Sentences with phrase «ancient science as»

In fact, if we take a closer look we find that the Christian doctrine of heaven was as problematic for ancient science as it is for modern.

The ascension is therefore as great a scandal for ancient science as for modern, as are all subsequent human incursions into heaven, from the assumption of Mary to the rapture of St. Paul to the final resurrection.

Not exact matches

Modern science is the cornerstone of your belief system, as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.

``... as ancient writings that I consider to be God given, holy inspired and very relevant to modern times (as well as every society that ever was and will be) is the cornerstone of my belief system, because everything about this book has been accurate in every way, unlike modern science.»

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

Science Works We have traced the evolution of salads and food historians tell us salads (generally defined as mixed greens with dressing) were enjoyed by ancient Romans and Greeks.

Neither those who would set aside Genesis as primitive science nor those who would try to defend it as the true science of origins seem to grasp the differences between modern scientific and ancient cosmological literatures.

Thus modern science is built on Christian foundations, and this explains why there was no science as we know it in any of the ancient civilisations ofantiquity.

This has been a period in which the categories of the social sciences have been employed for the study of such ancient literature, alerting us to the ways in which ancient communities are rooted in social realities, as well as the ways in which social structures and ideologies reinforce each other.

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.

The more you know about science today and the religions of the ancient world, the less it is possible to believe what you were taught as a child, even if you wanted to.

Science, in other words, tells stories that make sense, just as ancient myths did.

Modern science began, as did ancient Greek science, with the adoption of an ultra-simple and essentially negative notion of causality, the belief that, given the causal conditions, what concretely happens is the only thing that then and there could happen.

It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

Focusing, as you might guess, on evolution, our friends at the Portsmouth Institute are offering a conference on «Modern Science / Ancient Faith» from June 22nd to 24th.

Materiality and life (soul) are as much mysteries for modern science as they were for ancient Greek philosophy.

We didn't understand that when we read ancient Hebrew prose poems (like Genesis 1), wisdom literature (like Proverbs), or apocalyptic literature (like Revelation) as if they were science textbooks, we were actually obscuring their meaning.»

Instead, the rationale appears to be that an extended life span would simply satisfy many private desires: first, hardly anyone wants to die; second, as a basic human good, life is worth extending indefinitely; and, third, it would be remiss of science not to respond to that ancient expression of human hope and desire.

Here is the sheer miracle of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.

For example, at one point he quotes the distinguished historian of ancient science G. E. R. Lloyd, who said of Greek science: «Much as the Egyptians and Babylonians contributed to the content of these studies, the investigations only acquire self «conscious methodologies for the first time with the Greeks.»

This answer also makes me the most happy, not that we haven't had other non-christian presidents before (Thomas Jefferson comes to mind) but Obama is the first is a long time and as an Agnostic myself I am proud to have a leader that puts the ideals of science and civil society above those of ancient and antiquated religions

-- And there are also many practicing Hindus who have contributed to science and technology, as well as people of other faiths, including all those ancient Greeks who were the fathers of modern science.

At the founding of the University of Berlin, Humboldt was explicit in saying that, in making the faculty of arts and sciences central, the research university had the same overarching goal as that of ancient Athens» paideia: it «transforms the character.»

Yes, science adjusts its position as more knowledge is obtained; this is in stark contrast to religion which relies on ancient texts to explain the world even though those texts were written in ignorance and scientific knowledge shows them to be false.

Dalahäst And there are also many practicing Hindus who have contributed to science and technology, as well as people of other faiths, including all those ancient Greeks who were the fathers of modern science.

Religious people blindly accept ancient mythology and ignorant superst!tious nonsense as reality while rejecting modern science.

For example, the creation account of Genesis 1 is arguably more meaningful and more profound when we understand it, not as a modern science text, but as an ancient Near Eastern temple text that honors Elohim as ruler over creation.

The more ancient, of course, is the one that starts by saying, «In the beginning, God...» And the newer is the account of the world as science and reason give it.

Logic, falsifiability, hypothesis construction, faith vs testability, possible number of answers to questions we do not have the science to fully explore (as in ancient Egypt with the sun god).

Modern science stands as one of the great achievements of Western civilization — not of Islam, China, or even ancient Greece.

They praise ancient Greek and Arabic sciences as successful on their own terms but have lost sight of the fact that the theories advanced by early science were largely false.

Second, when science say's that the sun will burn out in about 4 billion years they are using data that has been gathered about our sun as well as many other star's to come up with their theory, not an ancient manuscript written by nomadic goat herders.

The second myth about the rise of science is that Westerners only picked up the baton from the ancient Greeks, or, as has been more recently alleged, the Islamic caliphate.

Ayurveda, the ancient medical science of India, recognizes ghee as an essential part of a balanced diet, and considers it to be the best fat one can eat.

Wellness workshops are centered on Ayurveda Daily Routines, the ancient Indian science of life and wellness, and include such options as sleep tips, relaxation / stress management, and herbal remedies to combat common ailments.

Get your science news at our Web site, www.scientificamerican.com, where you can track down my 2013 column, headlined «Toilet Tissue: Anthropologists Uncover All the Ways We've Wiped,» also about ancient bathroom habits, as you might have guessed.

As part of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, he leads one of the world's few groups looking for the reverberations of ancient supernovas — those whose light hit Earth thousands of years ago.

In a paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, the researchers note that the ancient Earth harbored a mantle that was as much as 200 degrees Celsius hotter than it is today — temperatures that may have brewed up more uniform, less dense material throughout the entire mantle layer.

Officially known as the Quantum Science Satellite (QUESS), the mission has been nicknamed Mozi, after the ancient Chinese philosopher said to be the first to conduct optical experiments.

The expected offerings from ancients such as Francis Bacon, interim players such as Charles Darwin, and moderns Stephen Jay Gould, Isaac Asimov, Lewis Thomas and Carl Sagan are complemented by gems from less familiar writers, making the book excellent value for anyone involved or interested in science.

At Al Shaqab in Doha, Qatar, science is bringing a new life to the ancient bloodlines of Arabian horses — the breed that carried historical figures such as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Napoleon and George Washington.

Together, some argue the papers have the potential to transform dinosaur paleontology into a molecular science, much as analyzing ancient DNA has revolutionized the study of human evolution.

Ancient DNA researchers have succeeded beyond all expectation in retrieving entire genomes from - long dead organisms, and their work is transforming the study of the past, as discussed in Science's special news package and in the video above.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

Our goal was to fingerprint the source of methane in the Arctic Ocean to determine if ancient methane was being liberated from the seafloor and if it survives to be emitted to the atmosphere,» says Sparrow, who conducted the study, published in Science Advances, as part of her doctoral research at the University of Rochester.

But together, Cappellini and others argue, the papers have the potential to transform dinosaur paleontology into a molecular science, much as analyzing ancient DNA has revolutionized the study of human evolution.

Galluzzi: Well, we are excited because the collection we have the privilege to preserve [is] certainly the most important collection, in as far as instruments of ancient mathematical science and physics are about around the world, so this is very exciting itself.

The ancient practice of Ayurveda, otherwise known as «the science of life,» calls the fall and winter months «vata» season, after the ethereal quality of the cosmos that is seen in cold, dry, windy weather.

Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary's combined expertise in both modern neurology and the ancient science of health (known as Ayurveda) has uniquely positioned her as an expert, able to pull from the broadest possible base to treat her clients.

She grew up in India with a strong foundation in the ancient science of ayurveda and comes from a family of generational veterans in the craft of essential oil production, leading to her unparalleled understanding of the therapeutic benefits of botanicals, especially as they apply to ayurveda.