So far - reaching is the impact of modern humans that esteemed palaeoclimatologist Wally Broecker has suggested that we have not entered a new geological epoch, a relatively minor event on the geologic time scale, but a new era — the Anthropozoic — on a par in
Earth history with the development of multicellular life.
Not exact matches
«
History is strewn
with examples where star fund managers have fallen to
earth when their luck or skill deserted them, but the Morningstar ranking adjusted only slowly downwards,
with Legg Mason's Bill Miller perhaps being the most prominent example.»
World
history is also filled
with geniuses who thought the
earth was flat.
Its value lies largely in enabling us to see how the whole
history of revelation
with which the Bible is concerned is rooted in the good red
earth of our common humanity; in primitive, elemental human affections and passions, the groundwork still of all our life, however sophisticated and civilized we have become.
One of the smartest men in
history has spoken, perhaps there really isn't a dude
with a beard because the same people that conjured him up also believed in fire breathing dragons and a flat
earth.
«Chapter 37th,» a
history of the Revolution published in 1782, began
with the sonorous, «And it came to pass in the reign of George the king, who ruled over Albion, and whose empire extended to the uttermost parts of the
earth.»
In
history's ongoing struggle between despotism and self - government, he was prepared to believe that America was
earth's «last best hope» - not as the world's economic colossus or imperial hegemon but as an exemplar of what politics,
with all its limitations, can accomplish.
As time went on and the concept developed, all kinds of pictures and ideas were associated
with it, especially in the apocalyptic literature: the transformation of the
earth, the end of
history, the resurrection of the dead, and many others.
Everyone «knows,» for example, that Galileo, courageously defending Copernicus» discovery that the
earth revolves around the sun, was roundly condemned by the Inquisition because his conclusions conflicted
with the Bible; and everyone «knows» that the
history of Christian missionary endeavors is inextricably linked
with Western colonialism and oppression of native peoples.
The sources of the trinitarian doctrine is quite clear from
history, and
with it came beliefs in various things like transubstantiation, theosis, that Mary was a perpetual virgin free from sin, infant baptism, ecclesiastical hierarchy, bishop succession, the phoenix, that the world is made up of fire, water,
earth and air, and that things formed of one element are immortal while things formed of many elements are mortal.
Despite agreeing
with mainstream science on these issues, they deny evolution: they believe that the vast majority of species (and especially humans) were independently created by God during
earth's long
history.
Israel answers the unresolved questions of the primeval story
with a perfectly astounding affirmation: the problems of man's rebellion against God will be answered — and are in fact now being answered — by God's own initiative and action in human
history in and through Abraham and the nation Israel — in whom all the families of the
earth must ultimately be blessed.
When these two differences are combined
with what we know about the
history of the universe and of our
earth, it would seem that the process view is much more plausible.
And when I write «the complete chain of events» I mean the complete chain, beginning
with God eternal love for humanity, including the creation of mankind and their subsequent fall, and going through God's calling of Israel, His work through them during their checkered
history, the birth, life, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus, and looking forward to the return of Jesus and the new heavens, the new
earth, and our eternal existence
with God.
This fact just does not fit
with the biblical version of
earths history or the account of Adam which means there was no «first man» and no inherrited sin and thus no need for a savior or a ransom sacrafice.
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet
earth available,
with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a
history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
The periods of world
history are divided into epochs, each of which is accentuated by the growth and decline of historical cultures and societies; in each of these shortlived tribal units have succeeded each other in the domination of a given region or section of the populated
earth, either simply co-existing or vying
with each other for temporary or semipermanent superiority.
She is the Mystical Body of Christ; at the same time a visible society instituted
with hierarchical organs, and a spiritual community; the Church on
earth, the pilgrim People of God here below, and the Church filled
with heavenly blessings; the germ and the first fruits of the Kingdom of God, through which the work and the sufferings of Redemption are continued throughout human
history, and which looks for its perfect accomplishment beyond time in glory.
The most striking thing about the Christian's confession of Christ is the thoroughgoing way in which it links God
with flesh,
earth, time, process,
history.
With specific reference to the ideas and ideals of the American experiment, that history continues to represent, in the words of a president who was not unacquainted with moral ambiguity, «the last, best hope of earth.&ra
With specific reference to the ideas and ideals of the American experiment, that
history continues to represent, in the words of a president who was not unacquainted
with moral ambiguity, «the last, best hope of earth.&ra
with moral ambiguity, «the last, best hope of
earth.»
«Do we start
with man's ideas, who wasn't here during man's supposed billions of years of
earth history or do we start
with the Bible, the written revelation of the eyewitness account of the eternal God who created it all?»
I am interested in knowing why a group of nearly naked primates came up
with a creation story that has survived to the present day and why it has similarities
with what the scientific method has produced as hypotheses for the
history of
earth and its inhabitants.
The
history of the
earth's magnetic field agrees
with Barnes basic hypothesis that the field has always freely decayed....
I am a well trained Physicist and I know about the
history of the
earth with evidences from [Geo] chemistry, physics, biology and the like and yet know that they all have holes and are «not proofs» of anything
Genesis opens
with «In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth» and John, whose Gospel recounts the history of the Logos that «became flesh», echoes this at the start of his prologue «In the beginning was the Word...» With that phrase «In the beginning» John ties together the two events the Creation and the Incarnat
with «In the beginning when God created the heavens and the
earth» and John, whose Gospel recounts the
history of the Logos that «became flesh», echoes this at the start of his prologue «In the beginning was the Word...»
With that phrase «In the beginning» John ties together the two events the Creation and the Incarnat
With that phrase «In the beginning» John ties together the two events the Creation and the Incarnation.
So Peter
with an extraordinary completeness presents us
with the Christ who pre-existed in
history and before
history began (1:10, 11, 20), the Christ who came to this
earth and who suffered and died for men on the cross (1:16 - 22; 2:24), the Christ who descended into Hades and so tasted the full bitterness of death (3:19), the Christ who rose from death (1:3, 21; 3:21), the Christ who ascended into glory (1:11; 3:22), and the Christ who will come again (1:7, 13; 4:7; 5:1, 4).
see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay
with me here... at this point in human
history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the
earth to suit one species — that should go over well...
Even Professor Leakey's recent extension of possible humanoid remains as far back as 2,000,000 B. C. leaves man (if this be man)
with but a brief
history compared to
earth time, to say nothing of the general cosmic process.
His declared purpose from of old is to bless, through Abraham and Israel, all the families of the
earth (see Gen. 12:3, an expression, probably of the faith of the J writer in the tenth century B.C.) It is his purpose in
history to redeem, to reconcile rebellious man
with himself.
Just like the promise, this fundamental hope was articulated in particular hopes — hopes for a more or less cataclysmic interruption of
history, when God would establish his kingdom of justice and of peace upon
earth, when Israel would be saved from enemies without and sinners within, to serve their God
with singleness of heart.
But in the sanctified imagination of Grünewald, he is called back from the dead to make one last appearance in salvation
history with the same message he had once delivered during his life on
earth.
Until far down in their
history, all the vivid and enheartening hopes of the Hebrews were concerned
with the future of their nation on
earth --
Probably it belongs to the dialectics of
history that direct human association
with unique historical individuals, the savior and his mother, had to develop before any adequate feeling for the mystique of the
earth could take place.
He will be totally infused
with Toper's 6,000 year old
Earth views before he even gets to middle school science, natural
history, geology and biology.
Thus, hope and enthusiasm in wide segments of the
earth's population are compounded
with anxiety, confusion, conflict, and suffering probably without parallel in the
history of man.
Most Protestant millenarians are adherents of dispensationalism, and they assert that believers need not fear the violence and conflict (the «tribulation») at the end of
history, for the saved will be rescued in the «rapture» - lifted off the
earth to dwell
with Christ in heaven until the Second Coming.
Within created kinds is all we will probably see
with a human life time or since we've been looking, but recorded
history is but pin point compared to the world when talking about the time we know of the
earths existence.
Throughout human
history this conflict between the «servants of Heaven» and the «servants of
earth» has gone on; but only since the birth of the idea of Evolution (in some sort divinising the Universe) have the devotees of
earth bestirred themselves and made of their worship a true form of religion, charged
with limitless hope, striving and renunciation.
That God did not create the
earth is also stated in some religions, and probably those
with the most peaceful
history.
Later still came the revolution in hygiene and medicine that was responsible for the greatest increase in rate of population growth in the
history of the world,
with its attendant strain on the resources of the
earth.
He illustrated his words
with the great examples from Catholic
history of priest - scientists whose work was revolutionary in terms of a scientific understanding of the world, such as the 16th - century Pole, Copernicus, whose astronomical observations demonstrated that the
earth orbited the sun, and the 20th - century Belgian, Georges Lemaître, who was the first to propose a «Big Bang» startto the universe.
But the problem posed by the much longer
history of the
earth was small compared
with the furore which took place soon after the publication in 1859 of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1809 - 82).
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with the challenge of finding something new to say about the Holocaust, a lesser author will offer a picture of Nazism that resembles his present - day political opponents.
Not only that, but the idea that humans and animals developed to some point then were all but eliminated from the
earth just does not line up
with what we think we know of the
history of the
earth, at least as far as timing.
A famous attempt was trying to squeeze the geological periods of the
earth's
history into the six days of creation; another is the attempt to identify the Christmas star
with a planet or comet.
Both instances are shockingly in agreement
with the scientific understanding of the
history of universe and the
earth at those times.
As I re-read the story it seemed obvious it couldn't really be
history — or if it was, it was completely unverifiable: Eve is created from Adam's rib; a snake converses
with and tempts Eve; God puts a very desirable fruit tree in the garden then commands man not to eat it; eating this fruit causes all the world's pain and suffering; God curses Adam, Eve, their descendents, and the
earth; «every living thing» is destroyed by a worldwide flood; all our modern animals descend from the originals on Noah's Ark; and so on.
And doing Christian theology is a communion
with God who is creator of heaven and
earth, lord of the
history of nations and people, God who holds the ultimate meaning of life and the ultimate purpose of the entire creation.
But here the primeval
history (Urgeschichte) is merged
with the story of salvation (Heilsgeschichte): Abraham is called out of the multitude of peoples, «that in him all the families of the
earth may be blessed» Thus at the very outset, Heilsgeschichte replies to the unanswered question of Urgeschichte, the question of God's relationship to all peoples together.
Such a vision does not contradict the essentials of the inspired story (but not precise
history) of Genesis: man's body arising from the slime of the
earth, an
earth already created, and then imbued by the breath of God
with a principle of spirit (cf. Genesis 2:7).