Sentences with phrase «scientific ordering of nature»

«Causality has an unlimited reign in the world of It» and is «of fundamental importance for the scientific ordering of nature.»

Not exact matches

«And to focus more precisely on the issue of «scientific evidence,» the sciences, ordered by their nature and method to an analysis of empirically verifiable objects and states of affairs within the universe, can not even in principle address questions regarding God, who is not a being in the world, but rather the reason why the finite realm exists at all.......

If you believe in «order», «reasoning» and «planning» (all scientific traits), then you probably embrace concepts of existence with a purpose, nature, emotions, and scientific understanding of the universe.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

The Cultural Dimension As culture develops, so too will religion in order that it may answer more adequately the basic problems of human life and to further deepen the synthesis of scientific knowledge with religious knowledge - the principle of evolution is written into the nature of religion, as in all life.

As Paul Davies points out, «in Renaissance Europe, the justification for what we today call the scientific approach to inquiry was the belief in a rational God whose created order could be discerned from a careful study of nature» (Paul Davies, The Mind of God).

Vast numbers of people think that the fact of a relatively settled order of nature, along with the scientific interpretation of change and the description of the inner dynamics of human personality (and much else as well), has ruled out once and for all genuine novelty and made change nothing more than the reshuffling of bits of matter - in - motion.

The thrust of Whitehead's thought is not to simplify unduly; every time you «reduce» you leave something out, and scientific ideas are richer and nearer to nature the less that has had to be omitted in order to reach them.

Acting on advice from the NSABB, the U.S. government last month asked Science and Nature to publish only the broad conclusions of the two studies, and not to reveal the scientific details, in order to limit the risk that uncontrolled proliferation of such research might lead to accidental or intentional release of similar mutant viruses.

In discussions about their research results, which have just been published in the scientific journal Nature, both lead authors, Matt Maisak and Jürgen Haag, were very impressed with the «cleanly differentiated, yet highly ordered» motion information within the brains of the fruit flies.

One of the challenges lies within science itself; scientific studies, by their very nature, attempt to isolate all of life's complexity down to two variables in order to study them while nutrition, as it's practised in the day to day lives of human beings, consists of an infinite number of important factors that are often not taken into account.

Does social mania excuse editors of scientific journals and leaders of scientific organizations from hiding or ignoring experimental evidence about the true nature of Earth's heat source in order to promote AGW [«Earth's Heat Source — The Sun», Energy & Environment 20 (2009) 131 - 144: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.0704]?

My climate enemies have done scientific and other academic frauds; they've destroyed, withheld and pretended to misplace scientific data in order to prevent the human race discovering things about nature; they've forged documents to frame people they don't like; mendaciously and publicly accused innocent people of deplorable crimes that carry prison sentences; betrayed the trust reposed in their professions by fraudulently abrogating to themselves the magical competence to diagnose entire swathes of the (perfectly healthy) population with thought disorders just to score points in an academic bitch fight; deliberately and self - servingly lied to * massive * audiences about the way science itself works — than which I can't for the life of me think of a greater crime against humanity in the recent history of the developed world, can you Joe?

- Jean Barman «Suzuki locates his vision of nature's order even more deeply, as an «elder,» in the healing resources of aboriginal wisdom... The imaginative reach of Suzuki's earth - vision grounded in scientific fact is astounding.