Sentences with phrase «with errors in their book»

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Then, for several hundred years, no one but a select few even knew what was in these books, and transcribed them with errors.

Funny that Leo's omnipotent sky fairy couldn't do better than a book with so many contradictions, inconsistent translations, and blatant errors in it, to get its message out.

Funny too, that Leo's omnipotent sky fairy couldn't do better than a book with so many contradictions, inconsistent translations, and blatant errors in it, to get its message out.

Learning new things is most productive with an OPEN MIND and not one looking for EXCUSES for contradictions and errors in a 2,000 - year - old book.

And regardless of what you believe about the violence of God in Scripture, these books will present you with a new way of looking at things so that you no longer have to choose between accepting that God is violent or writing off the Bible as hopelessly full of error.

According to the Barna study, the percent of engagement people have with the Bible — from being engaged (reading the Bible at least four times a week), friendly (engaged with the Bible less than four times a week), neutral (read the Bible once a month or less and see the Bible as the inspired word of God, but acknowledge it can have some errors) and skeptical (see the Bible as «just another book of teachings written by men)-- has started to stabilize and return to its normal rates after the rate of skepticism increased by 4 percent to 14 percent and the rate of friendliness dropped 8 percent to 37 percent in 2011.

I do like the progressive Christian stance as you describe it — that there may be error in many of the books of the bible — but that people, even with our limited minds, can strive to see a more perfect vision than what was written.

In addition, the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod said the books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins are «filled with very serious errors about what the Bible really teaches.»

But there were some major flaws in the book, not only with some logical errors, but also with some misunderstandings of Scripture, and a misunderstanding of how and why the early church began to meet on Sunday rather than on Saturday as had been the custom among Jesus and His disciples.

But if, on the other hand, our theory should allow that a book may well be a revelation in spite of errors and passions and deliberate human composition, if only it be a true record of the inner experiences of great - souled persons wrestling with the crises of their fate, then the verdict would be much more favorable.

As I contend in a forthcoming book, Death on a Friday Afternoon, this falls far short of an encounter with the God of Israel who accepts defeat by our definition of the game in order to expose the error of our definition.

No other subject on the curriculum would be allowed to get away with this inexcusable error which insults children, not just since there is a basic mistake of mathematics, but because no actual verifiable figures are provided — anything will do in a book about RE.

The Quran and the Book of Mormon are riddled with error and in cases fasle according to arcaeology and anthropoligy.

For those not familiar with academic debates, the impression could be given that West's work contains serious errors, when, in fact, his books have received imprimaturs and the endorsement of trusted figures.

One afternoon, to explain why social psychology became so obsessed with human errors and why that obsession may itself be in error, Krueger began pulling books off his shelves, offering a trip through the history of this science.

Besides his smokescreen about «evenly distributed errors» (a phrase in which he has inadvertently provided us with an apt characterization of his whole book), Lomborgs further defense of his having presented an impossibly precise 43 percent value for a completely imprecise quantity is that he found it in somebody elses book: «Moreover, the 43 percent is actually described right off one of the best - selling college environment books by professor Miller is Holdren also claiming that he is wrong?»

Sure you can get these «metabolic typology» books and «blood type diet» books, but in the end it boils down to what suits YOU best, the more I see patients the more I have come to realise that there is book or guru who can tell you with perfect accuracy what protein is best for you, it is only by trial and error and lots of experimentation that you will come to determine your own exact needs.

I have had many discussions with cell biologist PhDs about this idea that glutamine turns to glutamate at will, and they all say that this is a misstatement, and are particularly critical of Russell Blaylock for making this error in his book.

By my 30's, I was tired of this style of trial and error with dating so I found the dating advice I always coveted in the form of workshops and books and dating experts whom I could learn from.

But, the big theme of the book is that kids» moral development is a matter of their relationship with adults,» especially their parents,» and it's decided not so much in moral talk as it is in how parents handle closeness, achievement, their own errors and transgressions, and whether they are able to listen to children carefully and assert their own values.

But, the big theme of the book is that kids» moral development is a matter of their relationship with adults — especially their parents — and it's decided not so much in moral talk as it is in how parents handle closeness, achievement, their own errors and transgressions, and whether they are able to listen to children carefully and assert their own values.

At the Newseum, among many other exhibits, they display examples of communication errors in news headlines (a.k.a. «bloopers»), and they have worked with the Columbia Journalism Review to gather many more of these into a book titled, «Correct Me If I'm Wrong.»

You will never find a more succinct and compelling book than Reign of Error, with a crystal clear analysis of the way in which our schools are being driven into the ground by the Billionaire Boys club of Gates, Broad, Walton, Murdoch and Bloomberg, and other ideologues and opportunists eager to join in.

In her 2013 book, Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch — an education historian and former federal education official who originally supported but later became a critic of reforms like No Child Left Behind — cites surprising evidence that a nation's higher position on an international ranking of test scores actually predicted lower per capita GDP decades later, compared with countries whose test scores ranked worse.

Having a book in the marketplace that hasn't been edited according to Chicago Manual of Style and is riddled with grammar, punctuation and spelling errors is a red flag to book reviewers, buyers and the media and will quickly ruin an author's credibility.»

All books printed from that point forward will include the correction and you don't have to worry about throwing away all of the stock you previously printed with the error in it.

A lot of the extra costs associated with self - publishing are simply due to the amount of mistakes you make — like printing 500 copies of a book with an error in it — and now you don't want to sell them!

Whether that's a professional editor or someone with excellent skills in English, this is essential to make your book error - free.

It is impossible to guarantee a book will be error free — even traditionally published books, with multiple rounds of editing by different people, still have errors in them when they are published.

Edit the manuscript with an eye for the grammatical errors and inconsistencies noted in the Basic Copyedit, as well as offer developmental suggestions and queries to improve the clarity, arc, and soundness of your book's argument in the case of nonfiction; and characterization, dialogue, and plot development in the case of fiction

I've seen one independently published book with a typographical error in the actual title.

In one case, an author who has been contracted with Simon & Schuster for many years, (and I know well) was appalled at the number of errors in her two most recent bookIn one case, an author who has been contracted with Simon & Schuster for many years, (and I know well) was appalled at the number of errors in her two most recent bookin her two most recent books.

Self - publishing companies often set authors up for failure with do - it - yourself book design tools that don't work properly (on purpose) and cause formatting errors in the books.

One author, in particular, described how he or she is dyslexic and was relying heavily on the editing services promised by the publisher to make the book flawless; to his or her dismay, the book was printed with numerous errors throughout, including on the very visible back cover.

Now readers (and writers) bemoan the fact that so many books end up on bookshelves that shouldn't ¦ books with too many errors in spelling, grammar or punctuation; books that leave too many questions unanswered; books with unbelievable plot twists; great ideas buried in sloppily written books and unfinished ideas dressed up in well written books.

To have a chance to be featured at Buck Books, your book must be priced at 99 cents or less during your promotion, its listing on Kindle must show that it is at least 60 pages in length, you must have at least 10 reviews with an average rating of 3.8 stars or higher, your book description must be well - written and free of any major spelling or grammatical errors, and your book cover must be designed by a non-Fiverr professional designer or book cover design service.

At Pressbooks, we actually validate all the EPUBs as they go through our system, so if you sometimes see one of those messages that say there was an error with your book, it's usually because something's not valid in your EPUB.

I have to say that I was pretty pleased with the results and apart from a few rookie errors in laying out print versions of my book (my bottom margins are a bit too high and close to the text) they don't look half bad.

The book specifications from the publisher or printer should be in written form and shared with the book cover designer so there are no errors or assumptions.

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If your book is riddled with typos and spelling errors, you're essentially shooting yourself in the foot and wasting the money it cost to submit it for the award.

One could have the greatest story in the world, but if it's riddled with spelling errors in the first few pages, even the most forgiving of readers is going to put the book down.

In some cases people are being prompted with error messages or your book timing out.

In this book there are continuity errors, errors with grammar, errors in names of characters, even specific «made up names» that have different spellingIn this book there are continuity errors, errors with grammar, errors in names of characters, even specific «made up names» that have different spellingin names of characters, even specific «made up names» that have different spellings.

Errors nonetheless occur, of course — I am human, after all — but not one person has ever emailed me with a problem, even though I include an email address for errata in the books.

Penenberg's books include Spooked: Espionage in Corporate America, Tragic Indifference: One Man's Battle With the Auto Industry Over the Dangers of SUVs, Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves, Trial and Error, Blood Highways and Play at Work.

In each case I get an error message that Amazon books begin with B and have 16 characters.

Developmental edits can be time - consuming because the editor is reading your manuscript not only from a typical «editor's» standpoint (fixing grammatical errors), but as a «reader» who is determining whether it is an entertaining book that achieves what it set out to achieve (this will depend on the genre; for example, romance novels want to entice readers with sensual characters and chemistry, while a murder mystery's goal is to instill fear and intrigue in the reader's mind).

I can deal with three or four errors in a whole book.

While I notice the errors in the e-published books I read, I don't open the books with the intent to find those errors.