Sentences with phrase «by empirical evidence»

The idea that an intelligent being created the universe isn't a theory, it's a hypothesis, an incredibly weak one that isn't supported by any empirical evidence... just faith.

The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s.

-LSB-...] The idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s.

We can declare all other questions meaningless on the grounds that they can not be settled by empirical evidence.

The master narrative is also not supported by empirical evidence.

I can go on if you'd like, but this assertion: «Religion depends on pure faith, hope and wishes, totally unsupported by empirical evidence.

In my business I must come up with hypotheses all the time, many of which are subsequently falsified by the empirical evidence.

(We return to this important distinction below in the secion on What can't be resolved by empirical evidence on this issue?)

[17] We return to this discussion in the section on What can't be resolved by empirical evidence on this issue?

Alarmist cries of rapid sea level rise and Pacific Islanders losing their homes are completely unsubstantiated by empirical evidence and peer - reviewed science.

In the round, the Underwood view, backed by empirical evidence from Ireland, is that for now claims will continue to be brought even where costs cease to be recoverable from the wrongdoers.

Scientific theories, while not subject to any absolute verification or falsification, can be supported or undermined by empirical evidence.

«There is some hope now that education can increasingly become a field where data may be brought to bear on many issues and we can demand in many areas that assertions be accompanied by empirical evidence.»

We are fascinated by the empirical evidence showing that value investing has outperformed the market most of the time for as far back in history as the data allows us to see.

After no significant global warming for some 20 + years, the «elites» are finally being embarrassed by the empirical evidence, which doesn't comport with their favorite unicorn science - fantasy.

All recommendations are supported by empirical evidence surveyed at the property and in the market, as well as Campus Advantage's extensive experience in day - to - day operations of student housing communities.

In 2001, there was the well publicized science scandal perpetrated by Columbia researchers claiming that prayer enhanced pregnancy outcomes - supposed «birth miracles» - were proven by the empirical evidence.

Claims that the warming of the planet is due to heat being released from the oceans into the atmosphere are not supported by any empirical evidence or peer - reviewed science.

And even more unknown is how human released anthropogenic CO2 is responsible for» unprecedented» and» possibly catastrophic» temperature increase, a theory which is being promoted by this crowd and which has not been proven by empirical evidence.

«You can go figure out which potato chip goes by which chips, supported by empirical evidence,» Martine says.

If someone believes something that is supported by empirical evidence, but not technically proven, would you consider that to be faith?

By empirical evidence I assume you mean that which is baased on observation, or that which is obtained via the scientific method.

The only issue is which theory is best supported by the empirical evidence.

Conservative apologists of old (and their current imitators, like Strobel) operated on the basis of evidentialism — the idea that we can and should believe only what can be supported by empirical evidence.

The assumption is in part borne out by empirical evidence, but as is often the case, the full picture is more complex.

In the mid-1990s, the American Psychological Association (APA) took a step toward answering them when it issued a list, which it has continued to update, of treatments supported by empirical evidence.

The influential Lysenko adhered to the theory, politically useful but unsupported by empirical evidence, that characteristics developed during an organism's lifetime could be inherited by its offspring.