Sentence examples for more probable if from inspiring English sources

Swinburne writes: "the existence of order in the world confirms the existence of God if and only if the existence of this order in the world is more probable if there is a God than if there is not.... the probability of order of the right kind is very much greater if there is a God, and so that the existence of such order adds greatly to the probability that there is a God".

A black-sounding name also became more probable if you had a poor and uneducated mother.

In Ms. Schmidt's estimation, that would be more probable if students were more responsive and if more teachers reached out.

What is more probable, if Iraq manages to have elections, is that Shia-based parties will emerge with the biggest overall support.

Supplying pages of intricate, technical argumentation to back up his claims, he wrote that many natural phenomena -- including the universe itself -- are, well, if not incontrovertible proof of God's handiwork, at least "more probable if there is a God than if there is not".

"It would be more probable if they were importing agricultural chemicals -- pesticides and the like". Thomas Lemke, a chemist at the University of Houston, told Reuters that most medicines were too weak to be used to poison a water supply and too complicated to be broken down into their constituent parts.

Even if a mutation occurs, it will appear more probable in serous lesions with low malignant potential which would even amplify the described effect.

For example, whether observational evidence argues for a theoretical claim might be thought to depend upon whether it is more probable (and if so how much more probable) than its denial conditional on a description of the evidence together with background beliefs, including theoretical commitments.

King [13], in 1939, in his comprehensive review of both recent and old case of fracture neck femur, emphasised that 3 weeks old can be arbitrarily called old and ununited, as it can be assumed that the head of the femur is devoid of its blood supply, has less chances of osseous union and that secondary changes are more probable than if operation were performed earlier.

The converse, whereby potentially more serious cases were referred to specialists seems more probable and, if this factor could be adjusted for, would increase the magnitude of our observed effect.

How could one possibility be more probable than another if the evidence doesn't favor it?