Sentences with phrase «science over evolution»

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Since no one has yet to SEE an atom, the idea of the structure of the atom can only be inferred by experimental evidence — yet I see no Republican trying to stop teaching the structure of the atom in school — oh that's right, its because major corporations and industries rely on this science (pharm, weapons manufacturers etc etc) whereas the theory of evolution is merely think piece of scientists on how life on Earth changes over time.

a) Given accurate transmission of Vedic scripture over > 6000 yrs b) Given the explanations brought forth by science of process of evolution matching the the Dasavataras of Vishnu Brahma is the right answer!!!

Science does explain all your questions, you just simply refuse to believe that evolution, over millions and billions of years, could result in the wonderful world we live in.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society with more than 130,000 members and over 262 affiliated societies and academies of science including over 10 million individuals, has made several statements and issued several press releases in support of evoScience, the world's largest general scientific society with more than 130,000 members and over 262 affiliated societies and academies of science including over 10 million individuals, has made several statements and issued several press releases in support of evoscience including over 10 million individuals, has made several statements and issued several press releases in support of evolution.

Recent debates in the pages of First Thingsand other conservative journals over Darwin's theory of evolution and creationism reveal the degree to which Catholics seem stuck in the trees for want of seeing the forest, the lopsided degree to which the Church gives assent to philosophy without deeply exploring the particular science it considers a threat, (this journal, it goes without saying, excepted).

All these parents who insist on teaching «creationism» to their kids as «science», while downplaying (or completely / hiding denying) the tangible bona fide evidence of evolution... I sometimes have to wonder why they don't simply feed lead paint to their kids and get it over with.

where to start... you have IDers wanting that taught along side evolution as if that puedo - science would stand up in school, you have religious folks attacking the schools over different parts of the curriculum.

Written over a 17 - year period, the lengthy piece describes Tennyson's struggle with doubt, brought on by the death of a close friend as well as discoveries concerning evolution and science.

Fundamentalists have in the past sometimes considered both education and science to be works of the devil; this attitude, largely engendered by the controversy over evolution, is less common today.

Over the last five - hundred years science has found universes far beyond our imagination, it has broken the framework of the Judeo creation myth and traced the evolution of life out of some primordial muck.

Science has also proven that, rather than being «created» fully - formed, humans are the product of an ongoing process of evolution that took place over millions of years.

Especially when the USA has over half the population that doesn't believe in science and evolution.

Modern science: evolution created Humans over the course of billions of years Church: God made evolution and 6000 years was just a metaphor

Modern science: evolution created the world over the course of billions of years Church: God made evolution and 6000 years was just a metaphor

According to Edward J. Larson's scholarly, informative, Pulitzer Prize - winning book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, the prosecution of young John Scopes for presumedly violating a state law restricting the teaching of evolution in the public schools need not have resulted in the now legendary high - pitched standoff between the atheistic radical Clarence Darrow and the robustly religious populist William Jennings Bryan.

So it has been 130 years since the Scopes Trial, Darwin him self said if over the next century science could not discover support for complex evolution then his theory was false.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) expressed concern over proposed Oklahoma legislation that would encourage the state's public school teachers to question the well - established science behind evolution and global climate Science (AAAS) expressed concern over proposed Oklahoma legislation that would encourage the state's public school teachers to question the well - established science behind evolution and global climate science behind evolution and global climate change.

Canadian academics want science minister Gary Goodyear to resign over his latest statements involving religious views In March, Goodyear linked possible doubts about evolution to his beliefs.

«Discussing American science literacy without mentioning evolution is intellectual malpractice» that «downplays the controversy» over teaching evolution in schools, says Joshua Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has fought to keep creationism out of the science clascience literacy without mentioning evolution is intellectual malpractice» that «downplays the controversy» over teaching evolution in schools, says Joshua Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has fought to keep creationism out of the science claScience Education, a nonprofit that has fought to keep creationism out of the science clascience classroom.

A new study titled Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary, released Friday in the journal Science, is the first to quantitatively show that human effects on mammal body size predates their migration out of Africa and that size selective extinction is a hallmark of human activities and not the norm in mammal evolution.

In announcing his plan, Shaw paid tribute to the historic significance of the 2016 centennial of The National Park Service, and the remarkable evolution of science over the past century.

Over the past few days, I have seen dozens of science - art collisions such as this one and even witnessed the 3 - billion - year story of evolution recounted in a world - premiere concert.

A breezy account of the evolution of science over the past few centuries is followed by an account of «how to be a scientist», which begins with how to go about entering the profession and winds up with making significant discoveries and winning prizes.

For 40 days Judge John Jones presided over the intelligent design trial in Pennsylvania and now he aims to decide by 1 January whether teaching ID in US science classes alongside evolution violates the constitutional ban on religious indoctrination in schools.

Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the school board members.

The following passage contains an almost verbatim quote from the referenced 2001 paper by Jones et al (The Evolution of Climate Over the Last Millennium from Science), but is not block quoted.

He has published several papers on the evolution of cooperation in wasps, and has written over 140 popular science articles for magazines including New Scientist, L'espresso and Le Scienze, before being awarded a Marie Curie European fellowship to start his current line of research.

Ian Livingstone to discuss the rise of Lara Croft; David Braben will mull over the evolution of video games since Elite at London Science Museum.

Where Gyllenhaal's — as well as Fuqua's and Sutter's — abilities stand out is in demonstrating to us how Billy changes as a boxer over the course of the film; the fighter we meet at the beginning is not the one we see at the end, and «Southpaw» takes us through that process and lets even those of us unstudied in the Sweet Science take in Billy's evolution.

The South Carolina board of education voted 10 - 6 last week to reject a proposal that would have asked students to «critically analyze» evolution as part of the state's science standards, the latest chapter in a debate over the theory's status in the state.

A familiar debate over the origins of life — this time centered on a science - textbook sticker — is playing out in a Georgia courtroom, where parents are challenging their school district's written description of evolution as «a theory, not a fact.»

While controversy over the science requirements turned this lawsuit into another story about evolution and intelligent design for many in the media, the case is, in fact, about much more.

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

However, one might well ask: What about the heated disagreements over how to teach reading and math, American history, science (evolution or creationism?)

A Los Angeles Times article few days ago provided a fresh look at the tussle over global warming in classrooms, focusing on a move by the National Center for Science Education to add a substantial climate component to its longstanding effort to keep ideology and religion out of classes on biology and evolution.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

Since people's beliefs about evolution are influenced by their perceptions of scientific consensus, the total role of science knowledge in shaping a person's opinion likely operates indirectly through beliefs about scientific consensus as well as directly through beliefs about whether humans have evolved over time.

Others discussed how to deal with skeptics, some displaying a hostility to contrarians that seemed surprising to people who haven't followed the growing nastiness of the fight against global - warming science, which has come to resemble the fights over abortion and evolution.

So unless there is a permanent, drastic, progressive and one - way alteration in the chemical makeup of the oceans over geological epochs (which would entail the massive evolution of hydrogen gas and the production of oxygen, chlorine or hydrogen peroxide) or a similarly huge increase in its potential energy (levitating it off the ocean floor), the energy involved will still have to be dissipated as heat (there's nowhere else for it to go, unless you get all science - fictiony and assume it vanishes into hyperspace or turns into neutrinos or something).

Among such a large group of people you will find at least as many science denialists from evolution over vaccines to general relativity.

We've skipped over those great centuries in Greece between 500 and 200 b.c. when Pythagoras inferred basic geometric regularities and musical chords, Empedocles talked of the survival of the fittest in evolution, when Aristotle, Plato, and Archimedes created the classical foundations of philosophy and science.

The SEARCH vision and mission reflects the evolution of SEARCH and Arctic science over the past several years and emphasizes SEARCH's role in developing scientific knowledge that is relevant to decision - making.

The following passage contains an almost verbatim quote from the referenced 2001 paper by Jones et al (The Evolution of Climate Over the Last Millennium from Science), but is not block quoted.

There are many public intellectual debates occurring over scientific and skeptical issues — the place of creationism vs evolution in public science classes, the including of alternative medicine in academic curricula, the validity of debate on global warming, etc..

Yet, much like with the Pennsylvania victory in the battle over teaching evolution, I can only manage a half - hearted cheer at this latest triumph of science over superstition and ignorance.

Faced over the last 30 years with rapid advances in the science of human reproduction and fertility, DNA analysis, and genetics, the equally rapid evolution of the legal rights of gay and lesbian individuals, and significant changes in social views regarding traditional marriage, same - sex couples, and families, the law throughout the United States has been forced to wrestle with the question of just exactly «who is a parent?»

Another random ebay purchase, this portfolio of prints from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair shows depicts the evolution of science over the ages.