Sentence examples for would refute it from inspiring English sources

At the genetic level alone, one can conceive of observations that would refute it, such as, a string of sequences in DNA that would be ridiculous to explain by chance or by natural selection" (p. 200).

We try to teach our students how they should separate their actual experimental data from their hypothesis, and conduct experiments that not only confirm their hypothesis, but also those that would refute it.

If their complete lack of open flowers arose by adaptive evolution, it would refute the present theory; if it arose by breakage it would support it.

If you found a source that argued that the history of the USSR teaches us nothing about the feasibility of economic planning, then you would have to try to refute it or explain its incompleteness.

Labour's costing of Tory plans at £15 billion is a wild exaggeration; but the best way to refute it would have been to come clean.Just as the Tories are acting like the opposition, so Labour has adopted the pose of a governing party.

He said it would refute the story "that Ukip voters are all retired half colonels living on the edge of Salisbury Plain".

It would refute, in detail, Ahmadinejad's ugly fantasies about the Holocaust and 9/11, which are common currency among parts of the Muslim public.

(Science would refute the judge's comment that it's important that a market be created; the market for fossils is what drives poaching).

The caspase independent action of the supernatant protein therefore, would refute the analogy irrespective of its homology to an IAP-binding protein.

It makes sense that ministers would refute rape claims, but ACA didn't broach this issue.

But the decisive feature, as Popper saw it, should be whether it is in principle conceivable that evidence could be cited that would refute (or disconfirm) a given law, hypothesis, or theory.