«Collectively we as
humans are at a point in which, technologically, there's at least one feasible path to getting to another star within our generation,» former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison said at a news briefing Tuesday at the One World Observatory in New York City.
Now,
every human being at some point in their life runs into challenges that they don't have the answers for.
Not exact matches
«Yes, we must protect the environment — it
is our number one resource — but
at the end of the day, studies have
pointed to global warming,
human contact, coastal development» as other significant threats to coral.
The price will inevitably
be a sticking
point for many consumers, since it can
be cheaper —
at least over the short term — to hire
human cleaners to do the vacuuming.
That
's an exercise that
's counterintuitive to us, in part because, for most people
at most
points in
human history, that kind of longevity
was utterly out of reach.
This phenomenon
is known as the «uncanny valley,» the
point at which a leap forward in technology outpaces a
human's ability to cope.
Growing up middle - class, well - educated
at this
point in history
is pretty much the golden card of all golden cards in the history of
human life on this planet.
At one
point in 2005, criticism from the community that Mozilla managers
were being too secretive led Baker to hold a moratorium on all corporate - only meetings for several months; it only ended when managers needed to discuss a
human resources question too personal to share with everyone.
However, «the written communication, by its very nature, suggests that things
are more serious
at this
point and also suggests that maybe [the supervisor's] prior communication wasn't clear enough,» says Steve Kane, a
human resources consultant based in Hillsborough, California.
And we
're at a
point at which, in the next 10 years, we
're going to take all of the
human race out of extreme poverty.
Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25
points in the third, 19
points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there
was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or
at least
point - to - able, that captures the transformation of
human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate
beings — to see «victory» when «loss»
is flashing all around them.
«Much of the tiring pre-purchase journey, which ranges from finding what you
're looking for
at the right price
point to customer support and checkout, can actually
be fully automated with the help of a personal A.I. shopping assistant without any
human intervention,» said Friedman.
The last widespread survey (i.e., not the barrage of fickle online polls that appear every Valentine's Day)
was by the Society for
Human Resource Management in 2005, in which 40 % of people claimed they had dated colleagues
at some
point during their career.
Even for those who believe that the
human species
is to become extinct
at some
point in the (near?
«
At this
point it
's really uncertain if there
's any detectable
human influence on any hurricane or tropical cyclone metric,» Tom Knutson, an NOAA meteorologist who studies hurricanes, told Vox in October.
«We
are at a similar inflection
point for how brands deliver customer service: today, people
are contacting brands via Twitter with the expectation of a helpful and
human response; all on stage for the world to see.»
So
at this
point, I
'm checking the «
human» box on my ledger.
At this
point, it
's human nature to say — as I've often heard from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates rise above long rates — why buy a 20 - year bond when I get a higher yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?
«
At this
point it
's really uncertain if there
's any detectable
human influence on any hurricane or tropical cyclone metric,» Tom Knutson, an NOAA meteorologist who studies hurricanes, says.
«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important
point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of
human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that,
at that
point in time, there
was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change
is clear, and warrants action.»
In that sense, every
human being is indeed «ensouled»
at some
point.
The load will
be heavy, but
at that
point the resources of course will
be available to connect the whole
human family.
Your arguments about mistreatment
being a reason to not believe in ID
is akin to an alien coming to earth and
pointing at an insane asylum as a reason for believing all
humans are mentally handicapped.
Atheism
is growing in this country and around the world because people
are better educated and informed than
at any
point in
human history.
Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of
being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of
being born in the first place because it
's a well - known scriptural fact that every
human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with
being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief)
point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell
at all.
So
at which
point in evolution, then,
is a person «
human», and bound for heaven, or merely a slug with no afterlife?
By extension, evolving from less advanced life forms
is distasteful to those same individuals, as that necessitates a
point in evolution
at which
humans are not really
humans at all in the modern sense, which then brings up problems such as «do slugs go to heaven?»
Contraception
is a sin because it
is God's decision whether or not a
human is alive
at any given
point, right?
Again, the
point at hand
is valuing
human life in all its forms, from the zygote to our coffins, whether you
are atheist or a theist.
The
point of this
is that Jesus in his quality as
human being had no control on his birth
at all, where and by whom he should get born.
It
's only with the combined effort of all
humans throughout time that we've reached the
point we
are at.
But
at least your subtraction
was correct Forty - six percent of Americans believe that God created
humans in their present form
at one
point within the past 10,000 years, according to a survey released by Gallup in June.
ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr
point about homosexuality
being a threat to
human existence.I
'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has
been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we
're now over six billion and growing
at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour
is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.
Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space
is widened to the scale of
human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the
point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time,
at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it
was only the single horizon of presence.
So if you have a triune god who
is father, son, and holy ghost but you have a mother of the
human manifestation of father / son god — then Mary
is arguably the mother of god and in that way could
be argued as the more divine
at some
point in the history of the transformation of the triune god in heaven to the triune god on earth and of course the few days when the triune god on earth
was dead (but not really dead) before rising.
From Zeus to Ra to Allah to any other deity that has come out of
human history, the one thing that sets Yahweh apart to me
is that here
is a God who actually reached out in time
at a
point in
human history to establish relationship with
humans.
The great trick that
humans developed
at some
point in the last few hundred thousand years
is the ability to circle around a tree, rock, ancestor, flag, book or god, and then treat that thing as sacred.
Brad
is exactly right to
point out the potential weaknesses for abuse in any system of theology (in any
human system
at all, really).
Apr. 8, 2013 —
At some
point, scientists may
be able to bring back extinct animals, and perhaps early
humans, raising questions of ethics and environmental disruption.
Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical
point of planetary reflective consciousness which
is the result of the forming of humanity into an organized society, far from
being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement of reversal or dematerialization) to another face of the universe: not an ending of the ultra-
human but its arrival
at something trans -
human at the very heart of reality.
It might
be helpful
at this
point to look more fully
at a few novels that have attempted a parabolic portrayal of the story of the
human experience of coming to belief.
With its concern for historical truth and invocation of the need to facilitate the cultivation of the
human person and society, «Mapping»
at this
point comes tantalizingly close to this vision only to fall back into statements that «the fundamental sources of value in a culture
are neither necessary nor universal.»
Let me
point out that this attitude — contrary to those who consider it a great new thing in
human history — does not seem to
be at all new.
«13 The God of the Bible encounters
human being in the midst of worldly activities,
at the strongest
point.
The issue of organs
is very important because you still have not answered the big question,
at what
point is it wrong to kill the continuation of
human life, which we both agree continues with the sper.m and egg and why
is it
at that
point and not before?
One keeps
at this in the confidence that there
is such an irrepressible thing as
human nature, and people may
at some
point be shamed into not denying — maybe even admitting — the obvious.
Its boasted self - reliance virtually always capitulates
at the
point of accepting
human support from family, friends, or physicians, though it usually fails to recognize that its self - sufficient logic
is as much violated by
human as it would
be by divine assistance.
At one
point, a
Human Resource Manager
was kind enough to tell me that they saw my education and experience as a sign that I
was overqualified for some of the jobs I
was applying for, and so they thought that I would
be leaving soon after I
was hired.
Assertions to the effect that God
is the Creator of the universe, the Father of mankind, or that he came in
human form in Jesus Christ, probably do not relate helpfully
at any
point to the experience of the questioner and may well clash with well - grounded concepts derived from other areas of his experience.
Babylonia, situated on a broad low plain between the rivers
at their widest
points,
was very fertile and had developed an advanced culture as early as 3500 B.C.. From this region comes the famous Code of Hammurabi which, dating from long before the time of Moses, shows high ethical discernment regarding the establishment of justice in
human relations.