Sentences with phrase «upon the science of»

His session discussed how we learn and how learning can be improved for all, and touched upon the science of learning.

... EPA made an Endangerment Finding in court filings based upon the science of IPCC.

Firstly though let me point out that environmentalism is based upon the science of ecology in the same way that other political ideas are based upon the science of economics.

Drawing upon the science of attachment theory, Amodeo illuminates how suffering spreads when we're disconnected from ourselves and others — and is fueled by clinging to an array of habits and beliefs that divert us from a deeper intimacy with life.

Not exact matches

Not only do scientists need to find a place on Europa's surface that will be worth studying, they also need to find a place to land that won't completely destroy the lander upon touch down, Jim Green, NASA's Director of Planetary Science, told Business Insider.

Science is not religion, it is a method of enquiry based upon direct observation which transcends religion (the laws of physics are the same for everyone, no matter how you name God or even whether you believe).

DO NOT be an apologist or accept the explanation «your mind is too small to understand the greatness of science» or «evolution moves in mysterious ways» when you come upon logical inconsistencies in your belief.

If you understood science you would understand that science understands principles to a known degree of statistical certainty, is subject to change based upon new information.

There is not one shred of truth from science to account for the presence of life upon the earth by any means other than a special creation by the great original first Cause - God - Who is life and the fountain source of all life!

There is a template that many books on science or science history follow when they touch upon the relations of science and religion: Bold Scientist Persecuted by the Church for Thinking New Thoughts.

People who cast doubts on science are also casting doubts on the effectiveness of medicine, civil engineering, and the rocket science that NASA relies upon.

We might note the obvious influence of Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History upon Bénéton's framing of modernity, but he works out the implications of historicist relativism and Weberian social science in ways that are more attuned to both the contemporary academy and to our day - to - day lives.

The conclusion just reached suggests that supposedly value - free political science has had value commitments in spite of itself, at least to the extent that it affirms happiness to be a private matter.5 In addition, I am persuaded that political science explicitly based upon a preferential view of self - interest always implicitly invokes an objective criterion of happiness.

In other words, mainstream political science has insisted upon the logical independence of fact and value, such that only propositions about facts can be properly called true or false, and the study of political facts is «value - neutral» or «value - free.»

Discussion Upon Fundamental Principles in Education, opened by Professor A. N. Whitehead, F.R.S.» Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bournemouth, 1919.

Unlike Marx and others who tried to turn socialism into a science and thought they knew what would happen, Rorty's religion is radically open to, adamantly insistent upon, the new — making possible a life of «pure, joyous hope.»

The discoveries of modern science are real advances in the knowing of God's creation and so have an impact upon theology.

Such human «mindfulness» should be reflected upon in order to understand what the success of science means, and, as a result, in discerning an absolute Mind to be worshipped.

In 1996 he reflected upon the purpose of the above Secretariat in Culture and Faith, «Science affects our twentieth century culture in many ways.

It is based upon a number of basic sciences, and one of those basic sciences is evolution.

Over recent centuries Catholic patronization of science has inexorably further entrenched the nominalistic hegemony upon the philosophy of science.

, what created the created and the created before the created, its unreal how far the universe is, we have a universe that science has taken photos of, what created our entire universe, and what created the universe before ours... it's like when you hold a mirror and look into another mirror, the image is of your self is stacked and stacked upon each other, are we just a mirror that goes on forever.

It surfaced during the challenges presented to the role of the Church during the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th century; it makes strides upon the publication of The Origin of The Species by Charles Darwin in the 19th century; its has gathered force in the 21st century as the role of science in Western civilization is being presented with its own challenges... of still yet unanswered questions.

For example — Often used by many christians as an arguement for intolerence towards human rights... I pose that every religiously ran nation like that of Iran and Iraq are exactly what the religious in this supposedly tolerent country wish to turn this country into, where science and logically thought are frowned upon and knowledge of fairy tales are rewarded.

Though science has reached phenomenal heights in our time, it has at no point invalidated anything basic to Christian faith, and at no time in human history has the revelation of God in Christ shone upon the human scene with greater clarity and power.

The kind of theology I will be engaged in here, by no means the only kind, could be called heuristic theology; in analogy with some similar activities in the sciences, it «plays» with possibilities in order to find out, to discover, new fruitful ways to interpret the universe.6 In the case of an heuristic theology focused on cosmology, the discovery would be oriented toward «remythologizing» creation as dependent upon God.

The answer depends entirely upon how the science of that time — science in the broadest sense — understands the cell and its functioning.

Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is not the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing.

That is why philosophy nurtured within the Universitas is called upon... «to link theology, philosophy and science between them in full respect -LSB-...] of their reciprocal autonomy, but also in the awareness of the intrinsic unity that holds them together.»

To cite just one example, it is difficult to see how this synthesis, relying as it does upon a basically Aristotelian concept of nature or form as a static unchanging reality, can accommodate the discoveries of modern science.

Or are we not rather called upon simply to relativize the cognitive prowess of physical science?

As long as we focus attention upon bodies of some magnitude and upon motion of moderate velocity, the laws of science developed by the Newtonians hold true.

Just as science must constantly revise its models so as to surmount the deficiencies of its abstract (usually mathematical) models of nature, so also religions are called upon continually to revise their enigmatic representations of cosmic significance in keeping with primary perceptions intuition of an ongoing cosmic adventure.

Attacking Christianity We can say of many of the secondary lines of attack upon Christian dogma drawn from the modern sciences and modern critique that the interpretations offered of the evidence is never necessary, and that frequently the evidence itself is too scrappy and too little evaluated as fact to be worth considering.

What we ought to be able to discover in this world picture, once the incredible science is gone, is a conception of the universe in which, under what are for us weird and frequently utterly impossible images, the whole creation is seen as dependent upon a loving and active God who is its ultimate meaning and its ground of being.

Even while acknowledging some lat.itude in these early chapters, it appears that science is increasingly able to corroborate what we have held in faith based upon biblical texts, including bases for such matters as an ancient deluge, genetic linking back to one mother and possible on father, and the possibility of extended life - spans prior to the deluge.

«In CV, however, you will never find a statement of religious origin without an accompanying human and rational justification, upon the condition, quite naturally, that reason complies in full with its duty and that the sciences do not let themselves be guided by ideologies.

The cultural and intellectual authority of science depends critically upon its absolute neutrality in such debates.

Lotze, in placing emphasis upon the disclosure of the spiritual reality in its effects, cut a path between a mechanistic science and an abstract metaphysics and thus was more immediately available to the religiously motivated mind of the period, say from 1880 to the early nineteen twenties.

Truth can never conflict with genuine science: as the author says, «our understanding of mental illness can be more complete if we draw upon the insight of both medicine and Catholicism».

Leading thinkers have recently placed emphasis on the radical limitations of science and especially upon the inherent impossibility of applying scientific techniques to the true understanding and effective control of human beings both individually and socially.

Not that they depended in any immediate sense upon biological science for their concepts or method, or that they had any conscious concern with Darwin, but the modernism,» «environmentalism,» and «functionalism» that were explicit in their methodology and emphasis had been implicitly derived from the Darwinian theory of natural selection.

«We look upon life these days from two opposing points of view,» writes Carl F. Von Weizsäcker, «from man, and from physical science» (The History of Nature [University of Chicago Press, 1949], p. 122).

I have been concerned to show, elsewhere, 6 that the same set of epistemological limitations encountered at the transition to the life sciences and cognitive psychology are evident at the level of chemical theory and its dependence upon the quantum theory relevant to nucleic and electronic constituents.

This basic principle implies that common sense and science must supply all the essential factual knowledge, and that standards of ethics and justice must come from secular philosophies that rest upon uncontroversial assumptions.

Ideological purity, a fundamentalist view of scriptural literalism, tribal mentality, denial of science, a hostile fear of progress, demonization of education, the need to control women's bodies, severe xenophobia, intolerance of dissent, should not the foundations upon which a «tolerant» religion is based.

It has been a platform based upon willful ignorance in the face of science and dedicated xenophobia in the face of all other demographics.

As every schoolchild who has been instructed in the rudiments of science now knows, or should know, modern genetics has provided a completely different account of the mechanism of inheritance, making untenable the blood theory upon which traditional race lore rested.

My point is that the final outlook of philosophic thought can not be based upon the exact statements which form the basis of the special sciences.

He ACTED UPON his SCIENCE - BASED tendencies of «reason» and «logic».