Sentences with phrase «against observations of»

All ideas are subjected to testing against observations of the real world.

But, when you actually measure the predictions that climate scientists have made against observations of how the climate has already changed, you find the exact opposite: a pattern «of under - rather than over-prediction» emerges.

But, when you actually measure the predictions that climate scientists have made against observations of how the climate has already changed, you find the exact opposite: a pattern «of under - rather than over-prediction» emerges.

Furthermore, the team tested the theory against observations of NASA's 34 - year - old Pioneer 10 spacecraft, which appears about 400,000 kilometres away from its expected location in the outer solar system.

It is a fundamental requirement of scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world, rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.

Not exact matches

My buddy Jim Kane with Retailer Web Services recently made an interesting observation about public companies: He noted founders waste an embarrassing amount of shareholder cash trying to save or slowly wind down companies instead of shuttering operations when it's clear the odds have turned against them.

«I ask the Prime Minister, how is that statement and the creation of the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer in any way, shape or form compatible with the kind of cheap partisan attacks the Minister of Finance made against the Parliamentary Budget Officer and against his observation that the job of the Parliamentary Budget Officer was to be a sounding board for the government?

Their stories will provide surprising insights, startling observations and wisdom from facing off against the system, every day of their working lives, and still succeeding.

Can you learn anything worthwhile with your heart set against a just and non biased observation of a particular subject of supposed interest?

The reader is encouraged to take that seriously, to weigh the statements in this book against research and observations on the knowable world, and to consider them in relation to the thousands of other religions from throughout history that also profess with absolute certainty to be the one «Truth.»

When Friedrich Nietzsche, in his several tirades against Christianity, points to these elements as of the essence of the biblical tradition, he is certainly correct — though not in the dark conclusions he draws from the observation,

My second observation is simply that, in light of the fact that the «gay community» is not separate from the «Christian community» and that there are many like Justin who identify as both Christian and gay, we have to move past the culture war mentality that pits these two groups against one another.

Induction has been accused of many shortcomings, but the common denominator of the various criticisms leveled against it, from Popper to Kuhn to Feyerabend, is that belief in induction is responsible for a naive empiricism which views science as based on uninterpreted observation and direct verification of theories by the «facts.»

We may then begin this critical reflection upon Hartshorne's «neoclassical theism» or «process theology» with the observation that both black and neoclassical theologies are defined in large part by their opposition to or protest against certain features of classical Western theism.

Thus the annual Human Rights Report of the U.S. State Department, mute the previous decade on discrimination and the occasional acts of violence against Christians, included in its January 1990 report the observation that «Christians have had difficulty in getting permission to build new churches» and that «Christians complain that there are barriers to Christians rising to high positions in public service, public corporations, universities and the military.»

It is of course true that careful observation requires the use of controls, the elimination of the possibility of social cuing, guarding against uncritical projection of the observer's prejudices and presuppositions, etc. (MA 83 - 98).

Against that background, let me offer four observations on the character of Christian involvement in the life of the world, dimensions of the Christian ethic which are deeply rooted in our understanding of the death and resurrection of Jesus.

With that observation we come to the first of what I am calling «the virtues of organized religion,» namely that organized religions give their adherents something solid to rebel against.

We have here the two strongest general forces (apart from the mere impulse of the various senses) which influence men, and they seem to be set one against the other — the force of our religious intuitions, and the force of our impulse to accurate observation and logical deduction.

The argument against neo-Darwinism begins from the undoubted observation that many features of living beings, like the bacterial flagellum or the human eye, are the result of not one genetic mutation but of a large number of such mutations.

Again the commentator made the observation that defenders do not like playing against him because of his speed.

If Arsenal win this FA Cup match against Lincoln today, the win will not ease any pain the Gooners were allegedly have went through when Arsenal lost to Bayern Munich last Tuesday night at the Ems because there wasn't any pain the Gooners have suffered in the first place when Arsenal lost the match by a 1 - 5 away win for Bayern Munich which in my own observation was a rigged result for Bayern Munich by the match referee, his linesman and the other referee official who was behind the goal post, a match referee who earlier has denied Arsenal a penalty of their own but later connived against them to award a penalty to Bayern Munich and in the process sent off Koscielny to deliberately weaken Arsenal team strength to frustrate them in the game.

If Arsenal win this FA Cup match against Lincoln today, the win will not ease any pain the Gooners were allegedly had went through when Arsenal lost to Bayern Munich last Tuesday night at the Ems because there wasn't any pain the Gooners have suffered in the first place when Arsenal lost the match by a 1 - 5 away win to Bayern Munich which in my own observation was a rigged result for Bayern Munich by the match referee, his linesman and the other referee official who was behind the goal post, a match referee who earlier had denied Arsenal a penalty of their own but later connived against them to award a penalty to Bayern Munich and in the process sent off Koscielny to deliberately weaken Arsenal team strength to frustrate them in the game.

@Nothing Changed — my observation is more concerned with how he played in the league game against Leicester City the first substitutions were elneny and holding who were replaced by ramsey and giroud (respectively): before being subbed elneny appears to have been at sixes and sevens and though he was subbed after close to an hour it was clear to see he was out of his depths lost composure, panicked and he wanted out.

But twelve games in to the season, we can see that Ramsey is one of several Arsenal players who have failed to show up so far this season, an observation that can be backed up by his performance against Manchester United.

I'm so tired of people making these damning comments that aren't even based on observation; it's almost funny how biased some people are AGAINST their own players.

Anticlimactic as it was for those expecting a high - charged game, Brazil's 1 - 0 win against Germany in Berlin on Tuesday nevertheless offered some interesting observations about the Selecao's state of affairs for Russia 2018.

I am in the middle of reading Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis, and while I laugh in recognition of her observations about the state of monogamy, marriage and — gasp!

We haven't always appreciated the level of importance that should be attached to getting enough sleep, but as the scientific studies stack up in recent times, it is very hard to argue against the observation that getting the right amount of sleep, is a key aspect of achieving a healthy lifestyle.

One quick point before I hop a plane back to DC — as you're absorbing the media and the punditry's attempts to Understand The Meaning of Tuesday's primary losses by Arlen Spector in Pennsylvania and Trey Grayson in Kentucky (see: «Specter Defeat Signals a Wave Against Incumbents»), don't forget the classic observation that all politics is local.

ALBANY — After months of listening to Gov. Andrew Cuomo assail him as responsible for a bill he voted against, U.S. Rep. John Faso closed a letter to the governor on Thursday with an especially cutting observation: He's not the man his late father was.

If we decide not to recommend a bill of rights we will equally want to explain our reasons for arriving at that conclusion though we may still want to make some observations about such a bill against the possibility that the government nevertheless decides to introduce one.

«We are going to continue the observation of our unannounced cessation of hostilities in the Niger Delta against all interest of the multinational oil corporations, but we will continuously adopt our asymmetric warfare during this period if, the Nigerian government and the ruling APC continue to use security agencies / agents, formations and politicians to arrest, intimidate, invade and harass innocent citizens, suspected NDA members and invade especially Ijaw communities.»

«Most of the observations were dominated by who might be making moves against Jeremy, who had said stuff that may be unhelpful.»

Given that this was the decade that saw two whole parliamentary sessions without a single vote being cast against their whip by a member of the governing party, this observation was at least more accurate then than modern - day attempts to paint politicians as a bunch of spineless sheep.

By validating model results against geological observations, the study indicates that changes in runoff, sea level and wave energy have profoundly affected the past evolution of the Great Barrier Reef not only in regard to reefs evolution but also sediment fate from source - to - sink.

They tested high - performance computational models against known geological and geophysical observations of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and demonstrated that a drip of lithospheric material below the surface can account for the measured elevation changes across the region.

«These observations will hopefully help us better understand the life cycle of solar prominences and their connection with the rest of the heliosphere, ultimately providing a better insight into how to protect ourselves against damaging space weather,» Labrosse says.

When bombarding uranium with neutrons, Hahn had made some surprising observations that went against everything known at the time about the dense cores of atoms — their nuclei.

But, says Mezzacappa, «At the end of the day, we're going to need some observations against which we can check our models.»

Weighing against that hypothesis is an observation that the ground west of the crest slopes away, not toward the crater.

They go on to suggest that «lowering levels of TNF may be an effective strategy in improving host defense against S. pneumoniae in older adults,» and that, «although it may be counterintuitive to limit inflammatory responses during a bacterial infection, [some existing] clinical observations and our animal model indicate that anti-bacterial strategies need to be tailored to the age of the host.»

But the absence of a more quantitative framework means that Darwin's principles have not been tested against observation in the same rigorous manner as physical laws.

The research team compared these sounds against the largest available database of orangutan calls collected from over 12,000 hours of observations of more than 120 orangutans from 15 wild and captive populations.

To confirm the identifications, the researchers now need to compare their computer - generated categories against surface observations of these dolphins, Frasier says.

Through such observations, Goldberg emphasizes the importance of maintaining an active mind as a defense against mental decline.

«Its existence was predicted by the standard model of particle physics and the fact that there's — we got a glimpse of it, it looks like it may very well be there — is a real victory for that model of science where you test, you put forward conceptual models of the way the world or the universe works and test those models against the observations and see the extent to which they can predict new observations and when they do, it gives you increased confidence in the models.

Because the satellite's surface is covered with ice, the clearest observations came from portions of the purported plumes that were silhouetted against space rather than against the moon itself.

Likewise, while models can not represent the climate system perfectly (thus the uncertainly in how much the Earth will warm for a given amount of emissions), climate simulations are checked and re-checked against real - world observations and are an established tool in understanding the atmosphere.

The 100 stories here capture scientific curiosity in all its stages: provocative early results, long - sought confirmations, and many steps in the iterative process of testing theory against observation and vice versa.