Not exact matches
No one said they did not exit — just that they are
only acclaimed in creationist circles and that their «work» is funded by creationists and is discredited on
factual matters relating to the origin of life and the origin of species.
This seems to me the central
matter and one can not take it too lightly especially in view of the fact that, in Carnap's treatment of modalities,
only the modal property «contingent» correlates with the «
factual» taken as a semantical property; all other modal properties correlate merely with L - forms.
I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The
only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not
only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can
only make
factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no
matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.
So in my opinion
only facts
matter, just sayting that something has hormones and harmful chemicals without any
factual numbers (how much) is pointless, and incorrect.
Having already explored the ocean from a
factual perspective (the Oscar - winning 1953 documentary The Sea Around Us), writer - director - producer Irwin Allen opted to take the fantasy route with this entertaining yarn in which a nuclear submarine might be the
only hope against a circling fire belt that threatens to destroy Earth in a
matter of days.
Re # 200, Tony, I say the public perception is generally (60 - 80 % of the general population) informed and influenced in their opinions of issues by the media rather and hence that story told by that reporter needs to be
factual and not just a political one to suit the agenda of people who
only wish to hear what they can find to back all their already distored version of the truth of the
matter.
The
Factual level: disputes over «
matters of fact» a) not
only observational, but all claims about the world b) disputes are settled by appeal to methodological level c) at this level the rules are taken as given
Firstly, on a
factual matter, the OHC comparison which I published above...... was not intended to be a comparison with real - world observations,
only a comparison with the GISS E ensemble mean result, which should correspond to the reported GISS E temperature profile which was simultaneously matched.