Sentences with phrase «so improbable»

a blackswan in the blackswan vs dragonking theory is not an unexpected only... it is a chain of improbable failure that propagate, but not so improbable because the farther it propage the most probable it is to propagate further... it that theory it ils linked to a group of failing point that are quite different but connected.

This is so improbable as to be laughable.

-LSB-...] you can accept all the basic tenets of greenhouse physics and still conclude that the threat of a dangerously large warming is so improbable as to be negligible, while the threat of real harm from climate - mitigation policies is already so high as to be worrying, that the cure is proving far worse than the disease is ever likely to be,» Ridley said in the 2011 Angus Millar speech on «Scientific Heresy,» reposted in its entirety at the skeptical blog Watts Up With That.

That it is not so improbable that our activities could affect it?

In order to believe the science is corrupt, you have to believe in a conspiracy so improbable that it would make Alex Jones blush.

In a sense, Pollock arrived at abstraction by pushing Expressionism to a point where subject matter was so improbable that there was no need to retain it.

Drive: The Game is a definite long shot, but not so improbable that I can't see it happening.

Reading your policy (to the point where you really understand it) is about as much fun as getting a root canal, and all those possible disasters seem so abstract, so improbable.

No event in American history which was so improbable at the time has seemed so inevitable in retrospect as the American Revolution.

The writers, Byron Willinger, Philip de Blasi and Ryan Engle, have a neat premise but it is so improbable that you'll exhaust yourself trying to figure out just what key fact slipped by you.

is the relationship itself, a fiction so improbable that most of us initially marvel in disbelief.

It demands acceptance of a world so improbable and so at odds with what we accept as common sense that we can not understand quantum mechanics.

The other opsins might do the trick, but because his goal — putting them into a brain and getting that brain to respond — was so tricky and success so improbable, he needed to try as many options as possible.

Chris Smalling completed the comeback that looked so improbable when City were well on course to round off a resounding march towards the title by racing into a 2 - 0 first - half lead.

Wrigley Field The Cubs» run to the 1998 playoffs was so improbable that even the team's owners thought there might be something supernatural going on.

Bol hits six three - pointers in one half, a feat so improbable at the time it might as well have been a magic trick.

Jana has already described several events of both kinds ¯ both happy arrangements of natural events and, on the other side, events so improbable as to appear to be miraculous.

Any way you look at it, this is a mysterious world, but of all the ways in which the mystery can be stated none seems to me so improbable, so irrational, as to say there is no God, no Mind or Purpose in the universe, and all that is beautiful and right here is the accidental result of physical atoms going it blind.

Is such a dream really so improbable?

Those theories are so improbable they are about like someone saying they won the lottery every day for 1,000 years.

Not exact matches

That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event.»

However, it is abundantly clear that the human race is as it is (this is no more than mere tautology), and so we can see that what may originally seem improbable is in fact the best explanation of a given circu.mstance.

It is more probable that he should assume an appearance of ease, than that so very improbable a thing should be, as a man not afraid of going... into an unknown state.»

So along with Brexit and the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it's another bonkers, world - shaping election full of improbable twists and turns.

I know I'm not going to win you over with the idea of just how improbable something is, but would you not even for a moment think about how unlikely a humanoid species lightyears away could evolve so similarly to us along with such a similar religion.

That is so hypothetical and improbable you may as well say legislation is the only way we are going to get leprechauns elected as Senators.

There are but two methods of providing against this evil: the one by creating a will in the community independent of the majority, that is, of the society itself; the other, by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable.»

Cellular complexity is the nail in the coffin for an atheistic materialism, where you are required to believe life arose from naturalistic processes that are so vastly improbable, they are for all intents and purposes impossible.

Now, it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind - bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some have chosen to see it as the final proof of the NON-existence of God.

It is like saying that electricity is improbable because men were obliged for so long to live without its benefits and facilities!

So there is nothing improbable about the journey here described.

Such an improbable idea that many have, to make the idea inarguable, said that the idea is beyond human comprehension and so by doing remove the need but more importantly the ability to prove and so make it an untouchable notion of truth based on an idea.

Yet the collisions or near misses dictated by these theories are inherently very improbable, perhaps only ten for the entire life of our galaxy during the past five billion years.32 With so few planets in existence, we could hardly assume that there would be much life elsewhere, at least not in our galaxy.

18 - 35 contains so many echoes of the language of Pauline epistles that we must suppose, either that the writer had access to these epistles (which is on other grounds improbable), or that he worked upon actual reminiscence of Paul's speech upon this or some similar occasion.

So, if I am interpreting you correctly you think the talking snake in the garden is improbable.

It so definitely cuts across the usual pattern of our thought that we find it hard to recognize that there is nothing inherently improbable, not to say impossible, in God's choosing to make himself known in a particular series of events.

Monod (1970, 1971) has suggested that the combination of processes which must have occurred to produce life from inanimate matter are so extremely improbable that their occurrence may indeed have been a unique event (an event of zero probability).

Even in Middle - eastern culture, there are still many white people, so although it is unlikely for him to have appeared as a «white person», it's still not improbable, it does however contradict the cynic principles in Christianity, as they define him by what they believe would constitute their creator as being great or perfect as a manifestation equal to his greatness, but this was the exact mistake the Jews made, and why they disregarded Jesus when he came in the Flesh, his appearance can be debated on, but just like his birthday, or day of death.

January 31, 2012 at 9:19 am Report abuse o Chad @hippypoet «god is an idea, such an improbable idea that many have, to make the idea inarguably, said that the idea is beyond human comprehension and so be doing remove the need but more importantly the ability to prove and so make it an untouchable notion of truth all based on an idea... how is that different then being delusional?

god is an idea, such an improbable idea that many have, to make the idea inarguably, said that the idea is beyond human comprehension and so by doing remove the need but more importantly the ability to prove and so make it an untouchable notion of truth all based on an idea... how is that different from being delusional?

So it is improbable that that the whole nation was guilty.

Maybe it is the grindingly long, 162 - game season, which allows for so many promising and disheartening plotlines to take shape, only to dissolve again along the way, and which sustains even the most improbable hope past any rational span; or maybe it is simply the course of the year's seasons, from early spring into mid-autumn — nature's perennial allegory of human life, eloquent of innocent confidence slowly transformed into wise resignation.

So your counter argument to someone who doesn't believe in god is a completely fictional fairy tale off the top of your head highlighting the response an atheist might have to a hypothetical, yet completely improbable event?

But he added as a good pragmatic empiricist, «We only assert this, that Success by unconverted Ministers» Preaching is very improbable, and very seldom happens, so far as we can gather.»

The ties over, so I would try to win the game but the players are only playing for the shirt imo, it's not impossible, but highly improbable they have a mean defense, let's cement 3rd and retain the fa cup (relatively poor) I know because of the expectation and all the noise the club was making last summer but its a slight improvement.

So much must go right to win just one Championship, it's improbable to match it.

I kind of try to stay as close to the present moment as I can, I guess — in the golf game, at least — and try to take one thing at a time, and so I really don't look ahead too much,» said Stricker, who cruised to a three - stroke victory in 2009, won by two shots in 2010 and clinched last year's title by one shot with an improbable birdie on the 72nd hole.

I personally don't think every team will take maximum points from their final fixtures and while its highly improbable its mathematically possible so all we can do is keep winning.

Perhaps that's because there's no other sport that provides so many large and improbable upsets.

By the same token, Taylor had barely thrown for more than 50 yards in the game to that point, so if the Titans were able to get a couple of stops on defense, it was reasonable to believe they would be going home with an improbable win.