" Regarding his view on Spectral evidence, Upham concludes that " Cotton Mather never in any public writing ' denounced the admission ' of it, never advised its absolute exclusion ; but on the contrary recognized it as a ground of ' presumption ' ... once admitted nothing could stand against it.

For example, Roman Catholics view sex within marriage as chaste, but prohibit the use of artificial contraception as an offense against chastity, seeing contraception as unnatural, contrary to God's will and design of human sexuality.

* Faith as contradicting rationality: In this view, faith is seen as those views that one holds despite evidence and reason to the contrary.

The week after the story, Newsweek published a contrary view from Robert Samuelson, one of its columnists, who said the story of an industry-funded denial machine was contrived and fundamentally misleading.

A contrary view is that of Christian Universalism, which holds that, because of divine love and mercy all will ultimately be reconciled to God.

1308 ), a Friar Minor Conventual like Saint Bonaventure, argued, on the contrary, that from a rational point of view it was certainly as little derogatory to the merits of Christ to assert that Mary was by him preserved from all taint of sin, as to say that she first contracted it and then was delivered.

This view is frequently summarised by the maxim an unjust law is not a true law, lex iniusta non est lex, in which ' unjust ' is defined as contrary to natural law.

The essential partiality of our view of things, their being given only in a certain perspective and at a certain moment in time does not diminish their reality, but on the contrary establishes it, as there is no other way for things to be copresent with us and with other things than through such " Abschattungen " faint outlines, adumbrations.

Although the canonical view of the neuron attributes dedicated functions to its various anatomical components, dendrites and axons often act in ways contrary to their so-called main function.

This view is frequently summarized by the maxim: an unjust law is not a true law, in which ' unjust ' is defined as contrary to natural law.

Another contrary view has been recently proposed by Arun Bala in his dialogical history of the birth of modern science.

A single-lens reflex ( SLR ) camera is a camera that typically uses a mirror and prism system ( hence " reflex ", from the mirror's reflection ) that permits the photographer to view through the lens and hence see exactly what will be captured, contrary to viewfinder cameras where the image could be significantly different from what will be captured.

Third Worldism has been defined as " the idea, popular among Third World autocrats and many American and French leftists in the late 60s and 70s, that – contrary to orthodox Marxism's view that the Western working class would deliver the world from the tyranny of capital that ... Third World elites were the privileged historical actor.

He adds that if anybody took the contrary view then “ I think it is self-evident that he would be wrong .”

* Bit order: Some schemes view the low-order bit of each byte as " first ", which then during polynomial division means " leftmost ", which is contrary to our customary understanding of " low-order ".

Israel was the only country represented at the Security Council to express a contrary view.

Social conservatives are sometimes opposed to such events because they view them to be contrary to public morality.

Despite evidence to the contrary, his view held sway with most chemists, and it became commonly accepted wisdom that creosote, carbolic acid, and phenylhydrate were identical substances, with different degrees of purity.

Mozart biographer Maynard Solomon ( 1995 ) takes the view that the tours were lucrative and produced long-term profits for Leopold ; Ruth Halliwell ( 1998 ) states to the contrary that their income generally only covered their travel and living expenses.

Contrary to these views, the Stoic philosophers argued for equality of the sexes, sexual inequality being in their view contrary to the laws of nature.

The chateau includes the main building, with a reconstruction of Voltaire's room ( moved from its original location by later private owners ), a garden with a fine view of the Alps, and a church dedicated, contrary to custom, directly to God.

Indecent exposure is the deliberate exposure in public or in view of the general public by a person of a portion or portions of his or her body, in circumstances where the exposure is contrary to local moral or other standards of appropriate behavior.

The contrary view, that Ravaillac had no accomplices but his confessors, is expressed by Roland Mousnier in L ' Assassinat d ' Henri IV: 14 mai 1610 ( Paris, 1964 ).

on some individuals, contrary to the mainstream view.

But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.

On the contrary it is my duty to make my own decision as between the two ''.

On the contrary, the frenzy and furor of combat is only the sombre foil against which the sudden illuminations of the human flash forth with the piercing radiance of a Caravaggio.

Recent statements by the President and Defense Department spokesmen have, to the contrary, assured us that our lead is very great.

On the contrary, if this be an apocalyptic era as is commonly said, we see it as an era of opportunity.

But in such an important question, we would be satisfied if the judgment were that the principal objection to the identity of forces which produce electricity and magnetism were only a difficulty, and not a thing which is contrary to it.

It is not binding upon another Superior Court, which could rule to the contrary.

But contrary to Whitehead, philosophy is not a synonym for Plato.

Again, contrary to popular belief, there is nothing crazy or frantic about Parker either musically or emotionally.

There is always an open market for this sort of delicacy, in spite of low calorie diets, cottage cheese and hands-off-all-sweets to the contrary.

But contrary to what was implied during the campaign, prestige is surely not important for its own sake.

On the contrary, even in the heart of `` the Bible belt '' itself, as can be attested by any one who is called to work there, the industrial and technological revolutions have long been under way, together with the corresponding changes in man's picture of himself and his world.

No political order or economic system is so clearly contrary to nature.

Now Teng on the contrary possesses granaries and treasuries, so the ruler is supporting himself by oppressing the people ’.

Those who continue to have faith in astrology have been characterized as doing so " in spite of the fact that there is no verified scientific basis for their beliefs, and indeed that there is strong evidence to the contrary.

" This behavior is considered unusual for Laurents, which runs contrary to his current reputation.

DNA with high GC-content is more stable than DNA with low GC-content, but, contrary to popular belief, the hydrogen bonds do not stabilize the DNA significantly, and stabilization is mainly due to stacking interactions.

( NA Broderick and others., 2006 ) This is contrary to the common misconception that Bt toxin kills the larvae by starvation.

In other words, it is not the relative motion of the pail and water that causes concavity of the water, contrary to the idea that motions can only be relative, and that there is no absolute motion.

By far the most visible and obvious power of many modern central banks is to influence market interest rates ; contrary to popular belief, they rarely " set " rates to a fixed number.

It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.

While all Catholics must therefore hold that " the infliction of capital punishment is not contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church, and the power of the State to visit upon culprits the penalty of death derives much authority from revelation and from the writings of theologians ", the matter of " the advisability of exercising that power is, of course, an affair to be determined upon other and various considerations.