Sentences with phrase «say about the existence»

Additionally, science has nothing to say about the existence, or lack thereof, of a «god».

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«The very existence of democracy relies on a free and thriving fourth estate,» VICE founder Shane Smith said in a prepared statement about the blackout campaign.

But in order to say anything useful about ethical issues in the marketplace, you first need to understand something about how markets work, how they fail, and what the ethical argument for their existence is.

America's close ally Israel accused Iran this week of «brazenly lying» about its nuclear capabilities, and Israeli sources have said new evidence provides «proof of the very existence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program.»

Rather, she resigned because she had «inadvertently misled» lawmakers about the deportation targets — first by claiming they didn't exist, and then by saying she wasn't aware of their existence.

If they reject the offer, they could be seen as effectively acknowledging the existence of a continuing effort to keep Ms. Clifford silent about an affair that Mr. Cohen and the president say did not happen.

I'd say rather than try to invent wish fulfillment with myth and fairy tales about the way we'd like things to be, why not just find our contentment in our present existence, make ours the best lives we can live and just enjoy the ride we have, rather than invent one to dream about.

Thomas thinks that it is the discipline of metaphysics that asks questions about the ultimate cause of existence of things, and, as he says, «not only does faith hold that there is creation, reason also demonstrates it» (In II Sent., dist.

What did our Founding Fathers have to say about religion: «Question with boldness even the existence of a god.»

It is like saying there is not smoke with out fire, like sighting a droppings and trail of foot prints you would realize that a camel and passenger passed the desert then the seeing of the greatness of the mountains and passages through them, the seas great waves the skies it helps to realize the existence of super power «GOD» above all... any way it is like the verses written in the Quran «GOD «Allah speaking about how he had created earth to man by the mountains, seas and rain from skies which brings life to earth..

Henceforth, the right to abort was to be understood as a liberty interest under the Due Process Clause, which included (so the plurality opinion of the Supreme Court said) «the right to define one's own concept of existence and to make the most basic decisions about bodily integrity.»

you sir are practicing a religion one that means so much to you that you use it as your online name also please show me where I call you a fool or is telling someone not to make a fool of themself the same as calling them a fool which would mean you are very religious as far as Colin he said nothing that related to the debate I was in with you... we are talking about Atheism as a religious view not debating the existence of God now look over the definitions I have shown you and please explain how Atheism does not fit into the said definitions And you claim that evolution is true so the burden of proof falls in your lap as it is the base of your religion.

@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.

Steven, you're right, a god's existence would be empirically untestable, unless it manifested itself in our universe in some way and demonstrated that it can bend the natural laws etc.... But, what gets me, is that you're saying that it is a waste of time to think about things that are empirically untestable.

And those that don't say that stuff instead opting to argue and dissect and article or argument for / about god doesn't show they make any positive claims to the existence of such a being, but instead to show how ridiculous and irrational somethings are.

That it came into existence from a singularity says nothing about the medium into which and from which it arose.

There's a few nice things said about early Christians helping their neighbors and giving the poor hope that the afterlife will bring them a better existence, which is positive in a sort of back - handed way... I suppose.

But amazingly the fact that some said it rested on the back of a turtle did not make it fact, as I was pointing out, just arguing about God's existence is not proof of that existence.

You said: «Evidently you're not well acquainted with the philosophy surrounding theism or the debates about the existence of a god.

LBC radio presenter Darren Adam had a discussion with a caller on Monday about the existence of God in which he explained reasons for his unbelief, but said the offer of a ticket to paradise was «possibly the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me on this programme».

The believer who says no to our historical present, who refuses the existence about and within him, who sets himself against our time and destiny, and yet seeks release in an «eternity» having no relation, or only a negative relation, to our present moment, is succumbing to the Gnostic danger.

To say there is no evidence for the real existence of the most discussed figure in history denies the unique manner in which Christianity came about (a claim that God came in the flesh conveyed with real life details, etc).

We would be left claiming the existence of that about which nothing whatsoever could be said or thought.

In this situation, since God's existence as cause of things is known, the objection that nothing further can be said or thought about God univocally might appear as a quibble.

They speak more than heretofore about the unredeemed misery of our existence; they say that we are dust and ashes and return to dust, tired wanderers on dusty roads going where?

To take an incredibly complex thing and say it's too complex to have come about naturally... and that claim by supposing the existence of an even more complex thing (a god) is absurd.

The most they'll say about gnosticism is that the lack of evidence makes the existence of any gods highly improbable.

My point is that we know so very little about our universe that I can say «at the moment nothing we know of is eternal» while at the same time understanding that the universe could be like that electron and wink in and out of existence in some constant renewal, from singularity to singularity and back again, but because we only see a tiny fragment of the process we can only make sloppy assumptions as to the mechanics involved.

All this has been taken into God; all this is immediately known to God; all this is treasured in the divine memory; all this qualifies whatever we are prepared now to say about God and about the divine relationship with the world and more especially about that relationship as it has to do with human existence.

Here is what Whitehead said in 1911 about the theory of types: «All the contradictions can be avoided, and yet the use of classes and relations can be preserved as required by mathematics, and indeed by common sense, by a theory which denies to a class — or relation — existence or being in any sense in which the entities composing it — or related by it — exist» (MAT 293).

And when he was thinking about human existence itself, he was intent upon saying that a whole human person was compounded of body as well as of soul; in the end, he said, the two would be reunited after the separation which death had brought about.

If John Donne was correct in his famous saying that «no man is an island entire unto itself», then we can only have genuine existence when we are aware of what is thus an inescapable truth about us.

In these quite different ways, something is being said about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for human existence; and something is also being said, even in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious thought and observance), about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine being.

Thus to talk about «the spirit of man» was to say that human existence is not only a matter of mind and body, as we have represented this in our previous discussion, but is also a matter of relationship, in which there is an openness to, and a sharing in, the life of others.

Regardless of a god's existence, I would say there is a difference between the heart of a murderer, i.e. thinking about murder, and hate.

What could be said about a post-mortem soul's existence until the time when it was re-united with a transformed body?

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

She said that for Reinhold the Christian faith was «a present fact, and a present truth about life that illumines our existence and gives meaning, relieves us of some of the miseries of guilt in which all men are involved,..

Unmoved by the prospect of the end of democracy, and skeptical about the existence of a moral law, they might say that the system still «works» to the satisfaction of the great majority and, niceties about moral legitimacy aside, we will muddle through so long as that continues to be the case.

It is curious that in spite of the great optimism with which Fromm writes about man, he says in this book, «It is man's fate that his existence is beset by contradictions, which he has to solve without ever solving them» (p. 362).

He would say this on the ground that the reason we would not make the same statement about any particular being, e.g., elephants or unicorns, is precisely because it is contradictory to assert of any particular being that it has the necessary mode of existence.

Suppose I could, say by ablating the ventral medial prefrontal cortex, very specifically wipe out someone's ability to feel spiritual or feel anything about the presence or existence of the supernatural (like C.S. Lewis» the Nouminous).

The Corporeal Nature of Freedom and its Sphere Before speaking of the existence of freedom and in freedom something will have to be said about the specifically human creatureliness of freedom which will clarify the dialectical character of our relation to our own and other people's freedom.

you've obviously been convinced of Lucifer's existence — I guess that's something to be said about your religion.

Noted Neuro - Buddhist Sam Harris has this to say about the President's choice to head the NIH: Dr. Collins has written that «science offers no answers to the most pressing questions of human existence» and that «the claims of atheistic materialism must be steadfastly....

Yet something may be said in a purely suggestive way to indicate that our commonsense inability to allow «place» for the new existence of souls is based on the limitations of our imagination and not on any knowledge we posssess about space and time.

If we are not confident about the existence of God or what Jesus says in the Gospels, then how can we actually believe anything about God or Scripture?

Even setting aside all those Romantic exaggerations about Juan's Promethean or Luciferian defiance of God, one can still say that his unwillingness to repent and his insistence on accepting that final dreadful invitation actually affirm both the existence of divine law and the godlike power of the soul to choose its own destruction.

Nonetheless, many women feel so passionately about their pregnancy - which is to say, about their zygotes, even in the first few weeks of their existence - as to reveal by this deep emotion the inclination that nature has imparted in mankind to cherish and nurture the next generation.

What has so far been said about it does not mean that we first actively think the word «God» individually and that it thus invades our existence.