Sentences with phrase «than any religious explanation»

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Rather than go with the same old explanation offered by the religious that has proven itself false in the past?

A similar approach has been employed in recent catechetical courses, such as Anchor and Evangelium, in which religious ideas and understandings are approached initially through paintings rather than verbal explanations.

You take someone else's explanation for scripture because: a) Everyone else does, b) The person explaining is a religious «leader», or c) It's easier than thinking for yourself.

Consequently when in the life of the church cultural forms triumph over religious content and faith disappears, and when in the course of time men begin to wonder what content these forms were originally intended to symbolize, the historic explanations which they will advance will be given in terms of national or racial destiny rather than in terms of a rediscovered religious truth.

This is true, not because it contains, as it does, more exalted religious ideas than any other book, or expresses them better (this would be an explanation of the Bible's superiority, not of its uniqueness), but because it stands in a unique relation to some unique and supremely significant events.

If the conservative churches are producing more personal religious vitality than the others, the explanation is not likely to be found in one quarter only.

They are however, most certainly closer to an explanation than the bible or any other religious book.

Or consider the explanations for religious belief proposed by evolutionary psychologists, now recognised by most philosophers of biology as involving more theoretical assumptions than empirical evidence.

One explanation for their optimism is that Muslim Americans were hurt more than other major religious groups by the recession and have experienced more improvement in the recovery, the report said.

The religious emphasis on otherworldly beliefs evolved, Wilson says, because supernatural explanations seem to motivate human cooperation better than factual ones.

That finding offers a new explanation for past research showing women tend to hold more religious or spiritual worldviews than men.

In her review of Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture For a Modern World, Sue Hubbard expressed her view that the Tate had missed the opportunity to build a more revelatory show than was actually achieved by choosing not to use in the show explanations of Hepworth's work in terms of her religious beliefs which Lucy Kent had explored in a catalogue essay.

There is no «proof» that these are more than natural occurrences (or, admittedly, neither that they are not) and require, for now, really contorted tortuous explanations (snow / ice getting covered with soot, Arctic really getting lots warmer than the few tenths of a degree of the global average just the past 2 - 3 decades, etc.) why AGW is causing them — though they are professed with religious conviction.