Sentences with phrase «as a natural process not»

We have had other home birth families state that they view pregnancy and birth as a natural process not an illness and therefore felt that the hospital was not the appropriate approach to childbirth or that they wished for their older children to be present and engaged in the process.

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God did not need to snap his fingers as time is not of consequence in an eternal landscape so this observed natural process works.

I don't doubt that the people of that time had just as much capacity for intelligence as any of us, however, they were ignorant (through no fault of their own) of many natural processes that they attributed to the supernatural.

God does not, as in the royal model, intervene in the natural or historical process deus ex machina fashion, nor does God feel merely charitable toward the world.

Molecular biology, contrary to the article, does not support evolution by natural chance because evolution can not occur without inheritance, inheritance can not occur without DNA and DNA is so complex it could not have evolved by chance unless we are to assume that molecules just happened to arrange themselves into the DNA molecule at the same times as a nucleus formed to hold the DNA, at the same time as the cell membrane just happened to form around it, at the sametime as all the cell maintaining process in the cytoplasm just happened to come into existence to form a single cell and that all these aspects just happened to come together and work harmoniously.

Remarkable and significant as is the emergence of self - conscious persons by natural processes from the original «hot big bang» from which the universe has expanded over the last 10 - 20 thousand million years, this must not be allowed to obscure another fact about humanity, namely its relatively recent arrival in the universe, even on a time - scale of the history of the Earth.

Holding to this conception of God, one can view natural selection not as a process separate from God but as a process that takes place in God.

Second, the regularity of the natural order is therefore seen by the process theist as important for the sake of all beings and not just for free beings.

First, for the process theist the natural order has value in itself and not just as a sphere in which free creatures can grow to moral maturity (as the Basingers imply for the classical theist).

The lawyers we spoke to — all good people — referred to the process whereby natural law was abandoned as though it were a foreign language that they could follow but had not learned to speak.

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

Colin, as in ALL my debates with atheists... you have resorted to your first bread and butter, which is to describe the process of natural evolution that not even Christians dispute.

We do not think of God as merely immanent in the historical process or that human history can be understood as a natural unfolding of the cosmos.

This process need not recognize the natural unity of reality as presented to concrete perception.

As is well known, Aristotle agrees that some natural processes have final as well as material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the raiAs is well known, Aristotle agrees that some natural processes have final as well as material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the raias well as material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the raias material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the rain.

Thus man is told to define his place in life not in terms of himself, as if the universe had been created for his special benefit, but rather in terms of a long natural process, in which, objectively speaking, he plays but an insignificant part.

In the former case we are required to believe something which is eminently sensible but which can not be scientifically confirmed; in the second we are required to believe in a source of value added to or injected into a natural process as complexity develops, which we are unable to understand — either this, or we have to regard values as pure epiphenomena.

As for the «dinosaurs,» I think it is possible that they where on the Globe during the time of Adam to Noah, when it was only a few people on Earth, then wiped out by the flood or maybe by natural processes (including expedited fossilizing) that science has not discovered yet!

It's also about protecting the natural process of pregnancy and birth and recognizing it is part of a womans journey and not a medical emergency and promotes as little medical intervention as possible unless needed for mother or baby safety.

The Inst.itute defines it as the proposition that «certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.»

If, on the other hand, we define evolution in the Darwinian sense — as a process of random mutation and natural selection by which all living beings have arisen by chance from single - celled organisms over 100's of millions of years — we may not be on equally firm ground from a scientific perspective.

In that way prehension comprises that highest form of natural process ascribed by Aristotle to living beings and which Scholasticism conceived as motus sui, as actualization of itself through itself.15 Whitehead matches Aristotle in so many main points not least because both are mainly concerned with living beings and their self - development.

The being [Sein] of a natural entity points, as such, to other actual entities causally efficacious within it, since what it is, is just this process grounded in others and not an inert matter within which process takes place.

There are three responses which mortals can make in regard to death: to deny it, to accept it as an unpleasant but inevitable fact, or to affirm it not only as inevitable but also as a valid and joyous part of the natural process of which birth, living and death are equally important.

Having pointed out the failure of Hasker's various attempts to show the apparent advantage of process theism with regard to moral evil to be illusory, I turn to his attempt to show the same with regard to natural evil, understood as evil not caused by human agents.

We need not only to affirm death not only as inevitable but also as a valid and joyous part of the natural process of which birth, living and death are equally important.

Probably on this basis she did not go further in this direction; in the second edition she singled out Charles Hartshorne as one who developed a «natural theology,» but there is no mention of Hartshorne's students who have developed a «Christian natural theology» and «process theology.

I've personally been following Ella's recipes as they contain more natural and unprocessed ingredients, especially the desserts and sweets that don't contain unrefined sugars, and overall have found the recipies a better substitute to any processed or packaged sweet or snack, which is overall better for my health.

I literally spend my whole day looking through your blog because I'm so fascinated to try and make things you have made, as i know that they are all super healthy for you, as they're all natural and not processed.

I used Dutch Processed for this recipe — but natural unsweetened cocoa would work just fine too although the cookies wouldn't be quite as rich in chocolate flavor.

All of this helps explain why our exclusive sprouting process not only significantly increases vitamins such as vitamin A, vitamin C and B - vitamins, but also causes a natural change allowing the protein and carbohydrates to be assimilated by the body more efficiently.

Black garlic can't be grown as its colour and it's uniquely sweet, syrupy and nutty flavour is an outcome of high temperature exposure, not a natural growing process.

Moreover, the vodka does not require any additional filtration as it is purified in copper pot stills during the distillation process and, packaging-wise, it uses wood top natural corks and tin foil capsules to exemplify the brand's approach to using natural, non-toxic and renewable materials.»

Other putative class actions have focused on the use of synthetic vitamins or fiber that allegedly are either not natural — because they were made using synthetic processes — or were produced in a way that makes them unnatural — such as allegations that beta carotene or fiber can naturally occur in foods, but some is made synthetically and then added to foods.

As per that Standard (section 6.2.3) natural products such as minerals, salt or water shall not be collected or harvested or processed and labelled as «organic» or «biodynamic»As per that Standard (section 6.2.3) natural products such as minerals, salt or water shall not be collected or harvested or processed and labelled as «organic» or «biodynamic»as minerals, salt or water shall not be collected or harvested or processed and labelled as «organic» or «biodynamic»as «organic» or «biodynamic».

Such as it is gluten free, low glycemic, has minimal impact on blood sugar, higher in fiber, healthier baking option for people with inflammation diseases such as diabetes (I am type 1), it is not processed and natural... and SOO many more!

I am on anti-inflammatory, gluten - free diet as part of a natural healing process for Rheumatoid Arthritis, and I hadn't had bread for a few weeks; I missed it terribly.

This is a multi-million dollar process to get a product approved as a «drug» by the FDA, and no company will invest that kind of resources into a natural product they can not patent.

A bio-recycling solution that, unlike other cocoa recycling processes, doesn't necessitate burning or gradual degrading of the fibres of the cocoa husk, the finished light brown paper utilises the cocoa as a natural colourant, avoiding the need for artificial dyes.

While others, such as the Pure Natural Honey, aren't organically certified, they are still strictly regulated through testing to ensure that there are no impacts of any unnatural or artificial elements used in harvesting and processing the honey.

The sugar content is less than in a brand such as Dannimals and it is natural and not refined or chemically processed sugar.

This may be great for vegans who don't want to use cane or beet sugar (other «natural» sugars, yes they are just as natural) because of the way they may be filtered or processed, but it is a VERY HIGH glycemic food and will spike the daylights out of a diabetic.

Their signature flavor and style comes from a slow cooking process that caramelizes the natural sugars found milk, while their key nutrients such as calcium are retained by not straining.

I didn't have any Dutch process to used the natural cocoa and it ended up as dark as your Dutch picture.

But what happens when this amazing, natural process isn't as intuitive as you thought it would be?

Families that chose to birth at home or in the birth center tend to view pregnancy and birth as a natural process, not an illness, and therefore feel that the hospital or the «medical» model is not the appropriate approach to childbirth.

The study did not ask what brands of products were used on the infants and, interestingly, did not differentiate between such natural products as cornstarch and processed products such as talc.

During the prepping process, which takes a while as Smart Bottoms does not treat their cotton with any chemicals, natural oils are released from the cotton.

While it is the FDA's policy that natural foods do not contain artificially derived ingredients, they also state that «this policy was not intended to address food production methods, such as the use of pesticides... food processing or manufacturing methods.»