Sentences with phrase «history of human effects»

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The pre-eminent American science journalist, Gleick herein explores the history and effects of knowledge communication between humans, drawing a link from African talking drums and the earliest alphabets through the telegraph — once «a nervous system for the Earth» — to Wikipedia and Twitter, and the current state of information overload from which so many claim to suffer.
History is indeed a moral order, in which judgements of the living God take effect; but this view can not be fully verified upon the plane of history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human aHistory is indeed a moral order, in which judgements of the living God take effect; but this view can not be fully verified upon the plane of history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human ahistory as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human affairs.
Despite all this the fact remains that our stock was damaged at the beginning of human history by a real sin, and the effects of this sin are passed on to us all.
In effect that would mean the elimination of God from human history.
These acts are present solely in a dynamic and forward - moving process that even now is reversing the totality of history and the cosmos, and therefore effecting an absolute transformation of a Totality that is human, cosmic, and divine.
The first effect of the modern view of history and human existence upon New Testament study was, as we have seen, to focus attention upon the kerygma as the New Testament statement of Jesus» history and selfhood.
The older I become the more I wonder at the enormous and diverse effects in human history that can be traced to the teachings, the deeds, the death, and the resurrection of that one man.»
The biblical history is meaningful because it is related at every point to the fundamental reality which lies behind all history and all human experience, which is, the living God in His Kingdom; and because it moves towards a climax in which the Kingdom of God came upon men with conclusive effect.
First, a little history: In the 16th century Protestant and Catholic positions on justification became polarized and soon escalated to include other doctrines, including the authority of the church; scripture and tradition; good works; merit and indulgences; the mass; and sin and its effects in human life.
With some entailment of that danger always implicit in superlatives, one may raise the question whether any other single contribution from whatever source since human culture emerged from the stone ages has had the far - reaching effect upon history that Israel in this regard has exerted both through the mediums of Christianity and Islam and directly through the world of Jewish thinkers themselves.
If, for example, evil has been defeated from the very outset, and human history has already been secured by God in election, does this not render history a mere process by which God can effect the inevitable triumph of his grace, with human beings little more than the passive beneficiaries of his boundless and irresistible good will and grace?
see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...
«The power of God's love», says John Burnaby, «takes effect in human history in no other way than through the wills and actions of men in whom that love has come to dwell To pray is to open the heart to the entry of love — to ask God in; and where God is truly wanted he will always come.
The nineteenth century saw the reality of the «historical facts» as consisting largely in names, places, dates, occurrences, sequences, causes, effects — things which fall far short of being the actuality of history, if one understands by history the distinctively human, creative, unique, purposeful, which distinguishes man from nature.
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Jesus had an immense effect on human history both in calling forth a new structure of existence capable to the highest degree of both good and evil and in helping to overcome the evil.
They would insist, as the Bible insists, as the life of faith continues to insist, that this epoch in Israelite history witnessed an intense series of divine - human encounters, initiated by God himself and effected by his Word.
«There is still much to learn about the effects of interbreeding on different populations in recent human history,» Capra said.
There is still much to learn about the effects of interbreeding on different populations in recent human history.
«This tells us that humans have been having a massive effect on the environment for a very long time,» said S. Kathleen Lyons, a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History who led the new research.
The mission of the Comet Research Group is to accurately assess the effects of comet impacts on human history, to educate the international public about these effects, and, ultimately, to provide governments and the scientific community with the information they need to stop comets from hitting Earth in the future.
Abstract: Models investigating the effects of climate change and human - led land - use change on biodiversity have arrived at alarming conclusions, with the worst case scenarios suggesting extinction rates at such a level as to constitute a sixth mass extinction event in the earth's history.
«Studying the history of organisms that we use and breed, and that we've had an effect on, tells us about history as well as culture and human migration.»
In addition to these vitamins, she discovered that some traditional calming herbs that have a long history of use for soothing frayed nerves and inducing calmness in humans, also work wonders for pets to promote relaxation and contentment without any of the druggy effects of medications.
The sayings of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament have had a profound, often life changing, effect on human history and culture.
(John 12:46) Other Quotes by Jesus Posters Set of 25 Quotes by Jesus Posters The sayings of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament have had a profound, life - changing effect on human history and culture.
here The sayings of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament have had a profound, life - changing effect on human history and culture.
The virtual experience focused on the history of Magna Carta and its effect on human rights development in the subsequent centuries.
Chung is interested in the imbued histories that materials carry and how they also carry with them the stories of human transmission and the long lasting effects of colonialism on tropical «post-colonial» societies such as the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean.
Jaar describes the work as a theatre built for a single image «an invitation to reflect on the meaning of that image, on the construction of that image, on the history of that image and on the ultimate effect of that image on human beings around the world.»
His practice is driven by an interest in the effect of history and cosmologies on human interaction - The fragilty of our constructed perspectives towards the other.
In addition to his work as an animal painter, he also produced a quantity of history painting - see his fresco entitled «The Defeat of Comus» (1843, Buckingham Palace)- and landscape painting - see «A Lake Scene Effect of a Storm», 1833, Tate Britain)- and human portraits.
Whilst the artist attempts to interpret the features of traditional culture from an individual perspective and by means of a distinctive creativity deduce a new and poetically transpose the effects of history, traditions, the spirit and the natural world onto the human situation and perceptions.
A global warming phenomenon in our spaceship is one of several unintended effects of the unregulated, swift increase of 1) absolute global human population numbers, 2) per capita consumption of limited resources, and 3) large - scale business activities that could be occurring synergistically and approaching a point in history when it will not be possible for the Earth's resource base and frangible ecosystems services to sustain life as we now know it to be.
It is the other end of the scale — the long tail — that is particularly problematic, however, because it portends climate effects of increasing CO2 that will persist far longer than the current history of human civilization.
To avoid these human - induced effects, we reconstructed the history of typhoon and storm - rain activity only for the interval AD 1400 — 1900.
The cumulative effect of environmental threats like climate change, ocean acidification and overfishing, brings the world's interconnected ocean close to a phase of extinction of marine species that is «globally significant» and unprecedented in human history, an international panel of marine scientists states.
«Modern human history» is ONLY «a child's story» from / of the past 20,000 years with the greatest «adverse effect», that of ~ 3 million years previous to «NOW», having as one of it's «children'that bio-form known now as «Humanity».
Thus, I answered Adam's question by trying to walk through the history of climate science starting with Joseph Fourier in 1824 discovering the greenhouse effect, John Tyndall in 1859 discovering H2O and CO2 absorb infrared which confirmed Fourier's greenhouse effect and Svante Arrhenius proposing in 1896 that human CO2 emissions would prevent earth from entering next ice age.
In Bringing them home, HREOC recommended: That, for the purposes of responding to the effects of forcible removals «compensation» be widely defined to mean «reparation»; that reparation be made in recognition of the history of gross violations of human rights; and that the van Boven principles guide the reparation measures.
Evidence linking psychological stress to asthma continues to grow with our increased understanding of the natural history of asthma and the neurobiology underlying stress vulnerability.1 - 3 Stress exposure during infancy and early childhood may exert particularly robust effects on the physiological systems that respond to stress.4 - 6 Evidence from animal and human studies strongly suggests that early life adversity shapes stress neurobiology, 7 resulting in disturbed regulation of endocrine and autonomic processes (eg, hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal [HPA] axis, sympathetic - adrenal - medullary system).
Although the Dunning - Kruger effect was first published as a study in 1999, throughout history writers and philosophers have made similar general observations of this very human trait.
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