Sentences with phrase «despite solid evidence»

Similar objections were made to Alfred Wegener's continental drift theory that despite solid evidence from geography, geology, paleontology, and biology, was shunned until the development of plate tectonics theory could explain how continents drifted.

Not exact matches

Despite numerous worldwide claims of UFO sightings over many decades not one piece of solid evidence, no crashed UFO, no dead alien bodies, nothing.

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

Despite scientific consensus that the planet is warming (Oreskes 2004), 33 % of Americans see «no solid evidence» for this (Pew 2009).

Despite this lack of a solid theoretical framework, paleoclimatologists keep publishing article after article where they report correations between solar proxy periodicities and climate proxy periodicities, and the observational evidence is now so abundant as to obviate the lack of a theory or well defined mechanism.

Despite all of this, a Pew poll conducted in 2010 found that just 59 percent of Americans think there is solid evidence that the planet is warming — and that's down from 79 percent in 2006.

build on the findings and recommendations of the regional planning processes conducted under the state - wide Aboriginal Health Forums - despite these processes identifying the priority health needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for each region and involving broad - based community consultation and providing a solid evidence base.