Sentences with phrase «not scepticism»

However, refusing to accept the overwhelming scientific evidence is not scepticism but denial.

ED Science is about child - like faith not Scepticism.

Denying climate change isn't scepticism — it's «motivated reasoning» True sceptics test a hypothesis against the evidence, but climate sceptics refuse to accept anything that contradicts their beliefs

It's not a particularly well - formulated question, I would argue, since most scepticism isn't scepticism of «AGW».

Not exact matches

But the Chinese billionaire has not held back voicing scepticism of Trump's protectionist policies, warning «if trade stops, war starts.»

But one thing is certain — despite all the groundbreaking reforms made by Facebook for data privacy, users will use the platform with more scepticism or not use at all.

Father Lombardi said Benedict XVI recalled «above all the cultural crisis of the West that exploded in «68, with the fascination for Marxism and the illusion of creating a new world, and the crumbling of the communist regimes in «89: the fall of the ideologies that did not give room to faith but rather to scepticism.

Let us not forget the words of Pope John Paul II as he elevated St. Edith Stein to the rank of co-patroness of Europe, warning: «A Europe, that would change the value of tolerance and universal respect into ethical indifferentism and scepticism about values that can not be forsaken, would openitself to most risky ventures and sooner or later it would see appearing in new forms the most dreadful phantoms of its own history».

She wouldn't have attracted nearly as much scepticism and pious horror by doing so, and many people would have been sympathetic; in private, at least.

[3] Against the background of scepticism it is not surprising that the perennial Christian method of discovering theological truth and spiritual meaning in the Scriptures was virtually eclipsed in the second half of the 20th century.

Scepticism of some other person's version of «who God is and what He wants us to be / do» is not a cop - out.

As Christians are just about the only large group of people seen to be particularly intolerant, there can be some scepticism from time to time of how people can tolerate being part of the church (a scepticism which I actually haven't found common in Ontario myself but did find growing up East — which might be because the churches here are more accepting).

Not infrequently one encounters a deep - rooted scepticism in this regard.

What can hardly be denied is that Archbishop Nichols is a good deal more inclined to support the authority of Rome than once he was; and it is not only The Tablet which has observed the shift with some scepticism: he was until very recently (and perhaps still is) regarded by many in Rome as one who in Birmingham behaved as an orthodox pope - supporting prelate should in order to get to Westminster.

To propose that the wholesale slaughter of other nations by the Israelites was a misunderstanding on their part and not indeed specific instruction from God is to bring wholesale scepticism on the reliability of Scripture as God's reveal word to His creation.

Just research de philosophy of Scepticism n u'll see how old it is.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

I value the idea that there are various levels or stages in spiritual growth, including M. Scott Peck's normative progression: 1) not caring, 2) simplistic or concretized (fundamentalist) religion, 3) scepticism, 4) universal vision.

Ederson may not be the most obvious candidate but it is important to remember the pressure that was put on his shoulders when he first arrived last summer, both in terms of Guardiola's demands and expectations / scepticism among fans and media.

I hope this is useful, I think these study days are problematic if not approached with scepticism but they are offering the «carrot» of free training when children's centre training budgets are compromised.

(Douglad Carswell will, I am sure, believe it shows he is winning the argument): Hence «Pointing out the scale of climate scepticism among the online opinion formers on the right does not, of course, prove that they are wrong, or right.

It is not surprising that after 20 years of Russian support to Transnistria, there is a lot of scepticism about whether Russia's willingness to restart 5 +2 talks is genuine.

But even if it is so, the scepticism about this technocratic / institutionalist way of dealing with challenges indicates that the way these institutions are introduced is not a type of practice that contributes to re-articulation of the European idea and engagement with the broader public over the European project.

There isn't enough of a culture of intelligent scepticism or questioning.

However, this widespread scepticism of the merits of the free market has given way to a powerful critique of the state and the government insofar as the state did not only exacerbate the economic downturn, but was the source of its creation.

Faced with Labour's reasoned opposition, and with substantial scepticism on their own benches, the government backed off from seeking a mandate they would not have obtained.

Therefore, their scepticism over whether it will succeed is either wishful thinking on their part, or they know something the rest of us don't.

It is essential to reform welfare to bring down a «wall of scepticism» among voters who don't believe that politicians will make the system fairer, he will argue.

He will admit one reason for such scepticism is that «people think the problems are huge, but they don't believe they can be solved because of the financial problems the country faces.

«Even the countries whose political situations are regarded with scepticism, the countries whose democracies are not considered mature because of the dominance of one political party or because a single President has ruled for decades — even those countries are holding elections,» he added.

At the same time, people's general experience is «evidence», too, and shouldn't be dismissed simply because it hasn't been quantified by statistics which, as I have already suggested, tend to induce bouts of scepticism anyway.

Shadow Treasury minister Greg Hands appears there to defend the campaign, but also included in the clip came a note of scepticism from Paul Richards, who appeared to be there as an independent political analyst - which he most certainly is not.

Excuse my scepticism, but I can not see this project having anything like that kind of electoral impact.

Surprisingly, the survey suggests public scepticism is not confined to the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats but extends to the smaller parties likely to win «protest votes».

While climate change scepticism is not official party policy, the words «environment» and «climate change» do not appear in the DUP's 2017 general election manifesto.

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has said that allowing the public to see the country by country reporting records of companies operating in the EU is not enough to counter growing global scepticism about the fairness of the tax system.

Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.»

Extended diplomas are due to come into force in 2011 but universities have expressed scepticism in advance that pupils will not be prepared for degree courses.

But, despite public scepticism towards road pricing, Mr Alexander repeated Tony Blair's warning that «doing nothing is not an option.»

Labour has responded with scepticism to the measures, claiming they will not make a difference.

I am a great admirer of John Redwood re deregulation, tax cutting and EU - scepticism, but putting the boot on the other foot, it is not like John Redwood has made a great job of overturning the Conservative pro-EU stance in the last decade or two, is it?

The EU scepticism of Social Democrats of Tom Harris, David Owen, have known not to merge with the Libdems, having not voted for Labours manifesto to leave the EU in 1983, finding they have more in Common with Centrist Brexit Labour MPs such as John Cryer, just as EU sceptic Labour MPs Gisela Staurt and Kate Hoey have common ground with those M.P.s loyal to the party, Angela Eagle, Andy Burnham and Louisiana Berger.

Discounting my scepticism, I would say I don't know whether it could make me want to vote Tory, but that probably meeting Mandela was a very genuine attempt to pay his respects and to be on the right side.»

• Osborne's proposal for a tax break for firms that hire the unemployed met with scepticism this week from business leaders, who said suffering firms were not in a position to recruit.

He said scepticism was «healthy» but «often the term «Eurosceptic» in reality became synonymous with «anti-European» and I am not anti-European at all, I want to see close and progressive cooperation with the whole of Europe after Brexit».

The AfD did not make election statements on science, and declined to answer Nature's questions before the election, but party leaders have previously expressed climate scepticism and distrust of genetic engineering.

The next time Texas purchases science textbooks, this standard could be used to reject books that do not include a degree of climate change scepticism, says Steven Newton, programmes and policy director for the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a non-profit organisation based in Oakland, California.

In fact, the main reason for the scepticism, says Richard Harvey of the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, UK, was that four - fifths of ulcers were not in the stomach but further down the digestive tract.

But scepticism remains because the experiment that would prove prions are the infectious agent — injecting animals with pure prions — has not been done.

My scepticism was not needed as the juice was heavenly!