Sentences with phrase «inadequate understanding»

Also the three days part of that statement and the «eternal now» of the other statement are both based on our totally inadequate understanding of «time».

The result has been a very artificial and inadequate understanding of what we are, how we act, and the part we play in the creation.

Lord Ashcroft has noted that the perception that we are a party of the already rich, with inadequate understanding of ordinary people, is one of the biggest barriers to people voting Conservative.

Both are simplistic linear models based on virtually no data, with completely inadequate understanding of the mechanisms and inabilities to accommodate feedback.

Realistically, the functionality that these platforms would provide visual representations of the underlying data, but without proper training, often would result in inadequate understanding of what the data truly represents.

''... we can certainly say that all that we have found in the sciences supports a deep compatibility and consonance with our less inadequate understandings of the Divine.

We currently have a very inadequate understanding of how to build closed ecosystems that are robust to perturbation by introduced organisms or nonbiological events (Biosphere 2, for example), and I suspect that the contained ecosystem problem will turn out to be much more challenging than the vast majority of space colonization advocates realize.

James Bruce, an acclaimed climate scientist and former director of Environment Canada's now defunct Inland Waters Directorate, testified that reports by the Alberta Research Council and the Council of Canadian Academies pointedly concluded that in situ projects have «gone ahead with a completely inadequate understanding of the groundwater regime in the area and they are having significant impacts on water....

The inadequate understanding which Marxists have shown of the media and the questionable use they have made of them has produced a vacuum in Western industrialized countries into which a stream of non-Marxist hypotheses and practices has consequently flowed.

Christ gathers up for the life of tomorrow our stifled ambitions, our inadequate understandings, our uncompleted or clumsy but sincere endeavours.

Christians in the past have spoken of Muhammad as a heretic, with a false or inadequate understanding of God.

But, as Ogden notes with respect to liberation theologians, they «focus on the existential meaning of God for us without dealing at all adequately with the metaphysical being of God in himself».22 To reject the conceptual task of theology reflects an inadequate understanding of how faith functions.

In bondage to this inadequate understanding, we interpret any small success or reversal of existing negative trends in church schooling as a confirmation of the old paradigm's validity.

Perhaps our full appreciation of this idea and the role of imagination in preaching waits upon our being disabused of faulty and inadequate understandings of this particular faculty of the human spirit.

If in our experience of the meanest flower that blows we are overawed with the mystery and the inexhaustible glory of this intricate bit of creation, how much more must we confess our inadequate understanding of God.

Without passing judgment on other Scriptures, we can say that this procedure shows an inadequate understanding of the Bible and of the kind of authority it may have.

It has failed for two reasons: because it has not taken seriously enough the demonic nature of general television; and because it has proceeded on an inadequate understanding of the nature of the Christian gospel.

The dogmatic way in which the church has often declared itself on matters of personal salvation and judgment has rested on an inadequate understanding of the complexities of the human situation.

These churches have lost a clear - sighted Christian understanding of human nature, and have replaced it with the inadequate understandings of human nature offered by modernity.

The second reason is the conviction that the root of the failure of the treatment of pluralism represented by Stackhouse lies in its inadequate understanding of reason.

Confusion and inadequate understanding of traumatic events most evident in play rather than discussion

These include a lack of research into innovative practice in parliamentary strengthening, a scarcity of information about how particular programmes or approaches have been successfully adapted to different contexts, and an inadequate understanding of the different actors that engage in parliamentary strengthening and their distinct approaches to that task.

The fourth main cause was an inadequate understanding of the system.

His text, they said, misrepresented the actual positions of environmentalists and scientists, and his analysis was marred by invalidating errors that include a narrow, biased reading of the literature, an inadequate understanding of the science, and quotations taken out of context.

«Many scientists in the rodent anxiety field would agree that this drug development failure does not imply a «failure to translate,» but rather an inadequate understanding of the basic neurogenetic mechanisms of anxiety.

A lot happens in James White, all related to the hero's inadequate understanding of what it means to be an adult.

Seven New York State regents published a position paper stating that the «malfunctioning» teacher - evaluation system was based on an «incomplete and inadequate understanding of how to address the task of continuously improving our educational system.»

After extensive deliberation that included a review of research and information gained from listening tours, we have determined that the current proposed amendments to the APPR system are based on an incomplete and inadequate understanding of how to address the task of continuously improving our educational system.

In response to what is perceived as some schools» inadequate understanding of the experiences and opinions of students, community groups and education organizations across the nation are engaging students as evaluators.

It is a catch - 22 that starts, says psychologist and economist Per Espen Stoknes, from an inadequate understanding of the way most humans think, act, and live in the world around them.

I disagreed, but had inadequate understanding of physics to openly challenge.

Moreover, mortality resulted from increased precipitation through smaller, more frequent events, underscoring the importance of precipitation event size and timing, and highlighting our inadequate understanding of relationships between climate and ecosystem function in drylands.

Analysis is hampered by data gaps, inadequate understanding of key earth processes, and inadequate computation power.

There is inadequate understanding of the impact of technology upon the evidence that courts and tribunals deal with, and the need for evidentiary and procedural laws to be sufficiently flexible to deal with technologies that have different natures, uses, strengths, weaknesses and dangers.