Sentences with phrase «statement about the evidence»

Not exact matches

«There is robust evidence that social isolation and loneliness significantly increase risk for premature mortality, and the magnitude of the risk exceeds that of many leading health indicators,» Holt - Lunstad said in a statement about the research.

In a nutshell, a statement can fairly be called a lie if there is abundant evidence to the contrary that a speaker should have known about.

Despite our desire for simplicity, good expert advice is usually heavy with qualifying statements, candid about evidence to the contrary, and not as simple as we'd like it to be.

When you make categorical statements like «not a single shred of evidence» it tends to show that you're (a) dogmatic, (b) misinformed, and (c) know nothing about history, philosophy or science.

I call BS on Jimbo about «a huge avalanche of historical evidence and archeology» and I call BS on your statement because you only refer to «common knowledge» I've seen what Christian common knowledge is like and it often runs a bit shy on facts..

At most the scientist may employ that word to indicate the limitations of his knowledge, but to make a universal statement about the development of the human race in terms of randomness far transcends the evidence.

Also, if he claims for statements about Jesus» ultimate significance a self - evidence or demonstration in no way dependent upon participation in the community of faith, he would not intend his statements to be theological in the sense of my definition.

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

In contrast, ready evidence directly contradicts statements in the Christian bible about the basics of biology, such as how diseases propagate, and even about basic bodily functions, e.g. of the kidneys.

The fundamental (excuse the pun) problems with far - right Christianity are exactly the same issues our Savior spoke about to the Pharisees: judgmentalism, hypocrisy, intolerance, and the hyper - extremity of observing the letter of the law rather than its spirit (as evidenced by statements from various preachers that people such gays and disobedient children should be killed).

If the jurors have a reasonable doubt about this, they must not consider the statement for any purpose, nor any evidence obtained as a result thereof.

Two comments about this third point: First, the statement of this requirement is evidence that neither the concept of God in general nor the conception of the consequent nature of God is ad hoc to Whitehead's system.

You could believe all this, but next time you think «a fool said in his heart there is no god», remember how many religions you don't believe, and how making those bland statements is not likely to sway many of us who think critically about evidence.

But I would assume, until I had evidence to the contrary, that if most gays make a statement about their orientation, it is likely to be true.

My reply was to prove that your statement about that «the resurrection of Jesus does not prove He was GOD», is not correct, and i gave a few verses to make my reply with evidence from the bible.

But I do hope you realize you're putting the cart before the horses in making generalized statements about atheists as if they are facts when you haven't presented anything as evidence for your notions.

I heard a radio program where the speaker Steve someone said dinosaurs were on the ark with Noah... Really he touted about scientific evidence not supporting things then follows it up with a statement like that.

That Paul is clearly talking about traveling apostolic teachers is evidenced not only by his frequent references to «apostles» throughout the passage, but also the statements in verses 5 and 7 about taking a believing wife along with them, and going off to war.

If I make a statement about the objective world, which includes everything apart from my subjective world: my thoughts, my feelings, my beliefs, etc., I need to back it up with empirical evidence that can be tested and retested experimentally.

Did you notice that you posted two statements as parental corrections without any critical supporting evidences, and one (1) story / insight / history about yourself?

It remains, however, entirely reasonable to believe that statements about God and faith are not amenable, in principle, to the kind of evidence you seek.

At this point Whitehead produces his oft - cited statement about empirical support «both from the evidence for peculiar instances of telepathy, and from the instinctive apprehension of a tone of feeling in ordinary social intercourse» (PR 469).

It is difficult to put all the evidence in such a matter into words, to gather up into a distinct statement all that one bases one's conclusions on, but I have always felt that I had abundant evidence to justify (to myself, at least) the conclusion that I came to then, and since have held to, that the physical change which came at that time was, first, the result of a change wrought within me by a change of mental state; and secondly, that that change of mental state was not, save in a very secondary way, brought about through the influence of an excited imagination, or a consciously received suggestion of an hypnotic sort.

The American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists emphasized the results of the Wax study in its official statement on homebirth, siting that «Women inquiring about planned home birth should be informed of its risks and benefits based on recent evidence.

I wrote a an entire page for a response and will post the link here when it is published on their website, but for now I will just share with you a portion of what I wrote in reply...» This statement about breastfeeding is not only incorrect with absolutely no evidenced based research to back it up, but can be harmful t to a mum's breastmilk supply and her baby.

As the lead investigator said in a statement, «Countries that have been holding back on implementing medical circumcision programs due to a lack of evidence regarding risk compensation should have no concerns about scaling - up programs.»

«Scientific evidence doesn't support the industry's statements about ARA and DHA,» said James Akre, a former member of the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE), which sets global standards for lactation and breastfeeding care.

In a lengthy statement this afternoon the judge warned the Commons off attempting to see and debate evidence about allegations that Mr Hunt acted inappropriately during News Corporation's takeover bid for BSkyB.

In court papers, defense lawyers have asked U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood to exclude evidence of statements the son made that the father knew nothing about.

Perhaps an additional point of circumstantial evidence; Erdogan was pretty quick about getting out a statement urging citizens to take to the streets and «defend democracy».

George Osborne, the chancellor, is about to start giving evidence to the Commons Treasury committee about the autumn statement.

Tarfia please do not make assumptions about my knowledge base and, if possible, try and base your statements with evidence rather than opinion and what you think — take a leaf out of John Ps responses — he gives us some figures to back up his claims — for example — how do you know how many people occupy the centre ground — what evidence have you got.

10 am: George Osborne gives evidence to the Commons Treasury committee about the autumn statement.

In a statement, the MPs said that serious questions had arisen about the evidence Ms Brooks and the News of the World's former editor Andy Coulson gave at a previous hearing in 2003.

The letter comes in response to an announcement Rosenstein made at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences on Feb. 21 in Seattle disclosing that the Justice Department has approved «Uniform Language for Testimony and Reports» to be used by its forensic examiners in statements about analyses of forensic latent fingerprint evidence conducted in its labs.

, a vocal opponent of nuclear power, saw Jaczko's statement as a welcome response to his concerns about the ability of the AP1000 to survive a major earthquake, hurricane or earthquake strike, and as evidence of NRC's closer scrutiny of safety issues following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.

These games often make confident statements about improving our mental performance, but there is little scientific evidence to show that they do.

«It is important to note that while adverse event reports give us some information about a product and serious injuries or deaths related to use of a particular product, they often indicate situations that require additional analysis and do not constitute conclusive evidence of a problem with the product,» the spokeswoman, Lyndsay Meyer, said in a statement.

Whenever astronomers talk about potential evidence for alien life, their statements are often overblown.

No «substantiated» evidence exists that genetically engineered crops have caused health problems in humans or damaged the environment, but it's too soon to be making broad statements, positive or negative, about laboratory - based manipulations of crop genomes, an elite panel of scientists concluded in a report Tuesday.

Stromatolite fossils not only «provide obvious evidence of ancient life that is visible with the naked eye, but that they are complex ecosystems,» Nutman said in a statement, adding that the newly discovered fossils are about 220 million years older than the world's previous oldest stromatolite fossils that were found in Western Australia in 2006.

«Our findings suggest further investigation into the potential of MC1R - activating agents as novel neuroprotective therapies for PD, and together with epidemiological evidence, may offer information that could guide those carrying MC1R variants to seek advice from dermatologists or neurologists about their personal risk for melanoma and Parkinson's disease,» lead author Xiqun Chen says in a statement.

BTW, as for your statement about their being no evidence that «vegans» live longer than anyone else, I don't advocate «veganism» as such on health grounds.

Baumbach's tendency to offer up, as the ultimate statement about a character, the fact that they will never become the raging success they expected to be is not evidence of any wisdom or perspective on Baumbach's part, but of a narrow and reductive vision.

OK, but statements like that needs some evidence behind it, and apart from references to «grand cinematography» and references to Phoenix and Hoffman as «likely Oscar nominees» who «command the screen,» it's difficult (for me, at least) to get a sense of what the reviewer thinks the movie is about, or what's so special about the picture.

It starts with an all about me page for the child, followed by pages for «my first week of school» it is then organised into the 7 areas of the EYFS with statements for you to highlight as evidencing progress so no need to carry the EYFS around with you as the statements are already in there!

On the first two «costs» the book provides no evidence of harm, other than summary statements about segregation, expressing concern that «education programs that serve low - income and minority students have become quite different from those that serve the rest of the student population,» (p. 225) and that «charter schools have moved the country farther away from the collective and democratic forms of education.»

Consequently, she makes sweeping statements about an entire generation when her evidence is drawn almost entirely from the unusual lives of an elite population.

Asked about the poor showing of Cincinnati's vaunted community schools, Fariña called their results «pretty good» — a statement that's not only hard to support with evidence, but also suggests a surprising lack of urgency about academic achievement in some of the city's most hard - pressed schools.

Having teachers start by making low - inference statements about what they noticed helped them practice the norm of grounding statements in evidence.