Sentences with phrase «rational explanation for»

There is no rational explanation for this phenomenon, nor any one reason that stands out in the parade of wilted flora cadavers I have attended to over the years.
[qi: 014] In these irrational times, let me attempt to offer a rational explanation for why CBS bought DotSpotter.
It was held that the court should not intervene unless it is clearly established that the decision to prosecute the defendants came about as a result of a departure from the statutory guidance and there is no rational explanation for that departure; even then, any intervention by the court would be discretionary.
The court could have concluded that the unlawful agreement was the only rational explanation for the conduct and, therefore, tainted it, but it chose not to link these two processes.
One of the key observations which strikes you as you study the findings of garbology, is confirmation of the theories propounded in the bestselling book «Blink» (by Malcolm Gladwell): our rational explanation for our behaviors is often merely a fictional reconstruction of what we think we should have done; our actual behavior often seems irrational and is highly dependent upon our subconscious perceptions.
A rational explanation for why the GCR climate correlation did not hold between ~ 1985 and ~ 2000.
Add to that the role of the moon and big planets, Jupiter and Saturn, and the effects on the geomagnetic field and galactic cosmic radiation and little is needed — indeed little room is left — for postulating a human causation as an additional factor let alone a rational explanation for all or even most of observed climate change.
There is no rational explanation for continuously fabricating a new historical temperature dataset multiple times during a month, let alone a year.
He says he has confidence in the presidential cycle because there's a rational explanation for the effect.
He can find no rational explanation for her intimate knowledge of his family and himself.
The Haunting is a superior ghost story that still doesn't overcome the stumbling - block of the whole subgenre: if there's any chance for a rational explanation for weird events, anything non-supernatural is as least as credible as the supernatural conclusions everyone is so fast to embrace.
As a scientist, it was comforting to finally have a quantifiable and rational explanation for the ability to sense and use the Force.
Silver's defenders advance a relatively benign and rational explanation for his actions in furtively approving the $ 103,000 settlement: that the complainant asked for confidentiality.
There is no rational explanation for Arsenal's mistakes against Swansea, but it's hardly unusual
[We were] absolutely guilty to concede the goal straight away, we have no rational explanation for the way we gave away the goal straight away.
But really there is no rational explanation for Ramseys position, you have to bench one, Cazorla, Ozil or Ramsey, what if Sanchez was injured?
thats the only rational explanation for wenger's (in) actions.
So Wenger failed to find a rational explanation for our defeat at Swansea last night, but I'll happily give you some, because there are so many we can talk about them all day.
Now we have a valid rational explanation for earthquakes with plate tectonics and you just attach your god to be in control of plate tectonics, lol.
Related to the litmus test comments — How about this litmus test: if you don't accept evolution as the only rational explanation for the diversity of life on Earth you can not run for office.
There is no rational explanation for the depth of evil of which we are capable.
There really is no rational explanation for this picture.
The reverse is likely more true; that very few believers in the supernatural can give a rational explanation for their beliefs.
And there is now rational explanation for how information is added to the biological system.
They reduce his fear that he is insane by providing him with the first rational explanation for his bizarre behavior.
In fact (atheistic) evolutionary theory has no rational explanation for why there is such a thing as rational explanation.
By using the laws of logic (which stem from God's right thinking), we can realize that those laws MUST come from Him, or else there is no rational explanation for their existence.
While there might be a rational explanation for any of these activities, the appearance of one or more of these possible warning signs at least warrants further review of the situation.
As discussed on another page, rational explanations for the creation of the universe come down to two main possibilities:
It leads to an unlikely discovery: Iris patterns in the eye are not as unique as Ian and his colleagues believed they were (The probable rational explanations for this science - fiction leap are completely overlooked, which, again, makes no sense in the context of these characters).
Instead, like Regan and her mother, we'll continue to search for rational explanations for the creeping fears that keep human beings up at night.
The script struggles to have its cake and eat it too, finding rational explanations for the plagues and miracles while still maintaining God's supernatural intervention.
So we've been trying to tease out whether there are rational explanations for our current situation, or whether irrational exuberance is the only justification.

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-- Michael Scherer spent hours in early February interviewing Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff who had his conviction pardoned by Trump and is now running for Arizona's Senate seat: «Each of the Republicans running for Senate in Arizona this year claims a special bond with President Trump, but only one describes it as a supernatural connection beyond rational explanation.
Other religions may have bits and pieces of explanations for these things, but none of them truly provide a rational answer to all of them.
«We form our beliefs for a variety of subjective, personal, emotional, and psychological reasons in the context of environments created by family, friends, colleagues, culture, and society at large; after forming our beliefs we then defend, justify, and rationalize them with a host of intellectual reasons, cogent arguments, and rational explanations.
For it is not in rational explanations about God — explanations that fit our systems of knowledge and our human categories of experience — that we learn who God is and how to love God; it is in the response, «I am the Lord's servant.»
A miracle is something amazing for which there is no rational explanation.
In addition to these crazy and immoral laws, there are plenty of examples of God's irrationality by his direct killing of many people for reasons that defy any rational explanation such as killing children who make fun of bald people, and the killing of a man who tried to keep the ark of God from falling during transport.
Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keeps one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so portends there to be...
In pointing out that there are aspects of living organisms for which design is the only rational explanation, ID theory in no sense excludes or precludes the possibility that design was required elsewhere in the organism.
Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keep one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so potentially claims there to be...
The universality of the human regard for those higher qualities which the Hebrew gathered up in the concept of righteousness found rational explanation best in a cosmic origin which some modern thinkers describe as a Process; but, for the Hebrew mind, that Process was personal.
His cause advocates that organic intelligent life came from unintelligent matter for NO REASON, with no rational scientific explanation / cause.
All economic and sociological explanations dash themselves in vain against the appearance of this kind of gratuitous act for which there are neither roots nor rational explanations.
Funny, you guys keep on praying for things and they don't happen (without another rational explanation).
It's just not a rational or fair explanation as to why we lost but rather it fits a certain narrative and the demand for the sensational very conveniently.
Whether you like or not, whether you agree with it or not, there is absolutely, 100 %, guaranteed, nailed - on, a dead certainty that Wenger will have «rational explanation» for playing Ramsey there.
Well we have ascertained that we can't find a «rational explanation» for ANOTHER away game filled with mindless errors, so can anyone suggest a few irrational reasons?
But authoritative parents relate to their kids with warmth, and attempt to shape behavior through rational discussion and explanation of the reasons for rules.
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