Sentences with phrase «from accepting the fact»

While the personal level may involve intemperate language and the like, when it gets down to the science itself the professional integrity of the scientists comes out in the way that they argue their case rationally, and from the accepted facts — it isn't arbitrary, as they must convince their peers and answer to their criticisms.

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It's a fact that you need to accept and learn from.

Though he concedes that merchants have the right to steer consumers away from credit cards, he says the fact that the number of businesses that accept Visa continues to rise is «a signal to us that merchants believe in the value they receive.»

Anecdotes found online at first seem unbelievable: floor staff cheerfully accepting unabashedly damaged returns, no questions asked; Nordstrom employees helping mall shoppers carry purchases from other stores to their cars; and an often - repeated tale about a customer in Anchorage, Alaska, who returned a set of tires to a Nordstrom location — despite the fact that the chain doesn't actually sell tires.

From the perspective of the rational investor — an investor accepting and embracing the fact they don't have an edge in the market — each dollar, pound, or euro invested in the various stock markets around the world is presumed to be equally smart.

As a matter of fact, it is one of the few brokers that accepts traders from all parts of the world and offers them an outstanding opportunity to make money while trading in binary options.

We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

You said, «Their anger may come from the fact that they do not like the idea that they might have to be accountable to a higher authority (God) when they die and our witnessing to them reminds them of this event that they have to look forward to unless they repent and accept Jesus as their Savior before they die» Make sure that you also accept Thor, Zeus, Ra, and tens of thousands of other gods ever invented by man.

rea · son — noun / ˈrēzən / a.Think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic — humans do not reason entirely from facts b.Find an answer to a problem by considering various possible solutions c.Persuade (someone) with rational argument — I tried to reason with her, but without success» I accept nothing on faith» can you prove we evolved from primates or that life started by random chance?

To demonstrate that there is a God to individuals that discard the Bible and the notion of a God, it has to be approached from a different prospective, from their viewpoint, what they will accept and not what you believe as fact, based on the Bible.

The minister's role in relationship to the family is to (a) help them accept the painful fact that their loved one is mentally ill; (b) assist them in getting the person to psychiatric help; © maintain a supportive counseling relationship with them to help them understand and learn from the crisis.

They recognize that AA, for instance, is tailor - made to meet the stresses and strains of alcoholism, and they accept the fact that alcoholism, as Harry Emerson Fosdick has put it, is like a stained - glass window in that it can best be seen and understood from the inside.

Once we accept the fact that we shall disappear, we also discover the larger self which relates us to our family and friends, to our neighborhood and community, to nation, humanity, and indeed, to the whole creation from which we have sprung.

I've come to accept the fact that I will never recover from my anger at the church, at fundamentalism, at anything even remotely spiritual... it's taken on overtones of PTSD.

In some museum displays, he said, the birds - descended - from - dinosaurs evolutionary theory has been portrayed as a largely accepted fact, with an asterisk pointing out in small type that «some scientists disagree.»

David Johnson, Christians don't believe we're better than others, but because we repent from our sins and accept the fact that Christ paid our penalty at the Cross, we are definetly better off.

Even if you accept the fact man evolved from ape, ape from a simpler creature, that from an even simoler creature, and that from some bacteria or group of cells, one has to eventually ask what created the starting point?

But it is those that will not deviate from «scripture» and accept the facts that mankind evolved and has been evolving for millions of years.

These differences stem mainly from the fact that Jesus apparently accepted, though with some modifications, the apocalyptic ideas current in his time.

He who thinks that the world, without any such unity of significance as constitutes an experience, would still have been or might be a real world, and who deduces this from the fact — which spiritualism accepts — that the world without a particular human personality, Mr. X is perfectly possible, must also be one who thinks that if from «himself» those qualities which make him Mr. X were to be subtracted, nothing of the nature of mind would remain — in short, he is one who does not believe that other minds are members of himself.

By way of illustration, it is an accepted historical fact that Israel became a nation after the exodus from Egypt.

This is not to say that Christianity was not in fact accepted in part because of its intrinsic convincingness; after all, Christian theology from the beginning was always adequate to many facts of experience, and was always formulated in a somewhat coherent way.

I did, however, know about evolution, from my Biology classes, which I had accepted as pretty much fact.

Instead of dodging, weaving, and denying, Christians should forthrightly accept the fact that this act of violance came from one of their own and was encouraged by the hatred of the Chrisitians who are denouncing Islam.

Let us rather accept the fact: Mankind, as we find it in its present state and present functioning, is organically inseparable from that which has been slowly added to it, and which is propagated through education.

We often say that space and time are composed of points and instants; these should be defined as systematic abstractions from empirical facts instead of being accepted as volumeless or durationless entities.

In past ages some have talked as if there were a gulf between these two; and in reaction from that utter separation, some have talked as if there were no distinction between them, The fact is that throughout Christian history, whatever may have been the theory accepted as valid, there has been precisely such a distinction.

Facing reality and accepting the facts of science can save you from your religious delusions.

Neither of you is arguing from fact but are instead accepting theory as truth.

Accepting this fact doesn't mean that we all should revert to depressed apathy — far from it!

Having stated his thesis that one must begin with Whitehead's diagnosis, Rorty quotes him as follows: «The difficulties of all schools of modern philosophy lie in the fact that having accepted the subjectivist principle, they continue to use philosophical categories derived from another point of view» (PR 253; WEP 134; italics mine).

«From indetermination accepted as a fact,» Bergson claims that he can «infer the necessity of a perception, that is to say, of a variable relation between a living being and the more or less distant influence of objects which interest it» (MM 24).

D. E. Nineham points out that «most commentators accept at any rate the basic facts of the story, arguing that Christians would have been unlikely to invent a tradition in which Jesus receives hurried burial from a pious Jew, and his own followers have no part in the proceedings ’15 and then goes on to add that «scholarly opinion has perhaps been a little inclined to overlook the possible influence of the Old Testament on the story».16

We know that later material was in fact added after Mark 16:8, probably early in the second century, and for most of Christian history this was accepted as coming from the original author.

Nor does the fact that these analyses, as he develops them, are not adequately distinguished from formulations that he takes to be analogical, but that I can accept only as symbolic, in any way interfere with my appreciating both kinds of formulations as having their proper places in any adequate philosophy.

They have accepted the fact that vast numbers of members of the human race have spoken or written about some such awareness, however it may have been conceived, of a presence which is believed to be more than human, and they have told us that they have experienced a power that seems to come from beyond, above, and below the level of human enabling.

You begrudgingly accept evolution (about a century after Darwin proved it and after accepting Genesis as literally true for about 2,000 years) and that Adam and Eve was totally made up, but then conveniently ignore that fact that your justification for Jesus dying on the cross (to save us from Original Sin) has therefore been eviscerated.

Kasemann's argument that this form of pronouncement comes from early Christian prophecy is careful and convincing, with the result that we must accept the fact that in their present form the two gospel sayings come from an early Christian tradition and not from the teaching of Jesus.

Even the pain experienced in our self - rejection stems from the fact that it is so deep in our nature to want to be valued and accepted.

LET's Religiosity Law # 7 — If you think the bible is historical fact of the creation of the Universe, Earth or Mankind and believe without a doubt that some Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat of his flesh, drink of his blood, and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master; so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a sinful woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree!

Perhaps sufficient will have been said if I point out that process thought is based upon wide generalizations made from those experiences of fact, and those facts of experience, which demonstrate to us the dynamic, active, on - going «creative advance» of the world; and which, in recognizing and accepting the patent reality of such a world, sees man as part of it sharing in that movement, and a principle of ordering and direction, which may properly be called God, explaining why and how the advance goes on as it does.

In such passages from Jeremiah and Habakkuk we face the perennial glory of the true prophets — their courage in acknowledging facts of experience that contradict accepted theories.

However, his reformulation of relativity was not accepted by physicists, no doubt because he was never able to show any confirmable difference between the predictions of observable fact derived from his theory and that of Einstein.

A primary goal in exposing her to the facts about alcoholism is to help her accept the fact that her husband is suffering from a compulsive - addictive illness of which she is not the basic cause.

It certainly takes more faith to NOT believe in God than it does to accept the fact that «In The Beginning God created...» (Genesis 1:1) As far as Jesus being a Jew, praise the Lord... it isn't a problem for me to accept Him being Jewish, my joy comes from Jesus Christ, a Jew, accepting my repentance and belief in what He did for me, an undeserving sinner.

The evolution of life on earth from simple matter is accepted as a fact by secular science.

ROGER: The evolution of life on earth from simple matter is accepted as a fact by secular science.

Ignazio Silone observed that during the l930s the peasants in southern Italy accepted their lot, from hunger to facism, as if it were a fact or nature or the will of God.

Thus the thesis is reduced to the apparent triviality that each event is simultaneous with itself But it ceases to be trivial if we add that each event is simultaneous only with itself That this is not trivial is obvious from the fact that it was denied, for instance, by Kurt Goedel (1949, pp. 560 - 561), who accepted the possibility of self - intersecting world - lines — that is, the possibility of a Wellsian trip to the past and back to the present.

Our plea would be that from now on any study of externalia recognize itself as such; that only those deserve to be accepted as studies of religion that do justice to the fact that they deal with the life of men.