Sentences with phrase «way of actual evidence»

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An actual supernatural thing would, for us to interact with it in any way, be required to impinge upon this space - time continuum, and we see that, regardless of scale, i.e. microscopic or macroscopic, there is absolutely zero evidence that there is anything interacting with us or our universe in any way.

As Christopher Norris has beautifully documented, the positivist fairy - tale of open - minded scientists accumulating measurable evidence, making conjectures based on that evidence, and then seeking to refute those conjectures does not well describe the actual way that scientists operate.

«There is no way you can deny evidence of history when you have seen the actual hair, the shoes,» he said referring to exhibits at Auschwitz that display hills of hair and shoes from the tens of thousands of Jews gassed there.

Although it challenges the dominant models of thought of the modern era, it does so in ways that fit the actual evidence of the sciences.

There's no real purpose of the linea nigra — old wives» tales have claimed that it's a way to determine the sex of your baby (if it stops at your navel, it's a boy, but if it goes all the way to your ribs, it's a girl), but there's no actual scientific evidence proving this.

There is no evidence whatsoever that «politics» in any way, shape or form has influenced actual climate science, or its overwhelming conclusions regarding both the reality of anthropogenic global warming and the danger that it poses to humanity and to life on earth in general.

There was little evidence of actual cases of sacrifices, but with the blanketed news coverage in that day it was the sexiest way to judge teenagers of that era.

Changing the common sense beliefs of teachers about heterogeneous grouping effects on the learning of struggling students requires those providing leadership to bring relevant evidence to the attention of their colleagues in accessible and convincing ways, to encourage actual trials with heterogeneous groupings under conditions which include opportunities for practice, feedback and coaching and to help teachers generate «the kind of assessment information that will make the impact of tracking and detracking more visible» (Riehl, 2000).

Without offering any actual evidence, Mr. Mucher suggests that prospective teachers have been scared off from applying to his program by much of the agenda of the corporate reform movement: increasing accountability demands placed on teachers, using student test scores to determine teachers» effectiveness ratings, and «the way teachers are blamed for much broader social problems.»

Because I recognize the true degree of our ignorance in addressing this supremely difficult problem, while at the same time as a mere citizen I weigh civilization and its benefits against draconian energy austerity on the basis of no actual evidence that global climate is in any way behaving unusually on a geological time scale.

The IPCC, unfortunately, has failed to properly communicate that the «projections» are only providing, at best, what is possible, and does not in any way, provide a demonstration of quantitative likelihood or evidence of any actual regional and local prediction skill on multi-decadal time periods.

There is no evidence whatsoever that «politics» in any way, shape or form has influenced actual climate science, or its overwhelming conclusions regarding both the reality of anthropogenic global warming and the danger that it poses to humanity and to life on earth in general.

Since to me (and many scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.

Anyone who's ever lived near a weather station close enough to see it on a regular basis probably has been providing anecdotal evidence of this for decades, but having an actual study to back it up has taken WAY too long.

«And yet, noone has presented any actual evidence that the use of global temperature anomalies in any way misrepresents the temperature changes that are occurring.»

Since the plaintiff did not present evidence showing how long the barrel had been there, there was no way the plaintiff could prove that the department had actual or constructive knowledge of the barrel's placement.

Even though sample images of the new emoji are available, the actual implementations of these will vary depending on your preferred platform - as evidenced by the way Google originally represented a cheeseburger.