Sentences with phrase «ancient life on»

«We are getting very close to being able to detect evidence of ancient life on Mars or, perhaps more importantly, the chemical building blocks on which life forms.»

«To really determine [ancient life on Mars] in a «smoking gun» fashion we would need a sample return mission from Mars — samples free of any contamination,» White said.

The findings may shed light on the environmental conditions at the time of impact and may also be a good starting point to find signs of ancient life on Mars.

Molten glass created in impacts on Mars could have captured and preserved signs of ancient life on the Red Planet as it cooled, researchers suggest.

While the others presented aspects of Mars geology and Earth analogues for the Columbia Hills site, Martin gave an overview talk earlier in the workshop explaining the importance of Archean environments on Earth in narrowing the search for possible ancient life on Mars.

However, the species is not only useful for researchers as a time reference, as it also gives them valuable insights into ancient life on Earth.

Slippage in Titan's rotation suggests water between its surface and core — and a higher likelihood of ancient life on Saturn's biggest moon

It is also almost poetic to think that dark matter, which gets its name from its mysterious nature, could have helped to destroy ancient life on Earth.

The work, led by geochemist Ken Farley of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), could not only help in understanding the geologic history of Mars but also aid in the search for evidence of ancient life on the planet.

Fear - enhanced odor detection with John McGann; the latest from Curiosity's hunt for traces of ancient life on Mars with Richard Kerr; and more.

Schweitzer believes understanding preservation at a molecular level could help paleontologists find traces of ancient life on Earth, as well as on planets like Mars.

«Some parts of Boulby mine are similar to environments we see on Mars, and so we'd like to use Boulby to work out where the best places are to look for signs of ancient life on Mars,» says Charles Cockell, an astrobiologist from Edinburgh University, who heads up the Mars Analogues for Space Exploration project.

Not exact matches

Plot: The scientific crew on the spaceship Prometheus finds an alien life forces after excavating Ancient Mesopotamian, Aztec and Magdalenian caves that were discovered on a star map.

From novel scheduling systems, to exhortations to invest in health, and even spiritual reminders that «work - life balance» is really a modern spin on the ancient and fundamentally difficult question of what constitutes a life well lived, you can spend hours upon hours neither working nor living but simply reading through posts and columns on the topic.

An image taken by the Curiosity Rover has turned viral after a video posted by a group insisted that the image was the vestige of an ancient Martian tree on the planet as an assertion of life on Mars.

Suppose he was distributing DVD's claiming UFO's came here and it was ancient astronauts that started life on Earth?

I can understand how from your vantage point basing an entire life on an ancient manuscript seems asinine!

Instead of the ancient Holy Land, Tyler Perry's The Passion is set in current - day New Orleans and will be broadcast live on Fox, on March 20.

Actually there has been life found on other planets; bacteria from Mars was discovered in an ancient meteorite that smashed into the Antarctic over 13,000 years ago.

However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.

If these ancient rites hadn't been co-opted by capitalism, hadn't morphed into pastel M&M s, plastic grass and My Little Ponies with bunny ears, I might find it a relief to preach on the fecundity of spring, rather than trying to tell the story of a living, breathing dead man.

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

An ancient book by unknown authors, which makes wild extraordinary claims such as snakes talking, a man living in a giant fish for days, the dead rising, and so on.

Even while acknowledging some lat.itude in these early chapters, it appears that science is increasingly able to corroborate what we have held in faith based upon biblical texts, including bases for such matters as an ancient deluge, genetic linking back to one mother and possible on father, and the possibility of extended life - spans prior to the deluge.

If they are true believers and not riding some particular hobby horse they must surely say that everything has remained the same that is really necessary for life as well as for death: the crucified and risen Christ, his grace, baptism, the true body and blood of the Lord in the Eucharist, the forgiveness of sins, the expectation of eternal life, the ancient dogma binding on all, the one commandment of the love of God and our neighbour.

Whereas ancient man felt himself to be at the mercy of capricious forces seated beyond his control in an unseen world, Israel came to recognize that man himself has been given power and responsibility to act decisively, and that it is on his own moral decisions that his life and destiny largely depend.

Hermeneutical reflections often leave believers in deep confusion about how to bring these ancient writings to bear on the present life of the church.

Without a living experience of God, then the pagan claims seem convincing on their own, especially those incomplete (often misquoted) stories on the web about who and what were those ancient pagan frauds (horus, mithra et al).

It is as though a new and formidable mountain chain had arisen in the landscape of the soul, causing ancient categories to be reshuffled and uniting higgledy - piggledy on every slope the friends and enemies of yesterday: on one side the inflexible and sterile vision of a Universe composed of unalterable, juxtaposed parts, and on the other side the ardour, the faith, the contagion of a living truth emerging from all action and exercise of will.

These ancient ones populated Mars with life and eventually, due to asteroid events over millions of years, life arrived here on Earth.

Following Wittgenstein's idea of «family - resemblance theory,» he compares the generic features of ancient Lives — such as length, style, atmosphere, purpose, external structure, and so on — with those of the gospels.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

The artists draw on an ancient tradition of Mary as herself a voracious reader, stewed in holy Scriptures, and a notion, then commonplace, of the affinity between the intellectual and spiritual lives, of the «garden enclosed» where the God of truth meets the believer, set apart from the demands of the world.

Thus morally split and bifurcated, with the ancient savage frowning on the potential saint, folk try to live, supposing that such is man's inevitable estate.

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

The notions of intellect and will or desireare schemata that we (following the philosophers of ancient Greece) impose on human life for the purpose of describing and influencing it; and the notions of faith, hope and charity are further schemata fitted on by theologians as life rises above what is natural.

You are wasting your one and only life on blind faith in a ancient fairy tale created by man to control the behavior of other men.

But even allowing for all this, we are still, like our ancient forbears, finite creatures who recognize our fundamental affinity with the earth on which we live.

People base their lives on the ancient ravings of some ignorant schizophrenic jewish eunuchs lol just lol!!!!!!!!!

As a short, inductive introduction the emphasis is on meaning and especially on the meaning of the ancient text in the life and faith of that ancient people, Israel.

In this quite striking way the ancient myths did full justice to the reality and finality of death on the one hand and to the mystery, on the other hand, of how death gave rise to new life.

The church is organized on the same principles as the original and ancient church of Jesus Christ on the foundation of living apostles and prophets and with priesthood authority from God.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

The teaching of Jesus was set in the context of ancient Judaism, and in many respects that teaching must have been variations on themes from the religious life of ancient Judaism.

While Brock found images of redemption in Scripture, New Testament scholar Gail Paterson Corrington found hers in pre-Christian figures such as Isis and Sophia, ancient female divinities whose legacy lives on in apocryphal literature in the figure of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

The emerging church, to be anything other than a hip blip on the radar of American religion, will need to live the tension of «relevant - resistant» no less than it lives the tension of «ancient - future.»

An ancient rabbinic method of exegesis called midrash, which sought out and inevitably found the solution to problems perceived in the biblical text, resulted in the creation of an abundant mythology that eventually took on a life of its own.

Suppose, however, that one has strong reservations about the historical reliability of the texts, especially the larger - than - life description of Solomon, and one believes that any proper history of ancient Israel must be based on firsthand sources.

Furthermore, stories surrounding women like Tamar of Genesis, Dinah, Hagar, the dismembered concubine of Judges 19, Jephthah's daughter, Tamar of the Davidic narrative, and so on reveal the profound inequity that characterized day - to - day life for women living in the ancient Near East.

On the one hand, he commends poetry as providing an introduction to philosophy (in the ancient sense of a quest for wisdom to live a life that flourishes).