"Religion has at one time or another been thought to fill four main roles in human life: explanation, exhortation, consolation and inspiration," writes Mr Dawkins, enumerating the four targets of his logical firepower.He shows that religion does not provide a satisfactory explanation for anything.
Bill's testimony before Kenneth W. Starr's panel, complete with McDonald's French fries, is a hilarious dismantling of Mr. Clinton's real-life explanations.
The real-life explanation, though, is more to the point.
Maurer ably handles all aspects of Katharine's life, from explanations of flight (among his other works for young readers are "Rocket! How a Toy Launched the Space Age") to the love letters she exchanged with an old college friend.
Alma's is a story of the Enlightenment, when people first thought to look to the natural world for life's explanations, rather than to human-centric creation stories of an earth-anchored universe.
It is a defense of belief as a higher way — a larger life — than explanation.
They have taken thirteen and a half years of his life without explanation.
In a none too pleasant intervention last week, Carr senior said: "Jimmy cut me out of his life" without explanation.
After also exiting Jolene's life without explanation, she is now in Dublin, where she's discovered some of Martin's artwork in a gallery, and she persuades Jolene to join her.
The striking development is not that the veracity of some is open to doubt, but that this forgivingly collusive arrangement has now broken down: not the fact of lying, but the naming of it.The life lieOne explanation, advanced by some Tories, is that Mr Brown has reneged on another implicit compact.
In the grand scheme of life, the explanation isn't necessary.
