fact of nature elucidated, whether it comes from a Senior Associate Scientist or a Principal Laboratory Technician.

Some have been shocked to belatedly discover there is no denying a fact of nature.

This isn't being racist, it's simply a fact of nature.

Racism is a «fact of nature», a universal characteristic of all humans, and «inevitable».

We consider summer vacation a fact of nature, but in the 1840s the school year in northeastern cities lasted more than 240 days.

As Clement Greenberg has pointed out, «The original French Fauves were usually ready to sacrifice the facts of nature for a happy decorative effect; whereas Dove, Arnold Friedman, Hartley, Marin and Avery... tended to let the decorative effects go when it threatened to depart too much from the facts.

This is a FACT of nature, As the Sun ages, it will get hotter.

The ABC, Fairfax and their subsidiaries are the ones in denial of the facts of Nature.

So I think there's the deliberate intentional teaching that educators do, but there's also just, just the fact of the nature of the relationship and the way the educator is, the kind of person he or she is, the ways they resolve conflicts, the ways they deal with their own strong feelings.