Sentences with phrase «ancient humans saw»

Ancient humans saw wild cats hunting rodents around their grain stores and quickly realized that both species would benefit from living together.

Not exact matches

Instead of the robust features he was accustomed to seeing on the faces of an ancient human ancestor like Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis, this face bore a striking resemblance to his own.

You just have to take the time to think about it long enough to see that these ancient written texts were written by humans with less knowledge about science than we have now.

Writing in the New Statesman Tom Holland said that the more he studied ancient history, the more he saw that pagan gods and followers did not value human life equally, routinely upholding the strong and rich above the weak and poor.

But if you see the Bible as a human product, then the Genesis stories of creation are ancient Israel's stories of creation.

Ancient literature, like modern fairy tales, is full of narratives in which gods and other supernatural beings disguise themselves as human beings, sometimes as the lowest of the low, and roam throughout the world to see how people will treat them.

Recent studies have stressed that shalom was seen by ancient Israel not as a far - off ideal but as the natural human state.

That was in the early»70s, when with long hair, bobbles, bangles and beads and a gleam of communitarian utopianism in my eyes, I finally found my way into the fourth century treatise by Nemesius, peri phuseos anthropon («On the Nature of the Human»), where it at length dawned on me that ancient wisdom could be the basis for a deeper critique of modern narcissistic individualism than I had yet seen.

However, if I was an ancient Israelite, and I saw things like the Red Sea parting, staff turned into snakes, and the Shekinah glory, and prophets predicting specific future events with 100 % accuracy, and other nations setting their face against Israel to destroy her and / or engaged in human sacrifice, and they weren't typical humans but were actually a group of hybrids like the Nephalim or the Rephaim that were polluting the gene pool to try to foil God's plan of ultimately bringing a Messiah to save all mankind one day, and God wanted them to repent and sent them warning after warning, and they refused, and God commanded me thus....

In the activity of Jesus, God could be seen putting human affairs to rights, entering the lists on behalf of humans against their ancient enemies.

Attendantly, from within this millenarian orientation, Jesus himself was identified with the bar nasha of Daniel 7:13 — 14, a type of new Adam, who, on the basis of his appearance before the Ancient of Days, recovered the characteristics that distinguish the human being created in the image and likeness of God: dominion, glory, and kingship (see Ps.

Gagarin could not see God in the heavens, but ancient cosmology could not see humans there.

Because the brain can't distinguish between what the body is experiencing in reality and what it's seeing through the drone's sensors, the pilots, for a moment, experience that most ancient human desire: to fly.

Earlier in his remark, the Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo admonished the new monarch not to see his position as a clarion call to serve his subjects not only in Ile - Ife but in the entire world as the ancient town represents the cradle of black race and human civilization.

While all the planets orbiting the sun closer than this tilted blue giant have been known to humans since ancient times, Uranus wasn't spotted until William Herschel saw it in 1781.

LaLueza - Fox sees such research as an indication that scientists can reliably collect ancient DNA from hotter climates, where much of human prehistory played out.

The next step will be to gather more ancient samples from before and after a major environmental change — the end of a glaciation, for example, or the arrival of humans in the New World — to see whether any epigenetic changes correlate with the environmental transition.

The ancient toddler shows key anatomical features of A. afarensis, including a shoulder blade midway in shape between that of a human and a gorilla, along with features rarely seen, like a full set of both baby and adult teeth.

To do this we would need to compare DNA from present populations with genetic material from ancient human remains — a political hot potato in some regions, including the US (see «The legal fight over prehistory»).

They need to stop seeing reading as the broccoli that kids have to eat before they can get to dessert — dessert being things like music, art, the American Revolution, Ancient Egypt, snakes, or the human digestive system.

If you take a look at ancient cave paintings, you will see that human hunters are often accompanied by dogs.

As you reach «The Cathedral», named because of its scale, magnificence and sacredness, you can see giant stalactites hanging from the ceiling, and ancient Maya artifacts including pottery and human bones littering the cave floor.

I knew I'd seen something fantastic unfolding, an artist who was probing painting's ancient uses via abstraction, Twombly's ideas of paint that looks like it's been applied straight from the human body, Sigmar Polke's belief in painting's transformative powers, and Robert Ryman's desire to reduce painting to its bare bones to see how far these bones can go.

Behind the altogether human fascination with power games that turns the visual arts into journalistic cotton candy, ancient debates still percolate and shape what we are seeing and what we understand.

Sometimes the human impact has been as direct as the bite of chain saws toppling ancient trees to make way for cattle pasture or nets corralling schools of giant bluefin tuna for the sushi trade or gunshots felling elephants for their ivory.