Sentences with phrase «science as the foundation»

That would be like people in the past using science as a foundation to proclaim, «You who believe the world is round are incorrect.»

As with nutrition research, the dairy industry values science as the foundation for its commitment to sustainability and food safety.

Almost all the firms regard basic science as the foundation for their efforts.

Science plays an important role in both decisions but the paper finds that the decisions are based more on legal arguments with science as a foundation of the arguments.

Not exact matches

Harvey Mudd describes its core curriculum as «an academic boot camp in the STEM disciplines — math, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and engineering — as well as classes in writing and critical inquiry» that it says «gives students a broad scientific foundation and the skills to think and to solve problems across disciplines.»

Under her leadership, the foundation has emerged as one of the largest private supporters of basic science in the United States.

MaRS Discovery District aims to improve commercial outcomes from Canada's foundation of science and technology innovation to position Ontario and Canada as powerful and competitive players in the global knowledge economy.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

At one time the Catholic natural law philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and his followers dominated European thinking, but its metaphysical foundations were undermined as science replaced Aristotelian teleology and Catholic theology with a materialist worldview that considers only efficient causes.

The project of Grisez - Finnis is to save natural law by reestablishing it on a secular foundation that does not appeal directly to those metaphysical claims that modern science rejects as outdated.

The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Howard Hughes Medical Insti.tute (HHMI) published a joint report, ti.tled Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians in which they call for increased emphasis on evolution as one of the basic sciences students learn before they come to medical school.

Science is limited to the natural and by the natural it is nonsense to suggest otherwise as it goes against the foundations of what scieScience is limited to the natural and by the natural it is nonsense to suggest otherwise as it goes against the foundations of what sciencescience is.

Thus modern science is built on Christian foundations, and this explains why there was no science as we know it in any of the ancient civilisations ofantiquity.

Science is, at it's foundation, the effort to explain the causes for what we as humans see around us.

And surely Jefferson's praise of Bacon, Locke, and Newton as «the three greatest men who ever lived, without any exception,» for «having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical and Moral sciences» suggests that he is not so immaculately preserved from the stain of his age as Reilly would have us believe.

Instead, he started an online ministry which was comprised of video blogs about his journey with cancer, as well as about the foundations of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism and science.

The Puritan city on the hill, the Declaration's natural law, and the Federalist's «new science of politics,» make one's own foundations as one of innovation, and such innovation needs the latest of data driven information.

The foundation will exist as an entity in its own right within Church law, and Fr Trafny explains: «This is an important step, because we are moving from being a simple project to merge learning between the pontifical universities in Rome to being a new entity recognised by the Holy Father as a reference point for all dialogue involving science and faith.»

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

Also appearing in the most recent PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE is a most relevant and insightful article by one of our country's most distinguished public intellectuals, Irving Louis Horowitz: «Legalism as an Executive Ideology: Foundations of Barack Obama's Leadership....

This destroys not just the foundations of science and everydayliving but also the very heart of the Faith as revealed in both the Old Testament and the New.

The chapter headings give us an overview of the work: Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ: the theological project of Joseph Ratzinger; The critique of criticism: beginning the search for a new theological synthesis; The hermeneutic of faith: critical and historical foundations for a biblical theology; The spiritual science of theology: its mission and method in the life of the church; Reading God's testament to humankind: biblical realism, typology, and the inner unity of revelation; The theology of the divine economy: covenant, kingdom, and the history of salvation; The embrace of salvation: mystagogy and the transformation ofsacrifice; The cosmic liturgy: the Eucharistic kingdom and the world as temple; The authority of mystery: the beauty and necessity of the theologian's task.

But as E. A. Burtt noted over half a century ago in his classic book The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studyScience, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studyscience is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studying it.

Evolutionary biology is the foundation of modern biology and has as much chance of being removed from legitimate science as Newtonian mechanics from Physics.

On the other hand the Christian transcendent, personal God, Pell argues, has a rational foundation in the reflections of Greek philosophy, as well as the discoveries of modern science.

Then again, the business of academic research endowments, especially in fields as conceptually confused as artificial intelligence or cognitive science, really is all about exploiting the credulity of wealthy foundations and corporations and private donors (sometimes with devious cynicism, sometimes in deluded innocence).

And the whole foundation of the Faith movement, of course, is an attempt to integrate modern rationality, not least as inspired by the discoveries of modern science, with the timeless truths of the Faith.

- the cruciform has not only molded the American landscape but also laid the foundation of art as a credible form of aesthetic communication - example: The Renaissance: the enlightenment of art and science.

This view of the universe was successfully challenged and overthrown in the sixteenth century by two Christian scholars, who may be rightly regarded as laying the foundations of the modern science of astronomy.

Nor is it possible to say whether the foundation of the science of later centuries, based as it has been on the conviction that the universe is orderly, is from the Christian belief in the creation and governance of the world by God and from the discipline given the European mind by the debates in theology and the associated philosophy.

He looks for guidance to the seventeenth century, specifically to Descartes, whose philosophy was meant as a handmaid of science and whose physics — developed much more fully by Newton — became the foundation of the new cosmology.

This is also indicated by the aim of IM as enunciated in chapter one: «The object of the following chapters is not so much to teach mathematics, but to enable the students from the very beginning of their course to know what the science is about, and why it is necessarily the foundation of exact thought as applied to natural phenomena» (IM 2).

He clearly says that evolution is the foundation for all of life sciences, and helps us to understand our world and life as we know it, and that without a belief in evolution, it's almost impossible to make life science follow logically.

This programme, the «Science, Theology & the Ontological Quest» came into being in 2003 as a joint project undertaken by three of the pontifical universities of Rome under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Culture, and sponsored by the John Templeton foundation which funds research on the borders of science and reScience, Theology & the Ontological Quest» came into being in 2003 as a joint project undertaken by three of the pontifical universities of Rome under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Culture, and sponsored by the John Templeton foundation which funds research on the borders of science and rescience and religion.

We provide an in - depth study of the philosophical foundation of Waldorf education, intensive artistic experience as a path of self - development, and the skills needed to practice the art and science of Waldorf pedagogy.

Stated simply, we view healthy child development as the foundation of community development, economic prosperity, and a secure nation, and our mission is to advance that vision by leveraging science to enhance child well - being.

She has served as an advisor to former Vice President Al Gore, as well as to the Tennessee Commission on Aging, the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University, the Appalachian Rural Science Initiative of the National Science Foundation, and several private foundations.

The Society's fundamental purpose, as it has been since its foundation in 1660, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.

How can science diplomacy be used as a foundation for improving capacity, knowledge and networks to detect, predict and mitigate disease threats?

Science Learning Goals and Curriculum.Through its two - volume Atlas of Science Literacy as well as Benchmarks for Science Literacy and Science for All Americans, Project 2061 provides a coherent set of K - 12 learning goals that serve as a foundation for state and national science education frameworks and standards, including the Next Generation Science StaScience Learning Goals and Curriculum.Through its two - volume Atlas of Science Literacy as well as Benchmarks for Science Literacy and Science for All Americans, Project 2061 provides a coherent set of K - 12 learning goals that serve as a foundation for state and national science education frameworks and standards, including the Next Generation Science StaScience Literacy as well as Benchmarks for Science Literacy and Science for All Americans, Project 2061 provides a coherent set of K - 12 learning goals that serve as a foundation for state and national science education frameworks and standards, including the Next Generation Science StaScience Literacy and Science for All Americans, Project 2061 provides a coherent set of K - 12 learning goals that serve as a foundation for state and national science education frameworks and standards, including the Next Generation Science StaScience for All Americans, Project 2061 provides a coherent set of K - 12 learning goals that serve as a foundation for state and national science education frameworks and standards, including the Next Generation Science Stascience education frameworks and standards, including the Next Generation Science StaScience Standards.

From a quaint foundation built on vacuum tubes and X-rays to 2011's catastrophic meltdown at Fukushima, Nelson deftly weaves together science and history as he spans the Atomic Age.

The award was created in honor of Vannever Bush, who served as science advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II, helped established federal funding for science and engineering as a national priority, and was behind the creation of the National Science founscience advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II, helped established federal funding for science and engineering as a national priority, and was behind the creation of the National Science founscience and engineering as a national priority, and was behind the creation of the National Science founScience foundation.

As a result, they are building a company, like Merck KGaA and Genentech (a member of the Roche group) before them, on a foundation of science and technology.

Science as a Way of Knowing: The Foundations of Modern Biology by John A. Moore, Harvard University Press, pp 530, # 23.95

Meanwhile, Russian scientists are also facing the likely closure of «one of the country's most important science foundations,» as Pokrovsky reported on 27 May.

As for other non-NIH funding, any foundation or institution that funds general medical science is fair game.

After Haiti's devastating earthquake, a AAAS report laid out a vision for advancing science and education in Haiti, as a foundation for the country's more stable, prosperous future.

Such efforts are important, said Gary Machlis of the U.S. Department of the Interior Strategic Sciences Group because science is not often treated as a foundation for development.

Cook, who oversees the foundation's planned 2015 exhibition of vintage science kits, says that letting students discover things on their own energizes them and often allows them to internalize it as something wonderful.

«I am sure that those global leaders were driven by a primitive fear that the present ambient warm weather is somehow caused by humanity; and that fear — as far as I understand the science — is equally without foundation,» he said.