Sentences with phrase «human origins only»

Those earlier Christians who believed Scripture teaches a young Earth and human origins only 6000 years ago could not explain Indians in America without unsupported speculation.

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Whatever its origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible term for one who was thus both human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable in their realm of ideas)-- whatever its origin, this first great step in the advance of Christology was of endless significance for the later development of Christian doctrine, and it was of paramount importance for the Gospel of Mark.

The doctrine of reincarnation is interesting because it attempts to provide an answer not only to the question of human destiny but also of human origin.

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

That all of it is opinion based on the social evolution of humans for the last 100,000 years as we have attempted to decipher our origins with only our physical senses coupled with our internal emotions to go on.

If evolution explained only the rest of life and not human origins, there would be much more acceptance.

The only places in which a general account of the coming to be of the human being is implicit are in pp. 290 - 296, and 528 - 531, extending my remarks to other living things, none of which do I believe to be intelligible either in their nature and behaviour or in their origin in purely physicalistic terms.

I would have to agree with the above post that Christianity is the only faith that offers something so «other», as in not of human origin, as grace.

Only when true compassion and understanding for your fellow human regardless of their situation, beliefs or origin will make the world a better place.

It is apparent from the very point of origin of human cognition (though it has only been possible to indicate this briefly), that spirit is a reality that can only be understood by direct acquaintance, having its own proper identity derived from no other.

What's more, since the only designing intelligence that could have played a role in the origin and history of life (including human life) must have been nonhuman, my theory of design detection is irrelevant and misleading for biology.

The activity of God in the origin of a human soul would only have to be termed predicamental if this origin could not also be ascribed to a cause within the world.

The civil libertarians have not recognized the problem: by their lights, the liberties of the creationists and others who hold other - than - naturalistic views of human origins are not being infringed upon because only scientific truth is arrayed against them.

A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only half - metaphoric personifications of those great spheres of abstract law and order into which the natural world falls apart — the sky — sphere, the ocean - sphere, the earth - sphere, and the like; just as even now we may speak of the smile of the morning, the kiss of the breeze, or the bite of the cold, without really meaning that these phenomena of nature actually wear a human face.

In the Old Testament, God is known as Creator only because he is first known as Sustainer - Redeemer.27 The creation faith of the Old Testament nowhere gives the impression that its Primary interest is in origins as origins; rather is it a faith that speaks from, and back to, historical human existence and in its articulation is concerned to say what man is and what in that faith his existence means.

The Bible, therefore, leads us to pay proper attention, not only to the significant events in the period of origins to which it gives first - hand witness, but also to the human scene of our own day.

If this enterprise, this movement of theirs, is of human origin it will break up of its own accord, but if it does in fact come from God you will not only be unable to destroy them, but you might find yourselves fighting against God.»

But also quite general problems of human society, such as marriage rules and incest, or even the organization of nature and the universe, may be the subject of [myths];... it is only philosophical interest, both ancient and modern, that tends to isolate the myths of origin and cosmogony, which in their proper setting usually have some practical reference to the institutions of a city or a clan.

But when they are delivered during breastfeeding, they have a very different effect, because breastfeeding is not only natural and of human origin, but the milk is ever - changing to meet the infant's changing needs, changing throughout the feedings, from day to night, and as the baby grows.»

What the events were that occurred in the origin of the chimpanzee and human lines — before the chimpanzee - human split of 6 million years ago — can only be speculated.

He says this idea has «very profound» implications for the debate over the origins of bacterial genes that are present in the human genome but absent in our closest relatives (Science, 8 June, p. 1903): The amount of conjugation Waters detected is «high enough to readily explain» the possible infiltration of bacterial genesinto our DNA, meaning that conjugation could have happened quickly enough to add genes only to humans, in the years since they split from the common ancestor they shared with chimpanzees.

This suggest that two haplotypes exist in the area of origin of the species, but that only one of the two haplotypes (the «World haplotype») has, through human agency, been widely dispersed.

If the migration from Indonesia to Madagascar was «a limited event» which brought only a small number of colonizers in a few voyages, then why does the human population of the island have such a high diversity of maternal and paternal lineages with Indonesian origin?

Anthropologists and geneticists know that populations throughout the world migrated from Africa more than 60,000 years ago (see diagram), and that the human genome is at its most diverse in our continent of origin, but previous studies have only scratched the surface of African genetic diversity.

Armed with only the raw instincts and physical ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance, Tomb Raider delivers an intense and gritty story into the origins of Lara Croft and her ascent from a frightened young woman to a hardened survivor.

In book two of the Origin Mystery series, author AG Riddle spins the possibility of not only a worldwide epidemic that kills billions, but a battle between big name pharmaceutical and an organization that is convinced that this pandemic is the natural course of evolution for the human race.

Armed with only the raw instincts and physical ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance, TOMB RAIDER delivers an intense and gritty story into the origins of Lara Croft and her ascent from a frightened young woman to a hardened survivor.

TOMB RAIDER ® Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 system, Windows PC Developer: Crystal Dynamics (Square Enix Group) ESRB: RP (Rating Pending) Available: Q1 2013 Armed with only the raw instincts and physical ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance, TOMB RAIDER delivers an intense and gritty story into the origins of Lara Croft and her ascent from a frightened young woman to a hardened survivor.

Since global warming is the result of contra - natural processes (mostly of human - origin such as the chemical - industry / heavy - industry / carbo - engines etc.) which destabilize the entire global NATURAL balance, the only answer is not inducing artificial unnatural substances in natures elements (this only aggravates the problem or start new ones... extreme measures always do), but introduce and indeed increase the volume and mass of natural plankton.

Ian Plimer has made only rough estimates of this factor which Climate Science ignored because it makes human origin CO2 irrelevant.

What the origin is of the molecules which are removed is of no interest (even if all human induced CO2 was removed by the next tree near the sources, or stays in the atmosphere for the next millennium), only the increase of total CO2 as mass is important.

Nature doesn't differentiate in the origin of the CO2 which is removed (except for some isotopic fractionation), but removes in mass only 4 GtC, half the carbon mass added by humans.

Interestingly, a 2010 poll showed that only 10 % of Australians did not believe in evolution, suggesting that a significant portion of those Australians who accept a Biblical account of the origin of humans accept a somewhat more scientific account for the origin of other species - or that they are very confused.

Of total atmosphere only about 8 % is from the emissions (65/800 GtC), and from the upper oceans only 3.5 % (35/1000 GtC) is from human origin.