Sentences with phrase «from scientific purposes»

Aside from scientific purposes, the partnership aims to deliver benefits to the industries of space research and tourism.

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The prime proponents of ID are the fine folk at the Discovery Inst / itute who openly admit that they purpose is NOT to teach what they think is true, but rather to use ID as a «wedge to defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies» and to separate science from it's allegiance to «atheistic naturalism».

What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.

The concept of the supernatural is culturally derived from an innate cognitive schema...» The scientific evidence for his position comes from an analysis of studies done on children that show that their innate way of viewing the world is in terms of «design, function and purpose» - making them, in effect, «intuitive theists.»

Later the idea gained ground that we can not «speak of nature apart from human perception in the historical development of knowledge», that all knowledge is «a creative interaction between the known and the knower» and that therefore there is no System of scientific knowledge or of technology which does not have the subjective purposes and faith - presuppositions of humans built into it.

Its purpose was the discussion or the answering of questions coming from the scientific and philosophical criticism of Christianity.

Its purpose was the discussion or the answering at questions coming from the scientific and philosophical criticism of Christianity.

Process - relational thinkers here find scientific backing for their contention that there is an element of freedom, mentality, purpose in anything actual at all, and that needs to be the case in a consistently evolutionary view where the complex forms of life emerge from the simple.

Augustine also thinks that pursuing some scientific questions can be mere idle curiosity and a distraction from the more serious moral and religious purpose of human life.

In today's One Verse Podcast, you will see why we can not read Genesis 1:14 - 19 as a scientific explanation of how the sun, moon, and stars came to be, and you will also learn from the text what three purposes these celestial lights serve in God's creation.

In this episode of the One Verse Podcast, you will see why we can not read Genesis 1:14 - 19 as a scientific explanation of how the sun, moon, and stars came to be, and you will also learn from the text what three purposes these celestial lights serve in God's creation.

My purpose, and I presume that of all others who have approached the subject from the scientific side, has been to find a metaphysics which, with the minimum of speculation, finds a place for the obviously primary reality of the stream of consciousness, while fully accepting the findings of science.

In this episode of the One Verse Podcast, you will see why we can not read Genesis 1:14 - 19 as a scientific explanation of how the sun, moon, and stars came to be, and you will also learn from the text what three purposes these celestial lights serve in.

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history... As atheists... we face up to the fact that... we must make the most of our short time on this planet and... make this planet as good as we possibly can and try to leave it a better place than we found it».

The result, as we all know, has been the gradual eliminating of the notion of purpose from scientific thought.

Emerged from the International Journal of Wine Marketing in 2007, the purpose of IJWBR is to provide a forum for publication of timely, rigorous, technically sound, scientific and thought provoking research manuscripts that focus on all business aspects of the wine and alcoholic beverage industry.

He also specified that the purposes were «to perform and foster study and scientific research related to wildlife propagation, growth and development both associated with and disassociated from the raising of livestock and domestic animals.»

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.

Harvey managed to secure a retroactive blessing from Einstein's son Hans Albert, with the stipulation that the brain would be used only for scientific purposes.

From a networking standpoint, the purpose of a scientific meeting is to accumulate connections and thereby improve your odds of professional success.

Such cameras could be useful for any number of military, commercial, or scientific purposes, the researchers suggest, changing the central challenge of photography from «Where should we point the camera?»

One hundred and fifty years ago in Scientific American, the March 1860 issue, we wrote»... gas for interior illumination, it is supposed is a powerful disinfectant, and hence there is no contagion within the circle of its influence» — actually we were then quoting, and then we wrote: «We copy the above sentence for the purpose of disputing the inference that gas will protect people from the smallpox.

Upon dissolution or winding up of said corporation's affairs, whether voluntary or involuntary, all of its assets then remaining in the hands of the board of directors shall, after paying or making provision for payment of all of said corporation's liabilities, be distributed, transferred, conveyed, delivered, and paid over only to educational, scientific, literary, or charitable organizations that are exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and which are not private foundations within the meaning of section 509 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, on whatever terms and conditions and in whatever amounts the board of directors may determine, for use exclusively for educational, scientific, literary, or charitable purposes, except that no distribution shall be made to organizations testing for public safety.

There shall be a Committee on Grants, appointed by the President, with the advice of the Council, consisting of eight members, two appointed annually for a period of four years, which shall award for scientific research such part of the income from the permanent and special funds of the Association as may be appropriated for that purpose by the Council.

Although individual participants may benefit from being part of a clinical trial, participants should be aware that the primary purpose of a clinical trial is to gain new scientific knowledge so that others may be better helped in the future.

This general purpose, long - lived facility would be the prime tool for generations of astronomers, producing transformational scientific advances in every area of astronomy and astrophysics from black hole physics to galaxy formation, from star and planet formation to the Solar System.

Yet, many long - running volunteer efforts did not originate with the specific purpose of understanding the consequences of global climate change, and as a result, most of these projects were not designed to foster communication of scientific findings back to project participants; this is particularly true for studies using data from online repositories.

Aside from virtual tours of our universe, what scientific purpose does a map like this have?

The discipline of Human Clinical Nutrition applies principles derived from current biochemical and physiological scientific knowledge for the purpose of promoting optimal health while recognizing biochemical individuality.

Occasionally you pay in to earn the feeling that you got a little bit closer you really haven't, as you ultimately find another paywall, and then another, and then another... As a enthusiast in actual Game Theory (the scientific theory as applied in everything from chess to politics) these freemium titles I find are actually not «games» but rather «toys»... I guess it works for some but I refuse to play games that feel intentionally hamstringed with the sole purpose of holding back content behind timers and paywalls to manipulate the player.

Specifically, the charitable deduction allows individual taxpayers and corporations to deduct from their taxable income in a given year the present value of contributions they make to nonprofit groups that are religious, charitable, educational, scientific, or literary in purpose, or that work to prevent cruelty to children or animals.

They serve the purpose of carrying momentum from exchanges on cutting - edge subfields of prevention science at the annual conference over to scientific activity between conferences, in order to advance them more rapidly.

Exploring texts from literary classics to propaganda, from great speeches to scientific articles, students learn to analyze the moves that authors make to achieve their purposes.

Bear in mind that the public are hearing very confident assertions from spokespeople on the climate change issue who appear to all intents and purposes to be representing the scientific community.

In numbers, after all, there is strength, while individuals and small groups are far more vulnerable — and the purpose is two-fold: to undermine the credibility of wider scientific consensus and to discourage other researchers from sticking out their necks and participating in the public discourse over matters of policy - relevant science.

There are no particular advantages of supranational bodes from a scientific perspective unless you wish to control the conclusions for political purposes.

Marburger let government - financed scientific institutions slide further down and to the left, but his appointment did not save Bush from the usual accusations of «manipulating science for political purposes,» «censoring scientific results,» and «silencing the science,» all slogans shouted by the Union of Con Scientists and the rest of the attack pack.

White House and Climate Change Science Program officials have never offered an honest public explanation of why the terms of that dismissal would have legally required (as distinct from an unofficial, secret political agreement) that the White House and the federal agencies suppress a taxpayer - funded, scientifically based assessment sponsored by the federal global change research program, even for purposes of using it as a scientific document or in program planning for research and future assessments.

I simply noted that due to egregious «administrative» adjustments the land / sea temperature series currently in use have diverged so far from reality that they are no longer useful for any scientific purposes.

This requirement directly follows from the purpose of the RCPs to facilitate climate model runs that are relevant for policy - making and scientific assessment (and thus cover the full uncertainty range).

Indeed, to protect women from economic and scientific exploitation, and in deference to the moral and political ambiguity that embryos carry with them, no nation allows the unrestricted commodification of embryos, and some, including Germany, have bans on destroying embryos for research purposes.

«My primary concern about your investigation is that its purpose seems to be to intimidate scientists rather than to learn from them, and to substitute congressional political review for scientific review,» Boehlert wrote.

One objection to the selection of the cases here may be that they introduce an «asymmetry» through imperfect sampling; however, the purpose was not to draw general conclusions about the entire body of scientific literature but to learn from mistakes.

Thus IPCC changed its own charter from a scientific investigation into advocacy for political purposes.

3) Please keep in mind that the main purpose of this Visualizing series is to help those of our fellow Skeptics who (IMHO) have gone over the line to an equal and opposite error from the Alarmists, expressing total Disbelief in the very scientific basis of the ill - named «greenhouse effect» of the Atmosphere and in the total Earth System.

Protestors Defending Whales from «Scientific Research» The Japanese claim that they are able to hunt a certain number of whales for «scientific purposes» and that the activists» behavior isScientific Research» The Japanese claim that they are able to hunt a certain number of whales for «scientific purposes» and that the activists» behavior isscientific purposes» and that the activists» behavior is criminal.

Whilst the Japanese are allowed by the International Whaling Commission to hunt for an annual quota of 945 whales for scientific purposes there has been intense global pressure to prevent the whalers from being able to fill their quota.

The only thing that went wrong here is that the university researcher who collected the data from 50 million Facebook users, and was supposed to use it only for scientific purposes, then turned around and sold that data to Cambridge Analytica for reportedly just under 1 million pounds (about $ 1.6 million in 2014).

The «practice of mental health counseling» is defined as the use of scientific and applied behavioral science theories, methods, and techniques for the purpose of describing, preventing, and treating undesired behavior and enhancing mental health and human development and is based on the person - in - situation perspectives derived from research and theory in personality, family, group, and organizational dynamics and development, career planning, cultural diversity, human growth and development, human sexuality, normal and abnormal behavior, psychopathology, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation.

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