Sentences with phrase «more than a hypothesis»

Just ask Pope John Paul II: «New findings lead us toward the recognition of evolution as more than a hypothesis.

Understanding what life is, however, requires more than hypotheses about the triggering circumstances that released it in the first place.

Often God is presented as such a vague, abstract reality - in many cases no more than a hypothesis - that the notion that such a God could be truly known and loved, let alone be our personal fulfilment, is risible.

When we speak of the self - subsistent finitude of the secular myth we mean something very different from that working hypothesis which, since it is no more than a hypothesis, does at least theoretically leave open the door for the idea of transcendence.

Pope John Paul II had this to say about it:» New knowledge has led to the recognition of the theory of evolution as more than a hypothesis.

I just hope this Ony's is more than a hypothesis and a promise.

This «extinction inertia» is just a bit more than a hypothesis.

Not exact matches

The researchers» hypothesis was that any discrepancy would be far less than what European researchers were finding because of the more robust U.S. regulatory regimen.

The latest contribution to the literature, Race and Bankruptcy, by Ed Morrison (Columbia), Belisa Pang (Columbia), and Antoine Uettwiller (Imperial College Business School), tests an alternative hypothesis that pivots on a selection effect: «Financially distressed African Americans may be more likely to benefit from Chapter 13 than other consumers.»

If you really think that foreign capital inflows into developed economies cause lower interest rates, Zizzer, then you have an easily testable hypothesis, and one that should have been pretty obvious, whose results should have bothered you a bit more than they seem to.

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

Overall, the findings tended to confirm our hypothesis: Those who are using paid methods and finding them effective do so with wide experimentation, collaboration with cross-functional teams, a meaningful budget, and more focus on building an audience as a measurement of success than their less effective peers.

On the other hand, the lack of existence of God is nothing more than an unproven hypothesis.

Scientists, for their part, especially those in the scientific community with burdens against religion, need to understand that the nature of scientific evidence, method and hypotheses and the nature of theological evidence, method, and hypothesis have more in common than they might imagine.

Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway - which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells - has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway - which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells - has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

If all scientists were constantly attempting to influence the results of their analyses, but had more opportunities to do so the «softer» the science, then we might expect that the social sciences have more papers that confirm a sought - after hypothesis than do the physical sciences, with medicine and biology somewhere in the middle.

Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis.

On face value, W. E. Hocking's remark that when Whitehead arrived at Harvard «his speculative structure... was already well advanced in its main outlines» is a bit of external evidence against my hypothesis, but it may mean nothing more than that Whitehead was little influenced by the philosophical opinions and controversies of his American colleagues during these years, which seems very much to have been the case.

Bruno, a Dominican friar, held to all sorts of novel, and non - Christian, opinions on faith, giving credence more to exotic ancient - Egyptian beliefs than to orthodox Christology; and while he also followed a number of astronomy hypotheses, such as the existence of a plurality of worlds, yet it was not this that sealed his unfortunate fate.

That may be so, but limbo was never anything more than a theological hypothesis in the first place, albeit a very popular one with a strong place in the hearts of the faithful.

Discussing at length three biological structures that ID supporters cite as evidence of «irreducible complexity» (and therefore the need, they say, for divine intervention), Collins shows how ID remains no more than a modern version of a «god of the gaps» hypothesis, which posits a «clumsy Creator, having to intervene at regular intervals to fix the inadequacies of His own initial plan for generating the complexity of life» and therefore completely unsatisfactory.

I think I can provide more verifiable evidence to support the hypothesis that love exists than you can to support the hypothesis that your god exists.

This makes a more constructive impression than reading statistical trends and developing hypotheses about a mythical Harry.

However, his understanding of a theory more closely resembles a notion of an hypothesis in contemporary logic than the modern notion of a theory.

Some of these criticisms are misdirected inasmuch as the perspective is intended to be more a metatheory of human nature than a set of testable hypotheses.

This panpsychistic conception may appear to be nothing more than a bold hypothesis.

I take it as established that, for Bergson, calculus is more than just a handy metaphor or analogy, but rather, he indeed aimed at framing an approach to the organicist world hypothesis that employs the calculus as its actual method of discovery (i.e., differentiation) and explanation (i.e., integration), and that every discovery is the inverse of an explanation and every explanation the derivative of a discovery.

For present purposes, the idea of perspective carries more appropriate connotations than the notion of hypotheses.

I also find that infinitely more preferable than simply settling for the «3 +1 Brane World» hypothesis that you String Theory folks love so much.

Origin of Life: Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

ORIGIN OF LIFE: Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

Even though the voice's enthusiasm for the world of higher motion seems to have suspended my own doubts, it is disturbing to think how easily a skeptical oyster could argue from all this that ballerinas do not exist, but rather are nothing more than a distracting hypothesis invented by oysters who can not face the grimness of existence without flinching.

These attempts to overturn the work of a previous era of scholarship must be regarded as unsuccessful, because the most they achieve is a demonstration that the literary relationships between the texts of the gospels as we have them are more complex than the older form of the two - source hypothesis imagined.

For her, belief in God will be more than an explanatory hypothesis.

That idea is no more than working hypothesis in the field of natural science.

This hypothesis of a final maturing and ecstasy of Mankind, the logical conclusion of the theory of complexity, may seem even more far - fetched than the idea (of which it is the extension) of the planetization of Life.

On the other hand, in fact, they seem to treat their own choice of hypotheses as something more than simply the outcome of determined conditions.

Such cosmologies are almost always «vitalistic» in the sense of requiring auxiliary and somewhat ad hoc hypotheses to account for the apparent violation of the law of entropy in the impetus toward greater complexity manifested in the evolutionary process.6 Evolutionary cosmologies thus perpetuate a much older tradition of Romantic Naturphilosophie far more than providing a fully contemporary philosophy of science or some sort of «scientifically - verified» philosophy.7

So my criticism is really itself an hypothesis: do the readers feel as I do that ambiguity, suffering and perishing have a more substantial place in human experience than is rendered by Hartshorne's philosophy?

Sorry, but your creator hypothesis is full of holes, and really creates more questions than it answers.

Moreover, the results seem compatible with the hypothesis that religious values serve more as standards for condemning others or as standards to rationalize one's own self pursuits than as standards to judge oneself by or to guide one's own conduct.

In strict science, we can only write down the bare fact of concomitance; and all talk about either production or transmission, as the mode of taking place, is pure superadded hypothesis, and metaphysical hypothesis at that, for we can frame no more notion of the details on the one alternative than on the other.

Therefore, in the sense that my hypotheses depend on a bias in favor of nonreductive explanations, Ogden is correct that I require something more than «historical evidence alone» to justify my hypotheses.

The point is a moot one, and never more so than recently, in view of deep work done on the continuum hypothesis, on questions of consistency, and so on.

It is the universal rule of scientific induction that a hypothesis must explain more than one set of facts.

Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

In any case, current embryological research now allows us to draw moral hypotheses with much more precision than we could in 1974.

Bryan sounds at least reasonable when he argues, «If the results of evolution were unimportant, one might require less proof in support of the hypothesis, but before accepting a new philosophy of life, built upon a materialistic foundation, we have reason to demand something more than guesses.»

Biologists do not take any more kindly to non «falsifiable hypotheses than Mr. Bethell does.

One wonders whether, in the future, when we shall know so much more about what literature says and how it hangs together than we now do, we shall come to see literary myth as a similarly constructive principle in the social or qualitative sciences, giving shape and coherence to psychology, anthropology, theology, history and political theory without losing in any one of them its own autonomy of hypothesis.»