Sentences with phrase «human progress by»

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Not only would there be a huge human factor to consider in sending them back to countries with which most aren't familiar, but the cost to our economy could be staggering: According to a Center for American Progress study earlier this year, the estimated loss of DACA workers would reduce U.S. GDP by $ 433 billion over the next 10 years, with California, Texas and Illinois being hit hardest.

By treating biology as software and reprogramming cells to treat diseases and other ailments, humans have already made tremendous progress in medicine, Kurzweil said Sunday.

Rather, Defund Planned Parenthood protesters abhor abortion as a profound violation of human rights, and they believe that the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress prove that Planned Parenthood harbors a crass and denigrating attitude toward the unborn — hard to dispute.

Luke tells us that as a boy he «grew in his wisdom» (Lk 2:52), but the Church has taught that this means «his human nature was instructed by his own divinity» (Jerome) or that while remaining divine «he made his own the progress of humans in wisdom and grace» (John of Damascus).

Not only are we constantly being bombarded by the religious beliefs of the faithful (Christians mostly in America) we can see how religious beliefs are stifling human progress and perpetuating hatred and segregation.

On the other hand, the human way is always recognizable by matters being made easier; and that is called progress.»

In fact the greatest leaps forward in human progress are marked by secularists freeing themselves from religious fear and persecution.

But much that pretends to be human progress and against which «conservationists» protest may well be proscribed by the maximal happiness principle.

Let us admit this frankly, once and for all: what most discredits faith in progress in the eyes of men today, over and above its reticences and its helplessness in meeting the cry of the «last days of the human species», is the unfortunate tendency still shown by its adepts to distort into pitiful millenarianisms all that is most valid and most noble in our now permanently awakened expectation of the future appearance of some form of «ultra-humanity».

So far as we are able to follow its historical progress, the grouping and organization of the human mass has in the past been broadly governed far more by the principle of expansion than by that of compression.

It could not then easily be foreseen that within two short decades human progress, in fact our very physical health or survival, would seem to depend more than ever on a return to laws set by the ever - living God.

By dismissing Marx's ultimate faith in the goodness of Historical progress — and by holding open the possibility of a return to a life both more human and more natural, left conservatives might seem to have freed themselves of the illusions of HistorBy dismissing Marx's ultimate faith in the goodness of Historical progress — and by holding open the possibility of a return to a life both more human and more natural, left conservatives might seem to have freed themselves of the illusions of Historby holding open the possibility of a return to a life both more human and more natural, left conservatives might seem to have freed themselves of the illusions of History.

Built around 9600 B.C., the site predates Stonehenge by about 6600 years and places the origins of human religious experience much farther back in the historical progress of our civilization than scholars previously believed possible.

In the progress of its philosophizing the human spirit is ever more inclined to regard the absolute which it contemplates as having been produced by itself, the spirit that thinks it: «Until, finally, all that is over against us, everything that accosts us and takes possession of us, all partnership of existence, is dissolved in free - floating subjectivity.»

Such services would be seen as raising living standards today (albeit in ways whose benefits are not easily computed), and might even improve prospects for material progress by augmenting society's stock of «human capital.»

The second wave — developed largely by various historicist schools of thought, especially in the nineteenth century — replaced belief in the idea of a fixed human nature with a belief in human «plasticity» and capacity for moral progress and transformation.

A century later, we are living in the closing years of a pontificate that has, above all, taught Catholics not to be afraid» afraid of those who hate the Church so that we do not honestly contemplate the failings of our own past; afraid of the progress of science so that we needed to be reminded by the Pope «that faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.»

The Confession of Christ as the meaning of the upthrust of human history and the crown of its scientific and cultural progress is contradicted by the modern division of history into Ancient, Medieval, and Modern periods.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

The Darwinian metaphor of evolution was used to express a faith in a Historical future, in either the coming end of History (Marx) or a more indefinite perfectibility in which our alienating technological progress would finally be ennobled by a corresponding moral progress (say, John Stuart Mill or Walt Whitman) that would be the source of the elusive human happiness promised by modern liberation.

The moral treason of the «conservative» leaders lies in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American way of life was capitalism, that that was the politico - economic system born and established in the United States, the system which, in one brief century, achieved a level of freedom, of progress, of prosperity, of human happiness, unmatched in all the other systems and centuries combined — and that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish by silent default.

By coming at once to the primitive model and rejecting all human inventions, the Church was to be at once released from the controversies of eighteen centuries, and the primitive gospel of salvation was to be disentangled and disembarrassed from all those corruptions and perversions which had heretofore delayed or arrested its progress [Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, by Robert Richardson (Lippincott, 1868 - 70), VoBy coming at once to the primitive model and rejecting all human inventions, the Church was to be at once released from the controversies of eighteen centuries, and the primitive gospel of salvation was to be disentangled and disembarrassed from all those corruptions and perversions which had heretofore delayed or arrested its progress [Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, by Robert Richardson (Lippincott, 1868 - 70), Voby Robert Richardson (Lippincott, 1868 - 70), Vol.

The first thing to give us pause, as we survey the progress of human collectivization, is what I would call the inexorable nature of a phenomenon which arises directly and automatically out of the conjunction of two factors, both of a structural kind: first, the confined surface of the globe, and secondly, the incessant multiplication, within this restricted space, of human units endowed by ever - improving means of communication with a rapidly increasing scope for action; to which may be added the fact that their advanced psychic development makes them preeminently capable of influencing and inter-penetrating one another.

Americans are still driven by the myth of human progress.

Again, if it be true that Evolution is rebounding on itself through the fact of human totalization, it must, becoming conscious, fasten passionately upon itself: which is to say that Man, to progress further, will need to be sustained by a powerful collective faith.

By human standards, scientific and technological advances can probably be called progress, and yet there do not seem to be any similar advances in moral living.

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

The temptation is enhanced by the long nurtured illusion of social progress, which leads men to believe that the meaning of human existence must be realized in some organization of human societies dwelling on the planet.

Between them the Christian understanding of human being and society as created, fallen and redeemed by God was made irrelevant so that these forces of modernity were left to be interpreted solely within the framework of the humanism of the Enlightenment which at best had a Deistic faith coupled with a mechanical view of the world and a self - redemptive idea of history making for an optimistic doctrine of inevitable progress.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

The later Liechtenstein Address continues the criticism of modern Western life, challenging its notion of progress for diminishing the human soul by glorifying materialism and trivializing death.

As to us human beings, though we will go on making scientific and technological progress by leaps and bounds, we are not going to become any wiser in matters of faith and morals.

Also, eating in a comparable manner to our precursors has been demonstrated on numerous occasions to offer stunning medical advantages, including counteractive action of most maladies of human progress, for example, tumor, coronary illness, Alzheimers, and other interminable conditions that are generally created by horrible eating routine and way of life.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

(Allen Lane) by Steven Pinker describes the impact of humanism on on human progress, and presents a call to arms not to allow such progress to be washed away.

The State ensures the progress in fulfilling the People's Will by subduing the individual's will to the Law, the Law to the Consensus of the majority of the People and by ensuring equity - the equality of All human activities before the law, thus allowing for the Benefit of any Activity to be the only argument giving it Priority over another.

«What we learn in America, the best way to address any concerns of human rights issues is by having transparency and have America play a role in using our government to show how we do it here at home, we are going to do it there in Cuba,» he said, adding that he believed the nation had made progress in recent years.

«It is our understanding that a lot of work was done and progress made in this direction by the National Identification Authority, therefore we are asking the incoming administration to provide adequate financial, human and technical support to the national identification authority so that this work can be completed by the end of 2017,» he added.

The right of all people to benefit from scientific progress is spurring new research by science and human rights practitioners and informing organizations how to secure those benefits, according to presenters at a AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting, held July 27 - 28 in Washinhuman rights practitioners and informing organizations how to secure those benefits, according to presenters at a AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting, held July 27 - 28 in WashinHuman Rights Coalition Meeting, held July 27 - 28 in Washington.

The Program carries out its mission by engaging individual scientists and scientific associations in human rights efforts; applying scientific tools and technologies to enhance human rights work; bringing human rights standards to the conduct of science; and promoting the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress.»

The aim of this meeting was to enrich the Coalition's contributions to ongoing discussions about the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress in regional human rights bodies and at the United Nations by exploring challenging conceptual questions about the meaning of the right and its application in practice.

To Mulroy, suggesting such a notion would be tantamount to accepting that human progress can be limited or dictated by nature.

We can judge the progress of our ability to harness scientific achievement simply by looking at a robot and asking this question: Exactly how much is this machine like a human?

To Daley, the delays caused by the Bush administration's opposition to stem cell research are as much of an ethical issue as the handling of human embryos themselves, because it actively impedes progress on research that might benefit millions of Americans.

It also aims to elucidate the links between aging, longevity and radioresistance, and the ways in which research into enhancing human radioresistance could synergistically enable human healthspan extension, ultimately highlighting how ongoing research into the very well - funded sphere of aerospace research could galvinate progress in biomedical gerontology, a massively under - funded area of research despite the grave economic burden posed by demographic aging» said Franco Cortese, an author of the paper and Deputy Director of the Biogerontology Research Foundation.

Furthermore, given the massive amount of funding allocated to research into facilitating and optimizing space exploration and optimization, the researchers hope to have shown how research into enhancing radioresistance for space exploration could galvanize progress in human healthspan extension, an area of research that is still massively underfunded despite its potential to prevent the massive economic burden posed by the future healthcare costs associated with demographic aging.

A century after Amundsen planted the flag — beating out Englishman Robert Falcon Scott's doomed expedition by a full month — an explosion of technological progress has transformed the scope of human knowledge of Antarctica.

The letter from the Coalition for Space Exploration thanks the committee for its support of human and robotic exploration programs (specifically mentioning the James Webb Space Telescope as an «exploration science mission»), but «we remain concerned that by flat funding SLS, Orion and other Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - 1] in 2018.

Investigating mouse models for biological for research The congress aims to promote the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) mouse lines, importance of mouse phenotyping & clinical and drug discovery collaboration, to present progresses performed by IMPC with regards CRISPR editing genome, rare diseases, microbiota and ageing pipeline, as well as illustration of examples of scientific projects about «Animal models for human diseases» and recent developments in mouse models phenotyping imaging.

«Socioaffective neuroscience and psychology may progress more quickly by keeping these apparent facts in mind: Olfaction and odor receptors provide a clear evolutionary trail that can be followed from unicellular organisms to insects to humans (Keller et al., 2007; Kohl, 2007; Villarreal, 2009; Vosshall, Wong, & Axel, 2000).»