Sentences with phrase «debate over science»

The powerful Al Gore film «An Inconvenient Truth» will form part of a pack on climate change sent to every secondary school in England,» Mr. Milliband is quoted, The debate over the science of climate change is well and truly over, as demonstrated by the publication of today's report by the IPCC.

Well, (and this is a forlorn hope) it would be helpful to report on the ongoing debate over science and policy without treating climate change like a rancorous «he said, she said» political debate.»»

«I think we've lost valuable time with an infantile debate over the science, which has delayed the inevitable work of getting to the solution.

But a few figures, relying on their authority as «scientists» have dragged the debate over the science into the mud of politics.

Dr. Mann has a pattern of attacking those who disagree with him and this case is another in a long line of tactics to silence debate over the science of global warming.

You're trying to have a debate over science with people a high proportion of whom know very little about the subject; who have no idea what the basic threads of debate are, and who fantastic notions of both the scientific community and are bombarded by all sorts of misinformation about the political world (e.g. anyone to the left of Milton Friedman is a Marxist).

I think this may be why the organisers of the Lisbon conference said at the outset that the purpose was not to try to force a compromise, but to provide an arena of civility where the debate over the science can take place without the personalisation harsh wording which makes the sides deaf to each other.

The prospect that scientists have created a lethal strain of avian flu and are on the verge of publishing their technique in the world's leading scientific journal has reopened the debate over science's aspiration to «universal knowledge» in two distinct senses: Should science investigate everything, and should its findings be made available to everyone?

The long - running debate over science and religion is frequently hampered by the different ways in which the words «science» and...

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson Basic, 318 pages, $ 25, $ 14.95

The long - running debate over science and religion is frequently hampered by the different ways in which the words «science» and «religion» are used.

According to Edward J. Larson's scholarly, informative, Pulitzer Prize - winning book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, the prosecution of young John Scopes for presumedly violating a state law restricting the teaching of evolution in the public schools need not have resulted in the now legendary high - pitched standoff between the atheistic radical Clarence Darrow and the robustly religious populist William Jennings Bryan.

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson

I believe that most of the debating over science and climate change ended last year with the release of the 4 IPCC reports.

Not exact matches

Yes, he'd understood the science of DNA testing was incomplete, and that there was vigorous debate over the efficacy (and even potential downside) of population screening, and that it still wasn't clear if the process had reached the point where two different testing companies would even arrive at the same results.

Does anyone else see the humor in the creationists debating their point of view over the Internet (invented by science), filmed on cameras (based on science) in a hall lit by electricity (harnessed by science).

First a Noah's Ark discovery raised a flood of questions, then there was the much - hyped debate over life's origins between Bill Nye the Science Guy and creationist Ken Ham.

Recent debates in the pages of First Thingsand other conservative journals over Darwin's theory of evolution and creationism reveal the degree to which Catholics seem stuck in the trees for want of seeing the forest, the lopsided degree to which the Church gives assent to philosophy without deeply exploring the particular science it considers a threat, (this journal, it goes without saying, excepted).

In perceiving theology as a science, Pannenberg suggests that if God is ultimate truth, then the God hypothesis — the claim that God is the unity of all reality — must include within itself the current debate over God's existence.

Global science, by the way, is not unified and spends most of its time bickering back on forth over every issue, not to advance debate, but to justify academic publishing requirements.

At present, the rediscovery of culture in the social sciences, at the debate over methods of studying culture empirically, promises to shift studies of religion and politics more in the direction of looking at religious and political culture.

The social sciences are quite prominent in the curriculum of Nanjing Theological Seminary, a fact that is understandable in light of the significant debates in China over the question of religion's definition.

Much modern intellectual debate, particularly within the popular arena, centers on disputes between religion and science over such seminal issues as creationism versus evolutionary theory, or theological explanations of the origin of the universe versus the «big - bang theory» of the new cosmology.

The latest book by Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design, published on 9th September, just before the Pope's visit to Britain, launched another wave of media frenzy over the religion vs. science debate.

Actually there is no debate between faith believers and atheists because atheists use science and logic and facts, you can see that this can never be debated over fairy tale.

A professor of history and law at the University of Georgia, Larson begins by relating how the debate over Darwinism unfolded in America in the early part of the century, and developed into the warfare between science and religion that exploded in the trial (and continues to this day).

The discussion highlighted the need for a substantive parliamentary debate on the current abortion legislation since medical science and practice is raising serious questions over when the foetus becomes viable outside the womb, the current twenty - four week limit for «social» abortion and the growing number of doctors in the UK who are refusing to perform abortions because of the aforementioned.

While the science at work here has been largely controversial, the debate was reignited several months ago when a new study raised more concerns over both red and processed meat.

This year's Festival of Social Science has over 130 creative and exciting events aimed at encouraging businesses, charities, government agencies; and schools or college students to discuss, discover and debate topical social science Science has over 130 creative and exciting events aimed at encouraging businesses, charities, government agencies; and schools or college students to discuss, discover and debate topical social science science issues.

The claims have come amid a shift in focus in nutrition from fat to sugar, with warnings about the artery - clogging risks of butter and beef taking a backseat to new efforts to tax sugar - sweetened beverages - even as debates continue over the science of obesity prevention.

With supporters in all fifty states and around the world, Stand With Science continues its efforts to ensure that those on the front lines of research and at the heart of the research funding debate have a chance to be heard in the ongoing debate over our nation's commitment to research.

In his speech, Kerry noted that the president «has repeatedly questioned the underlying science of climate change and attempted to reignite the debate over whether the threat is real.»

Their finding, reported in the Aug. 11 Science, may help resolve a longtime debate over the thickness of Earth's landmasses.

This finding, reported online August 3 in Science, may help resolve a long - standing debate over the origins of planetesimals — the giant space rocks that populated the...

«It was important to bring microchemistry into the debate, because discussion has been going on for years over whether these structures were just fossilized bacteria or specific bodies where melanin is concentrated,» said Roger Summons, the Schlumberger Professor of Earth Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the research.

Scientists must be more willing to speak out on their work and to get involved in public debates over uses of science, she added.

After 33 years in the federal government, toxicologist Linda Birnbaum has tried to put sound science at the center of debates over chemical regulation

Now, however, some researchers worry that those concerns — and the importance of English in science — are being eclipsed by a high - profile debate over provisions that would expand the use of English in French universities.

Schwartz now wants to do a Yellowstone - wide hair study to help pin down grizzly population trends — information that could prove pivotal in the hot debate over whether the animals are prospering enough to be removed from the U.S. endangered species list (Science, 23 April 1999, p. 568).

Two recent studies highlight a debate within the world of marine fisheries science over how to interpret available fisheries data

Science has not played nearly as prominent a role as it should in informing debates over the labeling of genetically modified foods, end of life care and energy policy, among many issues.

He says this idea has «very profound» implications for the debate over the origins of bacterial genes that are present in the human genome but absent in our closest relatives (Science, 8 June, p. 1903): The amount of conjugation Waters detected is «high enough to readily explain» the possible infiltration of bacterial genesinto our DNA, meaning that conjugation could have happened quickly enough to add genes only to humans, in the years since they split from the common ancestor they shared with chimpanzees.

Democrats, in turn, bemoaned the continued debate over climate science among politicians.

As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.

For more on the Kawaoka paper and the debate over H5N1 studies, check out Friday's print edition of Science.

A new study tracing the history of one of those moon rocks, published in this week's Science, adds fuel to a long - running debate over the source of the faint magnetism present on the lunar surface.

And yet over the past decade, science has come to occupy an increasingly important role in debates over free speech.

The debate over public access got an airing before a House Science Committee panel today.

In Science Smackdown, we invited the former colleagues to go mano a mano over this debate.

These beliefs play a key role in shaping people's opinions, and ultimately, their support for scientific advances, according to the study «Understanding Public Opinion in Debates Over Biomedical Research: Looking Beyond Partisanship to Focus on Beliefs about Science and Society,» by American University professor Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D., and Ezra Markowitz, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University.