Sentences with phrase «thing about evidence»

And it soon became clear that the first extraordinary thing about the evidence for the Hockey Stick was how extraordinarily weak it was, and the second extraordinary thing was how desperate its defenders were to hide this fact.

The thing about evidence - based policy analysis is that different countries face different sets of facts.

Not exact matches

While the board's opinion could one day change, Polman is right about one thing: There is ample evidence to suggest that companies that focus on long - term sustainability outperform those with a shorter - term outlook.

For one thing, consumers are now more likely to have figured out a brand by piecing together scraps of evidence they gathered on their own than to have learned about it from advertising.

@justsayin — ok, well the crazy thing about assertions is that they are much more readily accepted when supported with evidence.

That's the funny thing about faith - there's no evidence for anything you believe in.

I think just about all humans believe some things that defy the evidence.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't consider that sort of thing as a sound basis for deciding difficult questions when we have actual scriptural evidence to use instead.

About faith being the substance of things hoped for and for which the evidence is not seen?

Thus the black / white thinking you mention will require ever more proof from the outsider and will inevitably conclude that there is nothing at all, not one thing, that any of them can do about any of it because the outsider refuses to offer real honest - to - goodness evidence.

It's truly a shame that you disparage science and the search for understanding, and then go on about a loving being who is invisible & magical, even though you have no evidence at all for such a thing.

They are playing tricks with your mind so you don't see or care about evidence like this so they plan horrible things behind the curtain while people get upset over conterceptives you can still get.

So Bo, how about doing the christian thing and showing this poor non-believer a little evidence.

The prolific Jesuit scholar, Fr James Schall, now in his eighties, has given us this book about the pleasure of knowing the truth of things, in particular the delight of discovering coherence from reflecting upon diverse aspects of existence, of realising that all sorts of «scraps of evidence» point to the fact that only Christianity provides an adequate account of our existence.

And megalomania would be claiming to know all about these things — spirits and gods — when you really have no hard evidence whatsoever to back up your claims.

There is no evidence anywhere on this site that Jeremy Myers lacks sincerity or seriousness about the things of The Kingdom of God, quite the contrary.

atoms... all brought about by the scientific method have evidence as to their the reason why things are the way they are... NOT god... in EVERY instance god has proven not to be what it is... the reason a volcano explodes is not because the wrath of god is upon a community... we understand the process behind the event but we didn't always KNOW that.

There is not a shred of verified evidence that any such things as you fantasize about actually happen.

This is one thing that bugs me about evolution scientist is that they find evidence for micro evolution and then lump into together with macro and pass it off as validating scientific proof it's just poor science.

God has given us much evidence of His existence: how about the intricacies of how the human body works - can you really believe that happened without a master plan; what about the beauty of nature - can we really think that that just happened; what about the testimony of millions throughout the ages including Scientists attempting to disprove God, that point to things beyond their comprehension or doing.

Whenever you believe in something without evidence, believe that this thing is ordained by the most intelligent being in the universe, and that no amount of reasoning or discussion can change your mind about it, then you make a culture war completely inevitable.

So the one thing the debate showed last night is that Newt won't be touched significantly by any of the existing evidence about his interesting past — including how he's been earning his living over the last decacde — any time soon.

Simply because I exist on a Planet about a billion light years from any other currently living form of life, not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.

I have a lot of confidence in some things, but there is nothing that I would refuse to admit being mistaken in given enough evidence proving that I was wrong, which is what religious faith is all about.

I said that he was controversial, and that the people who DO believe those things about him can point to some pretty solid evidence to back up their claim.

Since you are concerned about all these things, this is evidence that the Holy Spirit is at work upon your life, therefore, you have not committed this sin.

People are free to accept things theorized about and they usually do based upon the evidence.

@ Bruce «A couple of things about belief and evidence for belief from the scriptures: (1) the gospel of John encourages us to believe based on the testimony of others who were «eyewitnesses» to key events»

I just wan na say weather what proof you have or evidence every religion book, scriptures, and testamony might know how the world will end but does nt know cause if everybody knew what day it was going to happen they would do all the things that people are doing following this man like quiting jobs and all that because in the bible under «THE CALL TO READINESS «it says God or jesus does nt want you to worry about when the world will end but the do want you to keep busy and continue to work hard JUST LIKE GOD DID TO CREATE the world so i do nt think noone should buy into this and it shouldnt be advertised cause thats not what GOD or JESUS would want because when he rises unexpectedly key word unexpectedly his joy and his welcoming would be him nknowing that the creatures aka as us humans have been following his will and working hard!!!

Nevertheless, the first and even the subsequent early councils were not called at random but because there were people ---- like Arius, Sabellius, the Nestorians (though not Nestorius), and others ---- who were teaching things about Jesus, the Father, or the Holy Spirit that, so far as our evidence can tell us, were not being taught by the majority of the Church.

doubtful jesus ever lived, no good evidence if he ever did live, he didn't do any magic tricks from the bible, he was just a cult leader the fictional character of jesus said some great things about love, but also supported slavery and other awful things

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.

I can't prove God's existence just as much as scientist can't prove the big bang... there is evidence of both but to reach a conclusion takes faith... one side leaves hope and the other does not... maybe I'm agnostic too because I don't claim to know everything about why I'm here, I have to have faith... Honestly, I'm sick of the extremes on both sides... the conservative judgmental Christian, who never thought through things as to why the believe what they do (ie Dinosaurs, cavemen, evolution, etc.) and the intellectually arrogant atheist and humanists.

Observers must pay special attention to the congregation's «street wisdom» about how things really get done; to evidence about what the congregation seeks to avoid; and to expressions of wishes, desires, and instances of their fulfillment.

We both accept, I think, these four related things about human knowing: (1) sentient experience of «physical things» is intrinsically infused with objective meaning, purposefulness and value; (2) flowing out, of this and intertwined with it is, at least for humans, «cognition» of the physical, and moral experience of such value; (3) this moral experience and engagement reveals the spiritual realm as something foundational to and «abstractly distinguishable» from the physical realm — values for Ward, mind for me; and (4) one piece of evidence for making such a distinction is the uniquely «publicly....

The significant thing about these commentaries is the evidence they give for the community's interpretation of prophecy in relation to itself.

You can of course view all of this with skepticism, and not believe the evidence that others present, but truly you can say the same thing about even scientific theories if you have a high enough level of skepticism.

Investigate the evidence yourself, there is nothing at all that truly suggests that the Big Bang happened, the only thing they have used in order to come up with the theory is that in their observances, the Universe appears to be expanding from a central point, it doesn't prove that a Big bang occurred, we know so little about the universe, that we don't even know everything about our own world, and you really believe that our science has figured out the riddle to the beginning of the Universe?

That's the great thing about Faith, it requires no evidence at all to justify it, and as such you can fit ANYTHING within it.

I have heard things about dried coconut containing aflatoxins, but I haven't been able to verify this with any published evidence.

So I thought I would have a quick look at the evidence and see if there was support for what Mikel Arteta said to Arsenal Player about the Gunners seeming to be punished for every little mistake and not getting rewarded for the things we have done well.

My point is, evidence only shows that Ryan does that thing everyone talks about in raising the play of his teammates.

And just as those stories are adding up, so too is a $ 9.7 billion and growing industry in North America around things like tinctures and creams and inhalers and tablets and vape pens and more that all can purportedly make you feel better in just about every way you think you need to feel better — from strong evidence that it soothes regular «ol aches to nascent (but not insignificant) evidence that it slows the production of proteins that cause Alzheimer's.

Not to get Fabregas back, not to buy a decent CB, or a DM, to overplay players when they are clearly out of form are all about his ego and his need to do things his way despite the advice of others and the evidence in front of him.

«It's all totally spurious but there's evidence that it's working because the average Scot is concerned about these things.

Just one thing; «Clearly, it is difficult to have a debate * about evidence * if people want to retreat to a claim that stats are meaningless anyway.»

Whatever we think about these examples, and the evidence presented to support them, they share one thing in common: the idea that politics is changing.

He added: «A second key concern.is about the pace of change and about the extent to which change is really tested and evaluated and the solidity of the evidence base for change before things are rolled out right across public services.»

His words, «This is exactly the same thing I'm talking about, a minister like Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, he believes and he levels charges of corruption against people from the previous regimes, notably the (former) president and first lady without evidence.

«One thing that has changed is the level of empirical evidence that the scientific community can generate about its own research activity.