According to the argument, the existence of the Universe requires an explanation, and the creation of the Universe by a First Cause, generally assumed to be God, is that explanation.

More generally, to insist that all evidence converge precisely with no deviations would be naïve falsificationism, equivalent to considering a single contrary result to falsify a theory when another explanation, such as equipment malfunction or misinterpretation of results, is much more likely.

Bell's theorem is generally understood to have demonstrated that their preferred explanation was not viable.

The flow is powered by the million-degree temperature of the sun's corona, for which no generally accepted explanation exists yet.

This explanation is generally accepted, although some geographers disagree ..

While technically a UFO refers to any unidentified flying object, in modern popular culture the term UFO has generally become synonymous with alien spacecraft ; however, the term ETV ( ExtraTerrestrial Vehicle ) is sometimes used to separate this explanation of UFOs from totally earthbound explanations.

Most of the feuding Greek city-states were, in some scholars ' opinions, united under the banner of Philip's and Alexander the Great's pan-Hellenic ideals, though others might generally opt, rather, for an explanation of " Macedonian conquest for the sake of conquest " or at least conquest for the sake of riches, glory and power and view the " ideal " as useful propaganda directed towards the city-states.

Early pies were much larger than those consumed today, and oblong shaped ; the jurist John Selden presumed that " the coffin of our Christmas-Pies, in shape long, is in Imitation of the Cratch crib ", although writer T. F. Thistleton-Dyer thought Selden's explanation unlikely, as " in old English cookery books the crust of a pie is generally called ' the coffin.

A 1996 study offers a partial explanation for this generally late diagnosis, suggesting the psychiatric symptoms cause delays in seeking treatment, as well as delays in receiving appropriate diagnosis.

Review of the individual claims used as evidence for the AAH generally does not support the hypothesis overall, and most of these traits have an explanation within conventional theories of human evolution.

Still, Douglas ' observations on wildlife generally are trustworthy ; a more probable explanation, given that the alleged three-metre wingspan described by Douglas is likely to have been a rough estimate, is that the birds were Eyles ' Harriers.

However the most generally accepted explanation by place name genealogists is that the settlement's name comes from an origin of " Shingly Ford "— that is, a ford over a waterway containing shingles.

Up to the early eighteenth century, English dictionaries had generally focused on " hard words " and their explanation, for example those of Thomas Blount and Edward Phillips in the generation before.

To evaluate, Fairburn et al .’ s model and more generally the cognitive explanation of bulimia nervosa is more descriptive than explanatory, as it does not necessarily explain how bulimia arises.

" It is an explanation of this kind which today, in particular as a result of the studies undertaken by Nallino ( Sull ' origine del nome dei Mu ' taziliti, in RSO, vii ), is generally accepted: i ' tizal would designate a position of neutrality in the face of opposing factions.

There is currently no generally accepted explanation of Moore's Paradox in the philosophical literature.

He wrote his Reflexions upon Exile, and in 1717, his letter to Sir William Wyndham in explanation of his position, generally considered one of his finest compositions, but not published till 1753 after his death.

Judaism has generally viewed Ishmael as wicked though repentant ( whereas Christianity omits any reference to repentance, which is sourced in the Talmudic explanation of the Hebrew Bible ).

Fernandes doubts this explanation, pointing out that the generally accepted way to guard against loss of a secret key is secret splitting, which would divide the key into several different parts, which would then be distributed throughout senior management.

This cosmic theory is a curious combination of materialistic and abstract ideas ; the influence of his master Bernardino Telesio, generally predominant, is not strong enough to overcome his inherent disbelief in the adequacy of purely scientific explanation.

This mechanical explanation for gravity never gained widespread acceptance, although it continued to be studied occasionally by physicists until the beginning of the 20th century, by which time it was generally considered to be conclusively discredited.

Lee stated that a possible explanation for some of the lack of legal action is that scanlation groups always make sure to buy an original copy of the work and generally stop scanlating should the work become licensed.

The statement in 1 Corinthians 15: 5 indicates that " the twelve " as a reference to the twelve apostles was a generally known notion within the early Christian Church in Corinth and required no further explanation from Paul.

In contrast to this voluntary-control explanation for nonreactivity given by the Kohnstamm-positive subjects, the Kohnstamm-negative subjects offered an involuntary-control hypothesis to explain nonreactivity.

The Alexandrists were a school of Renaissance philosophers who, in the great controversy on the subject of personal immortality, adopted the explanation of the De Anima given by Alexander of Aphrodisias.

On the Reckoning of Time ( De temporum ratione ) included an introduction to the traditional ancient and medieval view of the cosmos, including an explanation of how the spherical earth influenced the changing length of daylight, of how the seasonal motion of the Sun and Moon influenced the changing appearance of the New Moon at evening twilight, and a quantitative relation between the changes of the Tides at a given place and the daily motion of the moon.

" The ' most comprehensive explanation ' of the origin of the Balfour Declaration the Foreign Office was able to provide was contained in a small ' unofficial ' note of Jan 1923 affirming that: little is known of how the policy represented by the Declaration was first given form.

No one has given a causal explanation, they argue, of why it would not be possible for a functionally equivalent non-conscious organism ( i. e., a philosophical zombie ) to achieve the very same survival advantages as a conscious organism.

The term transubstantiation was used by the Council, but the specific Aristotelian explanation given by Scholasticism was not cited as dogmatic.

This was the explanation given in the ninth edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, dated 1877.

The image was called Daedale and the archaic ritual given an explanation through a myth to the purpose

For some, the wires, head brace, and throat microphone of the previous masks were eschewed, with explanation given.

Within days, Philip received a command from his cousin and sovereign, King George II of Greece, to resume his naval career in Britain which, though given without explanation, the young prince obeyed.

* 22C3: Lecture on Freenet's new algorithm ( on Google Video ) An explanation of the Freenet architecture and implementation ( as of 30 December 2005 ) given by Ian Clarke and Oskar Sandberg

The most commonly cited explanation is a derivation from the Northern French dialect word hoguinané, or variants such as hoginane, hoginono and hoguinettes, those being derived from 16th century Old French aguillanneuf meaning either a gift given at New Year, a children's cry for such a gift, or New Year's Eve itself.

Usually ' internalism ' refers to the belief that an explanation can be given of the given subject by pointing to things which are internal to the person or their mind who is considering them.

The explanation given is that frost formed on his skin when he used his abilities.

The second explanation is that during the gap between the writing of the Jewish Wars ( c. 70 AD ) and Antiquities ( after 90 AD ) Christians had become more important in Rome and were hence given attention in the Antiquities.

In a letter, he wrote: " I am not satisfied with the explanation I have given of the principles which regulate value.

Another explanation given is that the devil will appear in the reflection of the dead.

A general description of historical Picts is given by one of the children when they first take that name, and a somewhat more detailed explanation is given later by a parent in a letter.

* In the novelization of the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, written by Peter George, an explanation is given that the title character, " Dr. Strangelove ", had been wounded, and these wounds had left him with only one hand, and wheelchair-bound, because of the bombings of Peenemünde while he worked there for Nazi Germany.

We have already noted some of the musical developments that helped to usher in the Baroque, but for further explanation of this transition, see antiphon, concertato, monody, madrigal, and opera, as well as the works given under " Sources and further reading.

The Meissner effect was given a phenomenological explanation by the brothers Fritz and Heinz London, who showed that the electromagnetic free energy in a superconductor is minimized provided

On the show, the explanation was given that her character " was off heading up Starfleet Medical for the year.

No contemporary documents exist, but no other explanation has been given for naming Rupert ’ s Bay, adjacent to Jamestown.