Not exact matches
I can't say for sure, but I
do find Weaver's
explanation more persuasive than Bamford's.
The
more plausible
explanation for the stock market's success this year has less to
do with Trump, and
more to
do with the woman he just declined to reappoint as chair of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen.
The nation boasts immense human diversity, with limbs and muscles of all sizes, so race or genetic characteristics aren't a valid
explanation, said Anirudh Krishna, professor at Duke University, and co-author of a 2008 paper called «Why
do some countries win
more Olympic medals?»
«Our company employs
more females, African Americans and Hispanics than most tech companies
do,» one participant offered as an
explanation for awarding their employer a passing grade on diversity.
The
more nuanced
explanation for retail's popularity among investors has less to
do with Manhattan market fundamentals and
more to
do with the global flow of capital.
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More importantly, you
do not give an
explanation because you
do not have one.
It's made me
more comfortable that I don't need a supernatural
explanation for the way things are.»
Or
more likely and simply
explanation is that he just doesn't exist.
In fact, you don't even have to have studied psychology to give the
explanation I
did, which makes the proposal that it was a god who was nagging at Darwin all the
more embarrassing, from my point of view.
If Romney doesn't explain to people why things will be okay if those policies are implemented, then all people will have is Obama's
explanation that Romney will take away your health care and retirement (and trade in Granma's health care for coupons) so that Romney's Bain friends can make even
more money.
Yep, but if you don't have any
more variables than I have and you reject logic and you just make up
explanations that have no supporting evidence your chances of being right are even less than mine.
This particularly needs
explanation because Pilate would not have hesitated to slaughter bystanders if he thought it necessary to preserve order (he
did so
more than once).
The role of the divine is much pondered» the furiously indignant Cain gets no
more explanation for why his sacrifice was rejected here than he
did in Genesis» but the actions are all committed by humans.
Contemporary methodology has not discontinued these methods in its new understanding of history, but has merely shifted them
more decidedly from ends to means It is true that the «
explanation» of an event or viewpoint
does not consist merely in showing its external causes or identifying the source from which an idea was borrowed.
Why
do you people think that if an
explanation can not given, claiming «god
did it» makes any
more sense than claiming «Bigfoot
did it»?
Without pretending to exhaust the
explanations, let me therefore add one
more, which occurred to me while
doing research on American religion in what John Higham called «the tribal twenties» and the dreary aftermath in the 1930s.
For, objectively speaking, according to his
explanation a special act
does not express the person's inner being any
more than his other actions
do; it
does reveal his inner being
more than other actions
do, but this is due to its being received in a certain way by others.
Well, while
more explanation of why something is evidence might be helpful, we don't have an established set of criteria as to what constitutes «evidence».
You say your god has turned against this world due to the evil within it... so then your god is not so caring after all or it simply
does not exist (the
more likely
explanation).
Most of the
explanations of Romans 9 I have read from Calvinists seem to be completely off track and
do more to undermine the character of God than glorify it.
If you can't understand my
explanation above and see that as an attempt at discrediting, without pointing out where exactly it's wrong, then there isn't much
more I can
do, other than hope one day you'll learn something.
The only possible
explanation for that is that Mr. Campolo
does more writing and speaking than reading and listening.
Today,
more than three hundred years after John Locke spelled out his theory that the greatest good is served by each person following his or her own best interests, some economists and politicians are still trying to bend and stretch this outmoded «
explanation» of life to fit social realities that say it just doesn't meet human needs today.
BUT HE WHO
DOES THE TRUTH COMES TO THE LIGHT, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been
done in God There can't be
more clear nor simpler
explanation than that!
In a way, every new scientific discovery is a proof that we're headed towards a time when we don't need God as an
explanation any
more.
If you are really able to
do more than «chip away» at cosmology and evolution, then provide a superior
explanation of «divine orchestration» in at least same the level of detail as natural processes you are calling inadequate.
«Theistic evolution» is possible when you have a definition of God where you insist that he had a hand in things even though there isn't any evidence that he
did, and even when his involvement would complicate things
more than a simple, natural
explanation.
The author
does assume a prior knowledge of Therese, and some instances of her life are mentioned with little
explanation, but this is not off - putting; rather it makes the reader want to learn
more.
Naturalistic
explanations have already been successful enough in explaining natural order to conclude with assurance that the argument from design simply
does not carry much weight any
more.
Do we not have to turn to the previously discussed psychological
explanation (i.e., I am
more anxious — an unpleasant state which I wish would end — during the first trip) in order to account for this phenomenon?
This is true, not because it contains, as it
does,
more exalted religious ideas than any other book, or expresses them better (this would be an
explanation of the Bible's superiority, not of its uniqueness), but because it stands in a unique relation to some unique and supremely significant events.
This
explanation makes much
more sense of the surrounding context of Matthew 20:16 and 22:14 than
does the contrived theological distinction between a general call and an effectual call.
Moreover, I am again willing to grant that these
explanations are basically defensive while the
explanation available to process theism — that God can not unilaterally
do more — is not.
A much
more plausible
explanation is to assume that Plantinga has not significantly modified his position for the same reason that Griffin has not significantly modified his position: because he doesn't believe that any of the criticisms leveled against his position thus far merit such modification.
Most times I
do so I find the
explanations not much
more than a cover story.
What's
more, he says, occasionally the person will
do something that defies
explanation.
The argument that a solely persuasive God is
more powerful than the traditional coercive God is in some tension with the
explanation that God
does not intervene coercively to prevent excess evil because he
does not have the power.
Any being capable of designing something as complex as a sensory organ like an eye is surely even
more complex itself;
does this not require further
explanation?
(4) In the absence of an
explanation why God
does not use
more coercive power and is not
more effective in his persuasion we may as reasonably conclude that there is a great evil persuasive power behind phenomena in the world as that there is a great power persuading toward the good.
My own belief gives me an
explanation (sort of) for stuff existing, but it really isn't any
more provable / likely than «um, we don't know» and any religion's «genesis myth» has pros and cons.
But of course a correlation between observations
does not demonstrate causality; the
more likely
explanation for Dr. Person's correlative data is that heightened sexual fantasies stimulate the search for sexual experiences.
Books upon books, complex
explanation on top of complex
explanation, lies upon lies, when the simpler and much
more elegant solution is that there are no gods, and none are needed — it's all just science we
do not fully undrestand — yet!
He is the «depth» of things, as he is the «depth» of ourselves; but he is
more than that — he is himself, yet always himself in relation to that which he is
doing, loving, using for the world whose final
explanation he is.
Clitophon thinks that this must find its
explanation either in the fact that Socrates
does not know
more, or else that he is unwilling to communicate
more.
And even if it were the case that in the past we spent less time defending and discussing specific dogmas, there seems to me to be a much
more plausible
explanation than «no one really used to care about dogma», which is this: it's not that we didn't care about dogma, but rather that the truths of faith have come under unprecedented scrutiny and attack in the modern period, not least fromdissenters within the Church, so it has become essential that we
do talk about what we actually believe.
If a simpler
explanation exists the burden is on the persons supporting the
more complicated
explanation to show that the simple
explanation does not work.
But the best
explanation I can come up with is that it simply doesn't exist, and that its far
more important for humanity to take care of its own business than wait for some divine intervention that just won't come.
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.
This is Vega's
explanation for why they don't use
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