According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

According to Richard I. Pervo, " Townsend's methodologically adventurous but ultimately cautious essay is another valuable lesson in the danger of establishing the date of Acts – or any work – by arguing for the earliest possible time of origin.

According to Richard Dawkins in his book The Ancestor's Tale, chimps and bonobos may be descended from Australopithecus.

According to Bruce Campbell's autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, Richard acquired his stage name by combining his short name with his roommates ' names, Hal and Del.

According to Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck rejected the application because of Schwitters ' links to Der Sturm and to Expressionism in general, which was seen by the Dadaists as hopelessly romantic and obsessed with aesthetics.

According to Richard Garner and Bernard Rosen, there are three kinds of meta-ethical problems, or three general questions:

According to Richard Bartle, " People go there as part of a hero's journey — a means of self-discovery ".

According to Richard Kislan, " The shows of Rodgers and Hammerstein were the product of sincerity.

According to Richard Jeffrey, " Before the middle of the seventeenth century, the term ' probable ' ( Latin probabilis ) meant approvable, and was applied in that sense, univocally, to opinion and to action.

According to historian Richard P. McBrien, the view of Anastasius II as a traitor is unjust.

According to Kevin Phillips, author and political strategist to U. S. President Richard Nixon, the United States is a plutocracy in which there is a " fusion of money and government.

According to another tradition, Richard consulted a seer in the city of Leicester before the battle who foretold that " where your spur should strike on the ride into battle, your head shall be broken on the return.

According to William of Newburgh, in May 1198 Richard and the labourers working on the castle were drenched in a " rain of blood ".

According to one chronicler, Richard's last act of chivalry proved fruitless ; in an orgy of medieval brutality, the infamous mercenary captain Mercadier had the crossbowman flayed alive and hanged as soon as Richard died.

According to a Symbolics employee, the reason for the change in policy was Richard Stallman's making changes with which they disagreed, such as removing Symbolics ' copyright notices on Symbolics ' produced enhancements and transferring the resulting enhancements to the other commercial licensees, and at one point leaving the software in a state where it would not compile.

According to medieval scholar Richard Zeikowitz, the Green Knight represents a threat to homosocial friendship in his medieval world.

According to former President Richard M. Nixon's article, published in Foreign Affairs in 1967, Thailand had entered a period of rapid growth in 1958 with an averaged growth rate of 7 percent a year since then.

" According to Senator Richard Henry Lee, the primary purpose of the trial by jury in America was to protect the public from corrupt or aristocratic judges:

According to the working-class financial reformer Thomas Briggs, writing in the trade unionist newspaper The Bee-Hive, the manifesto relied on " a much higher authority than Mr. Gladstone ... viz., the late Richard Cobden ".

According to political scientist Richard F. Bensel in his study of the 1896 Democratic convention, " Although the silver men knew they would win this fight, they nonetheless needed someone to tell them — and the gold men — why they must enshrine silver at the heart of the platform.

According to historian Richard A. Fletcher, ' the number of Arabs who settled in Iberia was very small.

According to Harley, Thomas Byrd, the grandson of Richard Byrd of Ingatestone, Essex, likely moved to London in the 15th century.

According to biographer Richard Norton Smith, Dewey " loved Dapplemere as did no other place ", and Dewey was once quoted as saying that " I work like a horse five days and five nights a week for the privilege of getting to the country on the weekend.

According to his younger brother Graham Jenkins's 1988 book Richard Burton: My Brother, he smoked at least a hundred cigarettes a day.

According to Sir Richard C. Jebb, a British classical scholar, " the intercourse between Isaeus and Demosthenes as teacher and learner can scarcely have been either very intimate or of very long duration ".

According to Stephen Cannell, in a DVD extra, they were developed initially as a promo, filmed and assembled by Ralph Hemecker in a single day of filming, and featuring a leggy blonde actress / model whom Cannell said was named Avalon Jones .< sup > 1 </ sup > In the very first two episodes of the series, Kapture was shown first, and then Estes ; they alternated after that, except for Kapture's final episode, in which she ( and not Estes ) appeared in the opening montage, followed by the two new co-stars.

According to him, Levin was not actually a scientist ( mathematician, biologist or the like ) but a kind of ordinary system administrator who managed to get hands on the ready data about how to penetrate in Citibank machines and then exploit them.

According to the marine conservation biologist Callum Roberts, four criteria apply when choosing seafood:

According to Soviet biologist Mikhail P. Pavlov, writing after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party exploited this message to justify restrictions on firearm ownership in wolf inhabited areas.

According to the " biophilia hypothesis " of biologist E. O.

According to wolf biologist L. David Mech, " Calling a wolf an alpha is usually no more appropriate than referring to a human parent or a doe deer as an alpha.

In the US, a physician specializing in anesthesiology typically completes four years of college, four years of medical school, and four years of postgraduate medical training or residency According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists, anesthesiologists provide or participate in more than ninety percent of the forty million anesthetics delivered annually.

" According to the academic paper " Media Defendants in the Chinese Courts " by Professor Zhiwu Chen, specializing in finance at the Yale School of Management, judges in China tend to put protection of people's reputation as a top priority.

According to Michael Rhodes ( a British genealogist specializing in the British aristocracy and landed gentry ), " Lord De Ramsey descends from one Coulson Fellowes ( 1696-1769 ), and Lady Jane's husband, Lord Fellowes, descends from Coulson's younger brother, William, of Shotesham Park, Norfolk.

According to many social philosophers, this sort of predatory behaviour will become the prevailing one.

According to The Alphabet of Manliness, the assigning of blame for farting is part of a ritual of behaviour.

According to Townshend, Moon cultivated his reputation for erratic behaviour.

According to Puglisi, in the post-1960 period the Times displays a more symmetric type of watchdog behaviour, just because during presidential campaigns it also gives more coverage to the typically Republican issue of Defense when the incumbent President is a Democrat, and less so when the incumbent is a Republican.

According to recent research, adult Manduca sexta is able to retain the behaviour learned as a caterpillar.

According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

According to this fundamental principle of kin selection theory, the enhanced fitness of relatives can at times more than compensate for the fitness loss incurred by the individuals displaying the behaviour.

According to Byzantine historian Kathryn Ringrose, while the pagans of Classical Antiquity based their notions of gender in general and eunuchs in particular on physiology ( the genitalia ), the Byzantine Christians based them on behaviour and more specifically procreation.

According to brother Giovani Menezes, " The film showed that Jean did not have suspicious behaviour ".

According to the Gesta Herewardi, Hereward was exiled at the age of eighteen for disobedience to his father and disruptive behaviour, and he was declared an outlaw by Edward the Confessor.

" According to this view, the verses were drinking songs in so far as the symposium was understood to be a microcosm of society, where multiple views were an aspect of adaptive behaviour by the embattled aristocracy, and where even eroticism had political symbolism: " As the polis envisaged by Theognis is degenerate, erotic relationships are filled with pain ..."

According to band members, Kember's behaviour was becoming increasingly obsessive and erratic.

According to this viewpoint, humanity placing its own desires ahead of the teachings of the Bible leads to rampant selfishness and behaviour viewed as sinful.

According to British historian George Otto Trevelyan, the battle " exercised a permanent and most potent influence " especially on Howe's behaviour, and that Howe's military skills thereafter " were apt to fail him at the very moment when they were especially wanted.

According to Speaker Selwyn Lloyd, the now famous disorderly behaviour of MPs during PMQs first arose as a result of the personal animosity between Harold Wilson and Edward Heath ; before this PMQs had been lively but comparatively civilised.

According to the abstract of a 2004 study quoted on PubMed, a service of the National Institutes of Health, " The analysis of the physiological characteristics, the social-cultural and the psychological behaviour that characterises subjects suffering from ON shows a higher prevalence in men and in those with a lower level of education.

According to the proposed revision to the DSM which will include Hypersexual Disorder in the appendix of future publications, Hypersexual Disorder is defined as “ recurrent and intense sexual fantasies, sexual urges, and sexual behavior ” where the individual is consumed with excessive sexual desire and repeatedly engages in sexual behaviour in response to “ dysphoric mood states and stressful life events ”.

According to Howard, the murderer was a " medical man of high standing " whose wife had become alarmed by his erratic behaviour during the period of the Whitechapel murders.

According to Heenan, " The watershed came when it was realised that the pursuit of tolerance, a concept that featured prominently in the school's mission statement, was a barrier to the management of behaviour.

According to Barron, time constraints forced Wark to end the questioning abruptly, leading him to perceive her behaviour as " rude and dismissive.

According to the Roman consul Aulus Hirtius in the 1st century BCE, the Treveri differed little from Germanic peoples in their manner of life and savage behaviour.

According to Merriam ( 1964, p. 32-33 ) there are three aspects always present in musical activity: concept, behaviour, and sound.

According to Bowlby, almost from the first many children have more than one figure towards whom they direct attachment behaviour.

: According to Arnold, the behaviour of the English social classes was touched neither by spiritual nor by intellectual forces ; the upper orders were barbarians, the middle classes philistines.

" According to Peter Longerich, Dirlewanger's leadership " was characterized by continued alcohol abuse, looting, sadistic atrocities, rape, and murder — and his mentor Berger tolerated this behaviour, as did Himmler, who so urgently needed men such as the Sonderkommando Dirlewanger in his fight against ' subhumanity '.