Sentences with phrase «humans over history»

And do you seriously think any definition of mental illness that encompasses the vast majority of humans over history would be remotely useful?

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Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history and had a profound influence on the trajectory of the human race.

If we judge a civilization's success by its endurance over time, then the Bushmen are the most successful society in human history.

Over the past four decades, China has seen the largest migration in human history.

And given God existing billions of years, which includes over all human history, that God interacting with others and them not being in the bible, they're the same, liars, lunatics, or dreaming... just so you can reject God and feel good about that choice.

see what religion does... all in the name of some imaginary sky - daddy, who is nothing but just one of the thousands of «gods» invented by man over the course of human history.

It is not hard to imagine the common sense reaction to the news that a distinguished historian had attempted to cover the history of human suffering in a little over two hundred pages.

Islam, Buddhism, Shintoism, the gods of the ancient Greeks, Hinduism, and thousands of other religions man has created over the course of human history all have their own narratives.

Although science can not explain everything, over the course of human history there have been many examples of scientific explanations eventually displacing religious explanations once the relevant science had progressed far enough.

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).

If there is a God who exists concretely, who endures over the course of human and cosmic history, and who is affected by and affects what occurs in that history, then that God would consist of an ordered series of unit - experiences, each exemplifying the necessary abstract features essential to a divine experience, each experiencing both the divine and the nondivine experiences which had preceded it, and each in turn being felt by the divine and nondivine experiences which succeed it.

Over the course of human history there have been thousands of such belief systems, with no beliefs they all share.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

For «providence» is a word which tells us of the conviction that God exercises a never - failing and personal control over, even as he unfailingly works within, the events and circumstances of life, molding them and molding us in such a way that his grace and power are manifested in human history and in personal experience.

We want to know why things happen the way they do, but what we're really asking is, «God, explain to me how you simultaneously see all of human history at once, are guiding it to a redemptive conclusion, while at the same time loving each person individually, yet allowing them legitimate control over their day - to - day decisions.»

In order to settle this issue, our Creator, Jehovah God, has allowed mankind to be ruled by Satan (though most are unaware of it, 1 John 5:19) for over 6000 years of human history to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Satan's way of ruling is a miserable failure and while at the same time to see who will firmly support Jehovah God's rulership.

Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an open question whether the history of human descent as known to us does or does not possess features which only after the Fall of the first man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him no longer protected by the gift of integrity, and over his lack of adaptation to a particular milieu.

As the author notes in the beginning, this volume is not intended as a homily, but rather as a companion; and like a trusted companion, it does not simply conduct a one - sided soliloquy over history and texts, but behaves dynamically: telling stories, empathizing with human frailty, and anticipating questions.

Laws are the result of ethical values that have been developed over the course of human history.

For man ruling over woman in the course of human history shall hardly be innocent.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

No doubt the church has been right in acknowledging the deity of Christ and the Incarnation as the fullest measure of the divine revelation of which human nature is capable; though it should be pointed out that the church as a rule undertook to stand fast and to hold the ground of the traditional, historical faith, enshrined in the New Testament, and — as the histories of dogma make clear - only took over metaphysical definitions which had already been hammered out on the anvils of logical and exegetical disputation.

This has played out over all of human history, «what we don't understand, we attribute to a God.»

This is a tragic view of human history set over against a progressive view.

Nevertheless, it is a fascinating history of the life and thought of a great people over a period of twelve hundred years of decisive human events.

@YeahRight «Religion over the course of human history has killed over 480 million.»

In the early twentieth century, American Protestants became split over how to interact with the persistent «historical explanations» that had been exploding into nearly all the human sciences: Freud in psychology, Charles Beard in history, John Dewey in philosophy, Oliver Wendell Holmes in law, Max Weber in sociology, Franz Boas in anthropology.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

People set up rules, not some deity that has changed names from «AN» to YAHWEH over the course of human history.

India (one of the bloodiest conquests in human history — with HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS enslaved); 120 million from the African slave trade, Saharan / East coast edition... think the Islamisation and genocide that occurred recently in Sudan spread over a millenium (and they castrated the men).

Many are simple battles over territory or natural resources, as humans have fought over throughout history.

He proposed seven such amendments, including: «We will take charge over our genetic programming and achieve mastery of our biological and neurological processes... refining and augmenting our physical and intellectual abilities beyond those of any human in history» and «we will cautiously yet boldly reshape our motivational patterns and emotional responses... We will seek to improve upon typical human and emotional responses, bring about refined emotions.»

Over Labor Day weekend I sat down with two books by Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History and Christian Human Rights.

First of all, that human life in our span of years and so far as man's history is concerned is, like the created world itself, derivative from a realm of heavenly existence which abides eternal over against the transient, mortal, and uncertain span of our years.

Genesis is only one of many creation myths that humans have fabricated over the course of history.

My initial intention in proposing the pause as the paramount moment of change was to stress a participatory action that indicates our reverence for and wonder over the most blessed event in human history as we pray the prayer.

The history of humanity is, in part, a history of human victories over «nature», of disease being eradicated and deserts made to bloom.

This allows us to face the challenges of our time soberly, neither despairing of the possibilities of justice in public life and thus withdrawing, nor seeking to take command of history by embarking on grandiose ideological projects that encourage us to assume godlike powers over human affairs.

We must dare to take human history as it is without changing its substance or interpreting it as we fancy or throwing a Christian mantle over the concrete facts.

Over a series of articles, we will approach this question of human identity and dignity: exploring the history of the term «person» up to its eventual definition by St. Boëthius; investigating the deepening of understanding given the definition by St. Thomas Aquinas; and overviewing contemporary understanding as found in the writings of Karol Wojtyła (St. John Paul II).

Over the course of human history, religion has been a dangerous parasite on the collective mind of the human species.

But does this fact alone give us sufficient license to trust in human ability to reconstruct from fragmentary evidence the history of a past extending over many millions of years?

In the face of this blind confidence in power, human history testifies over and again to the dangers of power — even when wielded for seemingly good ends.

In the previous chapter I have already stated that I do not think it lies within human knowledge to say whether God's final victory over evil and the final consummation of his kingdom will come within human history or beyond it.

Over human history, we have refined our notions of what is moral behavior.

The belief systems that gave us Ishtar, Habakuk, Isis, Osiris, Zeus, Hera, Frigga, Thor, Jupiter, Mars, Vishnu, Shiva, Elohim, Yaweh, Allah, AND God (just to name a SCANT few over the course of Human history - but, then again, if you're the kind of Xtian that believes the Earth is only 6000 years old, then you won't have much of a favorable view of what the remainder of us refer to AS «history»).

If we recognize that the human self is not to be equated with its mind, though the logical and analytic faculties of the mind are an instrument of its freedom over nature and history, and if we know that the self is intimately related to its body but can not be equated with its physical functions, we then are confronted with the final mystery of its capacity of transcendence over nature, history and even its own self; and we will rightly identify the mystery of selfhood with the mystery of its indeterminate freedom.

He has failed to grasp (and therefore properly instruct) why our Creator, Jehovah God, has permitted suffering to continue for over 6000 years of human history since Adam violated God's command.

There is no convincing evidence that a creator has favored any particular population, Christian or otherwise, over others during human history in terms of the natural levels of mortality.

Over the years, however, I've come to believe that history, literature, and the arts provide a more promising place to start on the ladder of intellectual love, for they train us to savor truth amid the flux and flow of human affairs, which is where we're destined to live.