Sentences with phrase «by human sources»

the atmospheric methane flux from the Arctic Ocean is really small (extrapolating estimates from Kort et al 2012), even compared with emissions from the Arctic land surface, which is itself only a few percent of global emissions (dominated by human sources and tropical wetlands).

More importantly, the atmospheric methane flux from the Arctic Ocean is really small (extrapolating estimates from Kort et al 2012), even compared with emissions from the Arctic land surface, which is itself only a few percent of global emissions (dominated by human sources and tropical wetlands).

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What that ignores, of course, is that algorithms are programmed by human beings, and in the process of doing so a million decisions are made that are journalistic decisions, including how to rank different news sources and what kinds of news to exclude.

We sourced the oilsands direct jobs figure from The Decade Ahead: Labour Market Outlook to 2022 for Canada's Oil and Gas Industry, a 2013 Petroleum Human Resources Council report that was funded in part by the Government of Canada and The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

While protein products developed by these companies are not currently fit for human consumption, methane - based proteins could improve the environmental impact of meat production, and eventually further fuel the meatless revolution by creating another food source for developing economies in Africa and Asia.

The paramount crime issue in the source zone is the production of illicit narcotics, followed by money laundering, alien smuggling, illegal weapons trafficking, and human trafficking.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

Artificial Intelligence AI startup SingularityNET, recently covered by Wired as the most tech - hype idea of the year, wants to democratize AI research and facilitate the emergence of human - level AI on a decentralized, open - source platform.Singularity...

Source: Albert Einstein: The Human Side, Edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann

Growing up, I was taught that God was the source of all love, and that we could only know love by knowing God (I no longer believe this because I believe all human beings, theist or atheist, are capable of great love).

Yet so similar are the sources in the human spirit that through all ages, and not in Christianity alone, the worship of God has found natural expression in music and song, poetry and the graphic arts, the drama of sacrificial rites, and where not inhibited by convention, the dance.

By the deliberate choice of evil, the first generation of human beings did not just lose «preternatural gifts», they tore themselves away from their true source of control and direction, damaging their own integration and ontological harmony as creatures of body and soul.

«The institutions of men are, by analogy, the sacramentalisation of society in the natural relations of men one to another, and thus even the civic institutions of men, to be totally focused, must embody something of this underlying relationship to God as the source of human truth and the dynamism of natural human happiness.»

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

The religious ideology would no longer be necessary when its source in human feelings of finitude and limitation had been overcome by man's success in organizing his world.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

Calvin asked whether human beings have a natural knowledge of God (his answer was yes); whether they can arrange what they know from nature into an intelligible pattern known as natural theology (his answer was no); and whether redeemed — and only redeemed — human beings can construct a legitimate theology of nature by reclaiming nature as a useful source of the true knowledge of God (his answer was yes).

1 - 12, four of them plural) highlights the contrast.25 In other words, Paul has introduced his narrative by stating simply and plainly, «I did not receive my apostleship or my gospel from any human source, and I do not want to please any humans.

By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (RoBy «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Roby virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.

He advances as a criticism of my view the claim that given my model «no one human experience can be affected directly by a multiplicity of sources of sensation.»

«Is the church a genuinely creative source of human welfare, or does it merely share in and decorate the goods created by economic and other secular forces?»

(1) No one human experience can be affected directly by a multiplicity of sources of sensations, such as seeing, hearing, and tasting, as well as feeling what is occurring in the big toe.

In the first instance he claims that my model entails that no one human experience can be affected directly by a multiplicity of sources of sensations.»

In this way human experience is quite normally affected directly and simultaneously by a multiplicity of sources of sensation.

One can say, therefore, that these sources or foundations, to which all members of a commonwealth are responsible, are «authoritative,» but, strictly speaking, it is an incorrect use of words to say that, in and of themselves and apart from interpretation and application by human agents, they have authority.

Whitehead once suggested that from the religious vision we may conclude that there is a source for, and a giver of, «refreshment and companionship» to be known and enjoyed by human beings.

When laws have their source and sanction solely in human beings, therefore, resistance and defiance by those with opposite interests are to be expected.

Committed as they are to Christ as the source and model of all that is holy, Christians are in no way exempted from obedience to the moral law permanently inscribed by the Creator in human nature (Romans 2:15).

They do have their own active and creative manner of collectively representing their historicity, which I am arguing, is closely intertwined with their experience with what they take to be the Divine Power, Ellaiyamman as the goddess of the Paraiyars is a pivotal symbol of the source (and the hope of protection) of this distinct physical and conceptual space: she conserves their geographic space by guarding their particularity as a community and she represents their conceptual space as self - reflective human beings.

Symbols still maintain contact with the deep sources of life; they express, we may say, the «lived» spiritual... they disclose that the modalities of the Spirit are at the same time manifestations of Life, and, by consequence, directly engage human existence....

Whereas «human reason and knowledge» was called very important by 96 percent of UU congregational leaders who took part in the multi-denominational Faith Communities Today (FACT) survey released early this year, the Bible was termed only «somewhat important» by 50 percent and had little or no importance to 48 percent as a source for worship and teaching.

The Darwinian metaphor of evolution was used to express a faith in a Historical future, in either the coming end of History (Marx) or a more indefinite perfectibility in which our alienating technological progress would finally be ennobled by a corresponding moral progress (say, John Stuart Mill or Walt Whitman) that would be the source of the elusive human happiness promised by modern liberation.

I have the feeling that so long as the Multinational Corporations remain the sole source of technological creativity, it is impossible to replace it however inhuman they become, unless a similar technical creativity is shown by an alternative human pattern of society.

By liberal Protestantism we mean those churches which stress the historical approach to the Bible and hence its spiritual rather than literal inspiration, and find the source of Christian authority not in any creedal statement but in God's total and progressive revelation of himself in nature, history, human experience, and supremely in Jesus Christ.

Far more than simply a historical issue, the unique events leading to the Flood are a prerequisite to understanding the prophetic implications of our Lord's predictions regarding His Second Coming.1 (italics are mine) The strange events recorded in Genesis 6 were understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, as well as the Septuagint translators, as referring to fallen angels procreating weird hybrid offspring with human women - known as the «Nephilim.»

If their sources failed, groups of people would have to seize their food by force from other groups of human beings or else risk starving to death.

Focussing on the notion of prehension as the basis of a concept of «shared existence,» Cobb stresses the possibility» of an «ecological theology» to counter the Kantian overemphasis on the human point of view.8 A fuller discussion of Whitehead's ecological dimension is to be found in an article by John B. Bennet.9 Bennet suggests three possible sources of Whitehead's value to ecological thinking.

'» [1] The Greatest Work of God It seems fair to summarise St Thomas» view by saying that he relied on the direct testimony of two scources, the Scriptures and the Church Fathers, rather than on the arguments of human logic, and since he found no evidence for the Scotist position in either source, he did not entertain it.

I mean, communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers of the books of the Bible, councils of church leaders, popes, and so on, in such a way that the message has been transmitted in human language, clothed in the external forms of human thought, given, indeed, in the characteristic language and thought - forms of particular nations and cultures, but at the same time in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance and feebleness of apprehension.

«When faith in the Creator is replaced by faith in human ability to solve all problems by technological means, humanity has fallen into the sin of idolatry... distorted trust for our salvation in other sources of power.»

Such an identification is in large measure the source of the atrocities committed by humans throughout history in the name of God.

Basic concepts analyzed by St. Thomas — concepts of the human person, conscience, liberty, the source of political power in the people, and the twin principles of the consent of the governed and the «mixed regime» — provided rich soil for the free institutions that were to arise much later in history.

Wieman was concerned to show what commitment to the source of human good would mean in institutional and national life as well as in personal life.26 It would be false in his case to say that personal salvation is primary and social action its by - product.

The awesome freedom made possible by human self - consciousness — by our condition as homo sapiens — is indeed the source of the world's wars and insanities and perversions.

The fact that the Bible (Torah, Koran, etc etc etc) is fallible, written by humans and completely invalid as a source of morality — is irrelevant to the reality that, of course, God exists in some form.

The technological reduction of nature from a source of moral guidance to an obstacle to human freedom and mastery is complicated by the more poetic transformation of it into an object of reverential worship.

Also, human DNA does not differ that much from the DNA of our closest relatives, and the differences are easily accounted for by the standard source of mutation and natural selection.

The Sustainable Beauty Awards — organized by specialist consulting, research and training company Organic Monitor — honored Human Nature for its social entrepreneurship, noting its role in creating employment for impoverished communities by locally sourcing the ingredients for its natural cosmetics.

Japanese researchers have determined that okara is the only known vegetable source of bivalent iron easily assimilated by the human gut.

«All meat sourced locally from 100 percent innocent humans captured wild on the streets of NYC,» reads the menu at the upcoming East Village Tim Burton - themed bar, Beetle House, which serves dishes inspired by Burton's greatest hits, from Beetlejuice to The Nightmare Before Christmas.