Sentences with phrase «scientific knowledge which»

The level of technical and scientific knowledge which can reasonably be expected of counsel generally at any given time;

The CAGWists thus could claim «a priori» to have a higher «ideal» level of scientific knowledge which is correct in a higher «ideal» logic.

But there are departments of scientific knowledge which do touch what I believe is our crucial problem, the problem of human behavior.

The following extracts from that work show the unity of fundamental Christian vision and scientific knowledge which he preserved to the end.

But before expressing this belief, Fr Holloway makes a general remark about the nature of scientific knowledge which may serve as an introduction to Polanyi's refutation of Scientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final proof.»

Not exact matches

All venture capitalists likely agree that curing cancer is a great idea; however, even sophisticated life sciences investors lack the scientific knowledge to assess which novel candidates are most likely to succeed medically or commercially.

Meta — which, in the words of cofounder Sam Molyneux, uses «artificial intelligence to analyze new scientific knowledge as it's published» — partners with academic journals to access many thousands of scientific papers and draw insight from them (beyond the keywords, that is) with the help of a machine learning tool developed by SRI International, which created Apple's spectral personal assistant, Siri.

You're talking about the type of «evolution» that we always knew existed and to make matters worse you're bragging about the advancements made by INTELLIGENT HUMAN BEINGS which still don't even come close to the complication of macro evolution but still required thousands of years of scientific advancement and knowledge and a team of researchers with high iq's working aroudn the clock with microscopes.

The present paper assumes an historical perception that the Creation of God is being undone by the power of science and technology, which is being manifested in the form of powers of exclusive truth of scientific knowledge, unlimited technological know - how, and their economic and political organization, such as the transnational corporation and the state, including the military machinery.

For example, modern knowledge based on scientific discovery shows us that disease is not caused by evil spirits, so why believe in ancient creation myths which are shown to be incorrect.

Our knowledge is very limited comparing the entire universe... there might be some scientific calculation which of course based on the expectations or probability but not for sure...

And this is what the Catechism teaches: The question about the origins of the world and of man has been the object of many scientific studies which have splendidly enriched our knowledge of the age and dimensions of the cosmos, the development of life - forms and the appearance of man.

«Culture is «a study of perfection» which «moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for public knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.»

Even scientific knowledge, which apprehends a thing exactly as it is in all its causes, depends for its truth entirely upon the primary premises given to it by experience (cf. Posterior Analytics 2.19).

Later the idea gained ground that we can not «speak of nature apart from human perception in the historical development of knowledge», that all knowledge is «a creative interaction between the known and the knower» and that therefore there is no System of scientific knowledge or of technology which does not have the subjective purposes and faith - presuppositions of humans built into it.

The second part will assume this analysis of the transition toward a planetary society under conditions which approach the biological limits of the earth during a period of rapidly accelerating scientific knowledge and technological prowess.

By scientific method we mean all ways in which reliable, communicable knowledge based on experience in every area may be gained.

Moltmann's thoughts on the dangers of using the power of scientific knowledge without pondering beauty - and in particular on the dangers of the «economisation» of science in this century, in which scientific thought may only be valued generally in terms of its economic power - would be shared by many researchers in the UK.

But they are not rivals when religion supports and encourages scientific knowledge, which also happens.

I prefer to hope that our moral anguish will prompt us to coordinate our scientific knowledge with moral wisdom, so that the present crisis can be truly a crisis in a biblical sense — a transformation which brings new faithfulness to God and a derivative humanism.

Now the church must compete with scientific knowledge and a secular government and the internet which gives everybody easy access to information.

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.

The world is reaching a situation in which the present type and level of resource depletion and environmental pollution can not be continued indefinitely or for long without disastrous environmental hazards and resource shortage, according to present scientific knowledge.

Scientism is the view that the only things which count as knowledge come from the scientific method.

There is no evidence supporting the genesis creation account which is concordant with the entire body of scientific knowledge (whence the need for supernatural delivery, hibernation, etc).

For us Muslims the Qur» an is the Furqan i.e. criteria to judge right from wrong and the ultimate yardstick which is more superior to scientific knowledge.

Heliocentrism, on the other hand, created a world where matter clumped randomly around the universe, which defied all reason, observation and scientific knowledge.

It is much more in tune with the gradual, developmental model of knowledge acquisition towards which modern scientific methodology pushes.

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.

Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each with its own set of rules.

The idea that the sources of scientific and metaphysical knowledge are almost separate is we think too influenced by that pre-scientific ontology which was rightly holistic but only through being quasi-dualistic.

The founding fathers were largely agnostics and deists, which are both relatively benign and understandable, given the greater lack of concrete scientific knowledge of the time.

Yes, science adjusts its position as more knowledge is obtained; this is in stark contrast to religion which relies on ancient texts to explain the world even though those texts were written in ignorance and scientific knowledge shows them to be false.

In short, the optimum contribution that can be made by increasing scientific knowledge and technological prowess and by the power of political mechanisms will be forthcoming only when certain prior conditions are presupposed which at the moment do not exist.

Constantly attempting, as he tells us, to bracket from his scientific method of investigation «faith - knowledge» and to «prescind» from the teachings of the church, he nevertheless» in as naive a fashion as one can imagine» fails to bracket the «knowledge» he has imbibed from the political culture around him, knowledge which assures him that our society has been mistaken in its exaltation of the individual.

The technical marvels of the modern age are dependent upon scientific knowledge, which has been gained by educated people.

• «the God for which we are arguing is not a God of the gaps, not a God who is brought in to paste over the gaps in our present scientific knowledge, which might be filled later as science progresses.

It gives a brief survey of present scientific knowledge concerning the causes, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism; describes present research and that which is needed; and outlines the national alcoholism program.

Such a view of the role of technical scientific knowledge, broadly conceived to include the social sciences and most other disciplines, in effect cleared a huge area of academic inquiry in which religious considerations would not be expected to appear.

I'll try to add my own slant, which from my personal perspective is confirmed for me by what I understand of current scientific knowledge.

It is common scientific knowledge now that not only life, but the stars, galaxies, planets on the macroscale and the subatomic layers at the micro level are all involved in transformations to which the word story seems more and more applicable.

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.

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)

Scientific facts change which is why we have a history of science as we continue to improve on our knowledge base.

In brief the tenacity with which we hold on to a law is an indication of its place in the body of scientific knowledge at a particular time.

Although religious knowledge is different from scientific knowledge in character, it is distinguished not by any appeal to historical revelation, but rather only by the greater immediacy of that reality which it empirically apprehends and describes.

It seemed to him necessary to distinguish the immediate «acquaintance with» God of the religious person from the indirect «knowledge about» to which at best scientific knowledge could lead.

It is not, therefore, true to assert that scientific knowledge is made up simply of theories which are the products of our own minds, conflicting models which we project onto the evidence as we attempt to interpret it.

These in turn were associated with intellectual movements and a temper of mind which magnified the «scientific» approach making that knowledge obtainable.

Scientific rationalism which makes «objectivity,» quantifiable knowledge the only real spiritual authority, feeds mass - mindedness.