Sentences with phrase «supposing the existence of»

again the blogger supposed an existence of God for arguments sake... please use the context oft hat for my argument...

To take an incredibly complex thing and say it's too complex to have come about naturally... and that claim by supposing the existence of an even more complex thing (a god) is absurd.

And how else could we explain such fine - tuning except by supposing the existence of an intelligent designer who fits organisms so precisely to their environments?

The latter concept supposes the existence of a concept of one's own self, which is only developed in man and apparently in apes, who are able to recognize themselves in a mirror.

The analyzed studies, published from 1994 to 2015, focused on false social and political news accounts, including misinformation in reports of robberies; investigations of a warehouse fire and traffic accident; the supposed existence of «death panels» in the 2010 Affordable Care Act; positions of political candidates on Medicaid; and a report on whether a candidate had received donations from a convicted felon.

Obtaining approval before advertising someone elses listing and the supposed existence of a copyright on the measurement of square footage are two entirely separate issues.

Not exact matches

In the end, the existence of programs such as PRISM and Stellar Wind is disheartening for Diebert, since democratic societies are supposed to be better than the less - free countries they often condemn.

Yet, despite the reality of PM Mining Stocks being the best performing asset class by far in the stock world this year, nearly every commercial bank and commercial brokerage fund manager completely avoids the asset class of Precious Metal mining stocks like it is kryptonite, and in fact, most of the time, refuses to even acknowledges the existence of this unique asset class, despite a supposed commitment to diversification.

You can not test the existence of things that only leave «supposed» traces of evidence, when the existence of such things is based on their pervasive influence yet pervasive elusiveness that remains elusive because nobody has yet to devise a means to find it yet.

They have not arrived, so to speak to the place of peace and love, but are in the place, in their existence where they are supposed to be at this time and place, knowing they will progress into the future.

Now one sixth of mankind only are supposed to be Christians: the other five sixths then, who do not believe in the Jewish and Christian revelation, are without a knolege of the existence of a god!

@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.

It is my intent to show that the supposed properties of the Christian God Yahweh, like those of a cubic sphere, are incompatible, and by so doing, to show Yahweh's existence to be an impossibility.

There's a few nice things said about early Christians helping their neighbors and giving the poor hope that the afterlife will bring them a better existence, which is positive in a sort of back - handed way... I suppose.

I suppose you could be just agnotic (I don't have the knowledge of god's existence / non-existence, and have no belief).

@ karl: is your god so petty and paranoid that he would visit eternal punishment on one of his creations — that he is supposed to love — just because that creation decided to use its brain to question the existence of this god?

This is supposed to be a being who has always existed and always will exist, so what you make a big deal of was less than a blink of the eye in his existence.

There is then no contradiction in supposing that a being whose existence is necessary may nevertheless alter in some respects in the mode of that existence.

I suppose 884 encompasses the total time of the heart's existence... even when it was still beating... although... wouldn't it be beating in the womb too?

I suppose you can extrapolate this but, how does anyone know there aren't many, even an infinite number of, such Universes that explode into existence and then get sucked into lots of black holes just to explode again?

Or suppose the Christological question had been primarily a question about the community: «What is the reality in which these persons who knew Jesus and now remember Him participate, and which constitutes the essential principle of the community's existence?»

Indeed, we are never quite the independent individuals we like to think we are, as the umbilical cord ought to remind us, and we deceive ourselves if we suppose that freedom is the sole truth of human existence.

And I suppose you believe that the existence of god is a fact.

It is reasonable to suppose that parallel with these new developments in society there was also the emergence of a new structure of existence, a structure that distinguishes civilized man from his primitive ancestors.

If I were to imagine to myself a day - laborer and the mightiest emperor that ever lived, and were to imagine that this mighty Emperor took a notion to send for the poor man, who never had dreamed, «neither had it entered into his heart to believe,» that the Emperor knew of his existence, and who therefore would think himself indescribably fortunate if merely he was permitted once to see the Emperor, and would recount it to his children and children's children as the most important event of his life — but suppose the Emperor sent for him and informed him that he wished to have him for his son - in - law... what then?

Suppose I could, say by ablating the ventral medial prefrontal cortex, very specifically wipe out someone's ability to feel spiritual or feel anything about the presence or existence of the supernatural (like C.S. Lewis» the Nouminous).

I suppose my question is given there is the existence of good an evil — what can we do about it so that we end up doing more good than harm?

Thus, for example, suppose one wishes to ask about the existence of a unicorn.

Personally, knowing I have an expiration date and it's well within 100 years at this point (unless technology unlocks secrets in the genome to prolong life) I feel it's well worth living that life rather than presuming that at one point I'll detach from my earthly existence and spend the remainder of eternity in a knew, unknowable place that's supposed to be the ti.ts but no one can actually pin down what the specifics would be.

Adam's sin disrupted the rhythm of life and liturgy that was supposed to mark human existence.

Each theorist supposes the a priori existence of something, leaving unresolved its origin.

Theistic readers of The Mystery of Existence may feel relieved when the «personal theist» Timothy O'Connor tells them that while he, too, sees God's goodness, power, and knowledge as intimately linked, he finds it «very hard to be sure» what Aquinas» doctrine «is supposed to come to.»

«They too have supposed that Deity must be the transcendental snob, or the transcendental tyrant, either ignoring the creatures or else reducing them to his mere puppets, rather than the unsurpassably interacting, loving, presiding genius and companion of all existence.»

Why, in almost every other sphere of existence, do we expect people to learn from their experiences, but when it comes to the church, people are supposed to ignore their negative religious and ecclesiastical experience and just blindly love the church?

Even if we suppose that, by prolonging its existence on a scale of planetary longevity, the human species will eventually find itself with a chemically exhausted Earth beneath its feet, is not Man even now in process of developing astronautical means which will enable him to go elsewhere and continue his destiny in some other corner of the firmament?

Plus, I would have to be delusional to believe that the «god» that made me and is supposed to love me unconditionally is sending me to a lake of fire for all eternity because I question it's existence.

He supposed that I thought that the crucial christological claim has to do with the incarnation in Jesus of a distinctive structure of existence, a topic to which I devoted three of the book's fifteen chapters.

To illustrate: Suppose we ask whether it is possible for an insect to talk.9 That would mean that an insect in an order of biological existence can not talk, and in an order of fantasy can talk.

Atheism is nothing more than a lack of belief in any particular deity (it technically doesn't even deny the existence of a deity, it just doesn't actively believe one exists, though I suppose we could get into the whole «weak atheism vs strong atheism» thing if we wanted to).

What has here been said applies to the historical in the direct and ordinary sense, whose only contradiction is that it has come into existence, which contradiction is implicit in all coming into existence.3 Here again one must guard against the illusion of supposing that it is easier to understand after the event than before the event.

Sensation has its definite organic conditions, and, as these decay with the natural decay of life, it is quite impossible for a mind accustomed to deal with realities to suppose any capacity of sensation as surviving when the machinery of our natural existence has stopped.»

At a later cultural stage a sharp distinction is usually made between two kinds of existence which, it is supposed, may occur separately as mindless matter and as disembodied mind but, at least in man, in an association of body and soul.

Now, I'm not suggesting we abandon conversations about the Bible and sexual ethics, nor am I interested in promoting a «genderless society» (as some have bizarrely claimed, somehow supposing that acknowledging the existence of gray requires dismissing the existence of black and white).

It confused the cultural unity which existed in the peninsula — confined, however, to a very thin stratum of the population, and polluted by the Vatican's cosmopolitanism — with the political and territorial unity of the great popular masses, who were foreign to that cultural tradition and who, even supposing that they knew of its existence, couldn't care less about it.

So, you point out that there are so many versions or ideas as to who or what God is and yet you automatically conclude that if there is a God that God would provide undisputable proof of existence as if you know what a supposed omnipotent and omniscient being would do?

«Those who have learned with Socrates that the soul, or more properly speaking, spirit, is the essence of the man,» he writes, «could never suppose that the existence of the reality depended upon the existence of its instrument.»

I suppose that he had been pondering the incursion of value into the world for a long time before he publicly expressed his faith in a harmony at the base of existence.

From this perspective, the supposed theological poverty of Chilean Pentecostalism is explained by its youth (less than 100 years of existence), its scant institutionalization, and the way it thrives in social sectors with no access to higher education.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

This is in line with a broader, Europe - wide decline in party membership, and throws up the uncomfortable question of how political parties are supposed to fund their own existence.