Sentences with phrase «called age of reason»

There's a reason they called it the Age of Reason, not the Age of Sodding Emotions.

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Her comments came shortly after the Senate Committee on Aging asked Mylan to provide information on the reasoning behind what it called the «drastic» price increase of EpiPen, and the American Medical Association «urge [d]» Mylan to «rein in these exorbitant costs.»

But as Ad Age's Jeanine Poggi reports, for some reason the Twittershere is «calling out BMW as one of the brands pulling its ads.»

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

However I'd like to add another reason, that of an epihany at the age of 10 when all the talk among adults and the news and us kids was the new concept called «brainwashing» which the Chinese Communists were using on American POWs in the Korean War.

Keynes called him: «not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.»»

The right reverend Timothy Keller, writes a book called «The Reason for God — Belief in the Age of Scepticism».

It was the age of Confucius in China, of the Buddha in India, and of Mahavira, founder of Jainism, the period also when the principal Hindu Upanishads were written, of Lao - tzu and the flourishing of Taoism in China, of the prophet Zoroaster in the Middle East, of the great transformative prophets Ezekiel, Jeremiah and second - Isaiah in Israel, and finally this was the period of the birth of philosophy and science and what we call Western culture in Greece, all these developments at the same time arising independently in different cultures for reasons not yet fully understood — a kind of quickening of human consciousness all over the globe.

Timothy Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and author of The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, has written a paper for BioLogos called, «Creation, Evolution, and Christian People.»

St. Augustine was already proposing a mechanism called «seminal reasons,» rationes seminales, to explain a gradual appearance of species over the span of ages.

As the American founder and Deist Thomas Paine made clear in his book on God, religion, Deism, etc., The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition, «The Calvinist, who damns children of a span long to hell to burn forever for the glory of God (and this is called Christianity), and the Universalist who preaches that all shall be saved and none shall be damned (and this also is called Christianity), boasts alike of their holy [revealed] religion and their Christian faith.»

The philosophers of the «Age of Reason» called the Middle Ages the «Age of Faith,» and claimed that because «God did it!»

I could not bear the smell, the sights, the truth of this place, and I saw babies the age of my tinies there, naked, hollering HEY YOU snapping sass, and all of my carefully reasoned understandings about how everyone has a different calling and some of us are just called to different things than poverty relief and caring for orphans stank rank like heresy.

(E.g., Judith 16:17) As for the permanence of this torture chamber, while the Greek word, a i w u i o (may mean age - long, and the corresponding Hebrew word means the same, there is no clear reason for supposing that Jesus entertained any mitigating thought about what he called «eternal punishment,» (Matthew 25:46) or saw any end to its quenchless fire.

The height of modernity in the eighteenth century is called the «age of reason.»

This time in childhood, sometimes called «the age of reason,» is also when kids begin to form a conscience, differentiate between right and wrong, and act not just on impulse but because something is the «right» thing to do.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

I have a post called «5 - 8 month sleep disruptions» that can give you a list of common reasons for this in this age range.

«One of the reasons this method works so well — and why it's called Diaper Free Toddlers — is that children this age love to be naked.

That's one reason I believe we should stop calling it «extended breastfeeding» when mothers and children mutually decide to nurse beyond some arbitrary cutoff, and just label all nursing as such, regardless of the nursing child's age.

Adolescents ranging in age from 13 to 18 years who perceive online risks based on a type of reasoning that psychologists call «verbatim» were especially likely to participate in future risky online behavior.

Two years later, a group of more than 100 U.S. university presidents and chancellors known as the Amethyst Initiative called for a re-evaluation of the legal drinking age — citing a «clandestine» culture of heavy drinking episodes among college students as one reason that the age - 21 law is not working.

The Earth was dominated by pre-historic reptiles during the Mesozoic Era, which lasted about 180 million years, offering scientists a valid reason to call it the age of reptiles.

Type 2 is a lot more common compared to type 1 and accounts for 90 % of all diabetics, and the symptoms are mostly prevalent in people aged above 40, which is the reason it's called adult - onset diabetes.

(In Mandarin and Cantonese with subtitles) Patriocracy (Unrated) Middle - of - the - road documentary issuing an urgent call for reason in this age of political polarization.

Adding a slick contempo sheen to the Texas Chain Saw Massacre template (thereby ignoring the grimy, low - budget look that made that 1974 classic so disturbing), this finds two college - age siblings (well - played by Gina Philips and Justin Long), stranded in the middle of Nowhere, USA, stopping to investigate when they spot a menacing figure dropping bodies down a pipe (their reasons for not calling the police are witless even beyond the low - ebb demands of the slasher genre).

Called «roaring» for a reason, the 1920s brought a surge of prosperity to NYC — the height of the Jazz Age, the birth of the Broadway musical, the construction of skyline - defining art deco skyscrapers and the dawn of a new era of urban development.

For that reason, it's great to see President Obama devoting part of his message from his Alaska tour today to a fresh call to Congress to speed the upgrade to one aging polar - class vessel and add more to the United States fleet.

There are real reasons behind every major climate change, from major changes like the coming and going of glacial and interglacial periods to relatively minor changes like the so - called «Little Ice Age.»

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