Sentences with phrase «as human inventions»

Bitcoinist: As an assistant professor of economics, what do you think Bitcoin can be compared to as far as human inventions go?

Bitcoinist: As an assistant professor of economics, what do you think Bitcoin can be compared to as far as human inventions go?

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Perhaps most intriguing is how Johnson can relate seemingly unrelated inventions - such as the invention of air conditioning - to the largest migration of humans in history.

Maybe the Bible is a total human invention and God, should he exist, created the universe just as science sees it, leaving zero trace of his existence?

It is as a creature of wants that a human being has acquired, not only other characteristics that have been said to distinguish him (his disposition to make things, to fabricate, and his invention and use of tools), but also his peculiar attitude toward the world around him: both positive and intelligent.

Their point is not simply to document or celebrate the variety of human invention, but to remind us, as Herbert did, how many are the avenues of grace that can lead us into the presence of God.

It is always approximated, but as such is an intellectual system, a great, ingenious invention of the human spirit.

Let us now reflect on what mathematics is: in itself, it is an abstract system, an invention of the human spirit which as such in its purity does not exist.

The actual evidence that every Christian observes (but ignores) as they attend church — that being: The evidence suggests that the church, every church, is operating just as one would expect, if it were simply the product, the invention, of human beings.

God literally became a man in order that the human categories of spirituality could be recognized as truly divine, and not the mere invention of a frightened race seeking some means of converting a miserable and ephemeral existence into a dignified and permanent purchase upon the existence of the universe.»

But in the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (1804 - 1872) the privileging of Christian discourse and the distinction between vulgar religion and rational theism both dissolve, and all talk of God is unmasked as the product of human invention.

The Founding Fathers were leery of any notion of «rights» that were derived solely from «human» invention, because they saw the shortcomings AS WELL as the benefits of Enlightenment thought in EuropAS WELL as the benefits of Enlightenment thought in Europas the benefits of Enlightenment thought in Europe.

But as this unmaking of religion reveals that religion is «true», in the sense that it is an invention of human beings to compensate for and to sublimate their real wretchedness, a second kind of criticism has to follow: religion has to be made false, i.e., the secular world has to be changed.

As Steiner's Hitler asks, «Was there ever a crueler invention, a contrivance more calculated to harrow human existence, than that of an omnipotent, all - seeing, yet invisible, impalatable, inconceivable God?»

A sophisticated, high - tech world where human beings acted consistently as free individuals would be one where various social inventions or conventions — such as money, property, and government — would be more indispensable than ever.

When one views the world with no definite theological bias one way or the other, one sees that order and disorder, as we now recognize them, are purely human inventions.

The world students» design - science revolution may possibly result in a general reorientation of world society's awareness, common sense, and intelligence which, just «in the nick of time,» will bring mankind into conscious promulgation of the do - more - with - lessing invention revolution to be applied directly to gaining man's living advantage, which can accomplish the 100 percent physical success of all humanity in less than one - half the time it would take to occur only as the inadvertent by - product of further weapons detouring of human initiative.

And we can see that nation (i.e., «people») ultimately trumps place, even if place usually helps to make the nation (such as ours), and even if the one nation in history that was capable of surviving dispersion was the one that always looked back to the one holy city not consecrated by human invention or delusion.

As a consequence the human population grew from about 15 million before the invention of agriculture to 200 - 300 million, some 2000 years ago.

When I ask you what type of proof you require, your answer is to define what you will NOT accept as proof (anything having to do with human invention, testimony, etc.), but when it comes to what you WILL accept as proof your response is «God should know exactly what would work for me.»

Redemption through love is the end of Wagner's mythic teaching» but as he holds the sacred to be of purely human invention, it is «redemption by our own devices and without the aid of a god.»

If this then is to be understood bluntly, just as a matter of course, without the least reservation, to be taken quite unconcernedly and flippantly — then, if paganism's poetic fiction about the gods might be called human craziness, Christianity might be the invention of a crazy god; such a doctrine could only occur to a god who had lost his wits — so a man must judge who had kept his wits.

Never anywhere has any doctrine on earth brought God and man so near together as has Christianity; neither could anyone else do it, only God Himself can, every human invention remains after all a dream, an uncertain imagination.

Indeed, Justice Kennedy recently has gone so far as to maintain that the belief that «there is an ethic and a morality which transcend human invention» is itself religious.

Ideas of freedom, justice, happiness, equality, fairness and all the other values we may live by are human inventions, and we can be proud of that, as we strive to live up to them.

«I know of no other technology except computer science that can be as influential in the survival of human life on this planet than that of mushroom mycelium,» says Stamets, who has been awarded six patents for mushroom - based inventions.

But as my A.S.U. colleague Kim Hill has put it, Even before the invention of agriculture, human communities may have eventually numbered around 70 million individuals... as Homo sapiens spread over the planet more broadly than any other large vertebrate.

... Scientists attempting to create organs suitable for human transplantation must have the skills to build as well as biologically characterize their inventions along with facilities suitable for this type of interdisciplinary work.

«These inventions were on the cutting edge of technology and were extremely worthy as well,» from a human point of view.

But some researchers argue that our primate cousins do not learn as we do, by imitation and instruction, and most agree that primates don't seem to be able to build on previous inventions as humans do.

In The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future, Sheila Jasanoff — legal scholar and revered matriarch in the field of science and technology studies — invites us to consider technology not as a mere tool but as a constellation of norms, machines, and regimes that form interlocking and evolving new relationships.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, aviator Charles Lindbergh, along with scientist Alexis Carrel, conceived of many inventions and procedures to extend human life, such as an artificial heart perfusion pump.

Warinner will discuss how major events, such as the invention of agriculture and the advent of industrialization, have affected the human microbiome.

As such, they are either a demonstration of independent invention by Neandertals or an indication that modern humans started influencing European Neandertals much earlier than previously believed.

«Vanderbilt has been a great place to do basic science studies in humans that can be translated into development of new biologic drugs, which are novel and thus valuable as inventions,» Crowe said.

Dr. Roger Harris, who changed the sporting world with groundbreaking research and inventions involving creatine, discovered the benefits of using beta - alanine as a human dietary supplement to support an increase in muscle carnosine and athletic performance.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a China has been the source of many innovations, scientific discoveries and inventions.

We take for granted the measurement of variables such as length, weight and temperature, but it is worth remembering that these variables and their measurement were human inventions.

That much muscle is foreign to human nature and requires active driving aids, inventions referred to by skeptics as «electronic nannies.»

So, as I was flying and thinking about the consequences of our human behaviour and inventions I also thought about fleas, our

As Carl Sagan says of writing, these imaginative acts are «perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another... proof that humans can work magic.»

She also visited sites such as Los Alamos and the Very Large Array where human capability and invention has been pushed to its extreme.

Where one person sees the majesty of human invention, another sees the excessive gaseous waste being dumped into our skies on a daily basis (some even see it as a nationalistic tribute to our great nation).

Bigots like you, that use outdated pagan beliefs are giving oxygen to Mann, Hansen, For every change, there is a real reason and there is the outdated pagan crap — apart from me, nobody takes in consideration what human invention of artificial fire did to» LOCALIZED climates» instead, is used as phony GLOBAL warmings / coolings, shame shame Richard & Co:: http://globalwarmingdenier.wordpress.com/midi-ice-age-can-be-avoided/

It is a sad commentary on human nature that the first application that comes to mind for this brilliant invention is as usual a bomb.

Because human waste was so valuable as fertilizer until the development of the Haber - Bosch invention of artificial fertilizer, the toilet didn't come inside until well into the 20th century.

We note that the standard for showing utility for a compound as a pharmaceutical before the patent office is much lower than that before the FDA, and that a human clinical trial is not necessary to establish utility for an invention related to treatment of human disorders.

The greatest challenge for the future, he says, «is how we'll start to move from fit - to - task solutions,» such as voice recognition and image analysis, «to more general - purpose AI systems» that simulate human activity, such as an automated chat - bot that will dynamically pose and respond to questions from a user and «which are themselves starting to create inventions...

One of the important inventions that we take for granted as society is the rule - of - law — a common and agreed understanding / social construct for the proper / expected behaviors and consequences for various interactions between humans and the things they make.