Sentences with phrase «how ancient life»

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Using a dating technique that measures how much radiation had built up in the flint since it was heated, Hublin and his team say the ancient bones belong to people who lived roughly 300,000 - 350,000 years ago.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

I can understand how from your vantage point basing an entire life on an ancient manuscript seems asinine!

It wasn't just how the early Christians died that inspired so many people in the ancient world; it was how they lived.

ragansteve1 «Moral relativism», like how many Christians like to say that the Old Testament Law only applied to ancient Jews living under the «Old Covenant», and not to them?

Editor's Note: David Hazony is the author of «The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life» (Scribner, 2010).

A former youth minister, she's passionate about monasticism and ancient Christian spiritual practices and how they inform the contemporary life of faith.

Hermeneutical reflections often leave believers in deep confusion about how to bring these ancient writings to bear on the present life of the church.

I've seen enough archeological evidence to support the claims of the Book of Mormon that the people that lived in the ancient America's really did exist when and how the book describes.

«The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people,» Ruth Wisse's Jews and Power opens, and though the Jews should be proud that they have survived since the loss of ancient Israel, «this pride in sheer survival demonstrates how the tolerance of political weakness could cross the moral line into veneration of political weakness.»

We have almost no concept of the culture and day - to - day lives of those ancient people, so how could we take what they said and apply it to the 21st century?

In this quite striking way the ancient myths did full justice to the reality and finality of death on the one hand and to the mystery, on the other hand, of how death gave rise to new life.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

Editor's note: David Hazony is the author of «The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life,» published recently by Scribner.

«The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people,» Jews and Power opens, and though the Jews should be proud that they have survived since the loss of ancient Israel, «this pride in sheer survival demonstrates how the tolerance of political weakness could cross the moral line into veneration of political weakness.»

This is how the ancients of Israel saw it — they would live on in the memory of their posterity, as long as their lamp did not die out.

The real brave people of the world though, use knowledge and actually trying to figure out how the world works for real.And by doing this they actually saving lives and make life better for everyone including those who go to church and those who preach ancient fairy tales.

Instead of being confronted with the ancient problem of how to explain death if everything around us exudes life, we now have to apologize for the precarious fact of life (and consciousness) if everything around us in our universe is intrinsically dead and mindless.

And as I scratched harder at the surface of my assumptions about what the liturgical life meant, I begin to wonder how I could live a liturgical life at home with my kids, celebrating all the lovely, ancient, traditions I was discovering.

Again it raises the question of who these people really were, and when and how they became involved in the life of the ancient Near East.

The Vow: How a Forgotten Ancient Practice Can Transform Your Life Ed Gungor Although it was once a very common practice, making vows to God is not something most Christians...

This week, two major studies of the DNA of living and ancient people try to settle the big questions about the early settlers: who they were, when they came, and how many waves arrived.

This ancient theory, recounted by Pliny the Elder, is one of the many bizarre early attempts to explain one of life's greatest mysteries — how a nearly uniform egg cell develops into an animal with dozens of types of cells, each in its proper place.

Hendrik, for his part, spent years plying through caves sampling preserved poop, probing permafrost and helping exhume mass graves, all to uncover well - preserved pockets of DNA that could shed light on how ancient creatures lived, died and evolved.

To better gauge how women's skeletal strength has changed over time, Macintosh's team compared bones of ancient farm women with those of living women, including different types of athletes.

Palaeontologists can decipher how ancient organisms lived and interacted using taphonomy, the study of how fossils form.

In the past year scientists have been forced to reconsider how they identify life in the most ancient rocks on earth — and elsewhere in the solar system

Since ancient times, humankind has been aware of how important blood is to life.

Living in the midst of one of the world's most ancient agricultural systems, and one of the richest, changed Russell's outlook on how Americans live and opened her eyes to some alternatives.

So if — big if — life ever arose on Mars, not only could we find out, yeah, there is life somewhere else in the solar system, but the record of how that miracle occurred would still be preserved in these ancient rocks.

In the last few years, cutting - edge CT scans and other novel techniques have dramatically altered how paleontologists visualize and study ancient life.

Scientists hope that the uncovered treasures will provide hints to how the «1 %» lived in ancient Greece.

We therefore decided to sequence the genome of ancient horses that lived prior to domestication to directly assess how pre-domesticated horses looked like genetically.»

If we simplify, the scientists did for these proteins what the scientists in Jurassic Park did for dinosaurs: bring ancient forms back to life, so that they can be studied to better understand how complexity in species comes about.

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Being able to isolate eggshell DNA will give detailed information about how ancient bird and reptilian species lived and died.

This is due in part to ancient Japanese beliefs about how they should relate to the living and the dead.

Archaeologists have made a discovery in southern subtropical China which could revolutionise thinking about how ancient humans lived in the region.

Extracting the timing and magma source information for ancient volcanism demonstrates how long - lived pre-eruptive processes of transport and storage work at Mount Etna.

Compare this, he says, with the teachings of the ancient Greeks, who believed that knowledge of the natural world could and should form the basis of human values and morality: that the study of nature reveals how we should live.

Studies such as this are important not only because they provide clues about how ancient people lived.

By looking at how ancient and living people share long sections of DNA, the team showed that early farming populations were highly genetically structured, and that some of that structure was preserved as farming, and farmers, spread into neighbouring regions; Europe to the west and southern Asia to the east.

Using props and examples from the fossil record, the scientists showed how the very adaptations that have made humans so successful — such as upright walking and our big, complex brains — have been the result of constant remodeling of an ancient ape body plan that was originally used for life in the trees.

Curiosity is climbing a layered Martian mountain and finding chemical evidence of how ancient lakes and wet underground environments changed, billions of years ago, in ways that affected their potential favorability for microbial life.

The discovery, detailed in the March issue of the journal Antiquity, could shed light on how the non-elites of ancient Egyptian society lived.

MEACHEM: We would really love to discover some more mammal fossils down there and what we're really hoping to get out of these mammal fossils is some good ancient DNA, that will tell us about the conditions that these animals lived in and how DNA or genes changed with climate.

These scientists can study many different subjects, including the microbiology and genetics of living organisms, how species that share the same community adapt to changing conditions over time, and the fossil record (to assess how various ancient communities of species might be related to each other and to modern - day relatives).

On Mount Sharp, Curiosity is investigating how and when the ancient habitable conditions known from the mission's earlier findings evolved into drier conditions that were less favorable for life.

Then they could «come closer to ancient humans and how they lived,» Burger says.

Her recent book, «How to Clone a Mammoth,» offers a critical, pragmatic, perspective about de-extinction that is rooted in her ancient DNA expertise, Dr. Shapiro is a protagonist for the appropriate, ethical, and responsible application of de-extinction technologies for conservation of living species and their ecosystems.