Sentences with phrase «scientific knowledge and an understanding»

Similarly, as we know that homosexuality is just as natural and God - given as heterosexuality, we realize that the Biblical injunctions against homosexuality were conditioned by the attitudes and beliefs about this form of sexual expression which were held by people without benefit of centuries of scientific knowledge and understanding.

They seek to destroy men like Phil Jones and Mike Mann, who have devoted their entire careers to the pursuit of scientific knowledge and understanding.

In 2003, the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC) identified a strategic need to become more proactive in informing medical and healthcare professionals and specialist medical media about current scientific knowledge and understanding on coffee consumption and health.

My hypothesis is that it will be beneficial to plan our STEM strategy and scope and sequence around gaps in scientific knowledge and understanding identified by PATS.

When a group of people claiming superior scientific knowledge and understanding refuses to grasp the extremely simple point I've been making regarding the heating capacity of an absence of volcanic eruptions, then I am forced to take all their other arguments with a huge grain of salt.

They seek to destroy men like Phil Jones and Mike Mann, who have devoted their entire careers to the pursuit of scientific knowledge and understanding.

Not exact matches

And with your knowledge of scientific understanding you should easily know that the «we don't know for sure» position is the one taken by the scientific community regarding the issue.

``... the future of Christian philosophy will therefore depend on the existence or absence of theologians equipped with scientific training, no doubt limited but genuine and, within its own limits, sufficient for them to follow with understanding such lofty dialogues not only in mathematics and physics but also in biology and wherever the knowledge of nature reaches the level of demonstration.»

This scene captures the view of human being that gives coherence to The Human Quest: scientific understanding is both exciting and necessary; human cultures are vulnerable systems whose survival is threatened, in the face of which threat we seek moral values embedded within our scientific knowledge.

We can understand and sympathize with those who sought to protect faith from scientific knowledge in this way.

Science is constantly in motion as we strive to fill the gaps in our knowledge and understanding, and the scientific method leaves nothing off the chopping block for further refinement and alteration to fit the mounting evidence about how the world works around us.

The physical sciences and the life sciences also yield their full harvest of knowledge about man only when the understanding gained through direct self - consciousness is used in the interpretation of the methods and results of objective scientific investigation and of technical invention.

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.

Only thru science's psychically motivated and spirited soulful impartations will there ever be the steady streams of knowledge imparted to scientific understandings beyond the common folks» abilities for understanding.

Let them blend new sciences and theories and the understanding of the most recent discoveries with Christian morality and the teaching of Christian doctrine, so that their religious culture and morality may keep pace with scientific knowledge and with the constantly progressing technology... Thus they will be able to interpret and evaluate all things in a truly Christian spirit,... and priests will be able to present to our contemporaries the doctrine of the Church concerning God, man and the world, in a manner more adapted to them so that they may receive it more willingly.»

Knowledge of the existence of a vital third (organic) tradition — the others being Aristotelianism and mechanism — in the seventeenth century, of its early success in promoting scientific discoveries, and of the dubious reasons for its defeat, may help embolden some theologians to revive this tradition, in purified form, in a way that would be beneficial both to the religious life of humanity and its «scientific» understanding of the reality in which it finds itself (p. 41)

The day you can prove that invoking a particular god helps our scientific understanding in some way, you'll have your moment of glory and science will be grateful for the added knowledge that your god helped bring about..

Until the reasons for scientific and religious, existence and growth, is logically understood... there will never be... the full scientific knowledge that some claim to believe in.

Western Civilization also owes a lot to Islam for maintaining the early pre-Christian scientific and philosophic knowledge of the Greeks etc., until Western Eurpoe was able to pull itself out of the mud huts and restrictive church control of the European Dark Ages, and understand its usefulness.

In fact, the great progress of scientific knowledge that we saw during the last century has helped us understand the mystery of creation better and has profoundly marked the awareness of all peoples.

He feels that the relativism of knowledge was implicitly contained in a confusion in scientific theory from the time of Galileo: «The idea of a science and of an experience entirely relative to the human understanding was therefore implicitly contained in the conception of a science, one and integral composed of laws: Kant only brought it to light» (CE 251).

AAAS director looks to the day when science is an overarching framework that drives scientific knowledge, understanding and the policies it informs.

With its festival atmosphere and a panel of judges from the worlds of venture capital and communications as well as science, the Skolar Award contest also expresses a somewhat subversive notion: that researchers need not only to discover important new knowledge, but also to convey it beyond the lab and readers of scientific journals so that society at large can understand it, value it, benefit from it, and support it.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has signed a memorandum of understanding with Mexico's leading scientific organization, pledging to foster scientific collaborations and forge innovative ways to integrate scientific knowledge into policymaking in both countries.

«Current scientific and technological knowledge is the foundation for future research, experimentation, debate, consensus - building and understanding.

«Scientific and technological knowledge is the foundation for future research, experimentation, debate, consensus - building and understanding.

The production of scientific knowledge is a very significant social good and our understanding of the past relies on the ability to analyse and re-analyse a number of different archaeological remains.

We're really in the middle of several overlapping scientific revolutions where our ability to learn things is skyrocketing and our understanding of how we should use that knowledge is developing more slowly.

Since the Program's creation, several dialogue meetings have been held to explore the spectrum of religious and scientific thinking on issues related to advances in our knowledge of genetics and to promote thoughtful dialogue and a search for common understanding of their ethical, theological, and social implications.

What this does call for, however, is a demonstration that you genuinely share the basic commitments of the physician - scientist: an appreciation of the potential of thorough clinical knowledge teamed with your scientific passion, and a demonstrated understanding that this clinical knowledge requires contact with patients and skill and interest in observing and listening.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

They understand that scientific discovery and human capital fuel knowledge - and technology - intensive industries and a nation's economic health,» said Dan Arvizu, NSB chair.

Not only did he possess a vast amount of scientific knowledge, but he was able to understand the complexities of multiple projects and balance all of this with teaching and committee responsibilities.

Better understanding scientific careers — including mobility, funding, and gender aspects — is important if we are to better support scientists and knowledge production, Geuna says.

«Pharmacometric analysis is key to understanding the relationship between exposure and response, and this critical knowledge will help companies avoid late - stage failures,» says Jill fielder - Kelly, vice president of pharmacometric services and chief scientific officer of Buffalo, New York — based Cognigen Corporation, a contract research organization (CRO).

Following the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, she says, it took about two years for the first scientific papers to emerge and more than a decade for ecologists to synthesize that new knowledge into a comprehensive understanding of the environmental impact.

This work is deeply satisfying and I look forward to making new contributions to human welfare, education, and the role of scientific knowledge in understanding human nature.

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report said that science knowledge is only one component of science literacy, which also encompasses understanding scientific practices, such as forming and testing hypotheses, and understanding science as a social process, such as the role of peer review.

Italian justice has been «slow» and «incapable of understanding science,» says Capua, who adds that she feels «safe in the knowledge that my scientific career is crystal clear.»

The committee has prepared a report that, in my view, provides policy makers and the scientific community with a critical view of surface temperature reconstructions and how they are evolving over time, as well as a good sense of how important our understanding of the paleoclimate temperature record is within the overall state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

As new scientific discoveries deepen our understanding of how cancer develops in children, doctors and other healthcare providers face challenges in better using that knowledge to guide treatment and counsel families and patients.

Parks Canada is proud to protect these globally significant paleontological sites, and to work with leading scientific researchers to expand knowledge and understanding of this key period of earth history.

Each of the working groups is responsible for developing a proposal for a set of genomes to sequence that would advance knowledge in one of three important scientific areas: identifying areas in genetic research where the application of high - throughput sequencing resources would rapidly lead to significant medical advances; understanding of the human genome; and understanding the evolutionary biology of genomes.

Dr. Eichler: The most favorite parts of the job are: 1) making new discoveries and contributing to the body of scientific knowledge especially as it relates to the evolution of our species, 2) seeing students mature into independent scientists as well as helping to launch new independent research careers, and 3) seeing your work directly benefit families who are struggling to understand their children's illness.

Through a Memorandum of Understanding the IOI Centre in the Islamic Republic of Iran will help to promote effective and wise management of ocean and coastal resources, eradicate poverty in coastal areas, organise efficient protection of the marine environment as a common heritage of mankind and facilitate exchange of knowledge and information, enhance the national scientific capabilities and carry out training and educational efforts, focusing its activities on the Persian Gulf area and cooperates with IOI Caspian Sea.

At the School of Marine Sciences, students develop a scientific understanding of the marine environment that is Maine's heritage, integrate and communicate that knowledge their studies, and apply it toward stewardship of sustainable marine resources.

Although scientific exploration is continually advancing our knowledge of the deep ocean, it also reveals just how much there is still to discover and understand.

The School of Marine Sciences aims to develop scientific understanding of the marine environment that is Maine's heritage, to integrate and communicate that knowledge through interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate studies, and to apply it toward stewardship of sustainable marine resources.

«Such knowledge will, over time, have a transformative effect on the scientific understanding of human biology and on human health.»

Ref: The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program developed this website as a clearinghouse of ocean fertilization news and informational resources to: 1) increase public knowledge and awareness on this topic, and 2) advance scientific research to improve our understanding of the implications of ocean fertilization for marine ecosystems.