Sentences with phrase «scientific knowledge on»

Zeynep Biringen, Ph.D. has spent the last twenty years conducting research on emotional availability in parent - child relationships, adding to the growing body of scientific knowledge on the subject that has been amassed in the field of child - parent attachment.

1) to disseminate and advance scientific knowledge on the needs and rights («best interests») of children whose parents are living apart, and

5) Explain how central the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record is to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

It was prompted by a story over at Forbes on efforts by the National Center for Science Education to support educators being pressured by political interests to misrepresent the current state of scientific knowledge on climate change.

the committee will summarize current scientific information on the temperature record for the past 1,000 - 2,000 years, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record is to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

This principle allows policy makers to make discretionary decisions in situations where there is the possibility of harm from taking a particular course or making a certain decision when extensive scientific knowledge on the matter is lacking.

... there is nothing at all anti-science about restricting the pursuit of scientific knowledge on the basis of moral concerns.

Deciding the lawsuits in favor of Oakland and San Francisco would be «revolutionary» and open the door to myriad similar lawsuits, so Alsup may want to establish a strong base of scientific knowledge on climate change, said David Takacs, a professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law who studies climate change.

The scientific conference «Our Common Future under Climate Change» covers the full landscape of scientific knowledge on climate change.

They offer their scientific knowledge on aspects such as the occurrence, diagnosis, host - specificity, virulence, risk of emergence and antimicrobial resistance of zoonotic pathogens emerged in companion animals.

Puzzling it Out: The Current State of Scientific Knowledge on Pre-Kindergarten Effects: A Consensus Statement lists six consensus statements on what we know about the effects of pre-k and highlights the importance of gathering further evidence to answer three important questions: What features of pre-k programs, specifically, put children on a positive developmental trajectory?

I prefer to base my scientific knowledge on reality, not musings and thought experiments by non-scientist internet commenters.

The NRC asked the committee to summarize current scientific information on the temperature record for the past two millennia, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

The committee has prepared a report that, in my view, provides policy makers and the scientific community with a critical view of surface temperature reconstructions and how they are evolving over time, as well as a good sense of how important our understanding of the paleoclimate temperature record is within the overall state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

The 2017 Climate Science Special Report, which lays out the current state of scientific knowledge on climate change, will be rolled into the fourth National Climate Assessment, set to be released in late 2018.

It listed among its aims «increasing scientific knowledge on climate change» and supporting research to «improve climate models».

West co-founded the Eigenfactor Project, which aims to rank and map scientific knowledge on the principle that scholarly literature forms a vast network, where the nodes are papers and citations are the links.

UNEP plays an important role in developing scientific knowledge on the state of the global environment.

It provides latest and correct scientific knowledge on feeding a child.

In facilitating the exchange of scientific knowledge on organic food and farming systems, TIPI is committed to engaging all stakeholders who benefit from Organic Agriculture research.

But yes, some people do share sound scientific knowledge on this blog.

Not exact matches

Levi - Strauss's analysis is most enjoyable because of the light it casts on the contrast (and sometimes lack of contrast) between «primitive» and «scientific» systems of knowledge.

Pardon me, but «our» knowledge, if you wish to call it that, is based on repeatable, empiricle evidence that is accepted by 99 % of the scientific community.

Either the vast majority of scientific knowledge that has worked developing modern medicine and technology is on a wrong foundation (that makes the success of medicine and technology virtually impossible), or the bible is wrong in some of it's facts.

What's so sad is his willingness to completely ignore the reams of scientific evidence, data, knowledge, inference, etc. that very much describes what was going on thousands or millions of years ago.

He says that he would «convert on the spot» if any of these could be shown to him: verifiable fulfillment of prophecies that couldn't have been contrived; scientific knowledge in holy books that wasn't available at the time; miraculous occurrences, especially if brought about through prayer; any direct manifestation of the divine; aliens who believed in exactly the same religion.

For example, modern knowledge based on scientific discovery shows us that disease is not caused by evil spirits, so why believe in ancient creation myths which are shown to be incorrect.

Our knowledge is very limited comparing the entire universe... there might be some scientific calculation which of course based on the expectations or probability but not for sure...

He urges us to «recognize belief once more as the source of all knowledge» and insists that scientific research is carried on only within «a fiduciary framework».

But before expressing this belief, Fr Holloway makes a general remark about the nature of scientific knowledge which may serve as an introduction to Polanyi's refutation of Scientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final proscientific knowledge which may serve as an introduction to Polanyi's refutation of Scientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final prooknowledge which may serve as an introduction to Polanyi's refutation of Scientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final proScientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final prooKnowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final prooknowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final proof.»

By scientific method we mean all ways in which reliable, communicable knowledge based on experience in every area may be gained.

Moltmann's thoughts on the dangers of using the power of scientific knowledge without pondering beauty - and in particular on the dangers of the «economisation» of science in this century, in which scientific thought may only be valued generally in terms of its economic power - would be shared by many researchers in the UK.

``... the future of Christian philosophy will therefore depend on the existence or absence of theologians equipped with scientific training, no doubt limited but genuine and, within its own limits, sufficient for them to follow with understanding such lofty dialogues not only in mathematics and physics but also in biology and wherever the knowledge of nature reaches the level of demonstration.»

During the four weeks they try to develop in the seminar participants as much understanding as possible, based on scientific knowledge.

Because Troeltsch, at the beginning of this century, was keenly aware of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its end: the collapse of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity of all historical events and knowledge (including scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence of a profound global pluralism; the central role of practice in theology; the growing impact of the social sciences on our view of the world and of ourselves; and dramatic changes in the role of religious institutions and religious thought.

you don't think that so called scientific results are skewered... or that the primitive machines that we use to discover our universe are woefully incapable of plumbing the depths of knowledge that an all wise creator has put in place... science is like some guys throwing dice and hoping it comes up sevens on consecutive throws... get over yourself

I am amazed that people can't see the obvious, the bible is not a timeless book of laws from an omniscient being, it is a man made docu ment based on the moral, technological, and scientific state of knowledge millennia ago.

The reason for this is that fundamentalists were rejecting what was fast becoming common knowledge, based on scientific evidence.

maybe an equation or some other scientific «knowledge» that we as yet haven't got a handle on.

Heliocentrism, on the other hand, created a world where matter clumped randomly around the universe, which defied all reason, observation and scientific knowledge.

«I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.»

While well - acquainted with the tradition of philosophical reflection on the soul and its relationship to the body, Fr Selman's knowledge of recent scientific research relevant to his subject appears less impressive and his terminology, and even some of his ideas and arguments, can therefore appear outdated or irrelevant.

It is a commonplace of modern science that facts are one thing and values quite another, that we can rely on objective scientific knowledge, while subjective metaphysical thinking (the logical positivists would say) is dubious and to be avoided whenever possible.

The kerygma, says Bultmann, otherwise called the gospel message, must be accepted in its purity, free of the distortions of mythology and free of the falsifications imposed on it when it is confused with scientific knowledge about the natural world.

The Bible is not a textbook on science, for it was written many centuries before the modern scientific method and the vast accumulation of facts we call scientific knowledge had been dreamed of.

The magisterium does not judge on the basis of scientific knowledge.

Contemporary humankind has now to relearn this — on a global scale, and with the benefit of immense scientific knowledge.

Writing in The Guardian on 12 June, she argues that an «infallible» scientific stance that just rejects all religious truth is an abuse of human knowledge.

In the light of man's unrelenting attack on disease, some biologists believe that development of deadly germs is a betrayal of the human race as well as of the ideals of science; one - hundredth of an ounce of botulism toxin could kill a million people, and its production seems to further neither scientific knowledge nor any peacetime applications.

Yes, science adjusts its position as more knowledge is obtained; this is in stark contrast to religion which relies on ancient texts to explain the world even though those texts were written in ignorance and scientific knowledge shows them to be false.