Sentences with phrase «traditional claims for»

When scientists announce that the chemistry of DNA is so certain, universal and uniform that all forms of life on earth are essentially the same, a credulous public jumps to the conclusion that traditional claims for the uniqueness of the human species have been nullified.

How all this may be assembled and related to the traditional claims for Jesus is a task yet to be done thoroughly.

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Thompson and others, however, argue that given the amount of resources Facebook is throwing into video, it is bound to solve these problems eventually, and doing so will make the platform — as well as other strong contenders such as Snapchat, which claims 10 billion video views a day — far more competitive when it comes to bidding for traditional consumer ad spending.

Offering retirement plans for companies, this firm claims to have lower fees than traditional providers.

Only in the traditional Jewish bailiwick of the clothing industry can any claim for a Jewish monopoly be made.

Your eligibility to claim a deduction for your Traditional IRA contribution on your federal tax return depends on whether you are an active participant of an employer - sponsored plan in the year to which your deduction applies.

Agents who agree would then accept the tokens as payment in exchange for reducing their traditional commissions in U.S. dollars to as low as 1 percent, or an average of $ 225 per token used, the company claims.

The crisis for religion, he said in The Sacred Canopy and other writings, is how to maintain the «plausibility structure» of traditional religion in a world that does not think religious truth claims are plausible.

Hartshorne claims for his dipolar (absolute and relative) metaphysics that it overcomes the traditional antinomies 0f unity and plurality, being and becoming, the infinite and the finite, eternity and time, necessity and freedom.

Cox has written a theological manifesto that urges readers to see Jesus and his moral teachings in the way that Cox does» disconnected from the trappings and truth - claims of traditional Christianity and therefore relevant to our search for answers today.

Continue reading «Traditional Free Will Theodicy and Process Theodicy: Hasker's Claim for Parity»

As it happens, McElroy claims to employ the traditional just - war criteria in arguing for American retreat from Iraq.

By alleging illiteracy for him, traditional Muslims were trying to make the claim even «more miraculous,» for a book of such literary quality was sent down through an illiterate man.»

Christianity for the first time in its 2,000 - year history is floating free in a sea of relativity, unable to maintain any of its traditional authority claims.

Natural law is the bridge, so to speak, for Jews who want to leave the ghetto without becoming so assimilated that they abandon their religion: «What a natural law perspective does for Jews at this level is to enable them to make rights claims, but without having to adopt the type of all «embracing secularism that is antithetical to the covenantal basis of traditional Jewish life and thought.»

and SOME place it is traditional for sheiks to pray (im thinking of some places in northern california) so it is the MAJORITY... and again... there is no imposing or forcing as the other bloggers been claiming... talk to them about it then

(Job 3:11 - 12, 20; 7:30; 10:2; 13:24; 21:4, 7; 24:1) The traditional claim that God marks the wicked for condign retribution and the good for appropriate reward Job opposed with a statement of observed fact, «He destroys the blameless and the wicked.»

He claims, for example, that «Traditional free will theism has a problem insofar as it seems likely to people that God should have intervened to prevent the tragedy in question.»

Easy to locate in the writings of the interpreters Nobo associates with the traditional approach, it appears, for example, on page 164 in A Christian Natural Theology, where John B. Cobb claimed that «it is demanded by the principle of universal relativity that just as God in his consequent nature prehends us, so also we prehend God's consequent nature.

(See the Problem of Evil in Process Theism and Classical Free - Will Theism by William Hasker; Traditional Free Will Theodicy and Process Theodicy: Hasker's Claim for Parity; «Bitten to Death by Ducks»: A Reply to Griffin; On Hasker's Defense of his Parity Claim by David Ray Griffin (see www.religion-online.org.)

It can not digest the traditional claim that freedom is perfected by an internalized discipline, an ascetic disposition that renounces the satisfaction of lower desires for the sake of those that are higher.

Slamming NAB for rendering Psalm 23:6, «I will dwell in the house of the Lord for years to come,» rather than «forever» with RSV or «for length of days» with Douay - Rheims, Neuhaus makes the extraordinary claim «that there is nothing in the Hebrew that requires or even suggests a change» of the traditional translation «forever.»

I saw a cultural Christianity with preachers who often gained audiences, locally in church meetings or globally on television, by saying crazy and buffoonish things, simply to stir up the base and to gain attention from the world, whether that was claiming to know why God sent hurricanes and terrorist attacks or claiming that American founders, one of whom possibly impregnated his own human slaves and literally cut the New Testament apart, were orthodox, Evangelical Christians who, like us, stood up for traditional family values.

For in these words Newman expressed succinctly the dilemma in which the Christian was placed; he had either to shut his mind completely to the new knowledge derived from science, or he had to be prepared to accept it and surrender the security and some of the claims of traditional orthodoxy.

They way Steve, Brigitte and aDK view the bible, for instance, is actually quite modren and less consistent with tradition than cetain liberal protestant denomination — they're calim that they are the keepers of Christian traditionals is just that: they're claim.

In an extended note that he added to his dissertation at the end of 1841, Marx claims that Hegel inverted the traditional proofs for the existence of God and thereby refuted them.

Recognizing that I will not agree with his parity claim, Hasker closes his argument by commenting on my discussion about the need for a theodicy to have psychological appeal, seeking to turn this discussion to his favor by pointing out that traditional theism has been accepted by more people than has process theism.

For instance, companies that make health claims on their products, such as Blackmores, now need to go through the same lengthy and costly approval process to sell their dietary supplements through online and traditional retailers in China.

He has claimed that he stood for the leadership because it was «his turn» to be the left's traditional also - ran.

Bryce's claim was broad and didn't account for the emerging ways people can communicate with public officials, but he was mostly on target in saying Ryan hadn't held a traditional town hall in almost two years.

Oh, and a Cuomo flack tried to further muddy the waters by claiming the city is «solely responsible for funding [the subway's] capital plan,» which isn't remotely close to traditional practice of recent times.

«Traditional lessons should be put on hold for up to two years amid fears that successive governments have promoted a «too much, too soon» culture in schools and nurseries, it is claimed.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

The researchers compared unnecessary medical service claims for 365,016 patients who were on traditional plans with the claims filed for 11,075 patients who switched from a traditional plan to a consumer - directed health plan.

The company uses cells to grow the virus for the vaccine and claims that this «shows significant time saving» over traditional production with eggs.

Mayer discussed the implications of this research for policymakers, claiming that there is a place for small games that focus on well - specified learning objectives, become more challenging as students learn, and fit within existing educational programs to supplement, complement, and / or extend traditional instruction rather than replace it.

While the new research was unable to confirm or deny these claims, the long - time use of turmeric in traditional Chinese medicine as a major constituent of Xiaoyao - san, a treatment for depression, may be testament to its use in this capacity.

The plant has been used in traditional eastern medicine for many centuries, so I tend to think there is some measure of truth to the health claims.

* The claims for this (these) product (s) is based on traditional homeopathic practice.

Since dating has been carried out in such a traditional way for so long, it's easy for us to be skeptical about the online dating world, and all the claims that these users are making.

All of this is to say that I am probably not the target demographic for a film that is being touted as a corrective to the 1998 Roland Emmerich Godzilla (which fans of the famous monster hated, as did most critics), bringing the series back to its traditional roots, as director Gareth Edwards has claimed in interviews.

The game claims to be going for a simplistic control method, eschewing the traditional quarter - circles and half - circles of Street Fighter and its ilk in favor of Smash Bros.-esque directional inputs.

School choice supporters are split over the program's strict accountability provisions, however, which some say represent over-regulation by the state but which others claim are on par with the expectations for traditional public and charter schools.

The organization claims that what charter schools receive, typically 60 to 75 percent of what traditional public schools receive per pupil and no funding for facilities, deprives the children of their right to a «sound basic education» under the state constitution.

And on the specific claim the article makes that «half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit's traditional public schools» this is what the Stanford study has to say: «In reading, 47 percent of charter schools perform significantly better than their traditional public school market, which is more positive than the 35 % for Michigan charter schools as a whole.

The Navy training introspection made me think of our own «in a box» reforms that include virtual schools, credit recovery, for - profit charters and any number of new programs that claim all will reach competency in far shorter time than in traditional programs.

Moody's Investors Service recently released a report claiming the rise in enrollment in public charter schools could pose a dangerous financial risk for traditional public schools, especially in urban areas with weak economies.

And the claim that traditional public schools can't get rid of perpetually out - of - control students who ruin the educational experience for everyone else only proves the point that Duffy is trying to refute, namely that charters provide a healthier learning environment.

I had to tweet sharply to ABC News for claiming that Chicago charter schools are better than traditional schools.

Assertions that the sector has «fulfilled one of its core missions — equity for students — by establishing itself as a primarily urban phenomenon with significant chains of schools that are closing achievement gaps» (Lake, 2013, p. 1) are countered by claims that «charter schools, on average, don't have an academic advantage over traditional public schools, but they do have a significant risk of leading to increased segregation» (Rotberg, 2014, para 2).