However, the current consensus in the Earth science community is that this feature is unlikely to be an actual impact crater.

The current consensus is that Earth's history is a slow, gradual process punctuated by occasional natural catastrophic events that have affected Earth and its inhabitants.

It is possible to describe the other Geocentrism | planets in the Solar System as revolving around the Earth, but that explanation is unnecessarily complex compared to the contemporary consensus that all planets in the Solar System Heliocentrism # The view of modern science | revolve around the Sun.

In 2008, the consensus is that its distance from Earth is 2. 0 ± 0. 5 kpc ( 6. 5 ± 1. 6 kly ).

However, theories supported by the scientific consensus have the highest level of certainty of any scientific knowledge ; for example, that all objects are subject to gravity or that life on Earth evolved from a common ancestor.

The overwhelming consensus of Earth and planetary scientists is that tektites consist of terrestrial debris that was ejected during the formation of an impact crater.

Starting with the publication of research concerning lunar samples returned from the Moon, the consensus of Earth and planetary scientists shifted in favor of theories advocating a terrestrial impact versus lunar volcanic origin.

In addition, they claim the scientific data in geology and astronomy point to a young Earth, against the consensus of the general scientific community.

The drafting of the text was done during a six-year worldwide consultation process ( 1994 – 2000 ), overseen by the independent Earth Charter Commission, which was convened by Strong and Gorbachev with the purpose of developing a global consensus on values and principles for a sustainable future.

* PAZ Ecovillage, is an oasis of biodiversity in the Chihuahuan Desert near Terlingua, Texas that represents a Permanent Autonomous Zone that is dedicated to self-reliance, self-expression, sustainability, freedom, and peace from the conventional standards of society by utilizing the path of least resistance ; the natural environment, conserving its resources, and living in cohesion with the Earth while maintaining a general consensus based community of dwellers and free thinkers.

Another creationist opponent of ICR and its doctrine is Hugh Ross, who accepts the scientific consensus of a 4. 54 billion year old Earth and is critical of ICR's cosmological models as well as their attempts to solve the starlight problem.

Since United Nations ‘ Earth Summit ’ Conference in 1992, an international consensus has been generated to integrate environmental issues into manufacturing procedures and also in consumption patterns to achieve sustainable development.

However, the consensus among Muslim scholars is that the process of creation took 6 days, not 8 ; They claim that the 4 days for creating the mountains, blessing the Earth and measuring its sustenance implicitly include the 2 days for creating the Earth.

* < cite id =" fn_e "> Note e :</ cite > There is an emerging consensus that single-celled micro-organisms may in fact be common in the universe, especially since Earth ’ s extremophiles flourish in environments that were once considered hostile to life.

The scientific consensus is that planetary ecosystem functioning without incurring dangerous risks requires stabilization at 450 – 550 ppm.

Dr. W. Ford Doolittle rejected the notion of planetary regulation because it seemed to require a " secret consensus " among organisms, thus some sort of inexplicable purpose on a planetary scale.

However, other geographers have had access to the same data since 2001, and a consensus has yet to emerge to support the claims of these Brazilian scientists.

The Institute for Creation Research, in order to treat evolution as a category of religions, including atheism, fascism, humanism and occultism, commonly uses the words evolutionism and evolutionist to describe the consensus of mainstream science and the scientists subscribing to it, thus implying through language that the issue is a matter of religious belief.

In 1990 he founded the Science & Environmental Policy Project to advocate this position, and in 2006 was named by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as one of a minority of scientists said to be creating a stand-off on a consensus on climate change.

* List of scientists opposing global warming consensus

One of the authors ' main arguments is that most prominent scientists who have been voicing opposition to the near-universal consensus are being funded by industries, such as automotive and oil, that stand to lose money by government actions to regulate greenhouse gases.

The IPCC provides an internationally accepted authority on climate change, producing reports which have the agreement of all the leading climate scientists and the consensus of every one of the participating governments.

A consensus among scientists today would hold that a global increase in atmospheric aerosols would probably result in a cooling of the climate ; however, a smaller but growing fraction of the current evidence suggests that it may have a warming effect.

In the case of a general acceptance of one paradigm or another, Kuhn believed that it represented the consensus of the community of scientists.

With regard to a prominent mental disorder, Schizophrenia, for a long time consensus among scientists was that certain alleles ( forms of genes ) were responsible for schizophrenia, but some research has indicated only multiple, rare mutations thought to alter neurodevelopmental pathways that can ultimately contribute to schizophrenia ; virtually every rare structural mutation was different in each individual.

One way that journalists inflate uncertainty is by describing new research that contradicts past research without providing context for the change Other times, journalists give scientists with minority views equal weight as scientists with majority views, without adequately describing or explaining the state of scientific consensus on the issue.

Various causes have been implicated, but none has consensus among scientists as the cause of scoliosis, though the role of genetic factors in its development is widely accepted.

The purpose of this petition was to show a lack of consensus among scientists on the subject of global warming.

Bolin is credited with bringing together a diverse range of views among the panel's 3, 500 scientists into something resembling a consensus.

He has long opposed the conventional consensus on global warming, pointing out that scientists are just as liable to err when the science appears to point in just one direction.

Once all of the criteria have been met, it will be widely accepted by scientists ( see scientific consensus ) as the best available explanation of at least some phenomena.

In practice this becomes difficult because of the amount of knowledge now possessed by science, and so an ability to balance critical thinking with an appreciation for consensus amongst the most relevant scientists becomes vital.

However, a consensus accepted by most scientists states that mammals as a group are defined by the possession of a special, secondarily evolved jaw joint between the dentary and the squamosal bones, which has replaced the primitive reptilian one between the articular and quadrate bones in all modern mammalian groups.

This scientific consensus is expressed in synthesis reports, scientific bodies of national or international standing, and surveys of opinion among climate scientists.

While the consensus opinion of the community is not always easy to ascertain, generally the standards and utility of the scientific method have tended to ensure that scientists agree on a standard, mainstream corpus of fact explicated by scientific theory while rejecting ideas which run counter to this realization.

" She went on to argue that " bsent consensus on the issue, or unanimity amongst scientists studying the issue, or a more prolonged period of observation of this new family structure, it is rational for the Legislature to postpone any redefinition of marriage that would include same-sex couples until such time as it is certain that redefinition will not have unintended and undesirable social consequences.

Scientific consensus is the collective judgment, position, and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of study.

Despite the newly elevated role of courts in Chinese society, there still remains some consensus about defects in China ’ s legal system in regards to progressing towards the rule of law.

Both Sunni Islam and Shia Islam share Qur ' anic interpretation ( tafsīṛ ), the pattern of Muhammad ( sunnah ), and scholarly consensus ijma as sources of Islamic law, although the two differ significantly with regards to the manner in which they use these sources.

Data from molecular biology and phylogenetic studies contradict the OPV AIDS hypothesis ; consequently, scientific consensus regards the hypothesis as disproven.

However, Campbell regards this term as superfluous, preferring language family for those classifications for which there are consensus and distant genetic relationship for those that are not, or not yet, generally accepted, whether due to lack of documentation or scholarship of the constituent languages, or to an estimated time depth thought by many linguists to be too great for reconstruction.

The " only widespread international consensus " on online material to be censored regards child pornography and cyberterrorism, the article said.