Sentences with phrase «n't accept the explanation»

«The public doesn't accept the explanation, «don't worry, we'll handle it».»

But Grace, unable to let go of her memories of their love and life together, can not accept this explanation.

My wife didn't accept this explanation, so I conjured a mental picture of lawn mower versus yellow downy - feathered ducklings, to which she responded: «What ducks?»

The pattern for those «skeptics» is one of starting out with what sems like a reasonable question, then not accepting the explanations, degenerating into denial, libertarian fantasies, and conspiracy theories while asserting counterfactuals, before their politeness finally expires and moderation kicks in.

Jones did not accept that explanation and said it was inconsistent with the timing and frequency of Tsige's snooping.

Not exact matches

As a student of human behavior who tries to understand why we do the things that we do (often to no avail), I've had to accept that sometimes there just isn't any explanation for why that person just did that really weird thing.

This means that even though the other person might accept your apology and explanation for your behavior, you may be required to put extra time in to show that you aren't the person someone assumes you to be.

DO NOT be an apologist or accept the explanation «your mind is too small to understand the greatness of science» or «evolution moves in mysterious ways» when you come upon logical inconsistencies in your belief.

You could spend all day correlating causation in a classical quantum state with the form and substance of the Holy Spirit yet never publish an accepted study simply because «my god did it» is not a reasonable explanation for things that are not known.

If there is a creator, can it respect that I wouldn't accept just any explanation?

Most atheists are open to natural explanations, but will, for the time being, accept «we don't know (yet)».

Even if intelligent design turns out to be true, there are an infinite number of explanations, not just the ONE that you blindly accept.

But apparently they can accept the explanation that this god doesn't want them to know how he came into existence.

If the requisite disjunctive synthesis can not be explained by appeal to the doctrine that God values all possible worlds, this is not so much because evaluation is logically dependent upon gradations of importance, but because (accepting Christian's explanation of the absence of such gradations in the primordial nature) the logic of the doctrine itself entails that God be inextricably involved in the formation of actual worlds as «circles of convergence,» i.e., in «the orderings effected by individuals in the course of nature.»

They may not be ready to accept the explanation, or able to understand it fully, but they need to know what the adults involved have in mind.

If my understanding as to what would constitute an act which is peculiarly someone's is accepted, then Ogden's explanation of a special act of God is not adequate.

There can be little question that Whitehead himself accepted this; he believed that the tenderness, sympathy, and love which were shown in Jesus» life and death are in fact the disclosure of the nature of the Divine Reality who is the chief — although not the only — principle of explanation for all that has been, is, and will be.

We don't accept incredible explanations of everything else, if we don't know we just say so.

IE «willful» I will not go into deep explanation but simply stated, this passage is not speaking to people who commit sins on purpose but to people who practice sin as an accepted way of life.not people like you and I and the apostle Paul who says in Phillipians 312Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

I don't think any judge or jury would accept your explanation, and as I learned, neither would God.

The cardinals voted Friday morning to accept the letters of explanation of two cardinal - electors who are eligible to vote for the next pope but will not attend the conclave: Keith O'Brien of Scotland and Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja of Indonesia.

How do you go from «I can't come up with a good explanation for morality» to «therefore I'm going to accept that Catholicism / the Christian God is true»?

But Niebuhr had another suggestion: If we can not admit providence as an explanation, perhaps we can accept fortuity instead.

The stories and belief systems changed and evolved over time but before the scientific method came into play, there was little reason not to accept the religious explanations for why the world was the way it was.

DO NOT be an apologist or accept the explanation «your mind is too small to understand the greatness of God,» «God is outside the Universe» or «God moves in mysterious ways» when you come upon logical inconsistencies in your belief.

If we accept this as the correct rendering, then the whole weight of the story falls not upon the importuner, but upon the importuned, for it is his conduct that is singled out for explanation and comment.

btw the Miller - Urey experiment showed that life can come from something non-living although it is not accepted as the actual abiogenesis explanation.

DO NOT be an apologist or accept the explanation «your mind is too small to understand the greatness of god» or «god moves in mysterious ways» when you come upon logical inconsistencies in your belief.

I don't quite know what to think of their stories, but am inclined to accept them at face value, and find their explanations a «mystery».

Related to the litmus test comments — How about this litmus test: if you don't accept evolution as the only rational explanation for the diversity of life on Earth you can not run for office.

We don't accept Christianity because of its crackin» explanation for evil and suffering.

Let us accept, however, Colson's view that the accounts of planetary and stellar formation provided by modern astrophysics do not qualify as «natural explanations.»

Is it possible that a man of Barr's education really wonders why some of us would not accept a natural explanation for the formation of stars and planets in light of discoveries made possible by the Hubble telescope?

It is clear that the process philosophy of science as developed thus far can not accept the deductive model of explanation.

We emphasize that we do not decide that a state «mandated statement violates the Constitution simply because it disclaims any intent to communicate to students that the theory of evolution is the only accepted explanation of the origin of life, informs students of their right to follow their religious principles, and encourages students to evaluate all explanations of life's origins, including those taught outside the classroom.

Many of the speakers, including many of the scientists, starting with the very opening paper by Cambridge palaeobiologist Simon Conway - Morris, were keen to emphasise above all that whilst accepting fully the rectitude of the science of the biological theory of evolution (mutation with natural selection), yet a «totality of explanation it is not» (Conway - Morris's words).

most of the religious creationism beliefs exist simply because man - kind, by default, doesn't accept the fact that they will never have an explanation for something.

Job can not for himself accept any of the usual explanations.

ESPN has accepted this explanation from Stephen A. Smith because he has not been disciplined in any way.

On the other hand, we have seen some awful games from the Gunners before which have not been at the end of a transfer window, so do you accept Wenger's explanation or is it just a convenient excuse?

Whether Busch accepted the explanation, he wasn't saying Friday at Phoenix International Raceway, but Logano said it was important that he at least make the effort.

I seem to be a lone voice as I refuse to accept the «luck explanation» when things don't go our way.

It was an explanation Sam Allardyce did not accept.

If his explanation is not accepted, he will receive a strike.

Sometimes there isn't an explanation for a miscarriage and it makes it even harder to accept.

I agree that simply accepting the behavior, no matter what the explanation, is simply not enough.

I wondered the exact same thing about the gestational diabetes test, never got an explanation about why it was necessary, couldn't understand what benefit there could be to drinking an amount of sugar that I would never otherwise ingest to see if I had a condition I was unlikely to have that would be treated by following a diet and exercise plan less stringent than what I already did, so I ultimately declined it — a decision which was readily accepted by the CNMs providing care at my hospital's practice.

That may be why our daughter readily accepted our explanation that daddy didn't really have a stomachache.

The feelings that my body was dirty, that it was not mine, that it was only for someone else to use, to decide if I was pretty, too fat, too thin, too plain, too made - up, too shy, too bold, too accepting, too melodramatic, too obedient, too defiant... you get the idea, that all never went away, I was just lacking explanation for much of it for a long time.

Picente and Brindisi say they are requesting an explanation from Chao why the DOT did not accept New York's bid, and how they can be reconsidered for the project.