The phrase
"pure chance" means that something happens randomly or without any particular reason or cause. It shows that there is no control or intention behind the event, and it is entirely dependent on luck or probability.
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When searching for a particular pattern in a very large amount of genetic data, the probability of finding such a pattern by
pure chance becomes very high.
Sometimes meeting & falling in love with someone seems
like pure chance — you can't make it happen — you can only wait and hope that it happens to you, right?
Yes, in the real
world pure chance is a factor in review scores as so much can contribute to them, but not this badly.
An injury accident, though it may be the result
of pure chance, can do a great deal of harm to you financially if you are not covered.
A review of the various statistical tests, applied to the record of this period, of these 24 forecasters, indicates that the most successful records are little, if any, better than what might be expected to result
from pure chance.
Until this year I'd only seen two of her paintings in person, one at the Museum of Modern Art and one discovered by
pure chance at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, so I was entranced by the Guggenheim retrospective of Martin's work.
However, this was
pure chance because the thesis that the discount would narrow has been proved WRONG, at least to date.
There is a third possibility: one of neither pure determinism nor
pure chance alone, but chance and purpose together.
Daily fantasy sports, where players draft a roster of football players to compete for points in a single - day worth of games, were acknowledged by Virginia lawmakers as a game of skill
vs. pure chance, a key difference that allows sites to avoid a federal ban on online gambling.
While it does not exclude a lengthy period of time over whichGod may bring about distinction within his creation, nor many subordinate means through which he may have executed his designs, the doctrine here manifestly
excludes pure chance: «By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.
Where enough individuals are involved,
even pure chance or spontaneity on the part of each individual can allow for great precision in predicting the behavior of the group.
Accordingly, certain giraffes had longer necks
through pure chance, and thereby had an advantage over other members of their species in reaching sources of food that had been hitherto inaccessible to them.
«My passion for photography started by
pure chance when I was barely out of my teens during a trip to Spain.
Hi Shauna, I found over 50 chic by
pure chance during early summer and I've been following you since — just love your style & enthusiasm!
These types of games are leagues away from Monopoly, often pushing luck to the side in order to keep player's feeling like they have more influence over winning and losing,
although pure chance will always have a place in order to keep things feeling more dynamic and interesting, much like videogames.
Monod, for example, utilizes the principle of indeterminacy to support his vision of the biosphere emerging
from pure chance: Chance and Necessity, pp. 114 ff.
This supports the theistic evolutionist claim that God used natural processes to develop life on this earth,
as pure chance can never explain the grand paroxysm of necessarily interrelated mutations that are required to occur to accomplish this rapid change.
Evolution is nothing more than a struggle to survive, not to create a new form out
of pure chance.
And just lying there that night it struck me that it was
pure chance that I was born in Australia and Sonny Boy was born there.
The ones who outperform one year are no more likely than
pure chance to outperform again the next year.
Chad's reliance on PE as requiring divine intervention and his willful misrepresentations (e.g. «
pure chance can never explain the grand paroxysm of necessarily interrelated mutations that are required to occur to accomplish this rapid change») have been repeatedly refuted.
which is nothing mere than just an idea, i mean the idea of
pure chance.
Limit, order, and beauty in nature, therefore, are attributed to
pure chance.
Nor is evolution, as sometimes alleged, due to «
pure chance.»
These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to
pure chance and necessity.»
It was by
pure chance or providence.
Without the alternative of divine persuasion, we confront two unwelcome extremes: divine determinism or
pure chance.
* You * are allowing 2 options; 100 %
pure chance or design.
It's
pure chance, or design.
@Chad «er... yes it is If you do nt believe that the universe is the way it is by
pure chance, then you believe in design.
Dear Nothing, thank you for this food I have that I paid for with my own labor and am able to eat because of
pure chance, while millions of innocent babies starve to death in agony also by pure chance, amens!
As Hartshorne has said, «Neither
pure chance nor the pure absence of chance can explain the world» (Hartshorne 1984, 69).
As was elaborated in Chapter 2, neither
pure chance nor the pure absence of chance can explain the world.