Sentences with phrase «think of an alternative explanation»

And even Demes, although skeptical of the running hypothesis, can't think of an alternative explanation.

Not exact matches

If we then discovered that he was living high on the hog in Barbados, we would all think this was adequate evidence to consider Jones guilty unless he could offer an alternative plausible explanation of these circumstances.

I do know some of the arguments for why the flood is scientifically implausible, but I think there are alternative explanations for where all the water came from (and where it is today) that might make it more plausible.

«I think no single one of their measurements can prove» that arsenate is doing what phosphate normally would, she says, but taken together, «I will conservatively say that it's very hard to come up with an alternative explanation.»

Paul Holland of the British Antarctic Survey calls the freshwater concept «plausible» but thinks there are also plausible alternative explanations for the increase in sea ice around Antarctica, among them changes in the wind patterns that might deliver blasts of colder air to the surrounding seas.

Curry offers the alternative explanation of natural variability offsetting Co2 warming, which I think is partly true.

As for your alternative explanation in a previous post, I am trying to think of a world subject to a warming force due to increased GHGs since the 19th century... this warming didn't materialize around the mid-century due to large quantities of aerosols emitted in the NH... somehow this NH cooling trespassed the equatorial belt and affected the SH, which not only didn't warm but cooled even more than the NH... doesn't sound very plausible, does it?

I can think of two alternative explanations:

I can think of a perfectly good, and far more believable, alternative explanation: CDs are a dying format, and when their only value is as an intermediate step (manual ripping, metadata tagging, and album art sourcing still required) towards listening to the songs on them on a tiny flash memory - based playback device, sales will decline as alternative sources become available that don't require the extra effort, don't junk up shelves with unwanted packaging, don't cost as much to buy, etc..