A systematic review, including metaanalyses, of the evidence
from human and animal studies.
The data available so far
from human and animal research is encouraging, but it does however have enormous limitations.
Determining the source of fecal water contamination, can protect humans and the environment from potentially pathogenic E. coli
from human and animal excreta.
This can protect humans and our environment from potentially pathogenic E. coli
from human and animal feces.
The controversial sculpture made
from human and animal materials was created to raise awareness of Arctic oil drilling
The researchers announced results
from human and animal studies that found biomarkers of harmful cardiac, pulmonary, and reproductive effects from exposure to alternative tobacco products — a growing market of constantly evolving products including electronic cigarettes, hookah, and smokeless tobacco like snuff and gutkha.
But everything we're learning
from the human and animal genome projects, about the conservation of neurochemistries and the neuroanatomies, all of this points me to the conclusion that we are learning about ourselves when we study these little critters.»
The Hudson River is currently littered with everything
from human and animal waste to motor oil and used condoms.
At the asylum and the army barracks, he and his team also infected patients with infectious syphilis bacteria taken
from humans and animals, mixed with beef heart broth, distilled water, or spinal fluid.
Development of a high - throughput sequence - independent amplification strategy for dsRNA viruses will increase our ability to sequence more diverse rotavirus strains, including clinical isolates
from both humans and animals, regardless of their nucleotide sequence diversity.
The tumultuous summer that cowboy Troy Stotts turns 17, he and his two best friends face lethal danger,
from both humans and animals, in the California hills.
Not exact matches
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a non-profit based in Massachusetts, has identified a number of potential risks posed by such crops, ranging
from introducing new allergens to the food supply to increasing antibiotic resistance in
humans and animals.
By printing multiple lung airways — or any other afflicted organ —
from a
human patient
and testing drugs on them, pharma companies can bypass the ethically challenged practice of testing on
animals and proceed to
human clinical trials with greater confidence the drugs will actually work, according to Wadsworth.
Google says that some parties worry that radio frequency (RF)
from Project Loon testing will harm plants,
animals and humans, who are in the vicinity where the test is conducted.
Whereas many
animal charities draw funds primarily
from within the movement (e.g.,
from other
animal advocates
and animal charities), GFI is seeking to reach potential donors whose primary interests are in environmental protection, the sustainability of the global food system,
and human health.
Yet we are still
human beings,
and one of the things that separates us
from other
animals is that we make moral judgments.
We would expect that since
Humans are created in the image of God, they would be unique
and clearly distinguishable
from other
animals.
Some notable examples are the transitions
from reptile to mammal,
from land
animal to early whale,
and from early ape to
human
That did not happen: there is no geological record of a world - wide flood, there is not enough diversity to regenerate the population we currently, there is not enough water to cover the earth to the height of Everest, the logistics of retrieving
and returning
animals to the then - unknown Americas, Australia, etc. were staggeringly difficult, managing the
animals on the Ark was impossible — a few
humans keeping predators
from their prey, cleaning the waste, etc., pretty much all life on earth would have been killed, etc. etc..
Also, i guess a living zombie, a snake, a rib woman, a magical tree does sound strange... i find it much easier to believe in a cosmic event that produced life out of nothing one day
and that we slowly evolved
from animals into
human beings.
We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other
humans, have their own preferences
and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem
from animosity, if not to
animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs
and practices.
It is something
from which
animals are exempt, except those who have the misfortune to be harnessed to
human enterprise,
and it is something unknown to a creature of mere needs.
well if i had a theory
and later found it to not be ture
and refuted it then i would not want anyone else to belive it either as i found it wasnt true
and further more i would like to think that me
and all other
humans are better than coming
from an
animal that eats bugs off its friends
and throws its own poo... I'm just saying
believerfred «Thor
and the like are man made
from known matter
and energy with most having
human or other
animal physiology»
Horned
animals are sacred for a variety of cultural reasons but the root of sacred horned
animals seems to come
from the resemblance of their heads to the uterus, ovaries
and fallopian tubes of
human women,
and the
animals are usually associated with fertility
and female symbols.
The
human body comes about
from the seed
and egg of parents in common with other
animals, but the soul is created immediately by God's loving command
and wise, eternal will.
The moving account of Helen Keller's transformation
from the essentially
animal to the truly
human level illustrates both the importance of a physiological basis for meaningful
human existence
and the dramatic contrast between life with
and without symbols.
Ernst Cassirer in his Essay on Man designates man as «
animal symbolicum,»
and shows that all of the typically
human functions stem
from this fundamental ability to formulate
and communicate meanings.
There is no
human being apart
from relations with other people, with other
animals,
and with the whole of creation.
And scientifically, since what characterizes the development of the
animal species
from its beginning is the struggle for life, how can we expect, mere
humans that we are, to escape
from this essential biological condition without which there can be neither growth nor progress?
Also
human beings are made in the image
and likeness of God, we can know
and love, through the power of our spiritual soul - we are very different
from animals, not in our physical bodies but in our souls.
For historical precedents in the West to the contemporary concern with individual
animals, see selections
from Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill,
and Henry Salt in
Animal Rights
and Human Obligations.
The point of all this is that dominance is the one
animal instinct the
human race either inherited
from its primate forebears
and retained after losing all the other instincts, or acquired by imitating this
animal behavior when the
human race fell
from a higher nature.
Rolston's point is that individual mountains, plants,
and animals do indeed have value apart
from their usefulness to
humans, but not in isolation
from their environments.
If the
human community depicted in Genesis 1 is a utilitarian one, where man
and woman join together, like the male
and female of other
animals, to further the ends of their species, the community of Genesis 2 emerges
from a crisis of existential loneliness.
So the LORD said, «I will wipe
from the face of the earth the
human race I have created —
and with them the
animals, the birds
and the creatures that move along the ground — for I regret that I have made them.»
As we know
from mythology, it was the habit of Jupiter to wander the earth in the form of man,
animal, or bird
and thereby make contact with
human beings.
These previous points once again are believed by many religions, but there are also many religions that don't make this clear distinction as with some forms of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism
and others which believe in the transmigration of the soul through reincarnation
from humans to
animals and vice versa.
Coming
from the same source,
animals and humans clearly are divinely related,
and just as clearly they are separate.
If you look at the complexity of the universe
and everything in it, to think it happened by accident
from some chemicals mixing together
and eventually mutating into
humans and other
animals is way more difficult to believe in than god.
Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin
and confession
and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the
animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples
and churches
and crosses
and «holy books»)
and all the
human beings left to feel separated again
and again
from the universe, Nature, each other
and their «gods.»
everyday, christians pray fo this country, our leaders, troops, the economy, values
and morality,
and all we get back is hatred
from abortion groups, gay right movements
and other form of wayward beleifs with the sole purpose of reducing
humans to the same level as
animals.
A possible real connection with the
animal kingdom is itself of relatively little theological importance, for anything in it that would be important for the theological interpretation of
human life in the present, can also be known without it, that is to say, the vulnerability of man in face of the powers of this earth, man's temptation to see himself
from the point of view of his animality, his liability to death, man's dynamic orientation
and task of developing to his perfection
from below upwards, beyond his beginnings.
In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up
from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute
humans, comic
animals,
and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children
and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.
Instead, I find increasingly within the
animal rights movement
and within discussions of environmental ethics (although less so there) a perspective that illustrates just how alienated
from the rest of nature the
human species has become.
But cruelty to
animals is morally different
from human predation on
animals — eating
animals» flesh
and using their hides
and other parts for clothing, food or shelter.
Morals do not come
from belief
and in fact we can find a great many immoral issues with belief - the bible is a proponent of such immoral issues - rape;
human sacrifice;
animal sacrifice; child abuse; mass murder; idolatry (the 1st 4 commandments are exactly that); bigotry (the non-stop judging of gays based solely on what the bible says); oppression of women; incest.
(He insisted that
human society is
from but not of the
animal world, with its competition
and cruelty.)
But for Marxists, transcendence is the actual
human experience that the
human person, though belonging to nature, is different
from the things
and animals and that the
human being, able to progress always, is never complete.
In seeking to develop a theology of nature, process theologians are supportive of endeavors to appropriate other images
from the tradition, such as St. Francis» compassionate love for the poor
and treatment of
animals as sisters
and brothers, the Orthodox view of the church as inclusive of all of creation,
and the use of the elements of bread
and wine in the Eucharist, products of the interworkings between God, the non-
human natural world,
and human labor, that speak, to contemporary needs.