Sentences with phrase «animal forms which»

I am also showing a black / white painting of Carrie Marill with a scramble of animal forms which fit together like a puzzle.

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He outlines three forms of consciousness: the simple consciousness of animals and humans; the self - consciousness of humans, which includes reason and imagination; and cosmic consciousness, which transcends factual understanding.

Animal - free gelatin, which in its regular form is derived from collagen — a material that is typically made from the bones, skin, and tissues of cows and pigs.

As social animals we survived because we form bonds, which provide mutual aid.

The drugs, which could be administered in both feed and water, helped shield the livestock from disease, which also allowed farmers to pack more animals into barns and transformed old - fashioned agriculture into its modern industrialized form.

National animal nonprofits and lobbying groups — which often are at odds with one another on issues and legislation — struck a similar chord in saying the purchase of auction dogs at high prices was something other than a form of rescue.

Human beings are society animals; we are tribal, fundamentally speaking, and it is this which forms the basis of human morality.

Richard Dawkins merely states in unvarnished form doctrines that other scientific metaphysicians take for granted: In the beginning were the particles and the impersonal laws of physics; life evolved by a mindless, non-teleological process in which God played no part; and human beings are just another animal species.

Even vegetarians (which means lousy hunter) eat billions of life forms and kill them when they eat, so morality for killing animals to eat, ridiculous.

Then came the Cambrian explosion, which gave rise to a huge diversity of life forms: most types of modern animals appear in the fossil record from this era.

This little novel tells of curious happenings in a small contemporary English village: ordinary animals and people, it seems, are suddenly turning into extraordinary creatures, into the invisible, supernatural ideas or forms of which our natural examples are but faint images.

It has spread monotheism and driven out heathenism which was based on the worship of spirits which were symbolized in the mean forms of animals and inanimate objects.

Historians of religion in the nineteenth century referred to the sacrificial system of ancient Israel as a form of do ut des, which could be paraphrased: «I am putting this small animal I have reared on an altar as a gift for you in hopes that you will bestow your blessing on me.»

What would a day be in the Divine circadian cycle of an omnimodal, omnipotent being, 24 hours, 24 billion years, 24 milliseconds??? Nowhere in the Bible coes it say that evolution does not exist within the living realm, but Simon Peter does say that to the I Am»... one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day...» (the Bible DOES recognize the effects of animal husbandry, which is a form of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm of Divine probability by biblical accounts, as Divine probability contains, by textbook definition, the sum of the laws of nature.

These previous points once again are believed by many religions, but there are also many religions that don't make this clear distinction as with some forms of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and others which believe in the transmigration of the soul through reincarnation from humans to animals and vice versa.

However, he does hold that the goal towards which physical processes are directing the behavior of an animal finds conscious expression at the level of spirit by its intuition of the goal's essence under the form of the good.

A god which would demote itself to mortal form and die, not take sides with good, bad, human or animal.

Evidence of the fact that union differentiates is to be seen all round us — in the bodies of all higher forms of life, in which the cells become almost infinitely complicated according to the variety of tasks they have to perform; in animal associations, where the individual «polymerises» itself, one might say, according to the function it is called upon to fulfil; in human societies, where the growth of specialization becomes ever more intense; and in the field of personal relationships, where friends and lovers can only discover all that is in their minds and hearts by communicating them to one another.

We have seen that research in nonhuman experience corroborates Whitehead's epistemological scheme in which perception takes the two forms of causal efficacy and presentational immediacy, propositions and concepts are primarily nonlinguistic, feeling is the dominant mode of world - and self - disclosure, and animals experience both morally and aesthetically.

P. B. Thompson observes, «Agrarian society considered divine blessings in the form of abundant harvests as their engagement was in horticulture, animal husbandry and the production of crops all of which involved risk factors.

Aristotle, noting that the human embryo in its earliestform did not have a human form, head, body and limbs, imagined that it had an animal soul which was replaced by a spiritual soul as soon as the human form definitely became apparent.

The universe is self - existent and self - contained, within which man has evolved to the position of the highest form of animal life.

(Cf. the phenomenon of the «runners» at first connected with the mother plant and then separated from it; the fluid transition between various plants and animals which appear to be one; the germ - cell inside and outside the parent organism, etc.) Living forms which present what are apparently very great differences in space and time can ontologically have the same morphological principle, so that enormous differences of external form can derive from the material substratum and chance patterns of circumstance without change of substantial form (caterpillar - chrysalis butterfly).

Islam, for hygienic reasons and in order to form kind and good habits, forbids Muslims to eat pork, animals dead by themselves, animals not killed by Muslims, blood, food given to gods, snakes, poultry which eats meat, and sea food not shaped like a fish, and forbids smoking, drinking, and the use of narcotics.

The constitution of a society prescribes the forms of justice only when it provides for that kind of interaction among individuals, and between individuals and the physical environment, which creates the human mind, and which sustains that scope of understanding, power of action and richness of appreciation which is distinctively human in contrast to the lower animals.

No theory of the way in which vicarious sacrifice operates to redeem mankind was explicitly set forth; current forms of thought, such as those associated with animal sacrifices (E.g., Hebrews, chaps.

The democratic societies have no one supreme or dominant member, with examples being such things possibly as stones and probably as some cell - colonies and even special forms of many - celled plants and animals.42 Monarchic societies, on the other hand, do have a supreme or dominant member which radically subordinates the parts to its ruling purpose but which can never completely rob the parts of all measure of control over themselves.

We can trace its existence for not much more than a hundred thousand years, a period so short that it has left no mark on the majority of the animal forms that preceded us on the earth and which still surround us.

And with the cup, so clear a symbol of his blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar of God's grace a whole new covenant that would replace the ancient, worn - out slaughter of the animals with one complete and final act, the sacrifice of God's own son to show the world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the eternal glory of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come, at last, and offer up our own lives in return.

The three states which form the basis of the original human condition he says are: original solitude (before the creation of the woman and before original sin man recognises himself as «alone in the world» as he is different from the rest of creation as he is a co-creator with God (through naming of the animals) yet is not the same as God.

In Daniel and Revelations, the principalities and powers are referred to as animals and mythical beasts which form a jungle of killing and death.

Dr. Adam Clarke, speaking of this remarkable proceeding says: — «God caused the animals to pass before Adam to show him that no creature yet formed could make him a suitable companion; that Adam was convinced that none of these animals could be a suitable companion for him, and that therefore he must continue in a state that was not good (celibacy) unless he became a further debtor to the bounty of his maker, for among all the animals which he had formed, there was not a helpmeet for Adam.»

The latter, particularly, points to a religious or ritual function to these carvings, and indeed to the practice of a form of «shamanism» — that is, an archaic magical or religious belief system which sought connections between the visible and spirit worlds, and which ascribes spiritual properties to animals and natural forces.

Animal life, for example, appears as a decisive advance in a cosmic process of actualisation of the real potencies inherent in matter at lower levels: an advance, however, which is not simply reducible to the tendencies (ultimately thermodynamic: form is like fire, which «tends towards the limit», says Aristotle) that gave rise to it.

Adopting the second view not only fits our natural intuitions of the other animals, especially the higher forms, but fits also the evolutionary scheme according to which our human traits are intensifications and elaborations of traits found in our prehuman ancestors.

It makes me feel that the term «vegan» is extremely unfortunate and misleading, because the term does not emphasize or even signify respect for animals or living beings or creatures, as it would benefit from doing, but rather uses a derivative form of «vegetable» or «vegetarian», which makes it sound as if the central point is — eating vegetation, i.e. plants, which makes it sound like a diet.

Lauric acid is a medium chain fatty acid, which has the additional beneficial function of being formed into monolaurin in the human or animal body.

When considering the protein source, for example, one must not only consider whether an animal - or plant - based protein will be used, but the specific organism from which it is derived (e.g., animal: chicken, beef, lamb, pork, etc.; fish: salmon, menhaden, etc.; plant: corn gluten meal, soybean meal, etc.), what part (s) of that organism will be included (e.g., plant: whole wheat vs. wheat germ vs. wheat bran; animal: entire animal vs. skeletal muscle vs. organ meats), and the form in which it will be added (animals: frozen, fresh, meal), all of which affect the diet in terms of cost, nutrient composition and stability, manufacturing requirements, and ingredient handling, transport, and storage.

The oil comes in the form of medium - chain triglcerides (or MCTs), which differ from types of fat consumed from both plant and animal sources, long - chain triglycerides (or LCTs).

Babies at this stage become fascinated by small toys in the form of animals and cars, so make sure you give them a wide selection which are age - appropriate.

Unlike previous special exhibits like Amphibians and Jellies, which focused on one species or class of animals, this exhibit will focus instead on the various forms of beauty in our lakes, rivers and oceans across the globe.

The NYPD's new animal cruelty unit, which formed earlier this year, is looking at the connection between domestic violence and the abuse of animals, in the hope of rooting out both problems in the city.

In contrast, animals who had the nuclear form of HDAC5 did not press the lever nearly as often, even after the experimenters gave the animals a small priming dose of cocaine, which often produces strong drug - seeking behaviors.

In «Darwin drift», a high - pressure zone forms at the front of each swimming animal, leaving an area of lower pressure behind, which draws in adjacent water.

Perhaps Polis» most important contribution was assembling a list of cannibalism - related generalizations under which most examples of invertebrate cannibalism could be placed: 1) Immature animals get eaten more often than adults; 2) Many animals, particularly invertebrates, do not recognize individuals of their own kind, especially eggs and immature stages, which are simply regarded as a food source; 3) Females are more often cannibalistic than males; 4) Cannibalism increases with hunger and a concurrent decrease in alternative forms of nutrition; and 5) Cannibalism is often directly related to the degree of overcrowding in a given population.

The Irish wolfhound stands a metre high and weighs as much as 30 chihuahuas, but the difference in size between the two is due to a single gene, which comes in one form in the large animal and another in the small.

Vegetarians may consume dairy and egg products; a stricter form is veganism, which excludes dairy, eggs, and any foods that contain these or other animal products.

The culprit: fumes from nitrogen - rich fertilizers and animal waste combine in the air with combustion emissions to form solid particles, which constitute a major source of disease and death, according to the new study.

They then tried to reprogram skin cells from the animals, turning them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), which are capable of forming other types of cell.

The team used stable isotope labels to trace plant litter - derived carbon and nitrogen as the litter decomposed and formed soil, specifically the fraction of soil called organic matter, which comes from plant inputs and microscopic animals.