Sentences with phrase «debate with evidence»

Students learn how to debate with evidence, resolve conflict and express themselves when they practice having productive conversations.

As I don't carry enough theological weight to help my fellow believers in this debate with evidence or valuable dialog, and I was never able to cement myself in mt attempt to be an atheist, I can only say that when I tried to de-construct my belief system and embrace the scientific angle, it fell flat.

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The amount of «cord cutting» behavior remains a topic of heated debate, with Comcast saying it hasn't seen much evidence of it occurring so far.

I can't tell you how many Christians that I've debated on the gay marriage topic who finally, when presented with theological, social, and reasonable evidence to the contrary, just end up saying «just because.»

Nevertheless, Mr Smith - who has spent a quarter of a century debating with Muslims issues such as the historical evidence supporting the Quran - has contacted the Christian Legal Centre.

I am not an agnostic because I don't think it's very honest when faced with the lack of evidence for God to say «Well both sides of the debate are at a stand still!

It wasn't long before all responsible observers came to agree with ME that the NY - 26 result (despite the quirky details) is one piece of evidence among many that the Republicans are losing the debate on Medicare.

I mean this site / thread probably isn't the place (understatement) but I have delved into this argument more thn the averge joe, and I guarantee someone taking the opposing position in a debate against me on this subject is going to have their hands full with the amount of evidence I could put forth on them for the supposition that an intelligent enity at the very least kick started this thing off.

I think the most annoying part about debating you isn't that you simply disagree with people, it's arguing that the other side simply has no argument, when there absolutely is evidence.

If it where just possible to take these statistics, and sit down face to face with PGMOB, the FA and some media hacks, on a public forum, and ask them to explain them, along with the coincidence of how things changed following game 50 and Riley's subsequent appointment, I think that would make for a very interesting debate, especially if video evidence was allowed.

One topic of continued debate among parents is co-sleeping, or bed - sharing, a common practice in countries outside the U.S. Fueled by increasing evidence, however, more pediatricians and sleep experts are dissuading parents from sharing a bed or a bedroom with their babies, recommending instead that babies be allowed to learn how to fall asleep and stay asleep on their own.

David Cameron has agreed to demands from Ed Miliband for the parliamentary session to be extended so that MPs can debate tomorrow's evidence session with the Murdochs.

Moreover, a number of actors have employed arguments relating to the potential economic decadence of an independent Catalonia or its automatic exclusion from the European Union (in contrast with empirical evidence and the Scottish debate).

By shedding light on public preferences, the research will contribute to an important debate about the effects of corruption and insecurity on public legitimacy and will provide policy - makers with rigorous evidence.

The chancellor predicted the controversial decision to cap payouts at # 26,000 per household would «continue to be a subject of fierce debate» during an evidence session on the autumn statement with MPs.

Based on this basic evidence, we can say that in the third debate, Trump preferred shorter sentences with more repeated words and Clinton longer sentences with more word variation.

Several senior Democrats cited Cuomo's refusal to defend Clinton against Sanders» continuing attacks on her acceptance of more than $ 600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, during an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews after Thursday night's angry debate, as evidence that the state's Democratic establishment had failed to strongly rally to her side.

The debate over gay marriage is back on the agenda with evidence that the government might allow religious elements into civil partnership ceremonies.

«Evidence of not complying with the code can be drawn from the fact that the misinformation provided was emphatic rather than tentative, was repeated, was not corrected when fuller information was available or was calculated to deceive for political advantage,» Mr Bryant said in his speech during the debate.

It is false to claim that there is still a «debate» going on over the origins of the Giant's Causeway, because the creationist viewpoint has no scientific evidence to back it up, and it is completely wrong to portray it on an equal footing with the genuine scientific account.

New York Senior Senator Charles Schumer, in the only debate with his opponent, broadcast on Time Warner Cable, said he's «appalled» by FBI director James Comey's actions, including the decision announced Friday to re-examine emails from Hillary Clinton's top aide for evidence of misuse of classified materials.

For years our endless war on drugs has been driven more by tabloid headlines then scientific evidence, with newspapers getting to define the terms of the debate.

«In choosing to plough ahead with the barbaric cull in our countryside, the coalition government has shown complete contempt for scientific evidence on bovine TB,» Green MP Caroline Lucas, one of the five sponsors of the debate, commented.

New York's senior Senator Charles Schumer, in the only debate with his opponent, attorney Wendy Long, says he's «appalled» by FBI Director James Comey's actions, including the decision announced Friday to reexamine emails from Hillary Clinton's top aide for evidence of misuse of classified materials.

New York Senior Senator Charles Schumer, in the only debate with his opponent, broadcast on Time Warner Cable, says he's «appalled» by FBI director James Comey's actions, including the decision announced Friday to re - examine emails from Hillary Clinton's top aide for evidence of misuse of classified materials.

New York Senior Senator Charles Schumer, in the only debate with his opponent, broadcast on Time Warner Cable, says he's «appalled» by FBI director James Comey's actions, including the decision announced Friday to re-examine emails from Hillary Clinton's top aide for evidence of misuse of classified materials.

As evidenced by the Lewes MP Norman Baker's performance at yesterday's Guardian debate, too many Lib Dems» take on our great ongoing political wobble amounts to a mixed - up mess of incremental changes, flimsy novelty, and shallow anti-politics, with PR well down the list, and no sharp lines on why its time might have finally come.

In 2005 a virtual brain of the one known skull of Homo floresiensis — the three - foot - tall hominid discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores — provided evidence in the ongoing debate about whether the creature represents a separate species or was a human pygmy with a birth defect.

With enough evidence from around the world, the debate over the Human Age could finally be settled.

Summers got an earful, if not directly, as Spelke described in several interviews and in a high - profile public debate with her colleague and friend Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker how voluminous evidence from decades of research shows little if any inherently sex - based differences in infants or toddlers.

Thanks to a lack of evidence, the history of cancer is often wrought with debate.

A recent study led by Joseph Ferraro, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology at Baylor, offers new insight in this debate with a wealth of archaeological evidence from the two million - year - old site of Kanjera South (KJS), Kenya.

But in September, labs working with the United Nations used faster and more sophisticated analytic techniques to show that Syrian civilians were killed by the chemical weapon sarin on Aug. 21 — evidence crucial to debates about whether the global community should intervene.

The paper by lead author Dr Nicole Boivin from the University of Oxford and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, with researchers from the UK, US, and Australia, suggests that archaeological evidence has been missing from current debates about conservation priorities.

Previous randomised trials comparing the efficacy of insulin pump therapy and multiple injections in people with type 2 diabetes have not provided consistent evidence, and the benefits of pump therapy continue to be debated.

Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).

Lisbon, Portugal About Blog The EU drugs agency provides the EU and its Member States with a factual overview of European drug problems and a solid evidence base to support the drugs debate.

In deference to that I want to take a pause from the facts and figures that build the body of evidence that compels us forward — with which you are no doubt more familiar than I at this point — and step back from the complex policy issues that occupy our debate, to focus on the foundational values that support what we do and why we do it.

Improving our system will require debate and disagreement, it will require a commitment to evidence and not ideology, but that debate must begin with a willingness to listen.

True inquiry allows for debate and encourages students to develop ideas that they can support with evidence.

I (along with co-authors Greg Forster and Marcus Winters) understood that the particular evidence we were citing would soon enough be out of date, but we hoped that our approach to using rigorous evidence could serve as a model for future policy debates.

Into this debate come two economists, Greg J. Duncan of the School of Education at the University of California at Irvine, and Richard J. Murnane of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with an encouraging message: We do have evidence that a few approaches work.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

But unlike the Bennett Hypothesis, the effect of state appropriations on tuition at public colleges is not debated, and evidence of a causal relationship is routinely asserted with a simple graph showing tuition rising and per - student appropriations falling.

It's not enough just to know about science; scientists also have to be able to describe their observations, explain what they know, and debate with others, using sound evidence and reasoning.

Here I'll summarize the paper and what I believe is wrong with it, and conclude by calling on all parties in this debate to discuss the existing evidence in much more cautious tones.

This debate, as with so much in education, has lacked evidence and impartial analysis.

With that said, there are most likely some evidence sources that you are required to include (i.e. student achievement data), so there is not much sense spending a great deal of time debating the merits of the inclusion or exclusion of any of these required sources.

The main theme to emerge from all the speeches the other night [at the Moynihan award ceremony] was how hard it is to make evidence a part of public debates and to influence public policies with logic and data.

students can debate whether Jack is a greedy thief for stealing from the giant or whether he is a good son for supporting his family while supporting their answers with text evidence or logical inferences.