Sentences with phrase «facts and evidence matter»

The facts and evidence matter more.

As an example, see C.J. Werleman's «Atheists Can't Be Republicans: If Facts and Evidence Matter» book; or at Salon; or nearly every single politics - touching blog entry on Patheos's Atheism channel.

Not exact matches

The facts of the matter are: 1) Separation of church and state is clear evidence that the Founding Fathers intended a secular society.

Actually Does nt Matter — Proof, Facts, and Evidence are not subjective.

I realize that it gives you a certain amount of psychological comfort to think that atheists are just as deluded and close - minded as you are, but the simple fact of the matter is that we're all perfectly willing to consider any evidence you can come up with.

I checked under my bed and in the closet often when I was a kid, and there were never any monsters, or monster tracks, or left behind monster pieces, so no matter how creepy the dark room may have been, the fact that there WAS NO EVIDENCE meant THERE WERE NO MONSTERS.

As a matter of fact, there doesn't exist any book that has evidence and guidance like the Quran in the world today (and up until this point).

And if you can't site your scientific evidence to this end, then the fact that you claim to be a scientist has no bearing on your opinion in this matter.

The chances are very very very low, but when you apply the vast amounts of matter in the universe over the entire history of it all, and apply the fact that we have seen organic materials in comets and Saturns moons, not to mention the undeniable evidence that we are here talking about it, those numbers become very likely.

So Tarver starts off making one of his usual «bright» matter - of - fact statements, and when asked to provide evidence, the first words to come next are «If OBL..»

At least Jesus is thought to have existed without any evidence whatsoever other than literature that has so much excluded and content that has been lost in translation that it's almost impossible to be a genuine Christian because no matter what you are ignorant to so many other facts... assuming everything is true.

The fact that no matter how often people ask you to provide evidence for your claims, and you just brush it off everytime and go on with your unfounded assertions of idiocy shows how truly useless you are, even to your own cause.

The fact you profess with such gusto that you are a christian and a creationist says that no matter how much evidence to the contrary of your beliefs is made available (and there is already volumes of information) you will never accept truth b / c you have been engrained and programmed to believe one set of precepts and only that set.

Football is, gloriously, a game of opinions but it is also a matter of facts and evidence.

The NCAA needed to convince the judge that no genuine and disputed issues of material fact remain, and when viewing the evidence most favorably to the players, that the NCAA would be clearly entitled to prevail as a matter of law.

The risk of using a baby walker is still a matter of fact and so based on evidence Serious Parent would encourage parents not to use them but we don't think parents should be forced to feel the same way.

The phrase «starting to see some evidence» implies that the truth of the hypothesis is in fact a foregone conclusion, and it's just a matter of time before we find real evidence that supports its.

«It's a matter of him refusing to accept what the law is and how the facts and the evidence apply in his case and the law affords him the opportunity to make the challenge that he made.,» Ginsberg told me.

It does not matter how many times one adduces cogent and credible facts and evidence to disprove the spurious personal attacks and character, honour and integrity assassinations.

Gabaldón added, «It's one of those magical moments of research when, once you open your mind enough, you can surrender to the evidence in the data and discard what you had considered as a proven fact to adopt an entirely new paradigm, no matter how implausible it seems at first.

As a matter of fact, evidence shows that our bodies are great adapters and that they actually run better when burning fat as opposed to burning carbs, a process known as ketosis.

Complicating the legal matters is the fact that everything but murder is time - barred from prosecution and murder charges require specific testimony and evidence.

It is, in fact, remarkable to read through the 700 - plus pages and see how little has changed about what the empirical evidence says matters.

«All you can do is be as evidence - based as possible and go have that matter - of - fact conversation.»

Evidence for this is the fact that 100 % of human amputees experience phantom sensations (80 % of them painful) for the rest of their lives, no matter how or when the amputation occurred — even as an infant, even with perfect surgical technique, and even with abundant post-op pain meds.

# 41 and # 42 Language matters, as do the evidence of either ignoring or distorting facts.

However, Kelly Sims Gallagher is not merely a coincidentally handy local Tufts University professor, she has direct connections with the same set of leaked industry memo phrases seen within the growing numbers of California global warming lawsuits — the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» strategy phrase and the «older, less - educated males» / «younger, lower - income women» targeting phrases — which are widely repeated elsewhere as proof that the fossil fuel industry «pays skeptic climate scientists to participate in misinformation campaigns» undermining the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming (despite those memos being worthless as evidence, but that is another matter).

This phenomenon is partly attributable to the fact that economic interests opposed to US climate change policies have skillfully and successfully framed the US climate change debate as a matter about which there is insufficient scientific evidence or too much adverse impact on the US economy to warrant action.

In «fact» the only evidence that emissions produced by human industry have any measurable effect on the «Temperature of the Earth» is that it is proclaimed loudly and often that it is an unchallenged and unchallengeable fact and every effort is made do demonize and / or ridicule and / or prosecute as a criminal anyone who dares to question, no matter how mildly, that it is in fact a «fact».

Does it really matter what the Grenland climates were like, it will not make a diffence today, global cooling happens, as does global warming saying there is evidence of this is not quite true, did not the CIA, goverment scientists and chief of staffs have undeniable proof of WMD, we believe what we are told for the most and if enough believe it becomes fact, that does not make it true.

In fact, the experimental evidence is that behavior is wholly independent of subjective experience, let alone language and cultural beliefs in «belief» and «opinions» mattering.

The fact of the matter is that Japan's whaling activities are in all likelihood done in violation of the international ban against whaling (the scientific objection being pretty much ludicrous...); there's more and more evidence that cetaceans should probably be granted non-human person status, making killing them doubly wrong; and debate about whether Sea Shepherd's actions (which have proven quite effective in cutting the number of whales killed) are or are not permissible and are or are not truly in the spirit of non-violence which Watson and Sea Shepherd have publicly espoused will no doubt go on.

[84] Defence counsel argued that to the extent there are inconsistencies between the information in Ms. Lachan's affidavit and the information in Dr. Pershad's affidavit on matters of material fact, I should prefer Ms. Lachan's evidence as being more credible and resolve the inconsistencies in her favour.

Despite the fact that all EU states are party to the 1970 Hague Evidence Convention (Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters or hereafter Hague Convention) and have transposed the EU Data Protection Directive into national law, stark differences in the legal regime applicable to international transfers for the purposes of e-discovery exist between EU Member States.

When a witness sits in a Court and hears the testimony of another witness or other witnesses on a subject - matter as to which he later testifies, his evidence is open to the suggestion that it may have been made deliberately to conform, but that is a factor to be considered by the tribunal of fact and relates to the weight of the evidence.

Of course, in all matters of this type, it is vital that a legal advocate conduct a thorough investigation of the facts, review all available police reports and documentation, and take steps to preserve critical eyewitness testimony and other key physical evidence.

(1) There is no evidence that the «Socratic Method» is a particularly effective pedagogical method; (2) Unlike other disciplines, the vast majority of law professors have no experience teaching, nor any education on how to effectively teach, prior to becoming law professors; (3) Using final essay exams for 100 % of a students mark, then distributing the grades on a curve, is, to be charitable, not the best way of accurately assessing and representing to future employers students» grasp of the subject matter; (4)» Teaching students to think like a lawyer», to the extent anyone even knows what that is supposed to mean, is made difficult by the fact that most tenured law professors have little if any real experience in the practice of law themselves.

Here, the EAT had considered that the claimant had no reasonable expectation to privacy in the first place, and gave weight to the fact that it involved workplace matters and work place email addresses, and that the evidence relied was provided by the police (and the employer had not attempted to go beyond that evidence).

As there is no ability by law for the Reviewing Officer to actually question or cross-examine you (and equally no ability for your lawyer to question or cross-examine the police officer involved in your investigation) most of the times the oral review hearing is simply a matter of going through all of the evidence, the law and the application of the fact and law to your appeal.

There was certainly nothing unreasonable about trial counsel's alleged failure to call corroborating evidence on these issues when the proposed evidence did not relate to material issues but only to facts the trial judge accepted... In the result, we did not find any error in the reasoning of the trial judge and also find that trial counsel did not act unreasonably by deciding not to call corroborating evidence on the issues of his relationship with Ms. Peters and physical condition as the evidence on these matters had already been accepted by the trial judge (at paras. 11 - 12).

The Court of Appeal found that motion judge failed to assess the fairness of deciding this matter by way of summary judgment given the conflicting evidence and the fact that Rule 76.01 prohibited from cross-examining the plaintiffs on their affidavits.

Whether an inference of causation is warranted, and how it is to be weighed against the evidence, are matters for the trier of fact.

The swearing out of a complaint or rebutting evidence in all Federal civil matters (some states allow for the same) must contain an affidavit or an «unsworn declaration» that swears out the facts to be true and accurate, even though not notarized, and is based on fact and not supposition.

In fact, there is evidence that where ABS have been there has been little impact on providing great access to the most under - serviced areas of law such as family and criminal matters.

The Court of Appeal was careful not to conclusively weigh in on any substantive outcome — «A proper understanding of Precision's conduct is not possible until the trier of fact has made findings of fact on the relevant issues» (see para. 46) and that, with respect to the effect of the exclusion clause, a «trial judge would be in the best position to assess whether the evidence with respect to the allegations of fraud would warrant the intervention of public policy in this matter».

Well so too can evidence — and for that matter, fact, be manipulated and distorted for political agendas and expediency.

That being said, a criminal conviction is this matter (very likely given the facts) would have allowed the employer to say that a crime had been perpetrated on their work site by the grievor and would have had that claim evidenced by a judges decision.

Recognizing these facts, litigators and investigators in both civil and criminal matters have begun to focus carefully on electronic discovery and the role of computer forensics — the science of reliably recovering and handling electronic storage media and the data contained therein so as to provide the appropriate foundations for admissible evidence.

As I read the sections and the authorities, both section 14 and section 14A are concerned exclusively with matters of fact provable by evidence, as opposed to matters of (English) law, in respect of which evidence is not admissible.»

Although the solicitors» scheme on the face of it complied with the letter of the practice rule and the guidance, it could be argued that regularly taking commission for routine work was a matter that could very easily have been included in a client care letter, dealing with full costs information as was evidenced by the fact that, when concern about the arrangement had been expressed to the solicitors, they had included such information.