Sentences with phrase «human species from»

How, now, can Galileo possibly find peace when so many top - rank scientists refuse to speak out clearly, loudly and often regarding whatsoever they believe to be true about the distinctly human - induced, global predicament presented to the family of humanity in our time by certain unbridled «overgrowth» activities of the human species from which global challenges visibly issue now and loom ominously on the far horizon?

It is now six minutes to midnight rather than five, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Thursday as it adjusted its Doomsday Clock, a symbolic timepiece created in 1945 that weighs chances of catastrophe for the human species from a variety of causes.

The team includes Thomas Sutikna of the National Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta and the University of Wollongong in Australia, who helped discover the «hobbit,» a small - statured human species from another Indonesian island, and he and Brumm are already excavating the caves near the newly dated art to search for ocher pieces, stone tools, and bones.

The period of time which witnessed the divergence of these hominoid or human species from the various species of anthropoid apes may take us back from ten to twenty - five million years.

Thinking or knowing, as distinguishing the human species from the lower creatures, is symbolic as applied to God, who neither knows as we do nor fails to know as the lower creatures do.

Not exact matches

Some argue that even the most advanced human concepts are built up from basic building blocks that are shared across species, such as notions of past and future; similarity and difference; and agent and object.

Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

Rick, we have fossils from different human species over the periods of millions of years and they gradually become more and more like what we're like today.

@Chuckles There are bound to be many semi-intelligent species of life in the universe similar to us in that their organic brains are also subject to a host of perceptual biases left over from previous steps in their evolutionary progression to that state, just like we have as humans.

The Church relies instead entirely on the scientific fact that every unborn human being is, from the moment of its conception, a member of our species.

Yes, I'm talking about macro evolution, as in one day monkey years down the road... we have a human... There is adaptation for sure but then there is a big drop off from that and new species evolving from single cells...

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

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?

Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer popularized «speciesism,» a derogatory term for the belief that it is acceptable to treat humans differently from animals based solely on species membership.

Whereas St. Thomas» natural law account began from the assumption that all human beings belonged to the same species (and were therefore all subject to the same moral demands), Darwin tried to determine whether human races should be considered distinct species.

Has life on earth labored along for two or three billion years in lonesome struggle eventually to eke out by accident the human species which has to gather itself together in various fragile social arrangements in order to protect itself from the intolerable muteness of the universe?

We now know that nature can not take care of itself, that human beings can degrade it not only locally but globally, that the species God created and saved from the flood are threatened by human expansion into their habitats, destruction of their food supplies, pollution of their air and water, and excessive hunting and fishing.

To put it simply, the concept of gods bares no merit at this current stage in the evolution of the human species and it would be a betterment to the species to have the concept removed from accepted delusional realities so prevalent in todays society.

If the human community depicted in Genesis 1 is a utilitarian one, where man and woman join together, like the male and female of other animals, to further the ends of their species, the community of Genesis 2 emerges from a crisis of existential loneliness.

Genetic science proves that wrong and that while the first humans may have evolved from one subhuman species, all subsequent humans, from every race, were descendant from those first humans — thus confirming the very biblical concept of all humans having a common ancestor.

Genetic science proves that wrong and that while the first humans may have evolved from one subhuman species, all subsequent humans, from every race, were descendant from those first humans - thus confirming the very biblical concept of all humans having a common ancestor.

True intimacy comparisons would be between the same species, say, humans from different areas of the world.

She doesn't have the least interest in our god - given human hunger for meaning and transcendent values all Mother Nature cares about is the survival of the species which requires getting the DNA from one generation to the next and providing for the young until they are self - sufficient enough to sustain their own lives and we are the venue.

In a world shrunk by travel and communications technologies, one which can no longer afford conflict arising from ethnocentric prejudice, the appreciation of other religious and cultural views is necessary for the survival of the human species.

If human - level intelligence arose in a solitary hunter like, say, a species descended from Bengal tigers, it would have an entirely different moral compass.

But why aren't there tons of skeletal remains with the slight species changes that is required for human evolution from a monkey (or ultimately a fish).

Morality, love, ethics are all natural human characteristics which are based on survival of the species and evolve from societal needs.

«Instead of fitting into a natural world as best they could — like every creature before — the human species consciously took control away from Mother Nature and into its own hands through a process we now refer to as the Agricultural revolution.»

Sent forth from the natural domain of species into the hazard of the solitary category, surrounded by the air of a chaos which came into being with him, secretly and bashfully he watches for a Yes which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

A legitimate philosophical anthropology must know that there is not merely a human species but also peoples, not merely a human soul but also types and characters, not merely a human life but also stages in life; only from the... recognition of the dynamic that exerts power within every particular reality and between them, and from the constantly new proof of the one in the many, can it come to see the wholeness of man.

An exaggerated focus on human significance places value so heavily upon our own species that it thereby drains value away from the non-human aspects of nature.

Religion is a sickness that needs to be eradicated from the human species.

Instead, I find increasingly within the animal rights movement and within discussions of environmental ethics (although less so there) a perspective that illustrates just how alienated from the rest of nature the human species has become.

As reason sets human beings apart from all other animals, it seems that our rational nature can not be explained by evolution alone, for we do not find stages of lesser reflective selfconsciousness before the human species but evolution requires only gradual changes at a time.

@Sam AIDS most likely came from a primate in the African jungle, and was transferred to humans as a result of naughty behavior between one of each species.

By shifting our attention from the now completely irrelevant and anachronistic politics of nationalism and military power to the problems of the human species and the still inchoate politics of human ecology we shall be killing two birds with one stone — reducing the threat of sudden destruction by scientific war and at the same time reducing the threat of a more gradual biological disaster.

All food for human consumption, and for many other species as well comes either directly or indirectly from four biological systems: croplands, grasslands, forests and fisheries.

There is, however, a great gulf separating humans from all other living species.

Yet may we not claim, observing the precipitate growth of democracies and totalitarian regimes during the past hundred and fifty years, that it is the Sense of Species, which for a time seemed to have vanished from human hearts, dispelled in some sort by the growth of Reflection, that is now gradually resuming its place and reasserting its rights over narrow individualism?

The perception that Christians don't care about pollution, species extinction, and the social and human health consequences of land degradation can ultimately drive people away from Christ.

It seems unobscure that the species of human freedom endorsed here precludes, at the very least, an immediate movement from ontology to ethics, from the «is» to the «ought,» without the intermediate operation of our functionally ultimate valuation — thus affirming, in part, Sartre's claim: «Ontology itself can not formulate ethical precepts.»

An exaggerated impression of human significance concentrates valuation so intensely on our species that intrinsic importance is drained away from the rest of nature.

Darwin offered evidence that human beings had evolved from lower animal species.

Radicals are the permanently unsatisfied among us — nihilists of the Utopian vision, restless with the imperfections of humanity as we know it — who clamor for a future in which human beings will be different from what they are and the world transformed, for a world in which racism and evils like it will be purged from the species forever, and of course for the time when radicals like themselves will inherit the earth.

As to evolution none of us i.e. humans evolved from any other currently existing species.

I doubt we can agree on God but can we agree humans did not evolve from any current species?

But between humans and other species there are conceivable (but non-actual) intermediaries, and more intermediaries between the humans and certain intermediaries, and still more between the humans and them, and so forth until we come to other «types» from which we could not clearly distinguish humans; humans would blend with these other types.

And quite apart from humans, nature itself, we believe, has produced new species of plants and animals, new environments, and other important new facts.15 To interpret this use of the word «creativity»» from the standpoint of our metaphysics, we may claim that the production of such novelty» has to do exclusively (with the exception to be discussed below) with characterization.

Notwithstanding the fact that whatever human meaning we may discover would be inseparable from the meaning of the cosmos, it is still necessary for us to focus our quest for the meaning of revelation on the question of the significance of our own existence as a distinctly historical species.

Sent forth from the natural domain of species into the hazard of the solitary category, surrounded by the air of chaos which came into being with him, secretly and bashfully, he watches for a Yes which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.