Sentences with phrase «against evidence for»

«So it's hard to compare this modest body of evidence against evidence for a medication like Prozac or Zoloft that has numerous studies to back it up.»

Harpur's arguements for the confabulation of Jesus» existance are interesting and worth - noting, but the evidence for his position does not convince me or many other's, and needs to be weighed and compared against evidence for Jesus» existance, and a decision can be made (provisionally) based on the evidence which we currently have.

Not exact matches

Regulatory changes had been in the wind for some time as the evidence against the program built up, yet employers relied on the lobbying efforts of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business to maintain the program rather than taking steps to improve domestic recruitment and training efforts or adjust wages and benefits to attract workers.

Trump has repeatedly touted his business experience as evidence he is qualified to be president, but Clinton has turned his business record against him, calling him out for bankrupting several of his businesses.

As evidence continues to stack up against sugar, consumers are looking for ways to have their cake and eat it too — literally.

A federal appeals court on Thursday revived a proposed wage - and - hour class action against a Southern California hospital, ruling the plaintiffs could use inadmissible evidence to support their request for class certification.

Investors are looking for evidence that the White House economic adviser or Federal Reserve chairman can act as an insurance policy against a trade war.

By midday Tuesday Mr. Snowden himself, in a Twitter message from his exile in Moscow, declared that «circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility» for publication, which he interpreted as a warning shot to the American government in case it was thinking of imposing sanctions against Russia in the cybertheft of documents from the Democratic National Committee.

Not only are these corporate forms a powerful tool in the fight against inequality, but there is evidence that they provide the incentives for greater effort, more cooperation, more innovation and more sharing — all of which contribute to improvements in workplace performance and company productivity.

So if you're following along, Nunes is trying to imply that the evidence for investigations against Trump rely mostly on the Steele dossier:

The Nunes memo, in short, is long on assertions and short on evidence — and by the end, it has fatally undermined its own reason for existing, providing political ammunition against the Russia investigation.

President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen shouldn't receive any special access to evidence against him that was confiscated in a raid at the Loews Regency Hotel, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District argued Friday.

As for the lawsuits against Gawker Media, «the evidence has built up over time that there are questions that are unanswered here,» Mr. Denton said.

Attorneys for Waymo have said in court that over the nearly year - long case they have amassed a file of evidence against Uber and were ready to go to trial before the revelation of the Jacobs letter, which came days before the original trial date.

I meant that they don't have to actually contemplate the evidence [reason] for or against what they are about to decide.

Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

Scientists, for their part, especially those in the scientific community with burdens against religion, need to understand that the nature of scientific evidence, method and hypotheses and the nature of theological evidence, method, and hypothesis have more in common than they might imagine.

There is ample evidence for the existence of God, what you decide to do with this evidence is ultimately up to you, but do not claim that there is none... and I would submit to you that many people believe many things without evidence every single day... but do not lump all people of faith into one basket... I have personal proof that God exists, but proof for me may not be proof for you, some people can see something with their own eyes and still deny it, that is why I said it is ultimately up to you to decide what you believe... there is much evidence both for and against the existence of God, you need to decide which evidence you choose to believe...

To say that evolution was «proven» 100 years ago is to disregard the fact that even Darwin doubted his own contentions (as he states in origin of species), for every bit of scientific evidence for evolution there is scientific evidence against it.

There is equal evidence for the possibility that when you die, Osiris will weigh your heart against Ma'at's feather to determine what will happen to you in your afterlife.

To say that «for every bit of scientific evidence for evolution there is scientific evidence against it.

You may say there is zero evidence for gods or souls; there is also zero evidence against.

But the claims of religion which touch upon things which can be observed and tested in the real world can be proven true or untrue as the evidence for or against those things is discovered.

I have always thought that this theological interpretation of Pentecostalism did not have much going for it and I'm glad that Hailemariam adds another piece of evidence against it.

I don't have a belief on the situation one way or the other, my grounding in the question of any God or gods comes from the lack of evidence for or against.

World Vision released a statement, saying leadership was «shocked to learn of these charges against Mohammad,» adding, that they» will carefully review any evidence presented to us and will take appropriate actions based on that evidence,» while calling for «a fair, legal process for Mohammad.»

In some cases, evidence of past incorrect opinion is sufficient: The CEO of the software firm Mozilla, Brendan Eich, was hounded from his post in 2014 for a $ 1,000 contribution to a 2008 California referendum campaign against gay marriage, evidence of a position he shared at the time with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

I actually do find evidence supporting Christianity and God in general throughout history, mathematics, and science, but you will call me blind nonetheless because you adore grouping people together to discriminate against them for actually comprehending something you can not fathom.

In the pages of the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan wonders if a string of failures for the Obama administration counts as mounting evidence not only against his primary claim to rule, executive competence, but also against the undergirding premises of liberal political philosophy.

In the religion, SBNR, atheism case, there is objective evidence against religions and none for them, there is no objective evidence for anything supernatural, there is objective evidence for much that was explained supernaturally in the past, and there are highly plausible explanations for purely natural universe supported by objective evidence.

Short finds no evidence of explicit complaints against the demands of motherhood in the 18th century, nor any foreshadowing of a call for «reproductive rights».

Rather than go highlighting or cherry picking different stories in the ancient text that point to very disturbing characteristics, (because that would bog us down away from my point and launch a ti.t for tat against someone who has already displayed belief over evidence is what matters to him), I will add to my «doctrine» statement that has inflamed and dominated your attention.

For instance — You can throw as much evidence against a god disproving it... lets say Thor for example... but if someone has faith in Thor... your communication is muFor instance — You can throw as much evidence against a god disproving it... lets say Thor for example... but if someone has faith in Thor... your communication is mufor example... but if someone has faith in Thor... your communication is mute.

On the contrary, I believe there is far more compelling evidence for the existence of God, than against.

The potential leadership of at least the persuaders among the Christian R&D professionals is problematic, considering the weight of empirical evidence accumulated against liberationist diagnoses and prescriptions for the Third World's woes.

I had begun the Apologia looking for evidence against Newman, and instead I found myself rethinking my own approach to Christianity.

I am an avid reader of the sciences and philosophy as well so I believe that with my educational and life's background I can speak intelligently on these subjects but certainly not exhaustively and stand ready to discuss evidence (s) for and against with anyone willing to dialog without rancor or name calling or nastiness.

I was not arguing for the existence of God... I was arguing against your declaration that there is no evidence.

Matthew 26:60 ► The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death.

How much time are people willing to take to consider the historical evidence of the bible, for example, before making a decision, as opposed to boldly voicing a stance against something that interferes with a self - desire, an opinion or relative truth.

Huebert — I don't believe that a god exists; however, I do recognize there is neither evidence for or against a supreme being.

There is more evidence against evolution than for it.

, directed against Brunner in 1934, but rather the book about the evidence for God of Anselm of Canterbury which appeared in 1931.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

The juxtaposition of Orwell's book and the Barmen anniversary is important, for if we are to stand against those evidences of the Orwellian world that we already see, important resources for doing so will be found in the stance, Conviction and courage of the creators of Barmen.

There is no evidence neither for or against the existence of some supernatural intelligence, so intellectual integrity requires that the question be left undecided.

Tolerance for another's opinion is one of the things that makes America free and great, backlash against Graham or the Chik - fil - A CEO is only evidence that people are becoming less willing to listen to each other.

Dodd's whole thesis with regard to a kerygmatic chronology fails for lack of the confirming evidence required to establish a position which would reverse the course of scholarship, and thus must move against the stream of current views as to the probabilities in the case.

I grew up an atheist, but when I studied it, I found the evidence FOR God to be more compelling than against.