Sentence examples for religious hypothesis from inspiring English sources

These two assertions together comprise what James refers to as the "religious hypothesis".

As in the social example, the religious hypothesis must, as it were, be met half-way.

He contends that if the religious hypothesis is a live hypothesis, the option with which it confronts us is necessarily also a genuine option i.e., it is momentous and forced.

Rather, the point Hume is concerned to make (since he does not, in fact, doubt the inescapability of our moral accountability to our fellow human beings) is that the religious hypothesis leads to the "absurd consequence" that God is the ultimate author of sin in this world and that he is, accordingly, liable to some appropriate measure of blame.

However, James's argument differs from Pascal's insofar as it purports to show, not that religious belief is more rational, but only that in the absence of definitive evidence it is not less rational, than unbelief or agnosticism (at least with respect to those for whom the religious hypothesis is live).

On the other side, the label of irreligion also makes clear that Hume's fundamental attitude towards religion (qua various forms of thick theism) is one of systematic hostility – that is, he believes we are better off without religion and religious hypotheses and speculations.

But keeping quasi-religious hypotheses out of our classrooms is a matter of education, not freedom.

In other words, our analysis did not reveal a causal or associative relationship between scientific reasoning ability and high religiosity or low acceptance of evolutionary theory in religious individuals, contradicting previous hypotheses (Lawson and Weser 1990).

Caught at the nexus of family secrets, religious hysteria and medical hypothesis, with one doctor idly wondering if her chilled extremities are a sign that she is changing into "more of a reptilian than a mammalian nature", Anna has only one power available to her: the anorexic's power of refusal.

The main novel idea provided in our paper is the hypothesis that religious behavior may be promoted by microbial host control.

Before leaving Islamabad for Peshawar -- one center of religious extremism -- I discussed this hypothesis with a crafty political operator named Mushahid Hussain.