This article carefully treads around key questions that are unfortunately neglected far too often
by human science publications: how did the assumption that it's normal for heterosexual men to gaze at (what they perceive as) women's bodies come to be, and how does this normalization intersect with cultural practices and knowledges that make rape seem inevitable?
«The excessive segmentation of knowledge, the rejection of metaphysics
by the human sciences, the difficulties encountered by dialogue between science and theology are damaging not only to the development of knowledge, but also to the development of peoples, because these things make it harder to see the integral good of man in its various dimensions.
These latter are good in themselves but become dangerous (n. 31, 34, 68, 74) when materialistically interpreted (e.g. «the rejection of metaphysics
by the human sciences» n. 31, & cf. 53, 77) and abused (n. 5, 28, 75).
Then man - lower - than - man explained
by the human sciences — man reified — can by the instructions of these sciences be controlled (even «engineered») and thus used....
The latter three are illumined
by the human sciences, though they play a role in ethical reflection as well.
Partly it was simple lack of knowledge of how thunder and lightning work and a hundred other mechanisms of the natural world; partly it was response to the mystery of life itself, the human potential for malice and for love, a mystery which still calls for answers beyond those easily formulated
by the human sciences.
Not exact matches
Newscast: Some U.S. companies are making a fortune
by selling
human bodies that were donated to
science.
«These are two
humans who,
by technology and
science, have created ways that they can fight crime and get rid of bad people,» said deGrasse Tyson.
«The bone, which shows evidence of being gnawed on
by a large carnivore, provided mitochondrial genetic data that showed it belongs to the Neanderthal branch,» says lead researcher Cosimo Posth of the Max Planck Institute for the
Science of
Human History.
He rationalized his decision
by pointing out that
science has surprisingly little to say on the question of why
humans need sleep.
You just have to take the time to think about it long enough to see that these ancient written texts were written
by humans with less knowledge about
science than we have now.
I've been able to accommodate faith and
science, at least to a degree
by Paul's words about our flawed
human understanding and seeing through a glass darkly..
Face it your book is written
by flawed
humans, who had no knowledge of
science.
I was taught, for example, the Enlightenment mythology of the dark, anti-intellectual ages dominated
by the Church and the growth of
human knowledge and freedom brought
by those who rejected religion and discovered
science.
Scientists who don't debate or question settled
science might miss opportunities for a new breakthrough that hadn't been observed or conceived of
by a
human mind.
As
humans embraced
science you see, they learned things, such as the fact that lightning is not caused
by a lightning god, thunder not
by the thunder god, the sun is not a god, on and on.
The bible was written
by primitive, desert dwelling
humans who wrote these stories over 1500 years before mankind discovered what we now know to be modern
science.
In recent years there has risen a new type of the same concern in that the advancement of
human ability to control and manipulate the natural forces
by means of
science and technology has created life threatening situation in terms of the pollution, nuclear weapons, and intervention of the natural process with the unforseen consequences.
to Jake, in every era or times in the past,
humans have different perception of reality, because our knowledge improves or changes toward sophistication, For example during the times of Jesus, there was no
science yet as what we have today, since the religion in the past corresponds to their needs, it is true for them in the past, but today we already knew many new ideas and facts, so what is applicable in the past is no longer today, like religion, we have also to change to conform with todays knowledge.The creation or our origin for example is now explained beyond doubt
by science as the big bang and evolution is the reason we become
humans, is in contrast to creation in the bibles genesis,.
Due to the limited statistical and methodological certainty allowed
by biological
science, the occurrence of technical errors in biological experiments, the differences between
human and animal embryo development, the rapidity
by which the cloning procedure produces a totipotent zygote, and the philosophical and theological nature of the question, there is no biological experiment that will prove with moral certainty that a
human zygote never exists during the OAR procedure.
It can be shown, on the contrary, that just as the natural
sciences yield a comprehensive view of man, so the picture of
human nature provided
by the social
sciences is that of a three-fold integration of body, mind, and spirit.
For example — Often used
by many christians as an arguement for intolerence towards
human rights... I pose that every religiously ran nation like that of Iran and Iraq are exactly what the religious in this supposedly tolerent country wish to turn this country into, where
science and logically thought are frowned upon and knowledge of fairy tales are rewarded.
Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down
by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of
human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of
human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the
sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..
A knowledge of these relationships adds specificity and richness to the universals of
human nature revealed
by and through the natural
sciences and mathematics.
The aspects of man that he shares with all natural things or with all other
human beings — as disclosed
by natural
science — do not yield a complete picture of man.
The plunge into space, the acquisition of new weapons, the breakthroughs in medical and other
sciences are shaped largely
by their own internal dynamics... The
human being, while being the inventor, is simultaneously the prisoner of the process of invention.10
The protest is NOT against
science and structure, rather, the protest is against the «dehumanization» of the
human being
by reducing him / her down to only matter and rules, and is against dismissing the «spirit & soul» which give every individual his / her unique «person.»
In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of
science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the
human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things
by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical
science.»
«In CV, however, you will never find a statement of religious origin without an accompanying
human and rational justification, upon the condition, quite naturally, that reason complies in full with its duty and that the
sciences do not let themselves be guided
by ideologies.
actually there is no free will, because we
humans is part of god, our conciousness is his.therefore everything we do has a purpose only beyond our immediate comprehension or understanding.the problem lies in our concept or belief of the absoluteness of the philosophy of
science, which
by itself is part of gods evolutionary process, atheists has this mentality, but since they are part of the process so its gods will through us.
thats why we have to debate more and realize that our diferrences are just superficial misunderstanding, that to be united to a common belief in him can be logical and true only with the belief that we are evolving to attain a better relationship for all of us.Proven
by science that all
humans evolved from one parent, who evolved from lower forms of life, who evolved from pure energy through the big bang and guided
by the spirit or conciousness of His Will.
And, he explicitly argues that this «traditional conservatism,» which is
by the way, not an ideology, has the potential to address the age - old problems related to political
science, while implicitly suggesting the possibility of recapturing man's tensional existence in the Platonic Metaxy, thereby restoring the order necessary to illuminate the divine -
human encounter.
Despite agreeing with mainstream
science on these issues, they deny evolution: they believe that the vast majority of species (and especially
humans) were independently created
by God during earth's long history.
By observing of the world stage on God's timeline, with all the man's advancements in tech and
science, yet such corruption of
human character, it only points to the fact that the time for the «man of sin» is at hand and his army is being prepared, for time of his arrival.
It warns that «the application of
science and technology must be tempered by human values», and that «Science gives us the means but human values must propose the ends.
science and technology must be tempered
by human values», and that «
Science gives us the means but human values must propose the ends.
Science gives us the means but
human values must propose the ends.»
(Examples, in addition to the statements on abortion cited above, include a 1970 LCA statement on ecology, a 1979 UCC statement on
human rights and at least two statements
by the National Council of Churches — a 1979 statement on energy and a 1986 statement on genetic
science.)
Science is a technique developed
by humans for the evaluation of the physical world.
Our Western culture, in fact, is primarily «left hemispheric» in its application of rational thinking to almost every facet of
human existence:
science, economics, politics, education, religion, law (the French word for law, droit, comes from «right hand,» the hand that rules and is controlled
by the left hemisphere).
A simple faith that
human beings were created
by a divine power does not eliminate
science.
With that in mind, I generally discount all of the
science and knowledge that has been developed throughout
human history as being useful for living in the world we understand, but not truth
by any means.
Predictably, she has been savaged
by those in the GLBT community who rely on the «born gay» argument, supposedly supported
by science, to justify sexual orientation being analogous to race and thus to be accepted and celebrated as a «given» of the
human condition.
Repeatable in
science refers to the ability to test the same hypothesis, using the same methods (typically
by independent researchers), to confirm or reject said hypothesis, e.g. the repeated observation
by many, many different researchers of fossils in the correct temporal and morphological relationships within the fossil record (no rabbits in the pre-Cambrian, no
humans alongside dinosaurs, etc).
But I would just mention them, namely the
science - based technology which gives power to
humans to control and engineer with material, social and even psychic forces to achieve purposes and goals for the future chosen
by humans; the revolutionary social changes produced
by the revolts of the poor and the oppressed in all societies; and the break - up of the traditional religious integration of societies and their reintegration
by the State.
The ANT - OAR proposal represent a scientifically and morally sound means of obtaining
human pluripotent stem cells that does not compromise either the
science or the deeply held moral convictions of those who oppose the destructive use of
human embryos for research» which is a creative approach that can be embraced
by both the anything - goes camp and the nothing - goes.
On balance, Berger's theoretical perspective has provided a modern apologetic for the value of religion, arguing not from theological tradition but from the secular premises of social
science that
humans can not live
by the bread of everyday reality alone.
It became necessary for Christian teachers to reduce the boldness of their claims and to readjust their thinking to the slowly emerging body of new
human knowledge being brought to light
by the developing
sciences.
Someday,
science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the
human race commit suicide
by blowing up the world.»
I agree with the inference made
by GAW, that both
science and religion are capable of influencing good or evil outcomes — which leads us to the motives of the
human heart... and back to religion.
Studies in language, mathematics,
science, art, history, and philosophy are not made liberal merely
by recognizing and calling attention to the creative factors in these disciplines and in the
human activities with which they deal.
This situation is witnessed to
by the fact that the only metaphysical issue where there is a virtual consensus among mainstream twentieth century Catholic thinkers, apart from the reality of
human subjectivity mentioned above, is the claim that the discoveries of modern
science should not have a significant influence upon metaphysics.