Sentences with phrase «of natural causes as»

For this reason, many of us who don't like the idea of ignoring the fact that we are much more likely to die of natural causes than accidental causes like to have a «real» life insurance policy, one that will pay out in the event of natural causes as well as accidental causes of death.

They were dying of natural causes as they always do once they spawn.»

This does not deny that there is also a natural order of causation, but the fullest explanation in natural terms does not in any way affect the need for understanding the whole network of natural causes as wholly dependent for its being and preservation upon a supernatural cause.

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As for the sensitivity issues, those are gradually lessened thanks to the inclusion of natural potassium nitrate, which desensitizes teeth by filling in those tiny tubules that expose dentin and connect the underlying nerves to the hot, cold, or pressure causing pain.

Economists use the term «Dutch disease» to describe the way resource booms spur an inflationary spiral that causes other industries to wither and hampers overall competitiveness, as happened to the Netherlands as a result of its natural gas boom in the 1960s.

Our 7.3 billion numbers wreak havoc on the rest of the natural world as we cause extinction rates of other creatures at over 100 daily and hundreds of thousands by mid century.

A detailed review from Entirely Pets speaks to the natural flavor of the treats as well as the efficacy of the dual - enzyme system in removing and preventing disease - causing plaque.

speaks to the natural flavor of the treats as well as the efficacy of the dual - enzyme system in removing and preventing disease - causing plaque.

The Alberta Energy Regulator still regards the cause of the Primrose leak as unknown (Canadian Natural Resources Ltd..)

The «uncanny valley «phenomenon, coined by famed Japanese robotics pioneer Masahiro Mori, postulates that as facial features look and move almost, but not exactly, like natural beings, they cause a response of revulsion among some observers.

While damage caused by some types of natural events — such as lightning or wind — will usually be covered by commercial property insurance, you need a special policy if you want protection from flood damage.

As a result, political instability, labor strikes, natural disasters or other events resulting in the disruption of trade or transportation from other countries or the imposition of additional regulations relating to duties upon imports could cause significant delays or interruptions in the supply of our merchandise or increase our costs, either of which could have an adverse effect on our business.

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

As Albert the Great, medieval philosopher, scientist, and teacher of Thomas Aquinas, remarked: «In the natural sciences we do not investigate how God the Creator operates according to His will and uses miracles to show His power, but rather what may happen in natural things on the ground of the causes inherent in nature» (In I De caelo et mundo, tr.

At one time the Catholic natural law philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and his followers dominated European thinking, but its metaphysical foundations were undermined as science replaced Aristotelian teleology and Catholic theology with a materialist worldview that considers only efficient causes.

Cause and effect... natural consequences... civil law... nurturing care of humankind (yeah, animals too) and of the Earth and its resources (and of the universe as we venture out there).

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant - breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

It is possible to interpret this natural weeping as a purely physiological reaction to loss, not really different in kind from the tears caused by exposure to the juice of raw onions or acrid smoke.

What is called fate, or testing, is nothing but the operation of natural laws, such as the principles of cause and effect and of the freedom of man.

Could we not add «Zeus» or «Odin» as the obvious causes of natural phenomenon?

Belief in the existence of a personal God has declined as men have found the influence of mutually relative natural agencies, — environment, natural selection, organic composition, conditioned functional reaction etc., able to account for natural phenomena that before were related to more general causes or even to the First Cause.

So the doctor can do you in and put down the cause of death as «natural,» and only the Death Panel will know.

The Christian indeed has always recognised the immediate primacy of secondary causes in the bringing about of natural phenomena, but as serial causes have been traced further back, and their astonishing inter-dependence demonstrated, the scientist has tended to proclaim either a mathematical universe in which theses secondary causes may be identified with some primary basic formula, or equation, synonymous in definition with a physical ultimate, a universe inwhich God has no place; or else he has preferred to identify intellect with matter itself and has come to accept that idealistic cosmic pantheism which is almost as common a philosophy today as evolutionary materialism.

Marking World Refugee Day, he highlighted the plight of those displaced through causes such as conflict and natural disasters.

Eventually all of the circumstantial pieces of evidence (each of which could possibly have a natural cause) cross into the world of statistical impossibility when taken together... unless intelligent design is accepted as a solution.

Sure, any of them could be the real cause, but so could something natural that we just don't happen to understand yet, just as we didn't understand many things a hundred years ago that did turn out to have natural causes that we do understand now.

For Reid it is by a «natural kind of magic» that we take them to stand for these objects; there are no grounds in experience for making this association.9 As we have seen, Whitehead disagrees with Reid in that he holds that we have a direct intuition or «feeling» of external objects as causes of sensationAs we have seen, Whitehead disagrees with Reid in that he holds that we have a direct intuition or «feeling» of external objects as causes of sensationas causes of sensations.

Scientism claims that the natural world is all there is, that supernatural explanations of the world are irrational, that everything can be reduced to physical causes, and that the only things we can know as true are those which Science reveals — supported by evidence, submitted to experimentation, and reviewed by peers.

Brian, Well I suppose I do have a fear about what these fantasy beliefs can do to cause trouble all over the world, as if we don't have enough with real problems of political ills, poverty, diseases and natural disasters; but mostly I am repelled by so many, like eaglemt and the huge number of others like him / her, who preach hell - fire and eternal torment for those who don't regard their unproven beliefs as reality.

If an omnipotent God has created nature, one must ask why one should not then posit nature as capable of causing natural events on its own steam rather than requiring intervention.

Physics has had enormous success in explaining why things happen as they do in the natural world, but its modes of explanation do not fit neatly into the four-fold classification of material, formal, efficient, and final causes.

Lewontin was satisfied that creationism can not survive because its acceptance of miracles puts it at odds with the more rational perception of the world as a place where all events have natural causes.

I can explain climate change as a result of a natural cycle caused by the masses and orbits of the planets, but I don't go around calling believers in humans causing climate change idiots simply because I know what actually causes it.

As is well known, Aristotle agrees that some natural processes have final as well as material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the raiAs is well known, Aristotle agrees that some natural processes have final as well as material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the raias well as material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the raias material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the rain.

Given the character of scientific explanation in terms of efficient causes, it is quite understandable that such evolutionary advance should be explained in terms of natural selection and chance variation as the best possible scientific theory.

This is made clear by the definition of its very proponents: «the theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection.

But the root cause of the opinion that God is a threat to human creativity is due not to a defect in logic but to the false assumptions derived from a static frame of reference that pictures God as a metaphysical and Transcendent Other, and this world as an autonomous natural order.

Given that faith, as it is expressed, say, in the letters of Paul, the historian can account plausibly for all that follows, and show how effect followed cause in a sequence as «natural» as such sequences ever are.

If Jesus» belief in miracles is understood as a general conviction that certain happenings, which we today are accustomed to attribute to natural causes, depend upon a higher, divine cause, then the belief is meaningless and has no relation to his idea of God.

This self - activity is denied to the world as a whole if God is its primary (coercive) cause, and it is denied to the individual parts if they are determined by the secondary causes of the natural order acting in God's stead.

As for determinism, naturalism's widespread acceptance in both the natural and social sciences implied that man, seen as a being completely subject to the chain of cause - and - effect that runs throughout nature, possesses no free wilAs for determinism, naturalism's widespread acceptance in both the natural and social sciences implied that man, seen as a being completely subject to the chain of cause - and - effect that runs throughout nature, possesses no free wilas a being completely subject to the chain of cause - and - effect that runs throughout nature, possesses no free will.

Lately, however, there have been other signs that the cause of natural theology may have a future as well as a past.

[8][9][10][11] Intelligent design is seen as a pseudoscience in the scientific community, because it lacks empirical support, supplies no tentative hypotheses, and resolves to describe natural history in terms of scientifically untestable supernatural causes.

The Inst.itute defines it as the proposition that «certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.»

God acts exclusively through created, secondary causes, always respecting these natural processes, never overturning the laws of nature nor setting them aside, suffering with creation when disasters occur, rejoicing as these processes bring forth new realities.

Then, the recently translated lecture, the third, extends into a discussion of the growing multiplicity of forms in creation, through evolution, and specifically tackling the question of causation by God as creator, and secondary, natural causes within the created order.

These prehensions constitute the natural causes that Hume thought could not be asserted and that Kant posited as the contribution of the human mind.

Although Locke is pessimistic with regard to what we can actually know about these particles, believing as he does that we will always be in «incurable ignorance about them since we can not know the minute parts of matter nor the manner of their interaction, he thinks that at least in principle it is possible to discover the causes of natural events.

It is worth noting here that in the Christian metaphysics of creation too, to which Thomas Aquinas can once again serve as an example, the process of nature is regarded as ultimately determined by spirit and by cognition in virtue of its fundamental goal - directedness.9 But in this tradition it is exclusively the creative spirit of God that as First Cause is operative in creatures and gives direction to their becoming, instead of a spiritual principle belonging to the natural beings themselves.