Sentences with phrase «ancestors saw»

I want my kids to see a beautiful Earth as I have seen it — even if it wasn't as beautiful as my ancestors saw it.

They helped me see the world my ancestors saw.

If you look at its history, you will see that this is not a new protein source or newly accepted food; therefore, there must be some wonderful merit in what our ancestors saw.

Just as some of our ancestors saw the heart as the locus of the soul, today the medical establishment assumes that the brain is what defines humanity and that a functioning brain is vital to what is called a human being's personhood.

Before Juicy Fruit, Bubblicious or the sticky debate in schools (um, let's face it, when students don't chew gum quietly or bullies smash it in someone's hair, it's a learning distraction and not an enhancement), our distant ancestors saw the value of chewing resins and latex secretions from plants.

As many of our ancestors saw clearly at the time, its essence was the conviction that methods of psychic and group pressure were both necessary and efficacious to evangelizing.

That is the image our American ancestors saw when they thought about planting the germs of beauty and nobility in their new culture.

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.

Our cave man ancestors would be stunned to see people working for thirty years just to own a home.

No, Darwin's evolution by natural selection was most certainly not based upon merely seeing some bacteria change in a petri dish, and leaping directly to humans and apes having common ancestors.

This is why some dying individuals, claim that they «see» their ancestors as they are leaving this world.

We each face judgement based on our actions, not the actions of our parents or ancestors, we need to stop compounding our errors by refusing to see the truth when it is plainly put before us.

But our ancestors, who brought it about, didn't actually see themselves as proponents of a new religion.

The more I have studied the bible, and believe me I have spent years studying it and other religious books, the more I see this as a hangover from primitive days when our ancestors had no scientific knowledge and had to imagine gods to explain things.

not yet 50 years of age 8:56 Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and was glad.

As you will see in tomorrow's post, animism and ancestor worship is much more significant in this culture than Buddhism and Taoism.

On being approached one day with the suggestion that she was «demon possessed» she immediately came out with the name of an ancestor and asked to see a priest.

I offer it is impossible because when we consider all the relevant variables (the probability that all of Vic's ancestors chose the correct partners, that electricity was discovered, that computers and the internet were invented, etc, etc), we can easily see that the odds far exceed Vic's upper boundary for what is «possible» (and therein demonstrate the absurd nature of these types of probability arguments).

No one has power to alter these heavenly lights, for they serve to display the greatness of their Creator, and as our eyes see them now, so saw them our earliest ancestors, and so shall see them our latest posterity.26

Both humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor, hence why humans are related to apes, and why you don't see apes evolving into humans.

Yet we have only to glance over the past two centuries to see that within these few generations our temporal view of the world has come to differ greatly from that of our ancestors.

In our culture we no longer worship the sun and see it as a divine presence as our ancestors did.

Here's the majors, so plan accordingly for your place in this life or the next: 1) there is not a single fossil to evidence mankind's evolution from some so - called earlier form (see missing link) however we do however have mountains of DNA evidence showing we have common ancestors with primates — so you either believe in a Creator, or Aliens, or actual evolution or a mix of any of the three.

It is sad to see how people who were subjected to inequality, hatred, abuse, and turmoil forget their past and their ancestor's past.

One that accommodates reverence for the God of our ancestors — a shadow which we have cast upon the sky — and humility before the Power which we infer lies beyond that which we can not see — the magnificence behind the shadow.

When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us, we cried to the Lord, the God of our ancestors; the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

We see Jesus and his apostles as our ancestors in faith; they saw Abraham and Moses as theirs.

The odd skeletons had prominent jaws and jutting cheekbones, and middling - sized brains more commonly seen in human ancestors from hundreds of thousands of years ago.

And as for not seeing Jews living around areas where their ancestors were tortured is no more surprising than Pagans avoiding Salem.

But of the importance of the subject I have not the slightest doubt; and as you will see, this is not because I wish to cling in some obscurantist way to something that has been traditionally sacred, but because I am convinced that death, judgement, heaven, and hell — «the four last things» — are subjects with which we must concern ourselves, however different from our ancestors may be the way in which we wish to understand what those terms denote.

Because generations from now, even our children's children need to see how their ancestors were forced to play pixilated, space - themed asteroid games on tiny screens with limited controls, in an effort to pass the time before Xbox was invented.

On Paleo you may see yourself eating more fish than you used to eat, because it is such a healthy meat, and something our ancestors surely would have eaten.

Many of the miners in his town worshipped statues of Satan, and most of the people left food out for the dead on All Saints» Day, sprinkling flour on the floor and later looking to see if their ancestors had visited and left footprints.

The technology belongs to our evolutionary ancestors and has allowed humans to thrive and develop the breathtaking array of babywearing cultures seen around the world.

As a new mother with a scientific mind (and ready access to forensic testing equipment), I decided to see who's idea was correct - the teetotalers or our ancestors.

New Year's Day is about to bring New Yorkers what many of their ancestors never lived to see: the opening of the Second Avenue subway.

Hodgskiss strikes a middle ground as she imagines how human ancestors might have begun using the material: «You're walking through the landscape, and you see a beautiful red or yellow or purple stone, and you realize you can grind it and get a really nice powder from it.

Old World monkeys, apes and hominins — the branch of the ape family tree that includes humans — inherited that ancestor's ability to see red, particularly against a green background.

Remarkably, two of the same genetic changes seen in stickleback SWS2 also distinguish SWS2A (red - shifted) and SWS2B (blue - shifted) of these fish species, with whom they last shared a common ancestor many million years ago.

They have crossed two Fleur 11 varieties that mix different bits of the ancestors» genes that control peanut size to see if they can create a larger peanut — one that grows well even in the face of the prolonged dry spells.

What's more, the East African hominin long seen as our direct ancestor may be just a cousin, with our true roots lying further south.

Even the groups we came to know as Eskimo — which include the Inupiat and the Yupiks of Alaska, the Canadian Inuit and Inuvialuit, Inuit Greenlanders, and the Siberian Yupiks — have probably seen more changes in their diet in a lifetime than their ancestors did over thousands of years.

During occasional flare - ups that may have lasted minutes to hours, the dim interloper might even have been bright enough for our ancestors to see.

If they made any paintings on the cave walls 100,000 years ago, calcium carbonate deposits would have obscured them, so the team plans to beam X-rays through the layers to see if our ancestors left traces of loftier artistic ambitions.

In remarks on the sidelines of a conference in Aurangabad, in central India, Singh further noted that «nobody, including our ancestors, in written or oral, have said they saw an ape turning into a man.»

To test this hypothesis, an international team led by evolutionary biologist Philipp Khaitovich of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences in China and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, set out to see how many brain - related genes implicated in schizophrenia underwent positive natural selection since humans and chimpanzees diverged from a common ancestor between 5 million and 7 million years ago.

This research shows how global studies of our genes can give insight into how our taste for different foods may have been influenced by variation in our ability to smell, and, excitingly, show that it is possible to see back into deep evolutionary time and reconstruct the sensory world of our distant ancestors.

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This research has shown that the climate changes coincided with increases in population, activity and production of technology on the part of our ancestors, as seen in the archaeological records.

Mellaart saw Çatalhöyük as the ancestor of much more elaborate Bronze Age civilizations, such as Knossos on Crete, and he assumed it too must have been ruled by an elite — perhaps the priests whose shrines he thought he had uncovered.