Sentences with phrase «when scientific knowledge»

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His scientific knowledge was impressive, but he lacked the killer instinct to draw blood when the opportunity presented itself.

The more I have studied the bible, and believe me I have spent years studying it and other religious books, the more I see this as a hangover from primitive days when our ancestors had no scientific knowledge and had to imagine gods to explain things.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

A color - blind man can know all the scientific theories about color, but there is another kind of knowledge he will altogether miss when the dogwood trees break into bloom or the setting sun lights up the evening sky.

In the period when I went to the World Student Christian Federation as a secretary, in 1947 religious scientists worked within the thesis in Martin Buber's I and Thou that separated the scientific I - It approach to things and the knowledge of persons through dialogue and mutual love.

But they are not rivals when religion supports and encourages scientific knowledge, which also happens.

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

when i was in grade school i constantly read science books, i knew the position of the planets, their distances from the sun, diameters, etc. however, by the time i graduated high school, 50 % of the scientific knowledge i had gained had already been proved untrue.

When we had very little scientific knowledge of the working of the universe, it made sense for mankind to construct a God to put their faith in and to provide answers.

When he explains to them, however, that the story (myth) does affirm belief that God created the «heavens and earth and all that in them is,» but does not require belief that he did it in six twenty - four - hour days, they are set free to correlate their religious beliefs with their scientific knowledge.

Nye — a mechanical engineer and television personality best known for his program, «Bill Nye the Science Guy» — said the United States has great capital in scientific knowledge and «when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back.»

But when the psychologist is most «scientific,» he regards these answers as a part of the behavior of the subject and not as a source of knowledge of some inner, unobservable state.

The physical sciences and the life sciences also yield their full harvest of knowledge about man only when the understanding gained through direct self - consciousness is used in the interpretation of the methods and results of objective scientific investigation and of technical invention.

This decisiveness and completeness of acceptance is prevented when we become entangled with questions about how it is related to scientific knowledge and philosophical speculations.

The kerygma, says Bultmann, otherwise called the gospel message, must be accepted in its purity, free of the distortions of mythology and free of the falsifications imposed on it when it is confused with scientific knowledge about the natural world.

You accept scientific technique when you fly, have DNA tests, etc. yet reject that same knowledge when it shows that the bible was written in ignorance by middle eastern sheepherders thousands of years ago and modified significantly both deliberately — selective inclusion / exclusion, tailored for desired message — and unintentionally — translation and transliteration errors.

In short, the optimum contribution that can be made by increasing scientific knowledge and technological prowess and by the power of political mechanisms will be forthcoming only when certain prior conditions are presupposed which at the moment do not exist.

Thus when we have stripped scientific knowledge to its essentials we are left with both its particularity and its universal intent, a step that would require us to modify any rigid distinction between the objective and subjective poles, or between knowledge and belief.

Nye - a mechanical engineer and television personality best known for his program, «Bill Nye the Science Guy» - said the United States has great capital in scientific knowledge and «when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back.»

Societies seem to be notoriously slow when it comes to implementing new scientific knowledge.

When my insistence finally overrode his denials, he echoed his online essay that I should deny who I am rather than to engage in an act so abhorrent as to love another man... To me, though, it is undeniable that removing him from the team for reasons unrelated to his scientific knowledge, academic credentials or intellectual capacity was a mistake.»

AAAS director looks to the day when science is an overarching framework that drives scientific knowledge, understanding and the policies it informs.

This early childhood period is a time when kids begin developing knowledge and skills for science, she said, adding that preschool children have the capacity to engage in and learn from scientific thinking.

Her career comes full circle on Monday when she becomes director of AAAS» Science & Technology Policy Fellowships Program, which, since 1973, has helped some 3,300 scientists and engineers ply their scientific knowledge and related skills in the policy arena, solving problems big and small facing leaders in Congress, executive agencies and judicial offices.

People are more tolerant of sweeping changes in scientific knowledge when it's not a part of their plates.

Although I was viewed as a stellar scientific surgeon during my clinical training, when it came to competing with full - time researchers, I was clearly limited by the lack of an up - to - date armamentarium of technological knowledge and scientific trivia, as well as a credible track record of success in scientific publication.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

People will enter knowing, Freeman proposes, that when their support ends in a few years, the also - rans must leave academic research and move on to other types of work, preferably using their scientific knowledge, in industry, government, patent law, science policy, high - school or community college teaching or other fields.

«We need to make sure that when children participate in clinical trials, their efforts are contributing to broader scientific knowledge.»

In the last few years, a handful of scholars have begun to look more closely at Shakespeare's interest in the scientific discoveries of his time — asking what he knew, when he knew it, and how that knowledge might be reflected in his work.

But when it comes to explaining the Cambrian explosion, Darwin's Doubt is compromised by Meyer's lack of scientific knowledge, his «god of the gaps» approach, and selective scholarship that appears driven by his deep belief in an explicit role of an intelligent designer in the history of life.

«This analysis comes at a time when following the transfer of scientific knowledge into industry and the economy is a growing priority for governments and research funding agencies, said David Swinbanks, founder of the Nature Index.

At the Gladstone Institutes, inspiring and educating the next generation of scientists is a top priority, for when researchers share their knowledge with young minds, they contribute to a legacy that will help shape the future of scientific innovation.

When a scientist's knowledge is used to help lawyers, juries, and judges understand the results of scientific tests, the scientist becomes a forensic scientist.

Scientific knowledge input into process based models has much improved, reducing uncertainty of known science for some components of sea - level rise (e.g. steric changes), but when considering other components (e.g. ice melt from ice sheets, terrestrial water contribution) science is still emerging, and uncertainties remain high.

After all, the choices you make when programming your workout routine directly influence the quality of the gains you'll get, so you might want to consider certain bits of scientific knowledge when making your decisions to ultimately train much smarter and better!

We invest as much time in educating our lead practitioner and staff as we do our clients, and know from experience that by keeping ahead of the latest cutting - edge scientific developments in natural medicine, and by drawing on the vast knowledge of allied health experts in the health care field both in NZ and abroad, we can offer you the best possible solutions when it comes to your natural health care.

Your lack of scientific knowledge is showing when you say you do not know if it is better for the environment to grow produce or meat.

We live in an age when all manner of scientific knowledge — from climate change to vaccinations — faces furious opposition.

But perhaps when teachers say they «know how children learn,» they are not talking about learning from a scientific perspective but about craft knowledge.

This process begins with the production of an initial draft of a working paper about the developmental impacts of chronic neglect, including a neurobiological perspective on what happens to the brain when it receives limited or inappropriate stimulation, and a discussion of the relevance of this scientific knowledge for rethinking both policy and practice in child protective services.

A: A valid VCPR involves a scientific / biological examination process, knowledge of pharmacology and experienced professional judgment exercised by a duly licensed veterinarian in deciding if, when and how medications are utilized for an animal.

Regarding the Georgia studies: They were performed at a time when sacrificing dogs for the sake of scientific knowledge was considered desirable and proper.

With such a wide range of experience and scientific knowledge in the field, it was easy to see how different people have different ideas when the subject of allowable colors is brought up.

And so it is that when has had training and experience in what is / was known as Direct Marketing in the 1990s, later to show up on your TV screens late at night as Info Commercials, they have direct knowledge about how that «scientific research and testing and analysis using Math» works in the real world and how that is directly connected back to Psychology, and Freud, and Marketing and Cognitive Sciences of today.

And it's pretty clear (though not accepted by everyone) that ideological identity counts more than scientific knowledge when voters are choosing policy positions.

When I say I have not found something, it is not for lack of effort, and I would like to have the specific gaps in my knowledge filled in with detailed, published scientific articles and books.

One is that while the press addresses topics such as politics, sports, and business in some depth, there seems to be a consensus that it is impossible to assume any prior knowledge from the readership when it comes to issues with scientific content.

When you speak up about what your scientific speciality says about climate change, you are speaking as an expert; when you advocate a particular policy, estimation of the impact of which requires knowledge of economics, laws and regulations in foreign lands, trade and technology trends in addition to your scientific speciality, you are speaking as a citizen, and have no more authority than anyone eWhen you speak up about what your scientific speciality says about climate change, you are speaking as an expert; when you advocate a particular policy, estimation of the impact of which requires knowledge of economics, laws and regulations in foreign lands, trade and technology trends in addition to your scientific speciality, you are speaking as a citizen, and have no more authority than anyone ewhen you advocate a particular policy, estimation of the impact of which requires knowledge of economics, laws and regulations in foreign lands, trade and technology trends in addition to your scientific speciality, you are speaking as a citizen, and have no more authority than anyone else.

At a time when most countries are concerned for the conservation and welfare of dolphins and whales it is strange and disturbing to see a modern country like Japan continue to ignore scientific knowledge and concern for these species.