Sentences with phrase «common human longing»
Are the common human longing for purpose and our experience of the transcendent fully explained by the unguided natural forces which atheism commonly tells us is all that really exists?
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When mankind worked together towards a common goal, God destoryed the work and sowed confusion by ensuring humans could no longer communicate effectively.
''... and see the signs of an invisible human longing that is common to us all, believer and unbeliever alike.».
''... an invisible human longing that is common to us all, believer and unbeliever alike.»
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.
By virtue of the emergence of Thought a special and novel environment has been evolved among human individuals within which they acquire the faculty of associating together, and reacting upon one another, no longer primarily for the preservation and continuance of the species but for the creation of a common consciousness.
I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.
But I do know this: Even an ardent atheist can look at a house of worship and see the signs of an invisible human longing that is common to us all, believer and unbeliever alike.
A common sense approach would have been to say that now that we understood that human thought and feeling are part of nature, we should no longer suppose that nature consists only of material objects in relative motion.
Man's longing for forgiveness, the third testimony of general revelation, requires a further revelation to clarify his common human experience.
Common longing, common desires, even common fears is what makes us all Common longing, common desires, even common fears is what makes us all common desires, even common fears is what makes us all common fears is what makes us all human.
One can dispute with a man, dispute to the furthest limit, as long as one assumes, that in the end there is a point in common, an agreement in some universal human sense: in self - respect.
Deneen, to the contrary, argues that social contract theory radically changed the founders» conception of natural law — the «common good,» for example, was no longer an objective human good knowable to reason, but merely a collection of personal preferences.
«Even an ardent atheist can look at a house of worship and see the signs of an invisible human longing that is common to us all, believer and unbeliever alike.»
I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.
Denial is human and common and maybe essential sometimes, but I do wonder whether it is durable, and whether the psychological double think works long term.
From a u-CT scan and an X-ray, researchers identified a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm — today, the most common form of benign bone tumor in humans — located on a Neandertal left rib fragment that measured 30 mm (4 1/2 inches) long.
The results suggest that pupil mimicry might have a long evolutionary history, says Kret, because if the phenomenon is present in both humans and chimps it is possible it originally evolved in a common ancestor of the two species.
His group has found, for example, that APOE3 — by far the most common APOE allele in humans — is usually inherited either with a short or a very long 523 tract.
That discovery, in turn, implies that the voice area has a long evolutionary history and was probably already present in the common ancestor of macaques and humans some 20 million years ago.
Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.
Other features hinted that the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees was a quadruped and not a knuckle - walking ape, as was long thought.
The long - favored view is that the last common ancestor must have been similar to a chimp, with more evolutionary change occurring subsequently on the human branch of the family.
Hearing loss is the most common degenerative condition in humans, because we are exposed to noise throughout our lives and are living longer, García - Añoveros said.
Additional support could come from the chimpanzee genome, which may allow researchers to clock when the genes for slow - twitch muscle fibers — crucial for running long distances and plentiful in people but not chimps — diverged in the common evolutionary history of humans and apes.
Comparing their gene sequences established that they likely diverged from a single common ancestor between 1902 and 1921, suggesting HIV has been in human populations for at least that long.
Only about 5 million years ago human beings and chimps shared a common ancestor, and we still have much behavior in common: namely, a long period of infant dependency, a reliance on learning what to eat and how to obtain food, social bonds that persist over generations, and the need to deal as a group with many everyday conflicts.
That could help answer a long - standing question in primate evolution: Did the common ancestor to living apes and humans evolve in Africa or Eurasia?
Scientists have long thought that tooth decay only became common in humans about 10,000 years ago, when we began farming — and eating starchy crops that fed sugar - loving bacteria on our teeth.
New results reported in this week's Science and at a genome meeting held last week at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on New York's Long Island suggest that our pedigreed canine companions may be a major help in finding the genetic keys to common human afflictions such as cancer, diabetes, and mental disorders.
If humans did much of their evolving in this region, in a food - rich sea and its wetlands, it would explain why we have a long list of physical features in common with aquatic mammals, such as whales, dolphins, seals, and walruses.
Unfortunately, the presence of long, repetitive DNA, which is common in human and other primate genomes, confuses assembly software and causes it to break the genome into very small fragments.
Now, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a mechanism that causes long - term memory loss due to age in Drosophila, the common fruit fly, a widely recognized substitute for human memory studies.
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a mechanism that causes long - term memory loss due to age in Drosophila, the common fruit fly, a widely recognized substitute for human memory studies.
I didn't know that when TCGA was proposed in 2005 as a long - term (10 year) effort to identify the common mutations underlying major human cancers, the estimated price tag was something like $ 1.5 billion.
While the specialized adaptations of our hands have long been assumed as a major evolutionary advantage, the human hand is less developed in terms of evolution than that of a chimp, having changed little from the hands of the last common ancestor shared with our simian cousins millions of years ago, scientists report.
The study challenges a long - held assumption that the last common ancestor (or LCA) of humans and apes - the identity of which is still a matter of debate - would have resembled a chimpanzee with hands like modern - day chimps.
It's been common knowledge that NASA has wanted to send astronauts to Mars within the next two decades, but those proposals have been long on ambition and short on details — until now, as the US space agency has unveiled its five - step plan to send humans to the Red Planet.
Not so long ago, there was a hope in the research community that common genetic variation, i.e. variants present at minor allele frequencies > 5 % in human populations, might explain most or all of the heritability of common complex disease.
By the end of the Pleistocene, when the last great ice age ebbed, other human ancestors were gone, humans had settled the Americas and long - range weapons like spears and arrows were common — and the average mass of mammals had fallen from nearly 100 kg (220 pounds) to less than eight.
Reykjavik, ICELAND, January 19, 2009 — Scientists at deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) and colleagues from the US and ten European countries today announced a long - awaited first in cancer research: the discovery of common single - letter variations in the human genome (SNPs) linked to susceptibility not of one, but several different types of cancer, including those of lung, bladder, prostate, skin and cervix.
All our members have one thing in common, they're looking for a deeper connection with another human being; to have a meaningful relationship that could potentially lead to long - lasting love.
The Human Magnet Syndrome accounts for one of the most common couplings we see — the pairing of caretaking, empathetic, and altruistic codependents with selfish, arrogant, controlling, and harmful narcissists, who simultaneously fall head over heels in in love while remaining tied together in a long - term dysfunctional relationship.
Franco captures that while Wiseau's mouth, which perpetually feels like it's full of peanut butter and / or cotton - mouth - inducing pills may be joylessly droning, «Ha ha ha», the eyes betray that he has no idea what he's supposed to find amusing, but apparently «laughing» is a common trait of these «humans» so as long as he's at least attempting to pass among their ranks, he might as well give it a shot.
Challenges for the weekend - long event included «Human - Centered Design for Teens» and «Common Core Math for Parents.»
That this is one of the book's longest chapters is unsurprising: It takes up the ethics of commercial transactions, our culture's most common sort of human interaction.
Recall problems are common in hounds, which are comfortable «doing their own thing» without human guidance, for long periods of time.
Older dogs like humans find it difficult to control their bladders for long periods as they enter their twilight years and one of the more common causes for adult dogs who won't stop peeing in the house are behavioural issues.
Like us Humans as they get older dogs can lose muscle tone and not be able to hold their pee in for long periods they may even leak while sleeping this is especially common in spayed females.
Acupuncture, the stimulation of specific points on the body, has long been one of the most common types of holistic medicine for pets and humans alike.