Sentences with phrase «about human history as»

For example, if your criticism is correct, you should be able to supply examples of archaeology papers which speak about human history as existing for «eons» of time.

This is why we can not follow certain existentialist writers in speaking about human history as if it were being played out against a background of irrelevant natural recurrence.

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Think about it, on day 1 God separated light from darkness, just as man and God were separated in the 1st thousand years of human history.

Humans have been lied to and misled about divinity, faith and God for so long, they would not know the truth if it reached up and bit them on the proverbial cheeks.Deception has been a part of the history of mankind from day one.Further changes to the Bible only indicates it is still as strong as ever.The New Testament without Christ is like a riddle without an answer.

The study of history is arid and incomplete unless it is understood as a work about (and by) individual human beings — and, moreover, a story whose substance and manner of telling are matters of moral significance.

Further, we find in him a tough - minded realism about the actualities of human history as the mingling of the divine love and disordered human love.

Such absolutisms included a heroic myth about U.S. history interpreted as the rise of «the successful male white Protestant, whose features were turned into ideals for the entire human race.»

God knew of Jeremiah's doubts about his own ability to serve as a prophet, and so indicated to Jeremiah that God knew him better than Jeremiah knew himself (Marston and Forster, God's Strategy in Human History, 232).

On page 15 of «The Interpreters Bible», Dr. Herbert F. Farmer, Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University wrote about the indispensability of the texts, their importance and how the «truth» of them should be approached, after an exposition of the traditional conservative Christian view of person - hood, sin and the salvific actions of Jesus (aka Yeshua ben Josef), known as «the Christ» in human history.

Subject to correction, it would seem there is as yet no developed adequate moral theology about this greatest genocide in human history.

Reading the Bible then becomes not about uncovering proposition truth, but as a guide for learning how we can take a proactive part in God's strategy for human history.

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.

In the philosophy of men like G.W.F. Hegel, Kierkegaard saw theories about stages of human consciousness and progress in world history that he thought could lead Christians away from reliance on Scripture as a source of truth about human life.

The Christian revelation has always been apprehended as the Word of God, not merely a word about life, but the entry into human history of a new meaning which has become operative in shaping the course of history.

In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.

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...

In biblical times to know about history was to interpret human events in relation to our purpose: to see the building of the Tower as idolatry was to understand an historical event.

This metaphysical agnosticism diminishes as we develop larger - scale interpretative arguments, all of which draw on often unspoken, even unconscious, assumptions about the way human history and culture unfold.

Second, I suggest that the talk about «resurrection of the body» is an assertion that the totality of the material world and of human history, as well as of every man in that history who, with his brethren, has achieved good in his existence in the world, is usable by God who through it has been enriched in His own experience without changing in His supremely worshipful deity — the God unsurpassable by anything not Himself, but open to enrichment in being what He is and in terms of what He does.

I suppose what the phrase denotes is the modern culture which gives great emphasis on human being as a creator of culture and of history out of nature and which also believes that human being and history require no transcendent reference to a Divine Creator or a Divine Redeemer from self - alienation to bring about the realization of the community of love which is the ultimate destiny of humanity.

If you'll permit me to leave this thought: I have concluded after many years of «church hopping» to finally «no church» that what we need in the «church» is not anything «new» as stated in your last paragraph but rather a «liberation from»... I conclude that the church (organized or free) considers this return to liberty (brought about by Christ) as a legitimate «next step» in the history of «church» but that is firstly a lie and secondly opens up a door for even more destructive creativity by humans.

And as Fitzgerald notes: «You're talking about the best human being to ever shoot a basketball in the history of the world.

Waldorf Education has as its ideal a person who is knowledgeable about the world and human history and culture, who has many varied practical and artistic abilities, who feels a deep reverence for and communion with the natural world, and who can act with initiative and in freedom in the face of economic and political pressures.

When I write about human nature, I use the 99 % of human genus history as a baseline.

The worldwide trends therefore seem to be relatively straightforward: most humans tend to wean at a similar stage in their life history as other primates, which works out to about three years old based on our relatively large body size.

The Annual Reports, appearing since 1995, contain news about the domain where history and human rights intersect, especially about the censorship of history and the persecution of historians, archivists, and archaeologists around the globe, as reported by various human rights organizations and other sources.

In the end, the history of zoology reveals as much about our human foibles as about the animals we study.

There have been a number of significant pandemics in human history, generally zoonoses that came about with domestication of animals - such as influenza and tuberculosis.

We will lose a lot of information about the history of human occupation in the Americas as a consequence,» he says.

The latest species of extinct hominin to be discovered that promised to rewrite our history may have died out as modern humans came about

«About as many dinosaurs have been described in the past two decades as in all of human history before that,» Wang says.

For, the first chapters of the Book of Genesis were never meant to be taken as history or science, as «eyewitness» accounts, either of God or of someone impossibly «interviewing» God, but as a spiritual, theological, and mystical statement about God's relationship with the world; as an «aetiological myth,» to use Rahner's phrase, that provides an explanation, based on the human author's contemporary experience, of how things must have gotten to be the way we see them.

In Kate's discussion about Neandertals and our own history as a species on the planet, reminds me of the origin of the celiac disease issue which is, you know, very deeply tied with our human history.

The researchers caution that it's impossible to draw broad conclusions about Neandertal life histories from this one sample, such as whether Neandertals weaned their children earlier or later than modern humans who lived at the same time, or whether Neandertal children grew up faster, as some earlier studies have suggested — questions that could heavily bear on why Neandertals could not keep up with modern humans in the survival sweepstakes.

The connection between group size and facial evolution tells us something about our own ancient history too, since human faces are about as plain as it gets.

«Studying the history of organisms that we use and breed, and that we've had an effect on, tells us about history as well as culture and human migration.»

Nevertheless, Stringer said that the discovery and dating of H. naledi «remind us that about 95 percent of the area of Africa is still essentially unexplored for its fossil human record, and its history even within the last 500,000 years may well be as complex as that of Eurasia with its 5 known kinds of humans — Homo erectus, heidelbergensis, neanderthalensis, Denisovans, and floresiensis.»

The all - inclusive annual ASE Planetary Congress, held in a different host country each year, has a long history as the premier forum for astronauts and cosmonauts from all spacefaring nations to meet and exchange information about their respective space agencies, human spaceflight operations and future plans for exploration beyond low earth orbit.

«We're at the first point in our history as humans where we might actually have some observations from other planets that we can use to test any of these ideas about life beyond our own,» says Lenardic.

As planetary ice recedes, it's revealing secrets about human history.

Learn about the healing qualities and nutritional importance of live - culture ferments, as well as their illustrious history and integral role in human cultural evolution.

And if you eat any processed food such as sugar and white flour, you are eating differently than anyone, in the history of human beings, has ever eaten, until about the last 100 years.

We've also heard the quote by Jared Diamond to describe agriculture as «the worst mistake in the history of the human race» and this, making sense to us, is our motivation for completely cutting out all bread, pasta, rice and couscous altogether as we're concerned about constant the spikes in insulin.

But the pomegranate, one of the most talked about super foods, has a long history of benefiting human health as well as the scientific evidence to back it up.

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What is important about this film is not that it serves as a history lesson (although it does) but that, at a time when the threat of nuclear holocaust hangs ominously in the air, it reminds us that we are, after all, human, and thus capable of the most extraordinary and wonderful achievements, simply through the use of our imagination, our will, and our sense of right.

Now, as Sam and Mikaela unearth a secret about the Transformers that alters the entire course of human history, the Decepticon known as The Fallen prepares to return — and reclaim the plant once and for all.

While I came into this movie excited about every inch of it, M'Baku a.k.a Man - Ape in the comics has had a very messy and problematic history being written as the scary, angry, dark - skinned black man who wants Wakanda to be a primitive society that includes human sacrifice, because... this character was created by white authors in the late 1960s, and this was their idea of nuance.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

«When you teach about the great characters from history, science and art, be sure to portray the whole stories: the pains as well as the gains, the human side entwined with the brilliance, the challenges along with the glory,» writes Elisa Guerra Cruz (@ElisaGuerraCruz).