Sentences with phrase «evidence against the idea»

In the 1600s, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed through a telescope the moons orbiting Jupiter — clear evidence against the idea that the heavenly bodies all revolve around the earth.

But any classical theists who admit that their belief is only the most plausible conclusion based on the evidence available must regard this difficulty as another bit of evidence against their idea.

There is no evidence for, and much evidence against the idea that it wants war.

Perhaps the strongest evidence against the idea that his support has slipped (or at least slipped significantly) amongst the membership is that the PLP has so far failed to trigger a leadership election — because they know that they could not win.

But a new genetic study of a 1000 - year - old skeleton from the Bahamas shows that at least one modern Caribbean population is related to the region's precontact indigenous people, offering direct molecular evidence against the idea of Taino «extinction.»

Adams» study provides evidence against the idea that children of same - sex couples suffer disadvantages.

Then he shared even stronger evidence against the idea of volcanic activity.

Not exact matches

The idea of hygge as a trait of Scandinavian culture is developed in the course of the interpretation, and its limitations are also discussed against ethnographic evidence that comparable spatial and social dynamics unfold in other cultural contexts.

Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

Ideas with a lot of objective evidence and no objective evidence against it should not be denied.

In fact, most if not all of the relevant evidence, as the previous example illustrated, counts against the idea that physics can in principle provide a complete account of the physical world, especially given the existence of human and other animals in it.

a. Evolution, as a science, is based upon testing ideas against evidence.

Moral notions, in particular — which in contemporary times have been demonstrated to vary significantly from one culture to another — stand as evidence against the innateness of ideas.

The independent peer claimed the idea criminals would stop using phones to coordinate plans if they knew evidence could be used against them was «farcical», adding there are ways to prevent the police disclosing all their intelligence sources.

But in addition to a growing evidence worldwide a practical note, few teachers argue against an idea that reduces workload, admin, stress, and monotony, while reducing the number of students you're having to focus on.

Despite the evidence around them that Britain is preparing for war against Germany, Mattie, once a suffragette and a woman with her own ideas about government and education, doesn't sign Noel up for evacuation from London (see «Beyond the Book»).

The idea was to provide one data point (and there are many others as well) as strong disconfirming evidence against associating «expensive» with seemingly «high P / E» multiples.

Furthermore, each characterizes invention and imagination in a manner described by Walt Whitman as the «scientific spirit» — an individual's quality of «holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them.»

This also goes against the idea of scientists» opinions being entirely based on objective analysis of the evidence, and concurs with previous studies that have shown scientists» opinions on topics to vary along with their political orientation,» writes survey author Neil Stenhouse of George Mason University.

The satellite data does raise some issues — for example it shows that the link between tropospheric and surface level temperatures is not as tight as was once thought, but the idea that it represents serious evidence against the hypothesis of human - induced global warming has been thoroughly refuted.

At first, many will argue against it, but eventually, as evidence piles up, the scientists will come to terms with the new idea, and use it as the default position.

This abysmal failure to show us all absolute evidence of illicit money exchanged for fabricated, demonstratively false science papers / assessments is the proverbial «mathematical certainty «that dooms the accusation, and places the whole idea of man - caused global warming in peril of sinking if its promoters can not defend their position against science - based criticism from skeptic scientists.

An elemental question begs to be corroborated in more than one way for sheer fairness: When the main pushers of the idea that the «reposition global warming» phrase insinuate it is proof of an industry - led disinformation effort employing crooked skeptic climate scientists — Naomi Oreskes saying it indicates a plot to supply «alternative facts,» Gelbspan saying it is a crime against humanity, and Al Gore implying it is a cynical oil company effort — are they truly oblivious to the necessity of corroborating whether or not that phrase and the memo subset it came from actually had widespread corrupting influence, or did they push this «evidence» with malice knowing it was worthless?

Galileo used scientific evidence to prove the Earth revolved around the sun, and not the other way around, even though his idea went against the common thinking and religious ideology of his time.

This also goes against the idea of scientists» opinions being entirely based on objective analysis of the evidence and concurs with previous studies that have shown scientists» opinions on topics to vary along with their political orientation (Nisbet 2011; Rosenberg et al. 2010).

Against that we have observational evidence that the polar high pressure cells do vary from influences above and until there is another explanation I'll go with the solar / expansion idea but any idea that demonstrably works is good enough for me.

However, one must remember that many a researcher grabbed an idea and refused to let go even when the evidence went against them largely because they had defined themself as a scientist as much by their activism as their research.

Answer: Bear in mind that while this may seem like a good idea now, the photo will be incriminating evidence against you and could lead to a felony probation violation.

This leads to chronic litigation, as no matter how convincing the evidence against them or what the judge's decision, they do not let go of the idea that they are right.