Some proponents of the anthropic principle reason that it explains why the Universe has the age and the fundamental physical constants necessary to accommodate conscious life.

Some proponents have claimed that Bigfoot is omnivorous and mainly nocturnal.

Some critics claim copyright law protects corporate interests while criminalizing legitimate use, while proponents argue the law is fair and just.

Some alternative medicine proponents postulate a widespread occurrence of systemic candidiasis ( or candida hypersensitivity syndrome, yeast allergy, or gastrointestinal candida overgrowth ), a medically unrecognised condition.

Public discourse ranged in tone from organized arguments by tobacconist and medical practitioner John Williams, who posited that " several arguments proving that inoculating the smallpox is not contained in the law of Physick, either natural or divine, and therefore unlawful ," to more slanderous attacks, such as those put forth in a pamphlet by Dr. William Douglass of Boston entitled The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox ( 1721 ), on the qualifications of inoculation's proponents.

Some have seen it more as an aspiration, which has been successfully realised in the short term by commitment to the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity ( these being built into financially independent local cooperatives and small family businesses ), though proponents also cite such periods as the Middle Ages as examples of the historical long-term viability of distributism.

Some proponents of school vouchers, including the Sutherland Institute and many supporters of the Utah voucher effort, see it as a remedy for the negative cultural impact caused by under-performing public schools, which falls disproportionately on demographic minorities.

Some of the sports have existed for decades and their proponents span generations, some going on to become well known personalities.

Some proponents of spelling reform view homophones as undesirable and would prefer that they were eliminated.

Some proponents of this view of language have advocated a formal approach which studies language structure by identifying its basic elements and then formulating a formal account of the rules according to which the elements combine to form words and sentences.

Some proponents of a macrobiotic diet believe that nightshade vegetables can cause inflammation in the body and osteoporosis.

Some phlogiston proponents explained this by concluding that phlogiston had negative weight ; others, such as Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, gave the more conventional argument that it was lighter than air.

Some RISC proponents had argued that the " complicated " x86 instruction set would probably never be implemented by a tightly pipelined microarchitecture, much less by a dual pipeline design.

Some critics have argued that all forms of posthumanism have more in common than their respective proponents realise, and amount to intellectual pursuits that are disconnected from the practical concerns of everyday life ( i. e. Ivory Tower ).

Some waterfall proponents prefer the waterfall model for its simple approach and argue that it is more disciplined.

Some sportsmen and professional dancers claim to prefer Bikram yoga, because proponents argue it has injury-healing, emotion-strengthening, toxin-flushing, weight-managing, and career-extending effects though no concrete peer reviewed evidence has arisen to back up a single one of these claims.

Some proponents of the theory claim that historic descriptions of the stone do not match the present stone.

Some proponents of private gun ownership argue that an armed citizens ' militia can help deter crime and tyranny, as police are primarily a reactive force whose main loyalty is to the government which pays their wages.

Some judges and proponents of racially drawn congressional districts have interpreted Section 5 of the Act as requiring racial gerrymandering in order to ensure minority representation.

Some proponents of this theory argue, only on cultural grounds, that both etymologies may well be correct, and that there may have been a conscious poetic exploitation of the phonological coincidence between trobar and the triliteral Arabic root TRB when sacred Sufi Islamic musical forms with a love theme first spread from Al-Andalus to southern France.

Some pétanque proponents object to the use of the word court because they feel that it suggests something false and derogatory, namely that routine neighborhood play requires the construction of an expensive dedicated facility ( a pétanque court ) in the same way that bocce does.

Some proponents believe that iconicity does not play an actual role in perception and production of signs once they have undergone phonological reduction and become part of the conventionalized vocabulary.

Some later representatives of one Yogacara subschool ( Prajnakaragupta, Ratnakirti ) were proponents of extreme illusionism and solipsism ( as well as of solipsism of this moment ).

Some proponents of the Trolley Project hope to see trolley service extended to a northern re-extension of removed track to the southern tip of Lake Sammamish.

Some have responded to the proponents of this view of the Moloch sacrifices ( being only a ritualized " pass between flame ") by pointing out their failure to understand the Hebrew idiom le ha ' avir ba ' esh to imply " to burn " and their use of anthropological evidence of suspect relevance to draw parallels to early Hebrew religious practices.

Some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as " mid-autumn ", others with a longer lag treat it as the start of autumn.

Some other important names in this regard are UK and Italy.

Some psychoanalysts today do not regard cross-dressing by itself a psychological problem, unless it interferes with the functioning of a person's life.

Some religious communities regard sin as a crime ; some may even highlight the crime of sin very early in legendary or mythological accounts of origins — note the tale of Adam and Eve and the theory of original sin.

Some opponents charge that Chiang's efforts in developing Taiwan were mostly to make the island a strong base from which to one day return to mainland China, and that Chiang had little regard for the long-term prosperity and well-being of the Taiwanese people.

Some early digs merely saw labourers haul away tons of materials with little regard to anything that was not of immediate economic value.

Some numismatists, however, regard these as well as later Chinese bronzes that were replicas of knives, spades, and hoes as money but not as coins because they did not at least initially carry a mark or marks certifying them to be of a definite exchange value.

Some Christadelphian groups which are separated to a greater or lesser degree from the main body of Christadelphians use statements of faith which differ in some regard from the BASF and from each other.

Some accounts regard members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ( roughly 45 million ), the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church ( roughly 2. 5 million ), as members of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Some deists rejected the claim of Jesus ' divinity but continued to hold him in high regard as a moral teacher ( see, for example, Thomas Jefferson's famous Jefferson Bible and Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ).

Some regard it as an ultimate truth, or as the fount of all things which lies beyond the " three realms " ( Sanskrit: tridhatu ) and the " wheel of becoming " ( Sanskrit: bhavacakra ), somewhat like the pagan Greek and Christian logos: this is known as Dharmakaya ( Sanskrit ).

Some ' hard ' eurosceptics such as UKIP prefer to call themselves euro-realists rather than ' sceptics ', and regard their position as pragmatic rather than " in principle ".

Some Wiccans regard the Horned God as dying at Lammas, August 1 ; also known as Lughnasadh, which is the first harvest sabbat.

Some paleoanthropologists regard the taxon as invalid, made up of fossil specimens of Australopithecus and Homo.

Some psychometricians regard g as a statistical artifact.

" Some consider Proudhon to be an individualist anarchist, while others regard him to be a social anarchist.

Some drives will simply regard them as an even larger CD, but many models, recognising that there are no dual layer CDs, only permitted access to the first layer.

Some criminologists who study the relationship between Race and crime, regard Rushton's r / K theory as one of several possible explanations for racial disparities in crime rates.

Some secularists reject the use of " Judeo-Christian " as a code-word for a particular kind of Christian America, with scant regard to modern Jewish, Catholic, or Christian traditions, including the liberal strains of different faiths, such as Reform Judaism and liberal Protestant Christianity.

Some coastal and river areas of China regard her as the protector of fishermen, sailors, and generally people who are out at sea, thus many also come to believe that Mazu, the Daoist goddess of the sea, is a manifestation of Guanyin.

Some of these Christian unions have had some ties to centrist or conservative political movements and some do not regard strikes as acceptable political means for achieving employees ' goals.

Some who hold this theory regard the Limbo of Infants as a state of maximum natural happiness, others as one of " mildest punishment " consisting at least of privation of the beatific vision and of any hope of obtaining it.

Some modern mythologists regard the Minotaur as a solar personification and a Minoan adaptation of the Baal-Moloch of the Phoenicians.

Some scholars regard the reference in Mark as a late addition, and the reference is possibly based on the Gospel of Luke.

Some contemporary communist parties continue to regard Marxism – Leninism as their basic ideology, although some have modified it to adapt to new and local political circumstances.