Sentences with phrase «scientific issue in the first place»

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First, discussion of Intelligent Design's argument against neo-Darwinism is out of place in a high - school science classroom because most scientists working in the area do not accept the Intelligent Design criticism of neo-Darwinism and because understanding the scientific issues involves sophisticated arguments far beyond the capacity of nonspecialists, let alone high - school students.

First because Dr T derives any authority he has from his place in the scientific community, and second because unpicking the methodological issues exposes the political.

In the first place, you and I are not a community on this issue, and to the best of my knowledge you are not a qualified climate scientist, or indeed even a name that might make Inhofe's list of pretenders to scientific authority.

According to research by Yale Law School professor Dan Kahan and his colleagues, people's deep - seated views about morality, and about the way society should be ordered, strongly predict whom they consider to be a legitimate scientific expert in the first place — and thus where they consider «scientific consensus» to lie on contested issues.