Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing
more than an accident of birth
Fr Edward Holloway certainly saw marriage, and the nature of Man as male and female, as
more than some accident of evolution.
(c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing
more than an accident of birth; or
Abolition ends with Lewis's admonition to pause before relegating Natural Law to
no more than another accident of human history in a wholly material universe.
I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing
more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.
It's
more than an accident that brings freelance Rolling Stone writer Dave Brill (McGregor) to internationally known trumpet player Miles Davis (Cheadle).
Now that Nintendo revealed that this was nothing
more than an accident, does this mean that a Super Smash Bros..
Your personal injury case is about
more than the accident itself.
Not exact matches
Studies that have compared safety records have typically determined that trains have far higher
accident rates involving hazardous materials
than do pipelines, although leaks from railcars tend to be
more quickly contained.
Former Liberal Party WA president David Honey's convincing by - election victory in the blue ribbon seat of Cottesloe was no
accident; the strong Liberal showing was
more than a year in the planning.
More than 2,600 pedestrians are injured from motor - vehicle - related
accidents in B.C. every year, and as many as 67 of those die as a result.
According to Ho Wing Hong, a senior ship surveyor with Hong Kong's marine
accident investigation unit, there have been
more than 150 collisions to date this year in Hong Kong's waters alone.
While
more people died in air
accidents in 2014
than the average in recent years, the number of fatal
accidents compared with the total number of flights was a record low, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
Our partners have driven
more than five million miles and they've had zero
accidents during our trips.
So keen was McDermott to get back to work that he joined the executive board's extraordinary meeting little
more than two months after the
accident, on September 10, 2015.
Even a small number of high - profile
accidents could do
more than statistics to influence the opinions of lawmakers and potential customers, at least in the short term.
The automaker said it will establish a compensation program covering those killed or seriously injured in the
more than 50
accidents blamed on the switches.
It also faces
more than 4,300 claims for compensation from people who said they suffered injuries related to the faulty switches or from relatives of those killed in related
accidents, the lawyer overseeing the program has said.
But the same could be said of the 197 pedestrians struck by cars and killed in Arizona in 2016, and the
more than 40,000 people who died in car
accidents in the U.S. during the same time period.
From Bill Cosby's now - legendary social media missteps, flippant tweets that resulted in firings, to Facebook official relationships sometimes carrying
more weight
than actually committing, social media is what you make of it, either on purpose or by
accident.
«Even if it remains a Schedule I substance, the DEA will continue to allocate its resources and time to the biggest and most violent drug traffickers,» he says, explaining most of the agency's resources are being used to deal with the current opioid epidemic, which kills
more people each year
than auto
accidents.
It kind of feels
more like an
accident than a menu item.
The company claims this is the first autopilot
accident after
more than 208 million kilometers (nearly 130 million miles) driven by Autopilot customers.
In 2014,
more than 1,600 people who were passengers in the front seat of vehicles were killed in
accidents.
Even a statement as simple as «people are less likely to be involved in
accidents while Autopilot is engaged» could be misleading if drivers tend to rely on Autopilot
more in ideal driving conditions, rather
than challenging ones, and the distinction isn't taken into account.
In the event of an
accident, Kinder Morgan has pledged to do no
more than comply with federal laws, which stipulate that operators of a major oil pipeline in this country must have a minimum of $ 1 billion in financial resources available to cover liabilities related to a land spill.
GEICO also tends to raise rates
more than other competitors when you have an
accident on your record.
He only got into electronics by
accident, and he no
more dreamed Steve Jobs» dreams of a PC revolution
than he imagined he'd shave wannabe moguls calling him «Sir» on the BBC.
Though Progressive has
more complaints and lower satisfaction ratings
than other big insurers, it offers convenient features that help you compare prices or deal with an auto
accident.
Yet there are still far
more accidents involving rail cars
than pipelines every year.
Tesla claims it to be so, showing that tens of thousands of clients all over the world have banked
more than 100 million miles in semi-autonomous driving until the unfortunate
accident of Brown.
But serious
accidents occur in plants from all over, according to
more than 3,000 pages of court documents and OSHA investigative files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car
accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather
than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other
than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or
more before losing my father in a car
accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..
It takes
more faith to believe that this universe and creation was created by
accident than to believe that it is the devine work of God.
So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many
more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence
than «it just can't be
accident».
Are these connections anything
more than historical
accident?
If there is no God and the universe is a chance result of some great
accident, then we are nothing
more than bundles of chemicals and nothing matters.
But when David Halberstam (who, with Neil Sheehan, did
more than anyone else to create the canonical narrative of Vietnam) died tragically this past year in an auto
accident, not a single obituary notice I read suggested he had been terribly wrong about Tet or that his wrongheadedness had helped create a political situation that had had lethal consequences for millions.
In the U.S., the number of abused women falls to one in four, but domestic violence is still the leading cause of injury for women between the ages 15 and 44 —
more than car
accidents, muggings, and rape combined.
It then said that Groeschel was in a car
accident seven years ago that put him in a coma for
more than a month.
If I believed in a purposeless universe, that life nothing but an
accident, me and my loved ones are no
more valuable
than tape worms, then I would be drinking constantly.
It may be no
more (and no less) true that the elimination of poverty is «open to public choice»
than that traffic
accidents continue to occur in our land only «because we consent to it.»
Accidents and tragedy will be a part of modern society regardless... we see it far
more often on the highway
than we do in the home from accidental shooting and I am not talking about the criminal activity of drinking and driving.
Surely it is
more than a mere
accident that Whitehead so conceives the «actuality» of his actual entities in such a way as to fit the Aristotelian sense of energeia and entelecheia, both of which are rendered by the Latin actus and its derivative forms.
It is not by
accident that John 3:16 has been
more often quoted
than any other verse in the Bible.
I shared the reservations of Elton Trueblood, who wrote of exclusivism: «Such a scheme is neat and simple, but it is morally shocking... A God who would thus play favorites with his children, condemning some to eternal separation from himself while admitting others, and distinguishing them wholly or chiefly on the basis of the
accidents of history or geography, over which they had no control, would be
more devil
than God.»
As happens with many good books, I stumbled upon
More Than Serving Tea by
accident, after I read an interview with one of its authors, Nikki Toyama - Szeto, at Intervarsity's «The Well» blog.
I take comfort in knowing that there is indeed an afterlife and there is
more than just this... 20 minutes after my brother died in a car
accident 1500 miles away, my 2.5 year old asked me who was standing next to me in our kitchen — it was just my son and me so I thought — believe what you will but I know my son saw my brother's spirit in our kitchen that day.
If you're worried about national security as an American, it might ease your mind to know you are
more likely to be killed in an auto
accident or even to die from your own clothes igniting or melting
than by immigrant linked terrorism.
It's all about belief and if you believe everything is an
accident, you have
more faith
than Christians.