Sentences with phrase «using old evidence»

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«We realize that a thinking person would not consider a 2000 year old book of fiction to be «evidence» of anything... but we need it to prove our point so we're going to use it anyway.»

Certainly there is enormous evidence that our universe is vastly older than Christians used to think.

You are using some 2000 year old bronze age text as your evidence about the supernatural?

-- somehow meteorites are used as confirming evidence the earth is 4.54 billion yrs old because evidence on earth can not be confirmed independently, so let's move to «indisputable» circular reasoning and say well if this meteorite is 4.54 billion years old then the earth must also be 4.54 billion years old, since the machine's measurements match.

Evidence of other researchers shows an almost exact equivalence of experimental results in the use of transitive inference by squirrel monkeys and four year old children.

He's using some 40 year old evidence (if it can be called that) to attempt to prove his point.

I am going to pull out the old chestnut that, just because a term we use comes from only one verse it doesn't follow that it is wrong or that the evidence for it is weak.

In another example, a child's sucking needs last for three to seven years — evidenced by prolonged thumb - sucking, pacifier use, and hair - sucking in older children.

Infant Massage is a very old parenting practice that has been modernized and is in active use today supported by evidence - based research.

Just got a «breaking news» alert from The Politico that Barack Obama has accused the Clinton campaign of engaging in «the old «Swift boat» politics,» using as evidence a Bob Novak piece from earlier today that claimed that Clinton was holding scandalous material on the Illinois senator, refusing to use it in public, but spreading rumors about it behind the scenes.

Commenting on the recently proposed changes to «stop and search» laws, that would have allowed police officers to racially profile suspects based on third party evidence - such as hearsay or gossip - a very senior police officer shook his head and sighed: «This reminds me of how we used to operate in the not so long ago, bad old days.

«There is increasing evidence that police forces using CRASH are more likely to record a casualty as being «seriously» injured than when they were using their old systems,» the DfT's report says.

We need political leaders to let go of the same old, safe language, to end the war on drugs and, instead, use their power to implement evidence - based policies that work.

A man with an extensive criminal record who was released from prison less than two weeks ago was arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a 6 - year - old Brooklyn boy, hours after investigators used forensic evidence to identify a suspect.

The Standards and Privileges committee of the House of Commons has this morning published a new report into Derek Conway, the MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup, who lost the Tory whip last year over his use of Commons allowances to pay his son for work of which no evidence could be produced.

A summary of phone records entered by prosecutors as evidence today suggests that Percoco used his old 39th floor office in the executive chamber offices with some regularity while he was working on the campaign.

While the Brits were using their old - fashioned instrument, NASA's Nimbus 7 satellite also produced clear evidence of depletion.

But the earliest archaeological evidence for crop cultivation in China is 11,000 years old, suggesting that farming was slow to emerge from ancient traditions of plant use.

In 2009, archaeologists found the earliest known evidence of domesticated maize at an 8,700 - year - old site in southwestern Mexico, alongside stone tools used to grind the plants.

In 2016, Collins and colleagues published evidence of proteins on ostrich shells that were almost 4 million years old — the connection to human evolution may not be readily apparent, but such shells have been used by hominins for millions of years to transport water and other resources.

WE CAN only imagine the look on Bill Gates's face when he learned that four - year - old personal files were to be used as evidence against him in the US government's antitrust case against Microsoft.

From these primordial proteins the researchers found evidence that the oldest proteins do not start in the standard way or use many of the other parts of the standard codes for making proteins.

In May researchers using the Spitzer Space Telescope reported evidence of an infant planet, possibly less than a million years old, taking shape near the star CoKu Tau 4.

Our ancestors going back thousands of years show signs of atherosclerosis, as suggested by modern research using CT to detect evidence of calcium deposits associated with atherosclerotic plaques in the arteries of mummies as old as 5,000 years.

This is the oldest portable art object of its type found anywhere in central Europe and provides evidence of social signalling, quite possibly used as a necklace to mark the identity of the wearer.

For example, beeswax was detected in cooking pots from an archaeological site in Turkey, dating to the seventh millennium BC — the oldest evidence yet for the use of bee products by Neolithic farmers.

This culture, named for the beautiful carved standing stones («deer stones») and burial mounds (khirigsuurs) it built across the Mongolian Steppe, is linked with some of the oldest evidence for nomadic herding and domestic livestock use in eastern Eurasia.

If the new analysis holds up, it provides the oldest known evidence of stone - tool use and meat eating by members of the human evolutionary family.

In fact, just one site earlier than the 400,000 year mark has strong evidence of controlled fire use, the pair says: the 780,000 - year - old Gesher Benot Ya'aqov site in Israel.

NIST chemist Tom Bruno, who invented a method for recovering trace chemicals such as environmental pollutants and forensic evidence, uses a portable version of the instrument to sample vapor inside an old paint can.

In 2009, researchers at Dikika, Ethiopia, dug up 3.39 million - year - old animal bones marked with slashes and other cut marks, evidence that someone used stones to trim flesh from bone and perhaps crush bones to get at the marrow inside.

Sacks's survey includes forays into topics ranging from the history of typesetting to the twisty tale of c, k, and q. (The Phoenicians pronounced the precursors of k and q in slightly different ways, while the Etruscans replaced the Greek gamma - which stood for a sound they did not use - with the crescent - shaped c.) He carefully delves into the archaeological evidence for the alphabet's origins, describing the oldest known alphabetic inscriptions, dating to about 1800 B.C., which were recently identified among rock carvings at Wadi el - Hol in central Egypt.

«If you're getting cells from these older donors, these seed cells that you use for reprogramming already have some accumulation of mutation load, and so that is actually very important evidence, especially when they are looking at the potential functions of these mutations,» University of California, San Diego, bioengineer Kun Zhang, who was not involved in the study, told The Scientist.

Sistiaga, Summons, and their colleagues plan to use similar geochemical biomarker techniques, coupled with micromorphological analysis, to analyze soil samples in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania — a 1.8 - million - year - old site where some of the earliest evidence of human ancestry have been discovered.

There is increasing research (and age old evidence) that squatting to use the bathroom is not only more efficient and more natural, but also helps avoid common digestive disturbances (and even bigger problems like hemorrhoids.

Today, yeast is used almost universally, without any testing, and the recent scientific evidence and clinical findings are confirming the ancient taboos with biochemical and bioelectronics valid proofs that wholly support the age - old common sense.

Use of creatine in the elderly and evidence for effects on cognitive function in young and old.

There is also evidence that benzodiazepine use by older adults results in a 50 percent higher risk for dementia.

The oldest evidence of fire use by hominids is around 1 million years ago.

389 D IETARY, FUNCTIONAL, AND TOTAL FIBER Total Fiber AI Summary, Ages 19 Years and Older AI for Men 19â $ «30 years 38 g / d of Total Fiber 31â $ «50 years 38 g / d of Total Fiber 51â $ «70 years 30 g / d of Total Fiber > 70 years 30 g / d of Total Fiber AI for Women 19â $ «30 years 25 g / d of Total Fiber 31â $ «50 years 25 g / d of Total Fiber 51â $ «70 years 21 g / d of Total Fiber > 70 years 21 g / d of Total Fiber Pregnancy Method Used to Set the AI There is no evidence to suggest the beneficial effects of fiber in reduc - ing the risk of CHD for pregnant adolescent girls and women is different from nonpregnant adolescent girls and women.

The share of 18 - to 24 - year - olds who report having used online dating has Connectivity First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society Dating websites have changed the way couples meet.

The second type of classroom, which we used as a control group, consisted of classrooms with large test - score gains but no evidence of cheating in their answer strings, a sign of plain - old good teaching.

I need to bookmark for future use whenever the subject of vouchers comes up and people repeat that same old line that «there's no evidence,» etc..

Teachers should use summative assessments to frame meaningful performance goals, show criteria and models in advance, assess before teaching, offer appropriate choices, provide feedback early and often, encourage self - assessment and goal setting, and allow new evidence of achievement to replace old evidence.

The Institute For Literacy and Learning This website has overheads and sound files of eminent researchers discussing evidence - based instructional interventions for struggling readers, young and old, including: Dr. Deb Glaser - «Planning Professional Development for Positive Reading Success and Growth» Dr. Rollanda O'Connor - «Teaching Older Poor Readers to Read words» Dr. Jan Hasbrouck - «Using Assessment Data for RTI Decisions» Dr. Sharon Vaughn - «Teaching Older Students with Reading Difficulties» Dr. Randy Sprick - «Introduction to School - wide and Classroom Discipline: Getting the Year off to a Great Start» Dr. Ed Shaprio - «RTI: What's Working?»

Critics have questioned the way that evidence from the pilot evaluations has been used by politicians to talk up the educational benefits, but it took a nine - year - old boy with a firm grasp of figures to make the Lib Dem leader squirm.

The bill also would have allowed evidence that is more than four years old to be used in certain cases, a restriction that has hampered some districts» efforts to dismiss teachers after learning of past allegations.

Many new and old provisions now require the use of «evidence - based» activities, strategies, or interventions.

This is further evidence of how the CLA is aimed at younger buyers, as older Mercedes customers will be used to more refinement and comfort than is offered by the CLA's suspension.

Non-taxable income Old Rule — Gross up using tax rate evidenced on last tax return.