Sentences with phrase «ancient people using»

So a really huge wooden boat built by ancient people using only their own wits isn't impossible.

Not exact matches

Using a dating technique that measures how much radiation had built up in the flint since it was heated, Hublin and his team say the ancient bones belong to people who lived roughly 300,000 - 350,000 years ago.

From water - and snow - resistant parkas made from skins worn by hunters in polar regions to garments fabricated using woven straw, such as the ancient Japanese mino, people have long sought ways to remain dry while outside in wet weather.

Christian Communion is vampiric, The Great Rite is just using other people to get one's jollies, tell me a religion (modern or ancient) and I bet there will be at least one similarity regarding the control of people.

If someone wanted to make papyrus the way the ancient Egyptians did, we know what the end result has to look like, the person trying to recreate it just has to keep trying different methods, using tools and materials we know existed at the time, until they get the right result.

That is a misunderstanding that many people assign to atheism, but has never actually been a part of the words usage (even in ancient times, atheists were those without god, while other terms were used to refer to those that BELIEVED there was no gods).

In ancient biblical cultures, the term was often used in connection with a person being bought from the slave markets and then being given their freedom.

Using all available means, they examine the ways of living and thinking, the customs and institutions, and the life - situations of the people originally addressed by the ancient writers in order to determine the intended meaning.

In the ancient debates, scientists and philosophers used criteria such as reaction to stimuli, modes of nutrition, and origin of motion to determine when the embryo receives a soul and can be considered a person.

So it seems like hero worship, ancient authority and much more are tempting items people keep using even as their religion supposedly changes or disappears.

Likewise, the Jewish people exterminated their enemies in ancient times and they too used the «God card».

Book of Mormon people did use ancient symbolic language when describing religiosity, (one of many mountains of evidences that it is an ancient book.)

Trigster: the Book of Mormon was written by dark skinned people, who probably knew nothing of the white supremacy you accuse them of... it does use ancient language, but they were not racist in our terms, the Nephites and Lamanites of the Book of Mormon viewed themselves as «brothers,» they were all one race.

God is a concept, an idea used by ancient people to explain a world they knew nothing about.

In history, there has always been Premarital sex, in history there have been methods to prevent pregnancy (the ancient Egyptians used herbs), in history women couldn't divorce their husbands because they would lose their property and many marriages in the 30,40,50 s were not because were in love simply people had no choice.

Oh, and one more quick comment: anyone see the irony in the fact that an ancient tool of execution, upon which thousands of innocent people were tortured to death, is now used to decorate, and show devotion?

As for how we arc to use these resources for seeking and finding God, I imagine Julian saying something like this: Get firmly in your mind that each of these three really does correspond to one of the three persons of the Trinity — truth, to God the Father; wisdom, the ancient Sophia, to the second person, who is God our Mother; and love to the Holy Spirit.

If God uses hurricanes, tsunamis, bridge collapses and other such events to destroy the guilty and innocent alike, then it's no reach to conclude that he also ordered ancient Israel to slaughter their enemies, that he caused the earth to open and swallow people who disobeyed and so on.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

And that cross on your church kinda looks like an ancient device used to torture people to death, but but we let you celebrate that.

This popular notion is the ancient Greek idea that in the moment of inspiration the human personality was put into a kind of cold storage; or, to use the Greeks» own example, the person became as a flute, passively ready to play whatever was breathed into it.

In Latin America, such persons have included those who tell of ancient Mayan greatness, old grandmothers with their colorful needlework and health - care workers who retain wisdom about the use of traditional herbs and medicines.

The real brave people of the world though, use knowledge and actually trying to figure out how the world works for real.And by doing this they actually saving lives and make life better for everyone including those who go to church and those who preach ancient fairy tales.

Although people use those terms for a variety of reasons, I do know those who think those books tell stories of the religion and culture of the ancient Jews, and as such are only history.

It would be like saying the ancient writings on clay tablets found were a random act of insects crawling and landing on wet clay and over time those impressions dried - but there was never a group of people that had a written language using clay tablets.

People might attempt to use it to justify such things, but, in the end, it's just another ancient text whose interpretation is up to the reader.

If we grasp this aspect of our preaching, we may well have our part in a great movement of return to the intention of the Reformers of the sixteenth century as well as of the Fathers of the ancient Church: that the Lord's Supper shall in very deed be the act of Christian worship most loved, most used, and most honored by the whole of the Christian world, without base superstition or ungodly fear but in loving obedience to the command of the Lord and for the «strengthening and refreshing» of his people.

Its good for ya... Its good for ya... Did you know that people in ancient India also used it as a kind of an ingredient in a dessert?

This sweet, nutty super seed (that most people refer to as an ancient grain) can be used just like quinoa in cookie recipes.

Even though is not enough peer - reviewed science to verify these claims, we at Farmer Direct believe that not only is it important to restore ancient grains to people's diets, but that we have a responsibility to grow them using responsible farming practices in high - quality soil.

Amaranth and quinoa are ancient grains used by the native peoples of South America.

While archaeobotanists and archaeologists today have a much clearer picture of the range of foods used by ancient peoples of Mesoamerica in their daily subsistence and dietary practices, the information on the nature, extent, structure, and timing of chili pepper use or consumption in the archaeological record remains scant.

People: I don't care how sturdy the construction is or how safe the clasp claims to be, or what ancient cultures used to let their babies wear, please please please don't put your infants in a crib unsupervised with beaded jewelry wrapped around their necks or limbs, okay?

It was most certainly heavily used by known ancient rulers - from Persian emperors who left behind what was clearly fictitious accounts of themselves, to Cleon of Athens; from Alexander the Great's mom claiming he was a product of an affair with a god to Augustus who commissioned art to portray himself as humble and a man of the people.

«How do we use these very ancient traditions to help people who are making these really difficult decisions?»

But others point out that science could benefit if Native American tribes use ancient DNA to secure the return of more remains, because this may deliver long - sought data on the peopling of the region.

People have been fascinated with weather forecasting at least dating back to the ancient Babylonians, who tried to use cloud formations and other atmospheric conditions to predict short - term weather changes.

«[People] have even started using the stones from the ancient ruins on Lelu Island to build [sea] walls.

To find out more about the lives and deaths of these ancient people, Schultz has spent years teasing out the secrets of their bones, using techniques like those employed at crime scenes.

Now, using a novel technique based on analyzing ancient proteins, archaeologists have reconstructed the contents of these vessels to conclude that the individual likely died from Crimean - Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), a severe tick - borne disease that still kills people across the world today.

The wreck sites are littered with large marble columns and blocks and piles of amphorae — ceramic vats used by ancient people throughout the Roman Republic.

Benson suggests that much of the corn consumed by the ancient people of Chaco may have come from the Chuska Slope, the eastern flank of the Chuska Mountains some 50 miles west of Chaco Canyon that also was the source of some 200,000 timbers used to shore up Chaco Canyon masonry structures.

For example, «hard scientific evidence» shows that ancient people extracted opium from poppies, says David Collard, senior archaeologist at Jacobs, an engineering firm in Melbourne, Australia, who found signs of ritual opium use on Cyprus dating back more than 3000 years.

Three hundred kilometers due west and several centuries later, the ancient people of Cyprus used opium in religious ceremonies, Collard says.

Someone could organise a competition, to see what people could do without using anything our ancient ancestors would have lacked.

DNA of ancient skeletal remains of people from southeastern Europe was used to determine migration patterns across Europe during prehistoric times.

You've probably heard of Reiki, an ancient Japanese spiritual practice that people use to heal everything from chronic back pain to depression.

There's a reason people have used neti pots for centuries: the ancient tool clears the nasal passageways considerably.

Amaranth and quinoa are ancient grains used by the native peoples of South America.

So I mean — some of it we can draw from — from ancient peoples what they've used.