Sentences with phrase «valid description»

In a Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) study of the new evaluation system's 1999 — 2000 pilot, 75 percent of teachers said the new teaching standards were valid descriptions of good teaching.

In this book Peter Enns seeks to give Christians, who value Scripture as the Word of God, parameters by which they can understand the Bible and its message while accepting evolution as a valid description of the origin of humans.

Neither excluding a priori with positivists anything more than the material and efficient causes, nor making philosophy, as the «science of common experience,» superior to science, as Schönborn would have it, is a valid description of the world.

Any theory that lets bizarre brains randomly pop into existence can't be a valid description of the universe.

With current observations suggesting that dark energy comprises more than 70 percent of the matter - energy density of the present - day universe, astronomers say that measuring the apparent shapes and the distribution of galaxies in the Universe will constrain the nature of dark energy and allow them to examine whether the general theory of relativity is still a valid description of gravitation on scales of billions of light years.

Such inflated intervals would be a valid description of the uncertainty in the maximum or minimum of the reconstructed temperature series.