Sentences with phrase «for ancient science»

It's no wonder that non-Westerners give Climatology about the same respect they reserve for the ancient science of astrology.

In fact, if we take a closer look we find that the Christian doctrine of heaven was as problematic for ancient science as it is for modern.

The ascension is therefore as great a scandal for ancient science as for modern, as are all subsequent human incursions into heaven, from the assumption of Mary to the rapture of St. Paul to the final resurrection.

Not exact matches

Probably creationist don't turn to Leviticus 13 for medical advice on how to treat skin disease (leprosy); nor do they turn to Joshua 6 (Siege and fall of Jericho) for lessons in military science; nor do they turn to the staple of ancient legal science in Exodus 21:23 - 2 (lex talons «eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth») for modern jurisprudence.

This has been a period in which the categories of the social sciences have been employed for the study of such ancient literature, alerting us to the ways in which ancient communities are rooted in social realities, as well as the ways in which social structures and ideologies reinforce each other.

Among other things, he was an exemplar of the power of rhetoric, the ancient art or science which has suffered neglect for several generations.

According to Walton, attempts to mine the ancient text for answers to today's scientific questions amounts to what is called concordism, which holds that the Bible must agree --(be in concord with)-- all the findings of contemporary science.

Even while acknowledging some lat.itude in these early chapters, it appears that science is increasingly able to corroborate what we have held in faith based upon biblical texts, including bases for such matters as an ancient deluge, genetic linking back to one mother and possible on father, and the possibility of extended life - spans prior to the deluge.

Face it YOU ARE USING OUR ANCIENT MYTH TO PAVE THE WAY FOR YOUR SCIENCE!

For a person who toots his own horn about how smart he is, you certainly seem to need a lot more study on ancient history, science, and general philosophy coupled with theology.

Materiality and life (soul) are as much mysteries for modern science as they were for ancient Greek philosophy.

One of the worst things about the religious people is that they think that because science can't give you all the answers immediately that an ancient book is the obvious fill - in for anything missing.

For the science of the ancient East we must look to Egypt and Babylonia, from whom Israel took her concepts, modifying them profoundly, it is true, in their religious aspects, but making little change in their scientific content.

For example, at one point he quotes the distinguished historian of ancient science G. E. R. Lloyd, who said of Greek science: «Much as the Egyptians and Babylonians contributed to the content of these studies, the investigations only acquire self «conscious methodologies for the first time with the Greeks.&raqFor example, at one point he quotes the distinguished historian of ancient science G. E. R. Lloyd, who said of Greek science: «Much as the Egyptians and Babylonians contributed to the content of these studies, the investigations only acquire self «conscious methodologies for the first time with the Greeks.&raqfor the first time with the Greeks.»

We need to invent a new word for people willing to believe the writings of unknown authors, of unknown origin, of an unknown but ancient time, which is badly worded, internally AND externally (with modern science) inconsistent, full of statements with no actual arguments to back them up, with the only decently educated people to back it all up are theologians who twist the meaning of words and commit logical fallacies and still only try to prove that SOMETHING must exist, not that christianity is the truth.

For example, the creation account of Genesis 1 is arguably more meaningful and more profound when we understand it, not as a modern science text, but as an ancient Near Eastern temple text that honors Elohim as ruler over creation.

Christianity and Mohametanism: — For two thousand years the Greek art - forms lifelessly repeated: The Greek schools of philosophy, Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian, Neo-Platonic, arguing with barren formulae: Conventional histories: A stabilized Government with the sanctity of ancient ceremony, supported by habitual pieties: literature without depth: Science elaborating details by deduction from unquestioned premises: Delicacies of feeling without robustness of adventure.

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When we had a kitchen extension done a couple of years ago we got a new dining table to replace our really really old and battered one but in the end kept our ancient table to use for crafts / messy play / science etc..

Growing doubts about evidence for ancient gravitational waves don't undermine cosmic inflation, says the theory's co-founder Andrei Linde — and don't let feelings obscure science

These «chimeras,» named for a beast in ancient Greek mythology, are possible due to advances in stem - cell science and gene - editing technology.

Originally dubbed Palaeopotorous priscus, Latin for» [very] ancient», «ancient rat - kangaroo», by the now eminent Australian palaeontologists Prof. Tim Flannery (University of Melbourne) and Dr Tom Rich (Museums Victoria), the importance of these remains was suggested in their first unveiling to science.

As part of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, he leads one of the world's few groups looking for the reverberations of ancient supernovas — those whose light hit Earth thousands of years ago.

Ancient ancestors of today's pine, cypress and yew trees had extra copies of their entire genome — the set of genetic instructions for an organism, researchers report November 20 in Science Advances.

The expected offerings from ancients such as Francis Bacon, interim players such as Charles Darwin, and moderns Stephen Jay Gould, Isaac Asimov, Lewis Thomas and Carl Sagan are complemented by gems from less familiar writers, making the book excellent value for anyone involved or interested in science.

Ancient ancestors of today's pine, cypress and yew trees had extra copies of their entire genome, the set of genetic instructions for an organism, researchers report November 20 in Science Advances.

Even back then, explains Marzari, a physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, his now - ancient handset took just 40 seconds to carry out quantum - mechanical calculations that once took many hours on a supercomputer — a feat that not only shows how far such computational methods have come in the past decade or so, but also demonstrates their potential for transforming the way materials science is done in the future.

In 2005, the European Consortium for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) drilled an ice core in Dome C on east Antarctica's plateau that stretches our record of the ancient atmosphere back 800,000 years (Quaternary Science Reviews, DOI: 10.1016 / j.quascirev.2010.10.002).

Research led by the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) at the University of Adelaide, published in Science Advances, has revealed that it was only when the climate warmed, long after humans first arrived in Patagonia, did the megafauna suddenly die off around 12,300 years ago.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

And in the 20 % of her time she isn't working on ancient sites or forensic cases, she teaches archaeology and forensic science to both undergraduates and mature students and also does in - house training for police and similar staff.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

And by the way, it was a good year for science because that was also the year that Vesalius publishes his influential book on human anatomy, correcting some of the mistakes of the ancient Greek thinkers, which actually is what Copernicus was doing, too.

Fossil skulls of two ancient, mammal - like reptiles suggest that natural selection for a keener sense of smell was the initial spur behind bigger brains in early mammals, according to a report online today in Science.

If the new interpretation is right, P322 would not only contain the earliest evidence of trigonometry, but it would also represent an exact form of the mathematical discipline, rather than the approximations that estimated numerical values for sines and cosines provide, notes Mathieu Ossendrijver, a historian of ancient science at Humboldt University in Berlin.

It gained its fame in 1945 when the historian of ancient science Otto Neugebauer recognized the sexagesimal (base - 60) numbers for what they really were: a table of «Pythagorean triples» — the integer lengths of the sides and hypotenuses of right triangles.

Sherwood Lollar's team is now scouring the water for ancient forms of life, perhaps unknown to science.

Fats are a good target, adds George Cody, acting director of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. — tough, plentiful, and known to survive in ancient samples from Earth.

In a paper published August 17, 2017 in the journal PLOS ONE, an international team of researchers, led by Director Nicole Boivin of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, used new techniques to analyze ancient DNA and proteins from 496 bone samples from 22 island, coastal and inland sites in eastern Africa.

A commentary published on 30 January in the leading science journal Nature Plants highlights the importance of an ancient grass species for wheat breeding.

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Researchers from Tohoku University, National Institute for Materials Science and Hiroshima University discovered this after conducting impact experiments simulating a meteorite hitting an ancient ocean (Fig. 1).

Except for very special science libraries containing collections of rare and ancient materials, science libraries now are underutilized and increasingly seem unnecessary; since maintaining traditional libraries necessitates spending quite a lot of money every year, it is easy to predict that they will be converted into much less costly fully digitized libraries.

The traditional science of Hatha Yoga is recognized as the most ancient style of yoga ever emerged and continues to be a source of inspiration for several contemporary styles.

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A complete and holistic walkthrough for fighting a modern disease with an ancient science.

Her methods are grounded in ancient wisdom, informed by modern science, and eminently practical for reducing anxiety, lifting mood, and improving self - regulation.

So send me your screenshot and I will send you back the first half of my unreleased book, «Eat Right For Your Mind Body Type,» which infuses ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern nutritional science.

The Master of Oriental Medicine is designed to blend ancient healing traditions with contemporary science as the basis for treating the whole person.

The ancient Aztecs and Mayas prized cocoa for its medicinal properties and used it to treat a wide array of ills, writes Stephen T. Beckett, author of «The Science of Chocolate.»