Sentences with phrase «human terms do»

It's great to say that the universe is 14 billion years old, or that Voyager 1 is now flying towards one of the nearest habitable planets, but it's only when we put things in human terms do we truly appreciate the scale of the universe.

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NEW YORK — Facebook doesn't think hookups are meaningful and doesn't want you to date your friends — but it's known for a long time that its vast map of human connections could help people find long - term partners.

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 suggestion speaks to a greater truth: It is unlikely that the «human» will ever be taken out of human resources, at least in terms of what the department does.

There's a term in the field of human longevity known as negligible senescence, which is a fancy way of saying a thing doesn't seem to age.

But the fact is, humans are bad at making long - term decisions like saving, so they don't.

But they have yet to design a heart, atomic or not, that works long - term within the confines of the human body and doesn't require external drivers or batteries.

«The human uses his or her intuition and ideas about what to do and ideas about long - term strategies and uses the computer to verify the various things and to do simulations,» Togelius says.

«I have a tough time in any near - term or any medium - term sort of scenario seeing that robots are just going to do their own thing and decide to shoot each other without any interaction [or] human control.»

Many robotics and AI experts aren't too concerned with the long term, believing that machines will ultimately elevate the type of work that humans do.

SoftBank (sftby) said it would buy Boston Dynamics and Tokyo - based Schaft, which design and manufacture robots that simulate human movement, but did not disclose the terms of the transactions.

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The price we pay for fossil fuels does not include the long - term costs to the environment and to human health.

The term «robotic process automation» refers to software robots or virtual machines that do the work of humans in the back office.

Thank you for pointing out that our individual opinions regarding what may or may not have happened at some point in human history about two thousand years ago, that our individual opinions regarding the credibility (or lack thereof) of gospel accounts in terms of their accuracy and historicity, do not trump what actually happened (or didn't happen) in human history about two thousand years ago.

This is a term used to describe issue of meaning, belonging and drive in humans and has nothing at all to do with supernatural spirits.

Concepts of wealth, disease, sanity, justice, human rights, the humanities, do not make sense in the terms of naturalism.

Human spirit is a fairly secular term often used to refer to human drives or passions and even «soul» doesn't imply a god, though it may (in some contexts) something that can exist apart from living mateHuman spirit is a fairly secular term often used to refer to human drives or passions and even «soul» doesn't imply a god, though it may (in some contexts) something that can exist apart from living matehuman drives or passions and even «soul» doesn't imply a god, though it may (in some contexts) something that can exist apart from living material.

And while it's an overstatement to narrate conversion in terms of a change in nature — Abram's becoming Abraham doesn't imperil the integrity of his human nature; nor still Sarai's becoming Sarah, or Jacob's Israel, Saul's Paul, and so ever on — equally slippery is gross understatement, or intimating that nothing of metaphysical interest happens upon conversion.

Of course, to put abortion in such simple, black and white terms can be shocking to some — and many pro-abortion activists would disagree, saying that a child is not human or nor a person or does not possess rights, or some other such argument.

One warning on the use of the terms is in order: theologically the term, creation, does not refer only to the nature, but the whole creation, human and otherwise.

But presuming — as I do — the validity of the concept of geologic time, I note that the designation «Anthropocene» unavoidably suggests an exceptional quality to the species homo sapiens, if only in terms of our collective human powers.

Theologically the term creation does not refer only to the nature, but the whole creation, human and otherwise.

In the broadest of human terms it is no unique indictment that the average American citizen finds it hard to care very much about what the CIA has done.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

I do not think of god in those terms though, I apply no human traits such as those.

The term «kill» is loaded because you wouldn't call it «killing» when a guy doesn't protect every single sperm — yet, it is destruction of human life.

Accordingly, transcendence must be grasped, not as it has so often been in the past, in spatial terms referring to the God «up there» beyond the affairs of human life, but specifically in terms of what God has effected historically, and is doing now, on behalf of human beings.

In terms of answers about why the bible says what it does sometimes, recognizing that the bible has human authors can provide one straightforward explanation: people can be assholes.

This is in fact a resurgence in other terms and with other objectives in view — of the error always committed by Christians who intervene in the sphere of human actions to justify them and to testify that in the end man has good reason for doing what he does.

God doesn't create us in sin; He creates us in the curse, that is, frail and human and (in Pauline terms) «of the flesh» (cf. Rom 7 - 8) but we then act on this frailty and break God's holy law, which, once again, renders us sinful.

Still, such theorists also continue, as did Kant himself, the modern natural law tradition, at least in the following way: The duties prescribed by nonteleological liberalism are defined in terms of rights that are prior to any inclusive good; that is, these rights are separated from, and respect for them overrides, any inclusive telos humans might pursue.

God didn't come to terms with human sin.

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

can't say that i'm a huge fan but it certainly is getting the job done in terms of bringing awareness to those that really have little or no contact with «real» american muslims, thus the show is giving them a little insight into how we are all humans, facing similar struggles.

The point is that remarks about the potentially distorting and demonic effects of actions» locatedness do not need to be added extrinsically, as it were, to analyses of human inquiry — here theological inquiry in particular — cast in terms of «action»; such remarks are entailed in the very concept of action.

Taking note of the altered world - consciousness of human beings in this century, according to which Being is to be understood in strictly interpersonal terms, Mühlen suggests, first of all, that the classical expression homoousios, as applied to the Son's relationship to the Father, does not necessarily mean that the Son is of the same substance as the Father but only that he is of equal being (gleichseiendlich) with the Father (VG 13).

Evolution is just an human abstraction to attempt understanding some real phenomena, following an ideological determination to do it in purely materialist and mechanicist terms.

Each human being can choose to believe or not to believe — but for all of my friends who are indeed atheists — when I ask them the question do you ever listen to an inner speaking that you take to be your conscience / voice / guide (whichever term you prefer) speak to you — they all say resoundingly YES.

But this does not mean that we can also know him in human terms, especially since he deigned to come as a human being.

It has been proven very solidly that humans» short term memory can't even remember what color a person's shirt is 15 minutes later unless instructed specifically to do so.

It's a self - contradictory term Why do you think it took so long to fight and argue about it in the councils when humans cooked up that nonsense.

But I do not labor under the misapprehension that the human self can be adequately understood by holding exclusively to discourse in terms of action.

It is more about human characters doing whatever it takes under extreme circumstances to stay alive in terms of «action film» techniques.

then there is no need of hell and heavens, no need of good and evil... every one will be a good one... but because of free will we have human doing wrong things to others in terms of preaching them to take them away from worshipping one God and so on... and also no will be accountable for others... its like you are on your own on that day and no counselor / helper... the only helper will be your good deeds that you have done in this earthly life...

But this was done by God in our own human terms, under our own conditions, and through one of ourselves.

Yes, theologians trace the 6,000 - year approximation back to ADAM in terms of his geneology and the human family history... but that does not mean that the EARTH ITSELF is 6,000 years old.

Many can now understand such judgements as that of Loren Eiseley, who did not speak of human difference from other creatures in the glowing terms of the Enlightenment: how we are «rational,» capable of «free will», and so on.

We can not do anything of the sort; we are men and our knowing of anything whatsoever is as men and in terms of human experience.

The Biblical writers do not understand social ethics in terms of one or the other of these human values, but in terms of the nature and activity of God who demonstrated their interconnectedness and indissolubility.