Sentences with phrase «making factual claims»

When making factual claims, citing reliable sources is encouraged and appreciated.

He deciphered supposed golden tablets that he showed to no one, written in a language that does not exist, and made factual claims that have been proven to be patently false.

The Declaration of Independence does not make factual claims — life after death, the existence of gods, Jesus rising from the dead.

They appear to make factual claims, for example, that after the Resurrection Jesus ascended into heaven, whereas this may be a coded way of expressing the hope that «Love is the strongest power in the universe.»

Not exact matches

b. South Park and «factual» are oxymorons c. I have heard many if not most of the claims made to refute the Book of Mormon including yours below.

But regarding the creation story, it makes specific factual claims (albeit, internally contradictory when comparing the two different creation narratives) regarding the order of creation which are directly contradicted by observable, physical evidence, e.g. earth before sun, the order of the appearance of particular forms of life, etc..

The two are rivals when, for example, religion makes counter factual claims about the world.

This would be an incredible claim to make today, but in an age when mythology was rife and factual accuracy was not exactly valued by committed religious zealots, which the original authors clearly were, the chance that the gospels we have today accurately reflect the life of Jesus is virtually zero.

One of the strangest claims often made by purveyors and consumers of today's popular atheism is that disbelief in God involves no particular positive philosophy of reality, much less any kind of religion or creed, but consists merely in neutral incredulity toward a certain kind of factual asseveration.

AtheistHunter (first off FUCKTARD, you belong in an asylum): You make these claims without one shred of factual evidence to back you and you have the audacity to call Atheists arrogant??? You're just a plain ignorant waste of human flesh!!

As far as I can tell, you chiefly dispute two factual claims I'm making: 1.

The claim about Bt176 maize made in Michael Meacher's article, therefore, has no factual, legal or scientific basis.

So if according to Transparency International, Nigeria was less corrupt under Jonathan than it is today and according to the Institute for Economics and Peace, Nigeria is more terrorized today than it was under Jonathan, it becomes clear that Bola Tinubu has no factual basis to make the claims he made.»

They claimed that the investigatory panel had made factual errors and failed to meet the deadlines laid out in Harvard's bylaws, that members of the panel had conflicts of interest, and that Nabel and Brodnicki had disclosed confidential information by sharing details of the investigation with editors at

I have enclosed a response to your letter to Mr. Armistead and documents that provide factual evidence to the claims made by Mr. Armistead and others as to why Alabama should extricate itself from Common Core Standards.

In total, the works in Off Camera challenge our vision by making visible that which is not apparent, posit the impossible, confuse genres, subvert photography's traditions and factual claims, and manipulate reality and meaning.

Sorry to be so blunt, Judith, but when you make a claim that Tamino's review has «numerous factual errors and misrepresentations» it behooves you to actually list the errors and defend your point of view.

The responses of advocates of US climate change policies to these arguments are almost always to take issue with the factual economic and scientific conclusions of these arguments by making counter economic and scientific claims.

... a breathtaking dash through personal hypocrisy, factual inaccuracy and political rhetoric... it's very hard to interpret this as a statement made in good faith... a clearer example of disinformation could not be wished for... excellent means to give a misleading impression of uncertainty... shortsighted vision and moral bankruptcy... a shameless call to narrow self - interest... Professor Curry advocates unwise policy based on false claims and bankrupt morals.

For most of the 35 years, proponents of climate change policies have usually responded to these arguments by making counter «factual» claims such as climate policies will increase jobs or trigger economic growth.

Only within the last ~ 250 years has the technology to make reproducible measures OF temperature as required by SCIENCE been available, so CLAIMS involving mentions OF 600 years are NON FACTUAL.

It is not enough for proponents of climate change policies to simply make counter scientific and economic «factual» arguments to the scientific and economic claims of the climate change policy opponents, advocates for climate policies need to help citizens understand what interests are responsible for the disinformation that is the basis for the false arguments made by opponents of climate change policies, why the tactics used the opponents of climate change policies are morally reprehensible, and why the arguments of those opposing climate change policies will continue to create huge injustices and immense suffering in the world.

The scientific community does agree pretty much across the board that climate change is upon us, but the entire scope of what's taking place is unclear and the giant «factual» claims being made are not entirely what they seem, on both sides.

«IPCC Chairman Pachauri was making public comments on a dispute involving factual claims by the IPCC at the same time that he was negotiating for funding to his home institution justified by those very same claims.»

This allows parties to file affidavit evidence, and can force a full factual record before the court to make an informed analysis of the merits of a claim.

With regard to Weirton's third claim, the court held that even if Weirton were correct that the arbitrator erroneously applied a tolling provision, it declined to vacate the award «simply because the arbitrator made legal or factual errors.»

The present claim sought to overturn the 2008 decision on the basis that (1) the Foreign Secretary failed in breach of his duty of candour in public law proceedings to disclose relevant documents containing documents that would have been likely to affect the factual basis on which the House of Lords made its decision; and (2) there was new material that undermined that factual basis.

In this instance, the Court found that the motion judge committed an error of principle making it inappropriate for the Court to rely on his factual findings of the Appellants» knowledge of their third party claims as dispositive of the appeal.

Declarations provide the factual basis for claims made in memoranda of points and authorities, briefs, and writs.

Indeed, while live expert testimony is uncommon in claim construction proceedings under the old standard, the Teva decision makes live testimony more likely so the district judge can weigh competing evidence, assess credibility and make specific factual findings.

The essence of his claim was that a disciplinary panel constituted in accordance with his contract would not have made the erroneous factual findings made against him and that in consequence his contract would not have been terminated.

8] CLAIMS: That is, no,» I'm a strategic, clear thinker, I can work alone or in a group, I can...» Make it FACTUAL, says Peter Bell, President of Peter Bell & Associates.

Despite the status of the registration process as an administrative test only, these conditions require the Native Title Registrar to make an assessment of the factual basis for claimed native title [113] and to be satisfied that at least one member of the native title claim group «currently has or previously had a traditional physical connection with any part of the land or waters covered by the application».

In a Dec. 21, 2011, response, NeighborCity offered to enter into a «custom license» agreement with MRIS that would enable the brokerage «to continue to use the listing data in which your client claims a proprietary interest» in order to make referrals exclusively to MRIS members, charge them referral fees, «rank and rate member brokers and real estate agents for public display and to effectuate referrals,» and «derive and own analysis and derivative works from the factual listing data,» among other things.