Sentences with phrase «many of the alternative explanations»

And even Demes, although skeptical of the running hypothesis, can't think of an alternative explanation.

Next, the researchers investigated a number of alternative explanations.

Our results come from a non-experimental design, so a number of alternative explanations for our findings remain plausible.

The burden rests with critics to demonstrate that those higher grades are undeserved, and one can cite any number of alternative explanations.

Aside from this, however, is the question of alternative explanations for school enrollment decreases.

Rather, I am reluctant to concede «CAGW» is a problem given the lack of alternative explanations of observations, use of scareware, consequences of «Climate Change» policy, denigration of and retaliation on skeptics, and so on and so forth.

Quoting the last:» the «slowdown» or «hiatus» has also had a number of alternative explanations.

The core phenomenon, scientific questions, and hypotheses have been examined thoroughly and have stood firm in the face of serious debate and careful evaluation of alternative explanations.»

You believe the cause of recent warming to be the increase in man made AC02 emissions, that's fine, but if you want me to believe your theory too then show me the evidence, don't show me your lack of an alternative explanation and call it evidence or berate me for not showing you evidence to the contrary.

We examined the robustness of the interaction effect, tested a number of alternative explanations, and investigated possible underlying mechanisms.

Ultimately, an environmentally mediated causal effect of PAE on childhood externalizing behaviors — a causal inference — would be supported if the relation remained robust to the measured covariates and quasi-experimental methods because these approaches account for many of the alternative explanations for the association between PAE and externalizing problems.

Not exact matches

The leaders of all three nations signed a joint statement, which said there was «no plausible alternative explanation» for the Skripal poisoning other than a Kremlin hit - job.

The alternative explanation is that some people with detailed knowledge of the TalkTalk hack are going to extensive lengths to try and frame a boy for the breach.

The alternative explanation is that a brief round of disinflation from a year ago is fading and explains most of the recent increases.

Recently, though, an alternative explanation has emerged: Perhaps our measurement of productivity is at fault.

I incline toward the first of two alternative explanations Robert Benne offers for the leading role ex-Missourians have played in the liberal protestantizing of ELCA Lutheranism, namely, that their experience of torment from the right blinded them to «any danger on the left.»

And of course, he has repeatedly ignored my requests to provide an alternative explanation for why there are exploding termites.

After this, we will look carefully at numerous texts from Scripture which are often used by Calvinists to defend the doctrine of Unconditional Election, and will suggest alternative explanations for these texts which fit better with their grammatical, cultural, theological, and historical contexts.

For every explanation you offer I can, and on many occasions have, offered an alternative explanation that's consistent with what we know about human psychology and human history, yet mine require no leaps of faith in a God whose existence I can't prove.

We have been arguing about religious truth, about God and alternative explanations of the universe.

But ridicule of one set of explanations can only be truly effective if it is accompanied by a superior alternative.

To propose an alternative explanation, based on some preconceived theory, is of dubious profit.

Even in its constricting format, however, each item encourages the member to construct a small story of his or her life, imagining the tension created by a particular crisis and then resolving it by subsequent explanation chosen from among the several alternatives.

But, on the other hand, it is quite unjustified for theists to hold that we must tolerate or swallow the paradoxes or explain them away (by feats of ingenuity so subtle, and verbal methods so remote from intuitive insight or definite logical structures, that only deity could know with any assurance what was taking place), giving as justification the claim that the alternative position of atheism is even more paradoxical (lacking, it may be urged, any principle of cosmic explanation at all).

There is no tested evidence of these natural explanations, much less proof, but the existence of multiple natural possibilities negates the Big Bang and Inflation as proof of God (that doesn't mean it proves No God, it means that it can't prove God did it since there are other alternatives).

Keillor has a keen ear for parody, and makes use of it in unlikely ways, as in the marvelous «Your Wedding and You» with its explanation of the «alternative wedding» (only Garry Trudeau's «Doonesbury» has caught this «60s and «70s language as accurately), and in his more recent homage to punk rock in «Don: The True Story of a Young Person.»

Frank, one assumes, would quarrel with this way of putting his argument, but he offers no alternative explanation for how millions of middle Americans are so blind to their real interests and so self - destructive in their political behavior.

He may at times offer a tad of pseudo humility and claim that he knows that he hasn't cornered the market on doctrinal correctness, but as soon as you offer an alternative explanation that counters his belief, he lets you know that you are wrong.

If we then discovered that he was living high on the hog in Barbados, we would all think this was adequate evidence to consider Jones guilty unless he could offer an alternative plausible explanation of these circumstances.

Unless they are to write exclusively for fellow believers, the Catholic author must now offer his readers an alternative explanation for what he might see as an act of God.

The answer is a fear of encouraging «creationism» as a pseudo-scientific alternative explanation.

If classical Darwinism isn't the explanation for macroevolution, however, there is only speculation as to what sort of alternative mechanisms might have been responsible.

The final three chapters summarily consider the evidence against and for the virgin birth, arguing that it is neither myth nor indemonstrable truth; instead the evidence for the existence of an historical tradition anteceding the Gospels, ultimately from Mary herself, is more credible than any alternative explanation; hence, for anyone open to the possibility of miracles, there is good evidence to affirm Jesus» virgin birth on the basis of the New Testament's testimony.

Even within physics, alternative categories of explanation for the same phenomenon are sometimes needed.

The alternative explanation of the relation of molecular actual occasions to electronic ones would be that the molecular actual occasion is really a dominant occasion in the society of occasions constituting the molecule.

It could only be denied by offering an alternative and more convincing explanation of the actual phenomena in the New Testament texts to which these scholars are calling attention and with which they are dealing.

If the process is so well understood that it leaves no room for doubt or for alternative explanations, then when was the last time the scientists were able to create artificial life, i.e. assemble a living cell out of a bunch of chemical elements?

Keep asking questions of what your religious leaders are telling you and keep an open mind to alternative explanations.

For it offers an alternative explanation for the apparent fact that the basic actualities of the world are describable in terms of passive endurances with essential or non-essential modifications.

Evolutionary cosmologies may begin simply as rival evolutionist theories — alternative causal explanations for these observed phenomena of development, change, and transformation.3 An evolutionist theory becomes an evolutionary cosmology whenever the favored evolutionist theory is extrapolated from its original context as an account of geological or biological change, and made to serve as an overarching cosmological category, such that «evolution» in some idiosyncratic sense becomes the basis for a systematic and unified interpretation of a wide array of diverse phenomena beyond the domains of biology and geology.

Ironically, Whitehead had at hand an alternative explanation for societies as principles of continuity in a changing world in his passing remarks in Process and Reality to the effect that «a society is, for each of its members, an environment with some element of order in it, persisting by reason of the genetic relations between its own members» (90).

An elucidation of the agreement here, however, involves concepts which provide a context for an alternative which challenges the formalist position with respect to the logic of other key issues in the philosophy of science, viz., with respect to the nature and status of laws, the role and justification of induction, the model of theoretical explanation, and the intelligibility of conceptual change.

A second blow to deism came in the middle of the nineteenth century with Darwin's alternative explanation of the design of nature with its emphasis on chance and struggle rather than on beneficent design.

Before science came around to give the actual explanations to things in nature anyone saying there were no gods wouldn't have had any alternative answers so, of course, they would have looked foolish.

Their explanation of their alternative implicitly depends on Donald Schoen's analysis of reflective practice.

I do know some of the arguments for why the flood is scientifically implausible, but I think there are alternative explanations for where all the water came from (and where it is today) that might make it more plausible.

Ask children to consider alternative explanations and solutions to problems considering advantages and disadvantages of each.

... [D] isclosure by the [provider] to the patient of adequate clear information about the patient's diagnosis; the alternatives available to treat the patient's problem, including surgical and nonsurgical management; the benefits and risks of each alternative, including nonintervention... and a frank explanation of those factors about which the medical profession, and the individual [provider] in particular, are uncertain and can not provide guarantees...

Help your teen see that while her conclusion is definitely a possibility, there are also dozens of other alternative explanations.

At your birthing location I will remain with you throughout labor and birth and provide emotional, physical, and evidence - based informational support on various position changes, comfort and relaxation techniques, on the labor and birth process; provide understandable explanations of various medical techniques; implement the birth preference plan that you developed during your pregnancy; facilitate discussions with your doctor / midwife and the medical staff; and provide support and guidance in outlining alternatives if changing the birth preference plan becomes your choice.