"To accept a theory" means to believe or agree with an explanation or idea based on the available evidence and logic.
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One of the more widely
accepted theories of general television effect used in research today is the cultivation analysis theory.
Their proposal, which is at odds with the currently most
widely accepted theory in the scientific community, provides new insight into this key process during genome evolution and the origins of species.
But because sophisticated
people accept these theories as the best available, they influence the direction of inquiry and thereby of policy.
Again, many empirical observations could prove useful to teachers — for example, that intelligence can be improved with sustained cognitive work — but there is no
single accepted theory of intelligence.
In challenging the
generally accepted theory as a basis for policy action, it is also beside the point to show isolated data that the theory does not explain.
And so, ironically, the more emphasis that is placed on the original argument, the less we can
accept the theory of evolution, or even our own existence!
The new view, published in the journal Nature, redraws the two major branches of the dinosaur family tree, leading to a claim that the
currently accepted theories on the evolution of dinosaurs and the place of their origin are wrong.
(There is a third, less -
accepted theory suggesting that previous exposure to another virus called dengue could somehow make people more susceptible to Zika.
The discovery beautifully confirms the commonly
accepted theory behind the formation of a particular type of supernova.
Many of your brethren have minds
which accept the theory of God while they spiritually fail to realize the presence of God.
In such passages from Jeremiah and Habakkuk we face the perennial glory of the true prophets — their courage in acknowledging facts of experience that
contradict accepted theories.
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Biography accepts the theory that she was born in England.
The most
accepted theory establishes that the orbits of these objects, which travel beyond Neptune, should be distributed randomly, and by an observational bias, their paths must fulfil a series of characteristics: have a semi-major axis with a value close to 150 AU (astronomical units or times the distance between the Earth and the Sun), an inclination of almost 0 ° and an argument or angle of perihelion (closest point of the orbit to our Sun) also close to 0 ° or 180 °.
@Francine Carranza — the problem is that the Biblical account of creation and the
modernly accepted THEORY (it is not a hypothesis, it has been observed in nature — see: viruses, transitional fossils) of evolution are in direct opposition to each other.
Creationists will have a hard time convincing legislators and courts that those who teach tomorrow's clergy are in their camp, since 69 per cent of the
Protestants accept the theory of evolution; 98 per cent of the Catholics do, while 100 per cent of the Catholics think that evolution does not deny but instead «explains» creation.