As a result, I hardly expect such visuals to shift many views, particularly given that responses to the science pointing to substantial, enduring greenhouse warming are shaped far more by divergent values, and feelings of risk, than the data.
Surveying the post-cold-war landscape, Mr. Huntington described radically different civilizations with radically divergent values — most specifically, those of the secular West and of the Islamic world.
They measured six components of wisdom in study participants — general knowledge of life, emotional management, empathy or compassion, insight, acceptance of divergent values, and decisiveness — and the more these traits are cultivated, it's possible that people will feel more fulfilled and less isolated.
Through these deliberations, many people have come to realize that organ transplant can be an acceptable and promising medical therapy so long as the donor's human rights are protected, and that the policy can protect the common good by tolerating divergent values and allowing individual choice of death criteria at the time of organ donation.
None of the divergent values that atheists have from time to time promoted has any essential connection with atheism, or with science.
The chief hindrances were numerous structures, divergent values among stakeholders, frequent turnover of personnel and team leaders; lacking staff supervision and miscommunication.
A Pew Research Center American values survey released this week offers fascinating insights into how racially divergent values and the changing racial compositions of political parties influence our politics.
When you focus on uncertainty, you are offered a chance to consider more than just "oooh, but what if … " but spaces of incomplete evidence, divergent values or scientific disagreement.
But consensus is harder to achieve when members of a group have divergent values and ideologies.
