Sentences with phrase «early human life»

«Ancient Peru: Major discovery of early human life: Elaborate baskets reveal sophisticated societies in the late pleistocene and early Holocene ages.»

Look, when we think about ending an early human life, this is something that is really bad for the embryo or early fetus that dies, it's losing out tremendously — I agree with that as I already said.

They can teach us things about early human life».

But since you and I both know God is the ultimate authority and thus sets the standard, and God clearly is against abortion, and the atheists are erroneously calling very early human life nothing but «a bunch of cells,» isn't it up to us to fight for those lives?

Dec. 18, 2013 — The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

New research led by University of Victoria's April Nowell reveals surprisingly sophisticated adaptations by early humans living 250,000 years ago in...

As the early humans lived in close harmony with nature, man was able to understand animals in nature, better than now.

Not exact matches

The mindset of today's 20 and early 30 - somethings have given rise to human - centered technologies that are transforming the way we live and work.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

Ysios Capital is a leading Spanish venture capital firm that provides private equity financing to early - and mid-stage human healthcare and life science companies with a special focus on pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and medical devices.

Katherine High, Spark's president and chief scientific officer, expressed her enthusiasm for the early clinical data related to SPK - 8011: «The encouraging start of our SPK - 8011 clinical trial reinforces the strength of our gene therapy platform, delivers human proof - of - concept in a second liver - mediated disease — a significant achievement in the gene therapy field — and positions us well to potentially transform the current treatment approach for this life - altering disease with a one - time intervention.»

Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.

It would be nice for her dogma - immersed professor to eventually arrive at what his student came to know so early in her life, that knowledge is gained from living life, and that knowledge can be more true right now than the human writings on the topic that only go back at most 5,000 years.

Unlike Anselm's legalistic theory of the Atonement, the writings of the Early Church Fathers teach theosis or deification, the realization of our human potential for godlikeness through a relational participation in the Divine Life, as the source of our redemption in Christ:

In «My Own Life,» a short autobiography composed shortly before he died, he wrote: «I had always entertained a notion, that my want of success in publishing the Treatise of Human Nature, had proceeded more from the manner than the matter, and that I had been guilty of a very usual indiscretion, in going to the press too early.»

Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the origins and stability of se - xual orientation is that it is a human characteristic that is formed early in life, and is resistant to change.

Early cosmologies also pictured the cosmos relative to the human observer, as we continue to do when we speak of sending a rocket «upward» into space or refer to Australians as living «down under.»

Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the origins and stability of sexual orientation is that it is a human characteristic that is formed early in life, and is resistant to change.

How will life in the global city be different from earlier human experience?

All that we can say with confidence, however, is that our earliest knowledge of humankind takes us back only to the point where humans were already scattered into groups, living a tribal existence, each with its own language and culture.

But no one could seriously read the essential message of the gospels or study the lives of the early Christians without seeing that living according to the plan of God calls for the highest courage, and makes the most strenuous demands on the human spirit.

To the extent that the man - made setting of man's life and the setting which was naturally antecedent to human freedom are specifically different, the latter being characteristic of earlier times and the former of the present, we are now living in a setting which almost in its very essence is more complicated and intractable and inaccessible to the understanding of the individual than was ever the case before.

So despite the fact that I believe human life is inherently valuable even in its earliest form, I only feel a little guilty voting for pro-choice candidates because I'm often convinced they will do more to address the root causes of abortion — poverty, health care, education, etc..

Scholars, on the other hand, as we have seen earlier, mean by it «a traditional narrative involving supernatural persons», of which the truth is not literal but to be understood as illuminating the meaning of human life.

According to the Greens, since these drugs interfere with implantation in the womb, they destroy human life in the earliest stage of development.

To me one of the most amazing things about life is the similarity in the early stages of oh say, human, horse, dog, etc..

And Schweitzer had grasped, from his very earliest days, the truth that all culture, all human interchange and social life, what we comprehensively call civilization, springs from nothing more substantial than our visions and dreams, our religious beliefs and convictions.

Once early embryos become something less than incipient human life, once they are treated in vitro as a means toward the end of pregnancy, once they are cryopreserved in thousands of vats across the country, ESCR with «excess» embryos may be predictably the next step.

Thus Santayana's earlier work consists in philosophical comment on human life rather than constructive metaphysics or ontology, while Whitehead's is devoted to the foundations of mathematics and the analysis of scientific concepts.

If any human life has a universal objective right to exist, then it only follows that a life in the earliest stages of development does also.

Not only is IVF the most obvious source of «fresh» and cryopreserved embryos, but the growing acceptance of embryo creation and disposal through IVF has shaped our moral imagination, rendering us less and less capable of seeing any relevant moral claims attending the early embryo as incipient human life.

'' [the author] addresses the question I asked earlier, «Is it ever morally justifiable (or even morally good) to act to end another human being's life?»

This deepening and solidification has produced several highly significant developments in Buber's thought: a growing concern with the nature and meaning of evil as opposed to his earlier tendency to treat evil as a negative aspect of something else; a growing concern with freedom and grace, divine and human love, and the dread through which man must pass to reach God; a steady movement toward concern with the simpler and more concrete aspects of everyday life; and an ever greater simplicity and solidity of style.

(Gen. 6:3) The tyrannies and destructions of our day are really the same in kind as those that made human life either a shambles or a prison house, or both, in the days of Nero when this earliest Gospel was written.

Although pure mathematics and impure practice thus combine to suggest that living things, human selves and societies, should not be pictured on the model of Chepstow Castle — as though they were ping - pong balls, single shells that either insulate or shatter — our generalized common - sense notions of inside and outside by and large remain early Norman in their simplicity.

All of this in an historical succession in which the past of the tradition still lives in the present of contemporary human existence, with an aim toward fulfillment of the dominant and dominating purpose which in the earliest witness was declared as having been enacted in the originating event of Jesus Christ himself.

And yet even in those early, dark hours of her life, Penny's presence — her sweet face and tiny hands and warm body — knocked against my grid, jostled my presuppositions about human wholeness and human sin.

A corollary of all this that is crucial for Whitehead's reflections on education is the idea that a life led on the level of human existence that is mere dull repetition of value realized in earlier experience is less than fully human.

It is universally recognized that the long story from our earliest remains of human life onward through the great civilizations of the ancient east witnessed remarkable advances.

Like other early Christian apologists, he realized that it was not enough to make vague appeals to transcendent reality, to the god of philosophers, to a deity that takes no particular form in human life.

Once the principle is established that early embryos can be used as a natural resource, it won't be long until gestated nascent human life is also targeted.

Thus one who denies a priori that there was objective ground for the resurrection faith of early Christianity denies in effect the whole Gospel portrait of Jesus, for the knowledge of the living Christ after the crucifixion is altogether continuous, of a piece, with the memory of the human Jesus.

Either American democracy is living on social capital inherited from an earlier time when Americans shared a common perspective on life's questions, in which case we face a slow descent into the fragmented and violent world Hauerwas sees; or else the enthusiastic, individualistic and yet genuinely loving piety of Emerson, Whitman and Ellison has a better grasp of our human nature, and it really is possible to be both democratic and virtuous.

With early Romanticism gradually fading away into the petit - bourgeois aesthetic cocoon known as Biedermeier (c. 1815 — 1848), German culture increasingly acquiesces to Romanticism's most worrisome features: its strident nationalist undertow; its messianic aspirations, which mutated into delusions of racial superiority; its Rousseauian attempt at recovering authentic, immediate Life (Leben); the variously violent and sexualized mythology in which its major representatives (Friedrich Schlegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Novalis) ground their longing for human - engineered salvation.

From the early 1970s I was aware that among those who were newly conscientized to the destruction of life - support systems, some were concerned only with finding ways of avoiding negative consequences for human beings.

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

When death comes, appraisal must also be made in the same way, for the total pattern of a given human life, made up as it is of a particular «routing» of occasions bound together in the fashion we indicated earlier, has also contributed, or failed to contribute, in its very totality, to the creative advance in good.

From the early days of human history we have seen one ideological movement after another rise, inspire, become corrupted by political and other power brokers, attract huge numbers of mindless followers who are trying to fill the empty hole in their pointless lives, and then ultimately disappear in a corrupt mess.

But viewed in terms of human relationships and the quality of life, there are many indications that peasants in the Middle Ages and the early modern period had more dignity and enjoyment than the industrial workers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Socrates earlier had said that the truly human life consisted of giving an account, logon didonai, and American statesmen, politicians, and citizens fall under the rule.