Sentences with phrase «ideas about human»

While therapists may consider some intuitively appealing ideas about human development — like attachment theory — beyond dispute, the researcher's job is to challenge unproven explanations shaped more by our biases and preconceptions than by hard evidence.

«[Diogenes] even rejected normal ideas about human decency.

Both wrestle with bigger ideas about the human form and healing, making them ideally suited for the new Dell Medical School.»

Her use of traditional forms — weaving, knitting, sewing and stitching — may at first seem crafty, but there's always something more sinister, more undecided in her work which suggests other ideas about the human condition that go beyond our attraction to nature.

She simultaneously exploits the medium's limitations — the inflexible grid that forms the basis of weaving, the particular ways in which color relationships can develop, the textures that make the surface — and moves beyond them by assembling and juxtaposing found images to explore ideas about human existence.

On that side, they can respond to the question, «What ideas about human behavior — why people do what they do — have been raised by this situation in a 7th grade classroom?»

These activities serve as both effective classroom community - building exercises at the beginning of a Facing History unit and a way to introduce ideas about human behavior and decision making that will serve as a foundation for examining the historical case study later in the unit.

They will help guide your students through the first step of the Facing History journey and introduce ideas about human behavior and decision making that will serve as a foundation for examining the historical case study later.

Bill Condon's «Kinsey» stars Liam Neeson as Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, whose research revolutionized conventional ideas about human sexual behavior.

Jane Qiu's story, on how fossil finds in China are challenging ideas about human evolution, won the Silver 2016 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.

The concept fits in with my own ideas about human exploration of space, which I described in my book, Playing with Planets.

Such familiarity would have been crucial in designing the forgery, which catered to geologists» desire for confirmation of ideas about human evolution based on a small number of fossil remains, and would have validated Dawson's well - known scientific aspirations.

Brown knew he was looking at something strange, something that would challenge our ideas about human evolution, as soon as he laid eyes on that first skull from Liang Bua Cave.

At a meeting on human origins, held this month in Gibraltar, bones in a Spanish cave and stone tools in Asia sparked controversial new ideas about human evolution and migration.

Universal animal aesthetics A solution may lie in the fact that unlike ideas about human beauty, our love for some animals and ambivalence toward others may beuniversal, Frynta says.

He emerged in 1994 from the windowless bowels of the Arizona hospital where he still works as an anesthesiologist to put forward what seemed — at the time — some of the more outlandish ideas about the human brain.

For those who have the patience, the chief reward of Participant Observer is a first - hand account of the wars of ideas about human nature that have dominated much of the intellectual history of the past half century.

Of course, many individual economists do care about how income is distributed on the basis of ideas about human beings derived from sources other than their discipline.

The Holocaust was, in largest part, the consequence of ideas about human nature, human rights, the imperatives of history and scientific progress, the character of law, the bonds and obligations of political community.

As Wilson himself points out, the claim that we are descended from a long line of natural - born warriors has deep roots — even the great psychologist William James was an advocate — but like many other old ideas about humans, it's wrong.

«You'd be surprised how many rich and wealthy people have no idea about human interactions in non-business matters,» Josh said, «so they need a little bit of help to get in touch with others.

Maybe they they think this will show that this whole silly idea about humans causing the earth to warm will go away.

The natural historian's perspective on the human world — albeit more straightforward than contested ideas about humans relate to each other and to the natural world — turns us all into monkeys.

Not exact matches

The idea of a paperless office seemed like a joke, and there was even a book written about it, «The Myth of the Paperless Office,» which theorized that certain human characteristics made going paperless an impossible feat.

The idea, which was primarily based on the research of psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey, quickly took off — and went on to greatly influence the way we think about emotions and human behavior.

The idea — that an ability to understand and manage emotions greatly increases our chances of success — quickly took off, and it went on to greatly influence the way people think about emotions and human behavior.

David Gould, creative services director at online marketing firm Vertical Measures, puts it well: «For users, this reinforces the idea that the result is reputable: this link isn't just the result of robotic SEO manipulation, but rather it's from a human being who we can learn more about.»

«The harmful misconception about entrepreneurship in our region is that an entrepreneur is some sort of young genius who has an idea impossible to understand for the normal human being,» Fadel says.

«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.

To understand why he doesn't listen to them, it's helpful to know something else about Thiel: He is deeply invested, philosophically and financially, in the idea of extreme human life extension.

They have no idea what they are talking about, no idea how the universe came into being, how universal laws came into being or how self searching organisms like Humans came into being, but know pretty well that Christianity is just plain bad.

The concept of God did not spring out of thin air - intelligent humans created him and then thousands of years later used the idea to explain what they did not understand and / or like about evolution.

I don't accept anybody else's subjective experiences because I have some idea about how easily the human brain can fool itself into experiencing things that aren't real.

The idea that a being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.

The concept of international human rights from which no country is exempt is consonant with the idea that Shari'a, the large body of legal tradition that informs the Muslim community about how God requires it to live, is in some sense the rule of God.

Instead, every human philosophy and religious system is filled with ideas about working our way back into the good graces of whatever deity is being worshipped, and about pleasing and appeasing the gods who are angry with us.

It's interesting that all humans from all cultures pretty much share the same ideas about what is right and wrong, good and evil.

But sometimes we earthlings can not get much further in our thinking about such things as love, fidelity, commitment and caring than to summon forth the image of some mama somewhere who will always be for us the concrete human experience of such divine ideas.

Complaints about the cultural «imposition» of ideas about universal human rights are, more often than not, in the service of nationalism, racism, ideology, or power politics - or all of these in combination.

Anytime I questioned the idea of God damning the majority of the human population to hell, I was told that this subject was not negotiable, that God picks and chooses who He wants to save and we can't do anything about it.

The idea that we are not human beings on a spiritual journey, but instead spiritual beings on a human journey, and we can sense and know all kinds of things about God through Jesus.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

, but they have only very hazy ideas about what the Church really says on human dignity, the value of each one of us, the beauty of human love, the value of authentic family life, the mutual companionship of men and women.

Stephen Fry speaking about atheists: «The glory — anything — we take credit for what is great about man and we take blame for what is dreadful about man, we neither grovel or apologise at the feet of a god, or are so infantile as to project the idea that we once had a father as human beings and we therefore should have a divine one too.

Humans is not been without their countless ideas about how to get to heaven, but when it comes to our word verses God's word, I always bet on God's Word.

Finally, the fact that religion - at least in the West - learned something about human rights from democratic experience does not mean that «human rights is not a religious idea,» as Schlesinger dogmatically asserts.

While there are serious reasons to have reservations about research into human cloning, the idea that it would undermine the relationship between men and women or the basic family unit is not morally or theologically convincing.

Just imagine — If the human race is still around in a thousand years and we were somehow able to listen in on a discussion regarding what we now think is true in all of these areas, I'm guessing there would be lots of chuckling about our «primitive» ideas.

I'll even offer observations - humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus and bacteria, clone animals, and attempt to create new animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more intelligent creature might have done the same thing and created life on earth in the same fashion while at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of other life existing in this universe - talk about being dumbed down and arrogant.

If the Bible is nothing more than a true and accurate record of human ideas, then it doesn't help us much at all in knowing anything for sure about God, ourselves, our condition, or anything of eternal significance.