Sentences with phrase «for order in a universe»

I believe God exists, because I think he is one part of the best explanation for the order in the universe, because I have considered and trust the testimony of other believers, and because I think there are times in my life when I have perceived God's presence.

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Thanos, a.k.a. the Mad Titan, is on the hunt for the Infinity Stones — the Space Stone, the Reality Stone, the Power Stone, the Soul Stone and the Time Stone — in order to control and, in his twisted mind, save the universe.

The universe that has been made dissonant also requires reenchantment, therefore, in order for us to participate in an otherness that is not finally cacophony but symphony, a complex interlocking of likenesses and differences that form an immensely complex but finally redemptive Whole.

For example, the seeming unlimited number of galaxies (with each containing anywhere from an estimated 10 to 500 billion stars) and the precise order that exists within the universe, and the shear distance between stars (an average about 4.2 light years or about 25 trillion miles), has caused some to stop and look in awe.

Most physicists acknowledge that chance and probability can not account for the knife - edge values of the fundamental constants of the universe that produce order rather than chaos in the cosmos.

There is ultimate truth, and if our lives are not ordered to that truth then our lives, and ultimately society, will be disordered because it is not grounded in truth: «Truth must consequently be the ultimate end of the whole universe... for the first author and mover of the universe is an intellect... and the ultimate end of the universe must, therefore, be the ground of the intellect.

Stoicism offers an obvious example: a vision of the universe as a fated, eternally repeated divine and cosmic history, a world in which finite forms must constantly perish simply in order to make room for others, and which in its entirety is always consumed in a final ecpyrosis (which makes a sacrificial pyre, so to speak, of the whole universe).

Has life on earth labored along for two or three billion years in lonesome struggle eventually to eke out by accident the human species which has to gather itself together in various fragile social arrangements in order to protect itself from the intolerable muteness of the universe?

The order and harmony of the universe indicate that there is a «givenness» of relevant eternal objects for each actual occasion in the temporal process.

For top - down politics is the only way, in an inherently chaotic moral universe, to achieve social order.

He concludes that it is impossible for us to attain a knowledge of those causes, since in order to do so we would have to penetrate the entire nexus of causes operative in the universe.

I find burnt toast to be great for a hangover, which is obviously proof that the judeo - christian god does indeed exist and created everything in the universe thousands of years ago in perfect order, even though there are trees older than the universe...

In order for the universe to create itself, it would already have to exist.

There is incredible evidence for order and an order maker in the universe.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

The physical laws of the universe fall within very narrow ranges in order for life (or even matter) to exist, suggesting some level of design.

But because the Church successfully evolved, because believers were willing change their minds about the structure of the universe in order for their faith to makes sense in a modern world, what was once considered heretical is now embraced as scientific fact.

«In the beginning was the Word» (i.e. Greek for that which gives order and meaning to the universe).

Thus, in order to make a place for freedom in the universe, Hartshorne denies that perfect knowledge must include knowledge of the future.

Secondly, if you're looking for me to explain EVERYTHING about the universe (and anything that might be outside it) in order to believe in a creator that's just not going to happen.

For one, the universe may only appear to have order, just as causation may only appear to actually exist, when in fact any given event may be said to have unlimited causes and we only limit are decision on what «truly» caused something to GIVE order to the universe — think about all the finger pointing that goes on every time something unexpected happens.

5 This is a remarkable anticipation of Whitehead's view in Process and Reality that God's primordial ordering of the world's possibilities (the eternal objects) is the ultimate source of novelty in an emergent universe, except that Thornton understands these possibilities to be everlasting rather than timeless.6 This reification of what for Whitehead is purely possible, needing concrete embodiment in the actual world, leads Thornton to conceive of the eternal order as absolutely actual in its unchangeableness, identical with God.

So, for example, Thales of Miletus is reputed to have said that «it is necessary that there should be some nature, either one or more than one, out of which arise the features of things»; and several of the Pre-Socratics speak of principles that explain the order and patterns of movement in the universe.

Open your eyes & see the beauty of a sunset, the colour & viariety seen in flora & fauna, the order in the universe, the intricacy of the human brain c / w hardwiring of a sense of fairness & empathy, the conscience & the love we are capable of demonstrating for others!

(Isaiah 40:17, Daniel 4:35, Isaiah 42:1, Matthew 3:17, 17:5, Ephesians 5:2) And in order that He might demonstrate His love, and to bring glory and honor, and praise to Himself, and in order to demonstrate His relative attributes of mercy, grace, justice, and loving - kindness, He devised a plan in eternity past to create a universe where His creation would rebel against Him, and He would send forth His Son to the world to be born of a virgin, to live a perfect and sinless life, and to die a subst.itutionary death on a cross, shedding His blood for the forgiveness of sins.

«Ordering the world at a spontaneous level of story telling implies that the search for coherence in the universe is not futile; it testifies to a primal conviction that reality lays itself open to being ordered in a comprehensible way» (John Navone, Towards a Theology of Story [Slough, England: St. Paul Publications, 1977], 39).

Do you believe that there has to be «something» that always existed, does exist and will always exist in order for this planet, universe, life and everything that goes with it to have originate?

J. Henry Waugh is indeed a «nut,» for he loses himself in his own ordered universe, a baseball association complete with statistics, history and probabilities.

Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses, in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «in order to confirm... the claim that the integrity of personal experience itself, based as it is in the significance and value of individual men and women and the ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of hope who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»

It's like how the Ancient Greek pre-Socratics believed that Atomsim had to be true because there had to be a most fundamental matter in order for the universe to have meaning definitive of truth.

For Hartshorne, much of the usual argument for personal immortality seems to reduce to a sort of «dog - in - the - manger attitude to the universe; and since the basic drive through the entire created order is unselfish action towards fuller good, this attitude appears to him to be in flat contradiction to the purpose of creatiFor Hartshorne, much of the usual argument for personal immortality seems to reduce to a sort of «dog - in - the - manger attitude to the universe; and since the basic drive through the entire created order is unselfish action towards fuller good, this attitude appears to him to be in flat contradiction to the purpose of creatifor personal immortality seems to reduce to a sort of «dog - in - the - manger attitude to the universe; and since the basic drive through the entire created order is unselfish action towards fuller good, this attitude appears to him to be in flat contradiction to the purpose of creation.

Understanding God as a force which creates and orders the universe, for instance, may invite a notion of God as all - powerful and in control.

But such congruity is possible only if this principle of order is at the same time understood as a constant source of novelty as well.5 For it is in the influx of novelty into our universe that those deviations from order, regularity and tranquillity that we loosely refer to as «chance» occurrences take place.

By adventure is meant the universe's search for continually more intense forms of ordered novelty.18 Ever since the «Big Bang» the cosmos has evolved in such a way that, little by little, more organized complexity has appeared, at least at certain points.

It augments the general drive for good; it contributes, as we may dare to say, to the energies of love that are at God's disposal in his ordering of the onward movement of creative advance in the universe.

In order for evolution to be true science would have to prove that no other intelligent life has existed in this universIn order for evolution to be true science would have to prove that no other intelligent life has existed in this universin this universe.

How comforting that must be for people who must believe in God in order to explain the randomness of the universe.

As Nikolaus Lobkowicz points out, «One only has to forget for a second that for Scotus the ultimate secret of will, and thus of practice, is love, in order to be reminded of statements such as: the only knowledge able to reach God is practical, not theoretical (Kant); the only source of meaning in the whole universe is praxis (Marx).»

For this was the first time matter was wrenched from that properly ordered relationship with God which characterized the universe in its fundamental control and direction.

The religious conviction that the universe is at heart, in its transcendent depths, a graceful, caring, enlivening environment is in a different order of discourse from scientific hypotheses concerning, for example, how species evolved or how matter is converted into energy.

Through these scenes, order is maintained in the otherwise extremely chaotic Fast Furious universe, familial bonds are created and reinforced, and the crew is provided for in the most fundamental of ways.

Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now

Freebirth, breech and posterior position, water birth, well prepared during pregnancy using various techniques including yoga, desired water during labour, other children and partner present as support team, blissful feelings of everything in universe being in perfect order, trusted instinct to deal successfully with blue baby, lotus birth, soft seclusion for weeks after birth.

In 1963 Paul Cohen of Stanford University in California put things into context when he developed a method for producing a multitude of mathematical universes to order, all of them compatible with Zermelo and Fraenkel's ruleIn 1963 Paul Cohen of Stanford University in California put things into context when he developed a method for producing a multitude of mathematical universes to order, all of them compatible with Zermelo and Fraenkel's rulein California put things into context when he developed a method for producing a multitude of mathematical universes to order, all of them compatible with Zermelo and Fraenkel's rules.

For nearly three centuries, the clockwork universe of Galileo and Newton, based on absolute laws and certainties, formed the psychological foundation for the Enlightenment, with its belief in causes and effects, order, rationalism, even duFor nearly three centuries, the clockwork universe of Galileo and Newton, based on absolute laws and certainties, formed the psychological foundation for the Enlightenment, with its belief in causes and effects, order, rationalism, even dufor the Enlightenment, with its belief in causes and effects, order, rationalism, even duty.

The black holes found in the universe are so cold that it takes forever for them to evaporate, many orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe.

In order for us to see that something happens, and say to one another that something happens, you need to have a universe, you need to have a recording device, and you need to have us.

As Thanos (Josh Brolin), the Mad Titan with ambitions of killing half the universe in order to bring balance, searches for the Infinity Stones that will complete his Infinity Gauntlet, all the heroes work to prevent him from achieving his goal.

If Agents of SHIELD doesn't pull itself out of the slump, now that its actually free of the need to keep major revelations in check so as not to intrude on its big brother Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it's hard to see a renewal order as anything other than an acknowledgement, by Disney, that the show is what many fans feared: an hour - long commercial for the Marvel movie universe.

The story offers a nice little alternate - universe take on the mytholgy; featuring a witch attempting to resurrect Ganondorf in order to acquire the Triforce for herself.