Sentences with phrase «orderly universe»

This non-contradictory notion of reality is the basis of a rational and orderly universe even if it is relative and random.
Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe — they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values]-- but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such «breathing» impossible.
Dante's sorting monster and J. K. Rowling's sorting hat represent our longing for an orderly universe.
The second principle of the chaos theory is that while God originally created a beautiful and orderly universe that functioned in beautiful symmetry, once free agents used their freedom to rebel against God, many elements of God's creation spun out of control, that is, they no longer work in coordination with all the other parts of God's creation.
Their attitude is akin to that of the scientists who probe through their respective disciplines into aspects of man's environment, but with a difference: the scientists are confident that, if they are persistent and employ the right methods, they can enlarge man's knowledge of what they believe is an orderly universe and open the dangerous possibility to the utilization of the universe by men.
The rediscovery of hyperbolic space was not greeted enthusiastically by the analytically oriented German and Austrian mathematicians who dominated mathematics in the West; they dreamed of a logical, orderly universe that could be represented through equations.
Thus the real beginning of western science, i.e. the enlightenment, was based on the tenet that a rational God created an orderly universe that operated according to laws and he populated it with rational beings fashioned in his own image who could study and understand the creation.
We live in an orderly universe.
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