Sentences with phrase «as humans point»

As noted by Dr. Vicki Ellingrod — the Chair of this session, «Current state - of - the - art research in both animal models as well as humans point to the link between the gut microbiota and mood and anxiety models, as well as the potential for psychiatric medications to directly affect the gut microbiome.»

Not exact matches

In the human version, scientists use an RNA guide to direct an enzyme, Cas - 9, to a specific point in any organism's DNA — where, like an eagle - eyed copy editor, the enzyme snips out an errant letter or sequence as if it were expunging a typo.

«Yes, we must protect the environment — it is our number one resource — but at the end of the day, studies have pointed to global warming, human contact, coastal development» as other significant threats to coral.

Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

Asked if that points toward hazard for humans, he said phone providers are «moving more and more toward lower power exposures to humans» as new generations of mobile service come become available.

Tapscott points to funds with low fees that track stocks algorithmically rather than trying to beat the market using human investment managers» wiles as a case of the first.

This phenomenon is known as the «uncanny valley,» the point at which a leap forward in technology outpaces a human's ability to cope.

As Schilling points out, Einstein once noted: «My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced freedom from the need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

As several writers have pointed out, American companies such as Apple could make iPhones in the United States because printing out products and having them assembled by robots will be even cheaper than the human labour in ChinAs several writers have pointed out, American companies such as Apple could make iPhones in the United States because printing out products and having them assembled by robots will be even cheaper than the human labour in Chinas Apple could make iPhones in the United States because printing out products and having them assembled by robots will be even cheaper than the human labour in China.

As the video report pointed out, the restaurant still has human cooks.

But as writer Matt Thomas thoughtfully pointed out on his blog recently, things were wildly different for the vast majority of human history.

A similar trend likely exists in human fathers, to the point some researchers think elevated levels of vasopressin in dads helps explain why they tend to be more tactile and stimulatory with infants as opposed to soothing and comforting (as is more typical with moms).

As expert Jessica Shortall pointed out in her excellent piece for «The Atlantic», we do a better job of legislating protections for newborn kittens and puppies than we do for human infants.

He points out that New Zealand — a country that places a high value on human rights, rule of law and democracy, as Canada does — has benefited enormously under a free - trade agreement with China.

The reason is that, as Geoff Colvin points out in Humans Are Underrated, we increasingly need humans to do jobs that machines can't, chiefly working with other hHumans Are Underrated, we increasingly need humans to do jobs that machines can't, chiefly working with other hhumans to do jobs that machines can't, chiefly working with other humanshumans.

But as the Silicon Republic series points out, the more computers, AI and digitization enter our work and lives, the more important focusing on the things that make us human becomes.

«This is a systemic critique, pointing out how the board must accept responsibility for excessive political spending, inadequate energy policy, our changing climate, toxic hazards, and human rights abuses,» Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, said.

At this point, it's human nature to say — as I've often heard from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates rise above long rates — why buy a 20 - year bond when I get a higher yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?

Mitchell also points to a December 2016 NVCA - Deloitte Human Capital Survey that had similar results as Crunchbase's study.

By showcasing the most witty, joyful, bullet - pointed versions of people's lives, and inviting constant comparisons in which we tend to see ourselves as the losers, Facebook appears to exploit an Achilles» heel of human nature.

@Chuckles I was not being hostile, but am just trying to point out that you are basically willing to conflate any similar cognitive errors such as we have as humans as being significant in any way in religious terms, should it happen that we encounter some alien species that also has idiots who think imaginary stuff is real.

Many have pointed out (most recently, Carson Holloway) that the application of natural law to our situation requires the virtue of prudence, a mastery of the details of our circumstances (such as is possible for a human being), with the goals and the weights given to particular considerations by good moral character (or, if you will, a well - formed conscience).

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

Religious beliefs aside, I don't see how anybody can trust another human being to the point of seeing them as divine.

Jesus is always pointing back to the broken human heart as the spring from whence our sin comes.

My point was that they may not be denied those rights even if, in some respects, they may not seem as developed as some of the higher animals, because rights belong to the whole human species, and thus to all its members.

Your arguments about mistreatment being a reason to not believe in ID is akin to an alien coming to earth and pointing at an insane asylum as a reason for believing all humans are mentally handicapped.

you either believe it or not the point is Jesus as much of God's son he was human with human emotions and capabilities so why is it so bad that he had a wife?

By extension, evolving from less advanced life forms is distasteful to those same individuals, as that necessitates a point in evolution at which humans are not really humans at all in the modern sense, which then brings up problems such as «do slugs go to heaven?»

I would like to point out to those here who think it is not possible for Jesuits (or anyone) to hold science and faith simultaneously, and who invoke «evidence» as the only arbiter of what is real, that human knowledge is always evolving.

(As Robert T. Miller rightly points out, governments are not human....

(I take your point, Gary, that this significantly hampers the idea of Jesus experiencing what we do as humans.)

As a matter of fact, if you go, I don't know, to a museum, you might find some of the proof of those other histories (outside of the tiny point christianity occupies in thousands of years of human history).

From a human point of view it seems ridiculous that a human being could torture, maim, and kill others relentlessly during her lifetime or that he could sexually abuse child after child with no remorse and then upon a sincere deathbed confession of Jesus Christ as Savior, be granted eternal life, no questions asked.

My main point has been to suggest that, apart from «work,» the activity of using the world to satisfy human wants, mankind has devised or stumbled upon other activities and attitudes towards the world, the activities I have grouped together as «play.»

It is a question of faith — faith that the truth of Christ, for which he gave his life, points beyond the narcissism of plausibility to the one thing necessary for our fulfillment as cognitive and loving human beings.

The point of this is that Jesus in his quality as human being had no control on his birth at all, where and by whom he should get born.

As Russell Hittinger has shown in his book The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian Society (see chapter four), St. Thomas's point is not that the judge corrects a flawed human law in favor of the natural law.

Humans are not perfect and are sinners that is the whole point of jesus is to forgive our sins because as humans we can't help buHumans are not perfect and are sinners that is the whole point of jesus is to forgive our sins because as humans we can't help buhumans we can't help but sin.

Thirty years ago, 44 % of the people who responded said they believed that God created humans as we know them today — only a 2 - point difference from 2012.

In this way of conceiving evangelicalism the issues may be focused on questions of anthropology where the basic starting point is an Augustinian tradition of human inability (the «bondage of the will») leading as a necessary consequence to the classic Reformation articulations of election and predestination.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

So if you have a triune god who is father, son, and holy ghost but you have a mother of the human manifestation of father / son god — then Mary is arguably the mother of god and in that way could be argued as the more divine at some point in the history of the transformation of the triune god in heaven to the triune god on earth and of course the few days when the triune god on earth was dead (but not really dead) before rising.

Friedrich Nietzsche expressed the point most provocatively: «As a father, God does not care enough about his children: human fathers do this better.

One might go further and point out that the concept of «person» helps us understand human dignity as something deriving from the fact of one's intrinsic being» rather than from the extent of freestanding autonomy, the «quality of life,» that a person might demonstrate.

That human beings can not live without transcendent points of spiritual and moral reference is nicely illustrated by the fact that, as liberal mainline Protestantism was collapsing, those who previously might have been expected to have been among its staunch adherents found a new god: the earth.

The great trick that humans developed at some point in the last few hundred thousand years is the ability to circle around a tree, rock, ancestor, flag, book or god, and then treat that thing as sacred.

He pointed out how, because of the dominant reductionist view of human nature, scientists are increasingly tempted to treat the human individual as «an object to be investigated, measured and experimented upon» rather than as an «irreducible subject».

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.

But things will start to change when we insist upon seeing the human person as the focal point of historical inquiry, the cynosure of historical meaning, the fleetingly visible figure to be sought in history's lavish carpet.