Sentences with phrase «illiterate people on»

We both agree (I think) that most ordinary, scientifically - illiterate people on * both * sides of the debate come to their views by unscientific, unreliable methods.

While the proportion of illiterate people on the planet has declined over the past 70 years, the absolute number has remained stubbornly unchanged.»

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You make a couple of hundred dollars a month, well above the standard of living for the genuinely poor, illiterate people from a despised ethnicity who live on dirt floors and cook over indoor fires.

The entire religion is based on mistakes from people too illiterate to remember the origin of their religion... and even today we see the church evolving on that same path, rewriting and reinterpreting it's rulebook to try and fit a modern society it can never catch up to.

and more convenient for people who hear well and are always on the go (traveling for business, etc.) These pollsters are calling the senile, people who can't afford anything beyond a basic land line, shut - ins and illiterate immigrant house - wives who barely understand the questions.

Sufi orders prevailed among the illiterate and naïve tribes of Africa because illiterate people rely completely on others for an understanding of their religion, while an educated Muslim would turn to the Qur» an to know what Islam really is.

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

The Big change in history done by (illiterate) prophet Muhammad peace be up on him brought the people from darkness to light, but most people killed by the pride they do not want to admitted.

What makes you think that a monk who wrote the bible 1000 years ago (when most people were illiterate) knows anything more about a man named Jesus who lived 2000 years than we do today, when we all can't even agree on where President Obama came from today?

It all depends, really, on how a person defines «biblically illiterate,» and I am not convinced that the traditional definitions and tests we use to determine biblical literacy are all that correct.

There is nothing to suggest that there was any real, living, non magical person who these stories were based on who could be literate or illiterate.

Without major public efforts in this field, the global super information highway is not likely to include the two billion people who live on less than $ 300 a year, or the more than 1 billion people who are illiterate and some 500 million children for whom there are no schools.

There were no written records as the vast majority of people were illiterate, everything was passed on by word of mouth, not the most accurate method.

The question I always ask when the issue of biblical illiteracy comes up is: why, after decades of people sitting through week after week, hour after hour of sermons allegedly done to educate Christians on scripture, do some make a case that there is a «crisis» of Christians being biblically illiterate.

Sadly this invaluable book can not tell us in advance if this is going to happen but it does provide the information to help guide even the most statistically illiterate person as to what will be going on during the election and will come into its own during the long night of counting after the polls have closed, if returning offi cers up and down the country do not have their way and pull the plug on counting in a majority of the seats immediately after the polls have closed.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Commenting on the need of such programs, Development Alternatives says «In the most practical terms, an illiterate person can not ethically sign a contract, can not get vocational training, can not help their children with their schooling and can not communicate with family members in other towns and villages except by phone.

I arrived in my classroom and looked through my inmates» academic records only to find that many of them, people who are on the brink of adulthood, were functionally illiterate.

I used to have the snobbish attitude that many mathematically literate people have towards lotteries: that they are «a tax on the mathematically illiterate», and so on.

A lot of people who peddle themselves as retirement experts will prey on financially illiterate seniors, she says.

There are literally millions of travel blogs out there now, and even the most technically illiterate person can get in on the fun.

That's why people are so upset with her and insist on holding her to a higher standard than your typical science - illiterate denialist such as Montford, whose book she apparently believes to be a more reliable source of information on climate science than the work and statements of her peers...

The practice of having illiterate people write an «X» on a signature line with the intent that they will be bound is used for this same purpose, even though it is probably not identifiable forensically (although it rules out a signature by a literate person).

Very often, I see predators preying on financially illiterate people.