Sentences with phrase «of alternative explanations for»

Ultimately, an environmentally mediated causal effect of PAE on childhood externalizing behaviors — a causal inference — would be supported if the relation remained robust to the measured covariates and quasi-experimental methods because these approaches account for many of the alternative explanations for the association between PAE and externalizing problems.

Aside from this, however, is the question of alternative explanations for school enrollment decreases.

Our results come from a non-experimental design, so a number of alternative explanations for our findings remain plausible.

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The leaders of all three nations signed a joint statement, which said there was «no plausible alternative explanation» for the Skripal poisoning other than a Kremlin hit - job.

The alternative explanation is that some people with detailed knowledge of the TalkTalk hack are going to extensive lengths to try and frame a boy for the breach.

I incline toward the first of two alternative explanations Robert Benne offers for the leading role ex-Missourians have played in the liberal protestantizing of ELCA Lutheranism, namely, that their experience of torment from the right blinded them to «any danger on the left.»

And of course, he has repeatedly ignored my requests to provide an alternative explanation for why there are exploding termites.

After this, we will look carefully at numerous texts from Scripture which are often used by Calvinists to defend the doctrine of Unconditional Election, and will suggest alternative explanations for these texts which fit better with their grammatical, cultural, theological, and historical contexts.

For every explanation you offer I can, and on many occasions have, offered an alternative explanation that's consistent with what we know about human psychology and human history, yet mine require no leaps of faith in a God whose existence I can't prove.

But, on the other hand, it is quite unjustified for theists to hold that we must tolerate or swallow the paradoxes or explain them away (by feats of ingenuity so subtle, and verbal methods so remote from intuitive insight or definite logical structures, that only deity could know with any assurance what was taking place), giving as justification the claim that the alternative position of atheism is even more paradoxical (lacking, it may be urged, any principle of cosmic explanation at all).

Keillor has a keen ear for parody, and makes use of it in unlikely ways, as in the marvelous «Your Wedding and You» with its explanation of the «alternative wedding» (only Garry Trudeau's «Doonesbury» has caught this «60s and «70s language as accurately), and in his more recent homage to punk rock in «Don: The True Story of a Young Person.»

Frank, one assumes, would quarrel with this way of putting his argument, but he offers no alternative explanation for how millions of middle Americans are so blind to their real interests and so self - destructive in their political behavior.

Unless they are to write exclusively for fellow believers, the Catholic author must now offer his readers an alternative explanation for what he might see as an act of God.

If classical Darwinism isn't the explanation for macroevolution, however, there is only speculation as to what sort of alternative mechanisms might have been responsible.

The final three chapters summarily consider the evidence against and for the virgin birth, arguing that it is neither myth nor indemonstrable truth; instead the evidence for the existence of an historical tradition anteceding the Gospels, ultimately from Mary herself, is more credible than any alternative explanation; hence, for anyone open to the possibility of miracles, there is good evidence to affirm Jesus» virgin birth on the basis of the New Testament's testimony.

Even within physics, alternative categories of explanation for the same phenomenon are sometimes needed.

If the process is so well understood that it leaves no room for doubt or for alternative explanations, then when was the last time the scientists were able to create artificial life, i.e. assemble a living cell out of a bunch of chemical elements?

For it offers an alternative explanation for the apparent fact that the basic actualities of the world are describable in terms of passive endurances with essential or non-essential modificatioFor it offers an alternative explanation for the apparent fact that the basic actualities of the world are describable in terms of passive endurances with essential or non-essential modificatiofor the apparent fact that the basic actualities of the world are describable in terms of passive endurances with essential or non-essential modifications.

Evolutionary cosmologies may begin simply as rival evolutionist theories — alternative causal explanations for these observed phenomena of development, change, and transformation.3 An evolutionist theory becomes an evolutionary cosmology whenever the favored evolutionist theory is extrapolated from its original context as an account of geological or biological change, and made to serve as an overarching cosmological category, such that «evolution» in some idiosyncratic sense becomes the basis for a systematic and unified interpretation of a wide array of diverse phenomena beyond the domains of biology and geology.

Ironically, Whitehead had at hand an alternative explanation for societies as principles of continuity in a changing world in his passing remarks in Process and Reality to the effect that «a society is, for each of its members, an environment with some element of order in it, persisting by reason of the genetic relations between its own members» (90).

An elucidation of the agreement here, however, involves concepts which provide a context for an alternative which challenges the formalist position with respect to the logic of other key issues in the philosophy of science, viz., with respect to the nature and status of laws, the role and justification of induction, the model of theoretical explanation, and the intelligibility of conceptual change.

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.

''... For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence.»

Already, this event has ruled out hundreds of theories that provide alternatives to dark energy, a perplexing facet of our universe that is the most common explanation for why the cosmos is expanding faster and faster.

Obviously there are alternative answers that have prevailed for a very long time, but evolution has replaced a supernatural explanation of human origins with a naturalistic one.

In light of this shortcoming, some investigators see room for an increased focus on an alternative explanation for heritable traits: epigenetics, the molecular processes that control a gene's potential to act.

«We don't have any alternative explanation for the dark energy; we don't have any alternative explanation for the smallness of the mass of the electron; we don't have any alternative explanation for many properties of particles.

If you find the Higgs and no supersymmetry and nothing like supersymmetry, [that] provides an alternative explanation for why the Higgs is so light, then the lightness of the Higgs particle becomes a problem like the cosmological constant.

Furthermore, evidence for a south to north gradient in the prevalence of melanin mutations is weaker than for this alternative explanation explored by Elias and colleagues.

Most of them were careful to point out that the revolutionary claim from the scientists involved in the experiment, which used the BICEP2 telescope (for Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, second generation), must be confirmed by additional experiments that could rule out alternative explanations.

«There is no better case of a primary inclusion in a mineral ever documented, and nobody has offered a plausible alternative explanation for graphite of non-biological origin into a zircon.»

For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence.»

Claudia Mancuso, SISSA researcher and first author of the study together with SISSA professors Andrea Lapi and Luigi Danese, suggested a fascinating alternative explanation: «According to the approach we developed at SISSA and published only a few months ago, collision and merging, while possible, are not so relevant as to be able to account for the formation and evolution of galaxies, including the outliers observed in GMS,» says the scientist.

However, the identification of extensive brain vascular changes provides an alternative explanation, and is expected to influence clinical management for these patients.

Since then, several teams have posited alternative, non-dark-matter explanations for the γ - rays — most recently pulsars, the remnants of dead stars — only to see dark - matter claims crawl back into existence soon after.

Bommer: «This signal is the main characteristic of the presence of Majoranas, although under noisy conditions alternative explanations can be found for this».

Personally, I find unconvincing the idea that high protein consumption suddenly and surprisingly becomes protective once we reach old age The authors themselves suggested an alternative explanation for that association — that malnourished and ill older people may be less likely to lconsume high levels of protein than healthier individuals.

Segment from # 70 The antidote to Alzheimer's • why Alzheimer's has been called «Type 3 Diabetes» or Diabetes of the Brain • why there is a type of «energy crisis» in the brains of those who suffer with Alzheimer's • an explanation of the condition of «hypo - metabolism» • the benefits of introducing ketones into the diet while reducing carbohydrates • the definition of Ketones, an alternative fuel for the brain • helps for alleviating brain fog and Alzheimer's patients

Yes, magnesium would be an alternative explanation for the cure of my TMJ syndrome.

Through a combination of medical insights, industry anecdotes, and easy - to - understand explanations, Dr. Kalitenko demystifies bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and explains why it may be a viable alternative for men and women of a certain age.

An alternative explanation whereby both fat and carbohydrate, as well as other factors, are important for reward / palatability, an excess of which contributes to obesity, fits the evidence better.

The book offers detailed explanations of alternative foodstuffs, advice about choosing safe products, and sources for buying them.

If the point of Anonymous was to raise an alternative explanation for the mind behind William Shakespeare's work and begin a frank and honest discussion on the subject, it fails.

Rigorous testing of these and alternative explanation for opt - out behavior await better data.

However, others expressed skepticism about what I shall call the Overregulation Theory, and proposed alternative explanations for the LSP's poor results, while a few more raised concerns about the impact of a more free - market school choice system on equity.

Atheist Julian Baggini meets Richard Dawkins to explore how Darwin's ideas of natural selection offer an alternative explanation to the origin of life, without the need for a designer God.

One possible alternative explanation for the improvements observed in traditional public schools when a charter school opened nearby is the migration of lower - performing students from the traditional public school to the charter school.

Finally, several alternative explanations for falling relative quality do not fit all of the empirical facts as well as the theory presented in this research.

Just how important alternative certification was to the recruitment of highly qualified bilingual instructors is unknown, but it can not be ruled out as a potential explanation for the particularly large gains Florida's Hispanic students have made.

Given the pedagogical emphasis on the use of problem - solving activities, it seems unlikely that the very best teachers would be using the less - effective teaching style (the only alternative explanation for our finding).