Sentences with phrase «how primitive»

Now he's embarrassed by how primitive it is, but to me it's a treasure.

I like to think of it as the Atari or Colecovision of social networking — stack up Pong against Halo 3 on your Playstation, and you've got a pretty good idea of how primitive Facebook will appear in 20 years» time.

Denizens are familiar with the inherent weaknesses in historical temperature collection using wooden and canvas buckets and various other methods but I wonder what confidence the public would have in the reliability of historical SST if they knew how primitive early efforts were in establishing a baseline temperature record.

This is analagous to how primitive peoples used to attribute supernatural forces to natural phenomena which they didn't understand.

I love how the primitive savage humans of the 31st century can use Bluetooth headsets (the Focus network) yet don't have electricity.

They impact upon the commercial center so rarely today, and anyone raised on Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto titles is well within their rights to look at any 2D side - scroller and simply pass on it, given how primitive it must appear.

The seaside locales that stand in for Dunkirk offer a scenic oasis from the horrors back home and the peeks into how primitive cinematic effects were achieved are fun to witness.

For, example, Weston Price showed how primitive people eat their protein combined with carbs, almost al the time.

How these primitive circuits work exactly is still mysterious.

«It provides a tremendous amount of information on how these primitive apes developed in early childhood,» says David Begun from the University of Toronto in Canada.

A new reanalysis of the Dmanisi skulls presented at the meeting added fuel to this debate by underscoring just how primitive most of the skulls were.

«It speaks directly to how primitive our state of knowledge is about how cells integrate and divide and expand.

How else to grasp how primitive our understanding of reality really is?

For a Whiteheadian cosmologist, existence, precisely in the existentialist sense, can be attributed to every level of life, no matter how primitive.

Several weeks later he preached on the concepts of God that are implicit in people's characteristic attitudes and behaviors, and showed how primitive these concepts are when compared with the concepts they profess of a merciful and loving God.

New research on bacteria examines exactly how these primitive cells could have evolved without such crucial structures.

Not exact matches

Trump's mentality is pretty primitive in that he really does blame other countries for our errors, but how well would it go over politically, with the deplorable state of our press and other media, for a candidate to denounce US corporations?

Would you care to explain how it is that «primitive sheep herders» as most of you love to derogatorily call them were able to in and of themselves write scripture such that the first two books Genesis & Exodus spell TORAH = LAW for every equidistant letter sequence of the 50th letter... and does the same backwards HAROT for Numbers & Deuteronomy, and the 3rd book that they're pointing towards Leviticus, every 7th letter (7 is God's number for perfection) spells YHWH = The name of God.

The fact that he converted to christianity just before he died and made unsupported claims, does not make the OP fallacious — the bible was written by primitive people with no knowledge of how the Solar system was created or how species evolved.

All an evolutionary storyteller has to do is to start with the apparently simplest version, ignore the neural equipment that has to be present for an organism to make any use of a «photon receptor,» and spin a charming tale about how a tiny primitive light - sensing cell might grow up to be a full - fledged eye.

In fact, we see on the Old Testament how God gradually forms and guides humanity from a primitive to a more enlightened understanding of God and His creation.

Its value lies largely in enabling us to see how the whole history of revelation with which the Bible is concerned is rooted in the good red earth of our common humanity; in primitive, elemental human affections and passions, the groundwork still of all our life, however sophisticated and civilized we have become.

Primitive minds can't even understand the creations they have created in their own minds and here we are in the modern age and these nuts still carry no clue on how to even associate the «why» of giving a name onto their magical friends.

I should say it is the earliest of which we have any trace, and further that it is hard to see how any simpler or more primitive conception could have resulted in a new departure in religious doctrine, with the total result that not only the New Testament but all early Christian theology makes evident.

How is it possible at a time like the present, when the whole world is at war, to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel, to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form, to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition from primitive Christian messianism to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?

Earlier we had occasion to note the relationship between Jewish faith as portrayed for us in the Old Testament and the Christian event which is the subject matter of the New Testament; and how it was indeed inevitable and right that the primitive Christian community should see their Lord and apprehend his significance for men, against the background of the whole history of the people into whom humanly speaking he was born.

You like Mr. Romney and Mr. Hitler (I do not believe you are a Hitler only pointing out that the most imfamous dictators understood the primitive natures and how to take advantage) fully understand that you will succeed in capturing converts only if you appeal to their primitive fears.

From non thinking survivalists to primitive discovery of tools and thinking... Science DOES understand how it forms... no magic here... god did it... right?

More than the gruesome tales of how they were tortured, it is more horrifying to imagine how mankind could create a burning hell on earth, that was what it must have been for the Christians of Lyons and Vienne; yet these primitive Christians suffered and endured just believing that a man called Jesus gave his life for many others.

How sad that you deny real evidence for a 2000 year old book that has never been updated and can be proven to be false on numerous things... a book written by primitive man to fool the gullible out of money and make them live in fear.

But according to the theory I am describing, matter is no longer a «thing»; it is translated into the essential particulars as a structure of primitive events.8 You can see how Einstein's thinking was going.

We do not yet talk about how much we all are interdependent and need to relate to an equal, how challenging and beneficial that process can be, how often this need is thwarted, how little practice we get in it, and how much of our life is spent at the much more primitive level of learning how to be either one - up or one - down.

Tell me how gods requiring torture and blood sacrifice of an innocent in order to forgive others» flaws is not primitive and barbaric.

Our primitive ancestors used those sorts of things to solve problems on how to get food, mate, defend, etc..

In this case it is not easy to see how such a primitive revelation could have been handed down during two million years.

Otherwise, I'll assume that no one here has even a mildly curious hypothesis about how and why different prehistoric people all came up with creation stories that are crude and primitive narratives of the multi-billion year creation theories that we bandy about today.

Newman noticed in his research (resulting in Arians of the Fourth Century) how it was the determined resistance to heresy that «honourably distinguished the primitive Roman Church.»

Note how many times in the book of Acts the Holy Spirit gives guidance to the primitive church when the people are gathered together in prayerful expectation.

To top it off; the bible is a selection of many more primitive stories dating back to when our species just started to learn how to write, use the wheel and the rest is history.

It is also important to recognize that the real meaning and ground of the resurrection faith in the primitive church was not particular items in the tradition nor particular views as to how Christ's victory over death was accomplished.

As Robert Mellert notes, our present historical criticisms are very similar to efforts by the Christians of the first centuries: «We are attempting to explain the primitive Christian experience of Jesus in the language of a philosophical perspective of God and man to suggest how that perspective might deal with the inter-relation of humanity and divinity in the person of Jesus, who is called the Christ (WPT 79f).

After I wrote The Next Christendom in 2002, I had a bizarre encounter with an elderly and rather aristocratic Episcopal woman, who praised me for how effectively I had delineated the growth of new kinds of Christianity in the global South, with its passion and enthusiasm, its primitive or apostolic quality, its openness to the supernatural.

This remarkable agreement seems to me to show how widespread is the mistake of attributing to primitive Christianity the Greek belief in the immortality of the soul.

In view of how it grew by stages, it is not surprising that it contains fascinating folklore and a primitive, though dramatic and spiritually meaningful, explanation of the creation, the coming of sin into the world, and the emergence of toil and pain and strife.

Just look at how men in primitive countries like Afghanistan treat women today.

The phrase «specious present» was William James»; its importance in the Whiteheadian view is that it marks the general character of primitive sense - awareness, and can be the character of the sense - awareness of what Whitehead calls «low grade organisms,» affected by their immediate past and directed to how they are going to act in the immediate future.

The addition of «Christ» and similar titles in the MS tradition only shows how quickly the meaning of the primitive kerygma ceased to be understood.

He went on to provide some suggestions as to how his hearers might move from primitive to more Christian relationships with God and their fellows.

If you think science can't answer how old the earth is because YOU don't understand how scientists date things, that doesn't mean you can automatically assume primitive nomads from the Bronze Age had any better idea.

A brief excerpt will show how this is an early version of perception in the mode of causal efficacy: «It is more primitive than the feeling of presentational immediacy which issues from it.