Sentences with phrase «than an accident of»

Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth

Fr Edward Holloway certainly saw marriage, and the nature of Man as male and female, as more than some accident of evolution.

(c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or

Abolition ends with Lewis's admonition to pause before relegating Natural Law to no more than another accident of human history in a wholly material universe.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

True, the difference may have nothing to do with anything other than accidents of birth, or random variation in nature, but they will do different things.

Revered in Japan, the rest of the world has never quite latched on to a series for which obfuscation is a calling card rather than an accident of design.

Not exact matches

Other than accidents and suicides, the top 10 leading causes of death encompass stroke, Alzheimer's, diabetes, the flu and pneumonia, and kidney disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Former Liberal Party WA president David Honey's convincing by - election victory in the blue ribbon seat of Cottesloe was no accident; the strong Liberal showing was more than a year in the planning.

Rather than expose miners to the risk of a human error - induced accident involving a multi-ton vehicle, Clearpath takes the driving out of human hands.

More than 2,600 pedestrians are injured from motor - vehicle - related accidents in B.C. every year, and as many as 67 of those die as a result.

While more people died in air accidents in 2014 than the average in recent years, the number of fatal accidents compared with the total number of flights was a record low, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Similarly, we built tools so millions of people could commit to becoming organ donors to save others after accidents, and registries reported larger boosts in sign ups than ever before.

The fallout from the accident could stall the development and testing of self - driving vehicles, designed to eventually perform far better than human drivers and to sharply reduce the number of motor vehicle fatalities that occur each year.

Even a small number of high - profile accidents could do more than statistics to influence the opinions of lawmakers and potential customers, at least in the short term.

That Monday's accident was the first fatal incident involving a fully autonomous vehicle indicates that arguments for their safety have merit, but much of that testing has occurred on highways, which are easier for self - driving cars to navigate than dense, urban environments.

While proponents of autonomous vehicles believe they will be much safer than those driven by humans, they'll have to prove that Monday's accident and subsequent ones are not the result of fundamental flaws in self - driving technology.

It also faces more than 4,300 claims for compensation from people who said they suffered injuries related to the faulty switches or from relatives of those killed in related accidents, the lawyer overseeing the program has said.

But the same could be said of the 197 pedestrians struck by cars and killed in Arizona in 2016, and the more than 40,000 people who died in car accidents in the U.S. during the same time period.

From Bill Cosby's now - legendary social media missteps, flippant tweets that resulted in firings, to Facebook official relationships sometimes carrying more weight than actually committing, social media is what you make of it, either on purpose or by accident.

«For the vast majority of people, regularly getting less than about seven hours of sleep leads to concentration problems, lower energy levels, accidents, and, in the long - term, raises the risk of depression,» PsyBlog stresses.

«Even if it remains a Schedule I substance, the DEA will continue to allocate its resources and time to the biggest and most violent drug traffickers,» he says, explaining most of the agency's resources are being used to deal with the current opioid epidemic, which kills more people each year than auto accidents.

It kind of feels more like an accident than a menu item.

I grew tired of the lack of enforcement of any other traffic violations than speeding unless there was an accident.

In 2014, more than 1,600 people who were passengers in the front seat of vehicles were killed in accidents.

In the event of an accident, Kinder Morgan has pledged to do no more than comply with federal laws, which stipulate that operators of a major oil pipeline in this country must have a minimum of $ 1 billion in financial resources available to cover liabilities related to a land spill.

That's all to the good; I don't think it's an accident that the first wide - open Best Picture race in decades coincides with the fact that a quarter of voting members have joined since 2014, and that a far lower percentage of them are straight, white male American elders than is the case with the other 75 percent of voters.

He only got into electronics by accident, and he no more dreamed Steve Jobs» dreams of a PC revolution than he imagined he'd shave wannabe moguls calling him «Sir» on the BBC.

Tesla claims it to be so, showing that tens of thousands of clients all over the world have banked more than 100 million miles in semi-autonomous driving until the unfortunate accident of Brown.

But serious accidents occur in plants from all over, according to more than 3,000 pages of court documents and OSHA investigative files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

It takes more faith to believe that this universe and creation was created by accident than to believe that it is the devine work of God.

Sanford Police confirmed that the accident happened at the intersection of I - 4 and route 417 — less than a mile from where Zimmerman shot Martin...

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

If there is no God and the universe is a chance result of some great accident, then we are nothing more than bundles of chemicals and nothing matters.

But when David Halberstam (who, with Neil Sheehan, did more than anyone else to create the canonical narrative of Vietnam) died tragically this past year in an auto accident, not a single obituary notice I read suggested he had been terribly wrong about Tet or that his wrongheadedness had helped create a political situation that had had lethal consequences for millions.

In the U.S., the number of abused women falls to one in four, but domestic violence is still the leading cause of injury for women between the ages 15 and 44 — more than car accidents, muggings, and rape combined.

It may be no more (and no less) true that the elimination of poverty is «open to public choice» than that traffic accidents continue to occur in our land only «because we consent to it.»

Accidents and tragedy will be a part of modern society regardless... we see it far more often on the highway than we do in the home from accidental shooting and I am not talking about the criminal activity of drinking and driving.

Surely it is more than a mere accident that Whitehead so conceives the «actuality» of his actual entities in such a way as to fit the Aristotelian sense of energeia and entelecheia, both of which are rendered by the Latin actus and its derivative forms.

It is difficult to draw any conclusion other than that nuclear war, either by accident or because of uncontrollable escalation, is not likely to be prevented.

I shared the reservations of Elton Trueblood, who wrote of exclusivism: «Such a scheme is neat and simple, but it is morally shocking... A God who would thus play favorites with his children, condemning some to eternal separation from himself while admitting others, and distinguishing them wholly or chiefly on the basis of the accidents of history or geography, over which they had no control, would be more devil than God.»

As happens with many good books, I stumbled upon More Than Serving Tea by accident, after I read an interview with one of its authors, Nikki Toyama - Szeto, at Intervarsity's «The Well» blog.

Nor does it seem correct to say that his atheism was an historical accident rather than an essential feature of the Marxian worldview.

If you could understand science than you would see the lack of «accident» and the beauty of scientificly inevitable evolution both in life and the universe.

Try taking a little broader look around at the innocent children and Christians better than you dying of horrible diseases and car accidents and natural disasters etc. and you will see your God is nowhere to be found.

No more than if you found a watch lying in the desert, running or not, that you would or could assume it happened by accident... common sense would dictate that intelligent life had to have made this watch as complex things simply do not «create» themselves by accident, no matter how many millions / billions of years have passed.

If you look at the complexity of the universe and everything in it, to think it happened by accident from some chemicals mixing together and eventually mutating into humans and other animals is way more difficult to believe in than god.

If god stopped the accident from happening then his unverifiable miracle couldn't be used as evidence of his power, but if it was able to be verified than most reasonable people would have to accept it and that would somehow violate a persons free will to accept god as real.

Since he who loves most suffers most, God must be far more brokenhearted than we when young lives are snuffed out prematurely, high possibilities crushed through accident or illness or the guilt and carelessness of others.