Sentences with phrase «how human progress»

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Humans like to have a way to measure themselves and track their own progress toward goals rather than being completely subject to someone's guess later as to how they've done.»

Not only are we constantly being bombarded by the religious beliefs of the faithful (Christians mostly in America) we can see how religious beliefs are stifling human progress and perpetuating hatred and segregation.

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?

The book itself illustrates how Aron succeeded in chronicling with sympathy and wisdom the «mixture of heroism and absurdity, of saints and monsters, of incomparable intellectual progress and persistent blind passions» that constitutes human history.

i don't understand how religious people find it so hard to accept we changed over time and progressed on our own instead of believeing some all powerful, all knowing thing made humans from dirt.

The war had to be interpreted in light of how God would use it to bring about progress for both the human race and religion.

When we consider some of the factors that make it difficult to believe in progress in this third sense, it becomes possible to see how they are related to Christian teaching about sin and especially to one element in that teaching: the recognition that the deepest roots of sin are spiritual, that it is on the higher levels of human development that the most destructive perversions of human life appear.

Furthermore, how do the loss of a transcendent horizon, a materialist view of human nature, and an exaggerated belief in progress facilitate the loss of political freedom?

It's sad they define the world we live in... Think about how much further we would progress as a HUMAN civilization without this simple minded thinking and beliefs getting in our way.

(Obvously the world has progress for the good also I not slamming the progress in health care & with immunisations etc with knowledge but with knowledge becomes power and at what level do the people with power rule how we grow as a society, I know it's not all cloak and daggers, not conspiracy theory's but taking control of what we spend our money on in the market and take away to demand to buy chemicals) buy In the past 50 years us humans have introduced over 75,000 chemicals into our world!

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

And if that's how God really intended it, how were some humans allowed to progress so far scientifically?

«What we learn in America, the best way to address any concerns of human rights issues is by having transparency and have America play a role in using our government to show how we do it here at home, we are going to do it there in Cuba,» he said, adding that he believed the nation had made progress in recent years.

The right of all people to benefit from scientific progress is spurring new research by science and human rights practitioners and informing organizations how to secure those benefits, according to presenters at a AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting, held July 27 - 28 in Washinhuman rights practitioners and informing organizations how to secure those benefits, according to presenters at a AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting, held July 27 - 28 in WashinHuman Rights Coalition Meeting, held July 27 - 28 in Washington.

An irony: amid all this highfalutin braggadocio of how close we are to computers taking over the world and emulating human thought, I had to give my talk on the «social singularity» (progress in political, economic and social systems over the past 10,000 years) early because Rice University computer scientist James McLurkin could not get his small swarm of robots to work.

This discovery will solve one of the key stumbling blocks in devising therapies: the lack of a human model that can shed light on how the disease progresses.

«The inventions of recording systems are milestones in the human journey, and any finds which contribute to the understanding of how they came about makes a basic contribution to mapping the progress of mankind,» he said.

We can judge the progress of our ability to harness scientific achievement simply by looking at a robot and asking this question: Exactly how much is this machine like a human?

It also aims to elucidate the links between aging, longevity and radioresistance, and the ways in which research into enhancing human radioresistance could synergistically enable human healthspan extension, ultimately highlighting how ongoing research into the very well - funded sphere of aerospace research could galvinate progress in biomedical gerontology, a massively under - funded area of research despite the grave economic burden posed by demographic aging» said Franco Cortese, an author of the paper and Deputy Director of the Biogerontology Research Foundation.

Furthermore, given the massive amount of funding allocated to research into facilitating and optimizing space exploration and optimization, the researchers hope to have shown how research into enhancing radioresistance for space exploration could galvanize progress in human healthspan extension, an area of research that is still massively underfunded despite its potential to prevent the massive economic burden posed by the future healthcare costs associated with demographic aging.

«Understanding how this extinction happened and what role humans may have played could help us understand how extinctions are progressing today and what we can do to prevent them,» says Siobhán Cooke, M.Phil., Ph.D., assistant professor of functional anatomy and evolution at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and lead author of the study, described online in the Journal of Mammalogy on August 1.

«There's a lot more to figuring out how diseases progress than knowing the human genome.»

In a Philadelphia Inquirer op - ed, he wrote that such eternal life was in our reach because «Being able to decode the human genome allows us to develop detailed models of how major diseases, such as heart disease and cancer, progress, and gives us the tools to reprogram those processes away from disease.»

The human and animal study found that the CD4 + Foxp3 + regulatory T - cells, called Tregs, are closely linked with how quickly ALS progresses.

Researchers have used CRISPR to develop a pig model of Huntington's disease that better mimics how the disease progresses in humans.

In this article, we'll learn about the progress and goals of human - genome research, how we're already weeding out genetic diseases and about the future of «selecting» human offspring.

While the exploration of human sexuality is always an area of great interest, this study in particular speaks volumes about the progress we've made in gender equality and reminds us how much there is still to learn about the nature of female pleasure.

Take the sugar coating off and you'll notice that lot of people who are into fitness and bodybuilding don't truly understand know how the human body works, so they are prone to making stupid mistakes or just doing everything the wrong way and not seeing any substantial progress in their training.

Dr. Quillin points out it is important to understand how cancer starts and progresses in the human body — including through malnutrition.

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The torch - lit Rembrandt lighting of the first few episodes has, thanks to the profusion of oil lamps, given way to a more even, golden illumination, a visual analog for how social and technological progress removes some of the darkness from life, yet leaves the essential human drama — the collision of individuals stumbling from cradle to grave — untouched.

To better understand how school districts» human capital systems compare with the best practices employed in other sectors, the Center for American Progress performed the first national survey of school districts» human capital practices.

This book, The Stairway To Freedom, was dictated from the spirit world by The Great White Brotherhood and is a complete primer of esoteric knowledge covering virtually every aspect of a human being's development whilst here in incarnation and also will see him through his life in the spiritual realms as one progresses towards God.It covers a large gamut of seemingly unrelated topics covering: • Sexuality, • The birth process, • How life develops and is controlled by archangels, • What is God and what God's Power is, • What our auras are, • How we can develop spirituality, • Diet, • Organising one's daily routine and a host of other topics.The book cleverly weaves all these, apparently, disparate elements into a cohesive whole so that the student can have a firm grasp on the way that...

In this dialogue between the past and present the viewer realizes several things: 1) that the history of art is inextricably political, 2) that human behavior repeats itself no matter how tragic or brutal, and 3) that this cycle of repetition must be broken so personal and societal progress can be made.

Not born of nature but made by human hands, the works, themselves contorted by the surrounding landscape, represent a society uprooted by industrialisation and modernisation, illustrating how progress can often come at the expense of cultural and societal well - being.

Clearly, the work of those aspiring to create a new norm for how humans define progress and relate to resources, both living and nonliving, is akin to the methodical, sustained work required in cathedral building.

I've been on the road, learning about damaging and sustainable agricultural methods (and a big corn - to - ethanol plant) in Iowa, meeting with hundreds of science - oriented high school students in Houston to discuss energy and innovation and speaking about how new opportunities for globally sharing and shaping insights and information can be a prime route toward sustaining human progress on a finite planet (and on a tight budget).

How, he asked, do we translate the astonishing and growing power to monitor, visualize and share information about human activities and their impacts in ways that foster social and environmental progress?

I'll close with my overarching thought, reprised from a December post, on how networking could well be the meta - innovation that will drive the scale of progress that is required as human populations and appetites surge at least through mid-century:

I'm sending this exchange to a number of other people working on the question of how to propel an energy quest that fosters human progress without overheating the planet — from Marty Hoffert to Joe Romm — and will follow up as further reactions come in.

Ridley's book provides a parallel, but utterly divergent, reading of the human journey on the planet, noting how commerce and innovation have led, with bumps and lumps, to both human progress and solutions to environmental problems.

With or without global warming, there's a solid argument that improved understanding of planetary dynamics, particularly the climate system, is essential to sustaining human progress given how risks rise as populations expand, build, farm and concentrate in zones that are implicitly vulnerable to hard knocks like floods, droughts, heat and severe storms.

I ask people who are against human progress how much CH4 (Once, one person said «CH4.

Documentaries and art projects are spreading the word about how human lives are affected by the manufacturing of electronics and e-waste, but the little bit of progress isn't enough.

The work that I do around the world, particularly in developing countries, is primarily focused on showing how meeting basic human needs using the world's best practices in sustainable technology can leverage the creation of real jobs and real businesses that lead to genuine economic progress for even the most marginal of peoples.

In our new study, published today in Nature Climate Change, we discuss how the scientific community is making progress towards detecting human - induced change in regional rainfall, even in the face of such challenges.

Touching on the course of history for human rights and detailing the way Polish society perceives the migrant crisis currently ongoing in the EU, with a very sincere analysis, here Aleksandra Kowalik, Principal at the Law Firm Kowalik, talks about progress in the realm of human rights and how legal...

Touching on the course of history for human rights and detailing the way Polish society perceives the migrant crisis currently ongoing in the EU, with a very sincere analysis, here Aleksandra Kowalik, Principal at the Law Firm Kowalik, talks about progress in the realm of human rights and how legal developments fits therein.

Yet how fast the «informal meetings of experts» progress to a more substantive process depends on how swiftly governments develop and articulate their national policy on these weapons that would select and attack targets without further human intervention.

This is how human kind in progressing.