Sentences with phrase «human survival as»

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In an interview published on Business Insider, the billionaire emphasized space exploration as imperative for human survival.

As Gates recognises, in the first instance humans have evolved to feel fear above any other emotion; it's all about survival..

As humans, we're wired in a way that avoiding pain is much more important to our survival than gaining pleasure is (most of the time, anyways!).

Maybe if your bible did nt encourage mass population growth, we as humans would have a better chance of survival.

Humans as individuals would have almost no chance of survival.

I agree that human beings are predisposed to spiritual or supernatural beliefs, probably as an evolutionary bi-product, fearing the unknown made for greater survival odds.

I do not believe people would act that way as we have a long history of humans working together in social groups for survival relying on each other and taking care of sick and injured and protecting the weaker child bearing females in the group.

Our brains no doubt work on the same patterns as other brains in nature, but the human quest for knowledge is not just bounded by the needs of survival.

Certain behaviours are universally detrimental to a species survival and as such should, at some level, be biologically «programmed» in to humans, and reflected in our socio - norms.

Unfortunately, the very development of human compassion which serves to mark the Europeans as more civilized also works against the principle of survival of the fittest.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Thus, in spite of the centrality Western culture gives to «being intimate,» the Wynnes view intimacy as a supplementary, not an essential, process «for strengthening the bonding that has been crucial for the survival of the human species throughout the ages.»

It had directed my attention away from the range of issues that now struck me as crucial for human survival.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

This is the problem, so much discussed today, of the other as other, taken here with great seriousness and made the central challenge to human growth, and indeed to human survival.

It has almost been as if we humans, with our limitations and in our finitude, not to mention our obvious and tragic defection from right alignment with the divine intention for the world and for us, were to insist that until and unless we are given what we regard as due recognition and the security of our own survival in an individualistic sense, we shall refuse to take our place and play our part in the creative advance of the universe.

As humans we are able reason how setting standards for our social groups benefited our survival and thus aiding others helped us in the long run versus just some survival of the fittest flawed notion.

And yet we engage in dialogue not out of fear, nor as a diplomacy for human survival.

His published writings and voluminous diary exhibit the gropings of an eclectic mind obsessed with the survival and spiritual growth of the Jewish people, American democracy, and the human enterprise as a whole in an era of crisis and opportunity.

Here's a quote from William Stringfellow's book, An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: ``... the basic conflict among all principalities remains, though it be subdued or concealed for awhile, because the only morality governing each principality is its own survival as over against very other principality, as well as over against human beings and, indeed, the rest of Creation.

Sadly, you probably won't see this Mandy, as if you have any survival instinct as a human you would have long left this place, but I know how you feel.

The ethical principles which hitherto we have regarded as an appendage, superimposed more or less by our own free will upon the laws of biology, are now showing themselves — not metaphorically but literally — to be a condition of survival for the human race.

Unlike humans, who can and often do set out to make others suffer, animals are primarily concerned to «protect their territory,» as students of their behavior tell us, or to save their young from attack, or to secure necessary supplies of food for their survival.

altruism, sympathy, and empathy exist within the human brain as a survival mechanism for ourselves and ultimately our tribe.

For our survival and well - being, Wilson says, we need a consensus about our origins, our nature as human beings, our place in the natural world and our purpose, or what it is that makes life worth living.

Things like education, scientific knowledge, and scientific examination of the way humans act and react are needed to forestall any future «nightmare» of «biblical» proportions as regards survival of the human species.

Since earth is gratefully recognized as mankind's home, it is important to give serious consideration to the natural conditions for human well - being and survival.

The next stage in our pilgrimage is not only to exorcise the mortal sin of nuclear genocide, but to promote the nascent right to peace both as a human right and as a moral imperative to ensure humanity's survival.

This doesn't mean that we're physically prepared for some cataclysmic event in terms of having a well - stocked fallout shelter, but rather that we enjoy the mental exercise of imagining the imminent peril and possible means of survival for humans as a species.

Earlier this decade, Andrew Schmookler pointed out that «for thousands of years, human communities have seen the greatest threat to their survival as coming from outside enemies.

Insofar as there is an identity or connection between survival and human welfare, we are dealing with a valid moral principle.

Fundie atheist evolutionists state that we came from animals so... survival of the fittest applies to humans as well.

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There is a psychological sense of purpose in individual human mind, which likely evolved by natural selection as a property of the human brain which gives advantage to the survival of the human race.

Ornstein and Ehrlich (1989) argue that the human mind has evolved through countless ages to cope with sudden and dramatic changes that threaten survival such, for example, as the threat of a predator, fire or flood.

Experimental procedures can be licit if they «respect the life and integrity of the embryo and do not involve disproportionate risks for it, but rather are directed to its healing, the improvement of its condition of health, or its individual survival»; but the mere «use of human embryos or fetuses as an object of experimentation» is «a crime against their dignity as human beings.»

We will also realize that this entails the construction of a society in which the natural necessities of life are provided for all as easily and freely as possible so that the needs of survival will not dominate human activity.41

Once one accepts the enrichment beyond the merely material of the context within which human life is lived, one is no longer restricted to the notion of Darwinian survival necessity as providing the sole engine driving hominid development.

Some words of wisdom grace the walls with none other than Albert Einstein's famous quote,» Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.»

And just when you're ready to pat yourself on the back for a good job done, you realize that you're slogging away, trying to squeeze every last drop of milk as though the survival of the entire human race, nay the entire universe depends on it.

This is what scholar John McMmurtry terms «the life - blind structure of the neoclassical paradigm»: the exclusion as a matter of definition of considerations such as human health and well - being, and eco-system integrity, that are actually fundamental to our continued survival as a species, let alone our civilisation in its current form.

I believe that fear and hatred will always be a part of each of us as the baser instincts of the human animal are naturally bent on our own survival and self - interest.

Indeed, new work by Sarah Hrdy (2009) and Lee Gettler (2010) illustrate the important role that direct care and investment by others likely played throughout human evolution, causing scientists to consider that we are really «cooperative breeders» insofar as individuals other than the mother have significantly enhanced the human infant survival.

Charts of Studies: It's easy to see that human milk brings far greater survival and optimal development for premature infants, as shown in the below chart of studies.

Attendance at birth has been suggested to be essential in facilitating mother - child survival as the physiology of birth changed during human evolutionary history.

Not everything we as humans require has to do with survival.

Eating is an essential survival mechanism, it only makes sense that a human child will instinctively begin eating when she is developmentally ready to do so, just as she will begin to sit up, walk, and communicate, all on her own with no specialized instruction or coercion from her parents.

In humans, other mammals, and many other animals that have been studied — such as fish, birds, ants, and fruit - flies — regular sleep is necessary for survival.

By fail - safe I mean it has 100 % success rate as humans are truly incapable of survival without oxygen to the brain.

The understanding of human nature as a predisposed tabula rasa informs us that survival is the most fundamental human instinct coded in our genetics and that, when imperiled, it is likely to trump everything else.