When Polkinghorne argues that the minute adjustments of cosmological constants for life points towards an explanation beyond the scientific realm, Blackburn argues that this relies on a natural preference for explanation in terms of agency.

The proponents of IPT give the following explanation of the biology of cancer and its cells in order to understand the mechanisms of IPT, which relies upon insulin, the most integral component of IPT, having three significant actions upon cancer cells described below, as well as also dropping blood sugar levels and thus the energy source for cancer.

* That the work relies on one or more conspiracy theories or hidden-hand explanations, when the principle of Occam's razor would recommend a simpler, more prosaic and more plausible explanation of the same fact pattern.

The other explanation relies on mass transfer between two stars born in a binary star system.

The labour theory of value was the explanation that had been reached by Adam Smith among others, and the Marxist school of economics still relies on this theory.

) as “ an attack on the northern kingdom of Israel .” The second explanation relies on the “ sin of Jeroboam ,” who was the first king of the northern kingdom, as the cause of the northern kingdom ’ s fall to Assyria in 722 BCE.

From this explanation it can be seen that this type of valve relies on a differential of pressure between input and output as the pressure at the input must always be greater than the pressure at the output for it to work.

Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.

This negative explanation of courtesy on the freeways, however, does an injustice to Southern California drivers.

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

Johnston, who had little choice in allowing Floyd and Pillow to take charge at Fort Donelson on the basis of seniority after he ordered them to add their forces to the garrison, took the blame and suffered calls for his removal because a full explanation to the press and public would have exposed the weakness of the Confederate position.

Hummel argues that the Austrian explanation of the business cycle fails on empirical grounds.

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.

The day's next task was to deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ( ALSEP ); while they were parking the lunar rover, on which the TV camera was mounted, to observe the deployment, the rear steering began functioning without explanation.

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

Another likely explanation for the loss of its eyes is that of selective neutrality and genetic drift: in the dark environment of the cave, the eyes are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous and thus any genetic factors that might impair the eyes ( or their development ) can take hold with no consequence on the individual or species.

Some observers have related this explanation to Islam's ban on suicide, which, it is suggested, drove Malay men to create circumstances in which others would kill them.

Thus, the Big Bang theory cannot and does not provide any explanation for such an initial condition ; rather, it describes and explains the general evolution of the universe going forward from that point on.

The vision in first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus ( 9: 1 ) concerning seventy weeks, or seventy " sevens ", apportioned for the history of the Israelites and of Jerusalem ( 9: 24 ) This consists of a meditation on the prediction in Jeremiah that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years, a lengthy prayer by Daniel in which he pleads for God to restore Jerusalem and its temple, and an angelic explanation which focuses on a longer time period-" seventy sevens "-and a future restoration and destruction of city and temple by a coming ruler.

Another explanation is that both affirmative and negative positions regarding these questions are based on attachment to and misunderstanding of the aggregates and senses.

One explanation pins the blame on leftover technology from the mythical lost continent of Atlantis.

An explanation for some of the disappearances has focused on the presence of large fields of methane hydrates ( a form of natural gas ) on the continental shelves.

F is a constant and D is a parameter that Richardson found depended on the coastline approximated by L. He gave no theoretical explanation but Mandelbrot identified L with a non-integer form of the Hausdorff dimension, later the fractal dimension.

One explanation for the origin of obligatory celibacy is that it is based on Christ's example and on the writings of Paul, who wrote of the advantages celibacy allowed a man in serving the Lord, Celibacy was popularized by the early Christian theologian Origen and Augustine.

Another possible explanation for the origins of obligatory celibacy revolves around more practical reason, " the need to avoid claims on church property by priests ' offspring ".

Significantly, relative to the organic cell walls produced by other groups, silica frustules require less energy to synthesize ( approximately 8 %), potentially a major saving on the overall cell energy budget and possibly an explanation for higher growth rates in diatoms.

Plato ’ s student Aristotle did not maintain his former teacher's geometric view of the elements, but rather preferred a somewhat more naturalistic explanation for the elements based on their traditional qualities.

Plato's student Aristotle ( 384-322 BCE ) developed a different explanation for the elements based on pairs of qualities.

Plato ’ s student Aristotle ( 384-322 BC ) developed a different explanation for the elements based on pairs of qualities.

A second explanation is suggested by the material described in Rowlands' paper.

The EPR authors preferred the second explanation according to which that information was encoded in some ' hidden parameters '.

The second explanation, which stems from the equity theory, is that employees reciprocate fair treatment that they have received from the organization.

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.

One possible explanation for the lack of white dwarfs is that when a red giant expels its outer layers to become a planetary nebula, a slight asymmetry in the loss of material could give the star a ' kick ' of a few kilometres per second, enough to eject it from the cluster.

The second factor in such an analysis ( such as Eysenck's T-factor ) is the second best explanation for the spread of the data, which is, by definition, drawn at right angles to the first factor.

Langham claimed he downloaded this material as research for a character in the second series of Help, but Whitehouse's testimony only partially corroborated this explanation.

The second explanation faces several problems: First, people from Vík ( in ) are in Old Norse manuscripts referred to as víkverir ' Vík dwellers ', never as víkingar.

The second theory proposed by London and Palen is based on a sociocultural explanation of gentrification.

The writer and scholar Guy Davenport offers another explanation: " he pseudonym that he began to write under in prison is constructed from the first two letters of Ohio and the second and last two of penitentiary added.

Below is an explanation of, first, what a sign is, second, how meanings are accomplished through its usage.

The second chapter introduces an explanation for the introduction of magic into the world:

The second explanation is that they had been categorised as Terrorflieger (" terror aviators ").

In the second philosophical stage, the Báb gives an explanation of the metaphysics of being and creation, and in the third legislative stage his mystical and historical principles are explicitly united.

A second explanation is a lack of availability of credit, caused by the high rate of failure of banks in the plains states.

The second half of each novel is devoted to a courtroom scene, during which Mason arrives at the alternative explanation and proves it to the satisfaction of the court.

The second variable star to be described was the eclipsing variable Algol, by Geminiano Montanari in 1669 ; John Goodricke gave the correct explanation of its variability in 1784.

The objection to such an explanation is that the first changes would fall under the general head of fixation of pronunciation, and the second under the head of " Qere " and " Ketiv " ( i. e. " What is read " and " What is written ").

Others who have accepted the Lederer / Cook explanation of the two methods of dating for the time of Pekah are Thiele in his second edition of Mysterious Numbers and later, Leslie McFall, Francis Andersen and David Noel Freedman in their commentary on Hosea in the Anchor Bible Series, T. C. Mitchell, in the Cambridge Ancient History, and Jack Finegan in his Handbook of Biblical Chronology.

It is associated with the following components: 白, 手, 扌, 斤 ( both with and without the T ), 牛 ( without the vertical downward stroke ), and of course the two left-falling strokes ( I cannot find the unicode glyph that represents them ) that one would expect from the second key in the zone ( see above for an explanation ).

This is consistent with R's place as the second letter in the zone ( see above for an explanation ).

The key concept for the explanation of this phenomenon through the second law of thermodynamics is the definition of a new physical property, the entropy.

The second contribution is the explanation of Earth's long-term climate changes caused by changes in the position of the Earth in comparison to the Sun, now known as Milankovitch cycles.