Sentences with phrase «opposed worlds of science»

His enduring fascination for the conjunctions between the diametrically opposed worlds of science and spiritualism have allowed him to explore all kinds of occult and mystical phenomena, employing not just smoke and mirrors, but playing the role of circus showman and extricating the sham from the shaman.

Not exact matches

In a footnote to this passage, Pope John Paul referred to Galileo's letter of 1613 to Fr Benedetto Castelli, arguing that the two truths, of faith and of science, can never contradict each other, and to the teaching of Gaudium et Spes 36 which echoed Galileo in teaching that properly conducted research in any field will not be opposed to faith (provided that moral norms are respected) since «the reality of the world and of faith have their origin in the same God».

In fact, the more I learn about the world, the more I know about science, the more I am amazed about the mystery of this planet and this universe — and it strengthens my faith as opposed to weakens it.»

For 5 hours, opposing sides in a closely watched climate change lawsuit pitting the cities of San Francisco and Oakland against some of the world's biggest oil companies offered Alsup their accounts of the history and current state of climate science.

Opposing such confidence, he sees a blindness of science to the awkward and anomalous «noise» of the moral and religious world views of cultures that are radically different from ours in the industrialised West.

Several scientists believe that holding U.S. meetings under these circumstances would violate the statutes of the International Council for Science, the umbrella organization for scientific societies around the world, which «opposes discrimination based on such factors as ethnic origin, religion, citizenship, language, political or other opinion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age.»

In a study published today by Royal Society Open Science, the international research team revealed that people who show evidence of autistic traits are more likely to suppress coarse (as opposed to fine) visual information when they move their eyes rapidly from one part of the world to another than those without autistic traits.

The modern dog trainer and behaviourist is more inclined to look to the world of science to understand the principles of animal learning, as opposed to the anecdotal tales of dog trainers whom I have no doubt have got loads of experience, but perhaps have not studied formally.

Having some understanding of that world I understand why Feynman expressed himself like that, but I see also how terribly his words have been misused by those who oppose science and promote anti-science attitudes while they claim to speak for more correct science.

What we see with I term GWA (Global Warming Alarmism — as opposed to simple AGW or Anthropogenic Global Warming) is not simply an argument of science, but a complete cannon of belief and doctine which rivals the world religion.

What we see with I term GWA (Global Warming Alarmism — as opposed to simple AGW or Anthropogenic Global Warming) is not simply an argument of science, but a complete canon of belief and doctine which rivals the world religion.

The truth about Judith Curry, as I see it, is that she has a strong attraction for political dialogue, and refuses to see that the public debate over climate is fundamentally at odds with good science, as is the IPCC - sponsored «consensus» of climate alarmism, or in her case, of climate political - worryism (she seems deeply attached to helping bring about «reasonable» and «responsible» climate policies — whereas my view is that any and all such climate policies, now, are necessarily based upon incompetent, false science, are entirely the wrong thing to try to impose upon the people of the world, and need to be summarily thrown out, before one can even begin to have a dispassionate, competent scientific dialogue — as opposed to the political debate now being served up — on the state of climate science.).