Sentences with phrase «scientific house of cards»

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Walking away from God has nothing to do with your thoughts that the house of cards falls because of some scientific discovery or lack of arm twisting by the church.

He also discouraged a «version of a Christianity» that is «a house of cards» that falls apart if we find out that certain possible historic or scientific details of the Bible are inaccurate or that there are apparent contradictions.

But once you start applying that scientific method to religion, the house of cards comes falling down.

In contrast to Dr. Happer's view that the science of climate change is like a house of cards (i.e., find one flaw and the whole sense of understanding will fall), I have tried to give a sense of why, as Professor Henry Pollack of the University of Michigan has put it, the science of climate change is like a rope hammock (i.e., with lots of interconnections and linkages, such that weaknesses or failure of any particular detailed finding does not weaken the overall strength of scientific understanding).

Often these arguments are accompanied with the false narrative that our scientific understanding of climate change is like a house of cards — remove one card and the whole edifice topples down.

They had identified a «scientific» house - of - cards and stepped up to do the right thing.