Sentences with phrase «view of the universe»

Some locations near the lunar south pole, offering a continuous view of the universe, could be ideal for an astronomical observatory.

If I was inclined, I would choose a religion with a positive view of the universe, not one with Satan as one of your deities.

Furthermore, ecclesiastical leaders adopted the earth - centered view of the universe held by Ptolemy, an Egyptian - born astronomer of the second century.

Sorry it offends your mythological views of the universe.

But a more basic necessity than the evolutionary view of truth is the adoption of an evolutionary view of the universe, because without it belief can not be shown to be intrinsic to the world and hence necessary; it can only be superadded.

This man has changed our view of the universe and life itself.

He is happy that his view of the universe is less «distorted» than mine was, and is; happy that he knows more about the moon and pterodactyls than I do.

Some started to say no, then realized, that yes, they did have some, though they didn't really believe it meant they had to give up their materialistic view of the universe.

In one memorable paragraph we have the comparison made between a universe without moral laws and led just by human desire, which leads to a dying universe, as indicated by C. S. Lewis in his book The Abolition of Man, and Nagel's view of the universe becoming aware of itself in man, and becoming conscious of truth, beauty and goodness.

Lastly, I can honestly admit that if proven wrong today, tomorrow, or in the future and someone gave me empiracle evidence that god exists, that gravity is not constant on earth, that the sun IS actually revolving around us and not the other way around, I would be more than happy to revise my current view of the universe around me and change accordingly.

Instead of a mechanistic view of the universe, the process - relational understanding is holistic and ecological, seeing the world as dynamic, creative, throbbing, pulsating with energy, interrelated and interdependent.

In fact, much conceptual language has promoted a disconnected view of the universe in which every entity is seen in isolation from every other entity.

Have I sold out to a materialistic view of the universe?

Indulging in shabby polemic, they dismiss as «idiosyncratic private views of the universe» what is in fact the product of careful moral reasoning they have not bothered to understand.

Under this view of the universe, God plans everything.

With this view of the universe, this common sense of how it works, it is entirely reasonable to explain a thunderstorm as the anger of God, or a victory in battle as caused by favorable divine intervention.

In broad outline, Hartshorne's dependence upon White - head finds clearest expression in his enthusiastic adoption of Whitehead's view of the universe as essentially one of perpetual change and becoming.

Are Native Americans pushing to have their religious views of the universe taught in our public classrooms?

For it often seems more rational to embrace an absurdist view of the universe than to remain steadfast in hope, especially when there are so many happenings within our evolving universe that, taken in isolation, seem to warrant a tragic interpretation.

The view of the universe that science provides does not include any deities, correct?

our view of the universe presents two realities... namely, gravitational ether and electromagnetic field or — as they might also be called — space and matter.»

Hartshorne enthusiastically adopts Whitehead's view of the universe as essentially one of perpetual change and becoming, and relates this concept to traditional Christian theology.

Hartshorne's dependence upon Whitehead finds clearest expression in his enthusiastic adoption of Whitehead's view of the universe as essentially one of perpetual change and becoming, in opposition to the dominant views of traditional Western philosophy and theology that the basic realities of both God and the universe endure permanently without essential change.

Whitehead rejected materialism and the dominant interpretation of science which was mechanism for what he called an organic view of the universe.

Gregory of Nyssa's thought is still influential within the Eastern Orthodox tradition which has a more organic view of the universe than the Western church.

Mind and consciousness have always been a problem for this view of the universe.

What is really surprising in retrospect is the way in which the Christian church lined itself almost exclusively with the mechanistic view of the universe.

She claims no higher power except quarks holding her together... I am tired of that simplistic view of the universe.

In spite of the environmental concern of many scientific authors who follow either a hard or soft naturalism, their theoretical (if not practical) acquiescence in the essentially hopeless view of a universe can not inspire the trust in life needed for lasting ethical aspiration.

The interesting question for us is why it is that the church in the West in the sixteenth century and ever since opted with the majority for the mechanistic view of the universe, particularly in view of the fact that the organic view is in many ways more supportive of Christian faith than the victorious mechanistic view.

I would be forced to have a very different view of the universe.

This personalist view of the universe is not only derived from supernatural faith.

The new physics no longer has a substance view of the universe.

Everyone today recognizes that Copernicus and Galileo were pioneers of a view of the universe which has become universally accepted.

This view of the universe was successfully challenged and overthrown in the sixteenth century by two Christian scholars, who may be rightly regarded as laying the foundations of the modern science of astronomy.

It maintained that a rational view of the universe and of man is that God exists, that He created the universe, that the universe is governed by laws inherent in its structure, and that these laws do not permit the departure from them which is seemingly implied in miracles and the Christian revelation.

His materialistic view of the universe had been superseded by one that had a palpable spiritual dimension, yet the worldview of his fellow psychics appeared increasingly flawed.

But it is pertinent here to note that Hinduism is based on a pantheistic view of the universe and that in popular practice it is extremely polytheistic.

«10 This constitutes a major shift in Whitehead's thought: he moves from a monistic to a pluralistic view of the universe.

Will Hawking's work really prove to have revolutionised our view of the universe?

GALAXY CLUSTERS Two kinds of mass have been missing from astronomers» view of the universe: matter that emits only X-rays and matter that emits nothing at all.

In the past few decades, however, this view has come under attack, as scientists and philosophers increasingly adopt a mechanistic view of the universe, in which physical laws govern our every move and choice.

This new insight, which sprang from Noether's work, is a guiding principle that permeates physics research, while informing our views of the universe at large.

As a result, the year's most familiar night skies are also the year's wettest, offering prime examples of how water dims, tints, and yet sometimes clarifies, our view of the universe.

These newfound voids upended the prevailing view of the universe as a smooth, uniform mosaic.

This was a huge change of people's views of the universe, and it came very quickly.

The discovery has changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to our view of the universe.

Now came a view of the universe in which space and time were no longer absolutes.

Instead we have to figure out how to separate the frog's view of the universe — our observations — from the bird's view.

Fermi has revolutionized our view of the universe in gamma rays, the most energetic form of light.