Sentences with phrase «by universal human experience»

Lewontin thus saw creationism as falsified not so much by any discoveries of modern science as by universal human experience, a thesis that does little to explain either why so absurd a notion has attracted so many adherents or why we should expect it to lose ground in the near future.

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In contrast with this experience, which is universal and important but not of central or ultimate importance, the experiences described in the next part of this book as defining religious experiences are involved in and illustrated by every form of human activity including the seeking for food and the appreciation of art.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

But the theory of divine relativity assumes a finer and deeper knowledge of reality than that evidenced by human knowing with its dependence upon sense experience and abstract universals.

The blood - and - guts tales told by the ancestors of today's journalists gradually evolved into more civilized literary forms, to provide more complex characterizations, to describe more universal human experiences, to explore more sophisticated levels of conflict.

However, spiritual matters, which are not subject to empirical testing (there is no way to physically measure love) should be tested in the crucible of human experience and present statistical evidence by consensual (that is consensus, not consent) validation before being granted the status of a universal principle or dogma.

The first hundred and fifty or so pages of his Leviathan show forth his attempt to paint that portrait of human being, but by almost universal agreement, he failed — that is, he could not both present human being as a part of the new nature and at the same time do justice to our direct experience of what it is to be human.

Moreover, if «God» is correctly understood as in some sense referring to reality itself, its referent, if any, is evidently ubiquitous, and this implies that the experience of God is universal as well as direct — something unavoidably had not only by mystics or the religious but by every human being simply as such, indeed, by any experiencing being whatever, in each and every one of its experiences of anything at all.

Still, by starting with the frankly stated premise that the problem is the flawed human character in a mysterious universe, Miller was able to highlight the universal aspects of even so eccentric an experience as that of the Puritans.

This position evidently belongs with the «Athens» type, but it has been radically modified by the rejection of the assumption that usually goes with paideia — that of a universal «essence» to human nature or to human experience.

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

Every human being experiences situations or traumas that may be played out by different people, but the feelings will be universal.

By building upon universal human experiences, Team Gotham have created a poignant game which distills romance without being sappy, compassion without ulterior motive and self - reflection without the fear of others» expectations.

The inclusion of the right of education in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 created one of the most dramatic quiet revolutions in human experiHuman Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 created one of the most dramatic quiet revolutions in human experihuman experience.

Although illness and disability are universal human experiences, written works about these experiences can be narrowly categorized by publishers, editors, market forces and even reader expectations into «inspirational» narratives that limit your reflection and complex experience, shutting down your creative work and your inquiry.

Curated by Laura Kruger, 70 international artists explore the meaning of home and the loss of home in works reflecting personal experience, historical and contemporary events, cultural diversity, and the universal human condition.

«These works of art pay homage to the individual experience of place balanced by the universal role of landscape in the human experience.»

Highlights include works by: Darren Almond (British, b. 1971) works in a variety of media, including video, drawing, photography, and sculpture to explore themes of how time and universal symbolism effect the human experience.