Sentences with phrase «making claims of knowledge»

When a person of ANY religious sect makes these claims, they are making claims of knowledge.

To make claims of knowledge regarding actions and desires of your god without providing proof of existence is illogical and childlike.

They don't necessarily do it intentionally, but what they do is make claims of knowledge of a truth, when in fact, they don't really know if the claim is true or not.

Not exact matches

The fact that he converted to christianity just before he died and made unsupported claims, does not make the OP fallacious — the bible was written by primitive people with no knowledge of how the Solar system was created or how species evolved.

Plenty of hucksters and marketers of «belief» claim education and knowledge, but commit intellectual fraud and dishonesty to make their points.

two hundred - and - fifity in one archdiocese!?!?! I am not catholic, and therefore make no claims to specific knowledge of the religion nor those in positions of authority.

Makes claims of super natural knowledge..

MyMainMan, one other point I'd like to make: If you're going to support Sagan's claim that athiests must presume to have much more knowledge than the rest of us, then the exact same must apply to Theists (those who believe in God).

The great claim of the doctrine of analogy has always been that it makes possible a genuine knowledge of God.

How can one make claims to without full knowledge of?

Claiming a god exists is absolutely a positive statement of false knowledge, but saying we can't know, don't know, and that we as an individual don't have enough evidence to make a positive statement on any gods existance, that's a rational position to take.

To begin with, an epistemology of the cross can not be used by knowers whose claims to objectivity are predicated on domination, for it harbors a deep suspicion of power - based knowledge claims and those who make them.

Neither the alleged source of divine revelation, nor modern science can make this claim about the knowledge to which they lead us.

My question is right and I would pose it to anyone who makes claims of such absolute knowledge.

This knowledge gives a kind of certainty such as is possible in the realm of history and freedom, that is as a claim to make freedom itself a binding norm.

But a just appreciation of God's general revelation of Himself should preserve the truth that Christianity has meaning for man precisely because it represents a fulfillment of the knowledge of God which is made possible through all the things which He has made, Nygren claims, of course, simply to be setting forth scientifically the fundamental Christian motif without arguing its truth or value against any other motif.

I am not making these claims as a supernatural «word of knowledge» or anything of that sort.

In one case one must be omniscient in order to make their claim (I know that there can not be a god because I know every possibility) while the other makes it clear that they are not arrogant enough to claim knowledge of absolutely everything possible.

I identify five voices in this debate that I take to be the most completely developed and importantly contrasting «positions» in the conversation: Edward Farley's Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education and his The Fragility of Knowledge: Theological Education in the Church and the University; 2 the Mud Flower Collective's God s Fierce Whimsy; 3 Joseph C. Hough, Jr., and John B. Cobb, Jr.'s Christian Identity and Theological Education; 4 Max L. Stackhouse's Apologia: Contextualization, Globalization, and Mission in Theological Education; 5 and Charles M. Wood's Vision and Discernment.6 Although each of these voices makes important claims in its own right, which I hope to summarize as briefly as clarity and fairness permit, what is most important, I think, is the largely implicit interplay among them of contrasting insights and themes.

In such education scientific knowledge and engineering skill will be taught not as means of making good the claims of the autonomous human will against nature, but as resources for the informed pursuit of the good.

@Jibbs: Sorry, you will need to provide references when making random claims of knowledge to support your hypothesis.

In her very complex but well - argued essay, she shows how the claim for epistemic knowledge - which, in the context of this article, would link it to the efforts to «politicise identity» or to use identity «strategically» - assumes a single centre of authority and also assumes making use of the language and tools of this authority.

I know of no atheist who would make a knowledge claim with respect to the existence of god, and perhaps we can agree that the few religious folk who claim to «know» that their god exists probably just «strongly believe».

What within a claim of knowledge, or lack of knowledge (agnosticism) would possibly make someone «more naturally tolerant»?

The claim to absolute knowledge, the appeal to a form of universalism that should inform civilization that is not based on empirical indexes alone, and the regulation of human sexuality that religious traditions promote make religion seem a threat to modern liberal society.

He also grants the common - sense view that a human corpse is a dead thing as a human body, but he still makes his panpsychistic point by insisting that even a corpse is composed of many living things and, as far as our knowledge runs, nothing else.29 In addition, he claims that his belief that there is only a relative and not an absolute distinction between mind and matter is given support by recent developments in physics that have shown that the differences between matter and various kinds of radiation are differences of degree and not of kind.

If you didn't claim your begarly knowledge, making demeaning remarks about things you know nothing about, adn of which I am certain, and needed to poinat out the paradox of name you chose, my post which tic «ked you off wouldn't be posted.

On the day that Barcelona has taken a # 125 million loan to pay the player's wages and United's «Faithful Red Knights» claim that the club is in too much debt to make it a good investment, we should be grateful that we have a manager who not only has a masters in Economics, but also makes use of that knowledge wisely.

Some of this chatter made its way on to the record when veteran Republican dirty trickster Roger Stone, who had recently been employed by GOP Senate President Joe Bruno's political operation, claimed knowledge and insisted that he had provided essential tip - offs to investigators.

MPs said DfID's ability to make informed spending decisions was being undermined by its lack of knowledge about levels of fraud and corruption, the report claimed.

Extracts of the book published last month by the Daily Mail have already made a series of damaging claims about Cameron including involvement in a drug - taking environment at university, knowledge of Ashcroft's offshore tax status, and his now infamous alleged involvement in a bizarre dinner club ritual involving a pig's head.

Tarfia please do not make assumptions about my knowledge base and, if possible, try and base your statements with evidence rather than opinion and what you think — take a leaf out of John Ps responses — he gives us some figures to back up his claims — for example — how do you know how many people occupy the centre ground — what evidence have you got.

If all of these activities were being undertaken without the knowledge of the British Government, what questions did David Miliband ask for all of the well documented and longstanding claims made in The Guardian and elsewhere?

Neither science nor liberalism makes any doctrinaire claims beyond the efficacy of its respective methods — that is, that science obtains knowledge and that liberalism produces social orders generally acceptable to free peoples.»

Also, Green Pastures has never made claims, to my knowledge, about the levels of nutrients in their products, carefully explaining that they are a food product and that levels can change.

Even without the knowledge that Me and Earl and the Dying Girl premiered in the theaters of Park City, it would not be a stretch to make the claim that this is the sort of film that would be expected to screen at Sundance.

Claims about the «unique damage that «pit bull» dogs inflict» are made by individuals or special interest groups with no experience in analyzing dog bite - related injuries or knowledge of dog physiology or behavior.

In time, and with EA's knowledge that West and Zampella were under contract to Activision for another two years, Activision claims EA and the two Infinity Ward founders hatched a plan — one rife with private e-mails, attempts to surreptitiously scan company documents and maybe even a good deal of cackling — to start a spin - off company that would make games to compete with Call of Duty.

As your comments make abundantly clear, you have very little knowledge on this issue and have done no independent investigation of the wild claims being made.

The real Yamal deception is their attempt to damage public confidence in science by making speculative and scandalous claims about the actions and motivations of scientists while cloaking them in a pretense of advancing scientific knowledge.

When a group of people claiming superior scientific knowledge and understanding refuses to grasp the extremely simple point I've been making regarding the heating capacity of an absence of volcanic eruptions, then I am forced to take all their other arguments with a huge grain of salt.

This requires that Mann show that the allegedly defamatory comments were made with actual malice — i.e. actual knowledge that the allegdly defamatory claims were false or reckless disregard for the truth or falsity of the claims made.

I believe our knowledge of the mechanics of our climate are still being discovered, and it is too soon to make claims.

«What's different here is the «failure to warn» and «design defect» claims — they have not been made in regard to climate change yet — and these are claims that rely on a long history of the industry's knowledge and allegedly deceptive activities,» he said.

His knowledge in this field informed his conclusion that scientific data does not support the UN's claims of catastrophic man - made global warming.

She make this claim of causality repeatedly, but to my knowledge has never provided any actual supporting data.

These people may be leftwing, but they have not, to the best of my knowledge, made claims that are obviously at variance with mainstream science.

If you're going to despair of personal knowledge (the fallacy of Argument from Ignorance) and surrender to the fallacy of Appeal to Authority, then you ought not appeal to an authority that has made clear statements entirely the opposite of your claim:

However, directly after making this apparent claim of knowledge, roger backpeddles somewhat and suggests that if the adjustment is in the ballpark ONE of the following must true..

To the best of my knowledge, you have never made this explicit claim.