[ThreePuttinDude]

[A] surprising group is embracing the results: intelligent-design advocates.
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Please tell me how, how does one "embrace a result"?
Agree with, yes I'll go with that, but embrace?? come on...

You embrace your wife, your child, your mother/father not a freakin idea/result/(fill in the blank)

[Banjoguy]

From the American Heritage Dictionary:

em·brace

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4. To take up willingly or eagerly: embrace a social cause.
5. To avail oneself of: "I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace" (Henry James).

[Ozone34]

“Please tell me how, how does one “embrace a result”?
Agree with, yes I’ll go with that, but embrace?? come on...”

I believe it’s an example of analogous predication. In other words, you don’t literally “embrace a result”, rather you assume a relationship with respect to a result that is analogous in some way to the relationship you assume when you physically embrace a loved-one.

[Zon]

Please tell me how, how does one "embrace a result"? Agree with, yes I'll go with that, but embrace?? come on...

It's the touchy-feely cult.