Sentences with phrase «in ancient past»

They are simply observations about a belief system that belongs in the ancient past.

Our planet is warming up, but it's been warmer in the ancient past - Mother Earth can handle herself.

The upleg of global heating was thought in the ancient past to have been caused by CO2 concentration rising, a myth ultimately shared by much of the world, until falling temperatures in the down leg revealed that mass delusion to have been a «madness of the crowd».

A new exhibition tracks Hiroshi Sugimoto's interest in the ancient past.

«A dream inside a dream — In the ancient past that has shaped my present, I was overtaken by a sense of unshackled and fearless freedom.

Learn More Mediterranean & Adriatic Experience up close the sun - soaked cultures, romantic cities steeped in an ancient past and the rich culinary and wine - making traditions of the fabled Mediterranean.

It can take place in your back yard, in the ancient past, on the moon, in another dimension - the nature and laws of which can be anything you imagine.

An early flashback sequence in Thor # 299 - 300 revealed that Valkyrie and Thor were lovers for a time in the ancient past, which could be factored into Thor: Ragnarok in some fashion given Marvel Studios» president Kevin Feige's recent confirmation that Natalie Portman would not be reprising her role as Jane Foster - and the likelihood that Sif, should she appear as Jamie Alexander said she would, she won't survive the experience.

In our ancient past, it was often tough to find meals, so storing fat in good times and using it in lean times was the way to keep us alive.

Decades of Mars research from previous spacecraft have shown the planet not only had water in the ancient past, but had environments that could have supported life.

Heat trapping greenhouse - gas emissions are the obvious culprit, since they've increased dramatically over that same 50 years, but scientists prefer hard evidence to presumption, so a team from the British Antarctic Survey has been drilling into ancient ice to see how the current warming stacks up against what happened in the ancient past.

Life may have existed on Mars in the ancient past, but scientists aren't sure if that was possible then — or even now.

This is not the first evidence of child sacrifice in the ancient past.

It also spotted evidence of flowing water sometime in the ancient past.

Mission team members hope that observations the spacecraft makes during its one - year prime mission will yield insights about Mars» shift from a relatively warm, wet world in the ancient past to the cold, dry planet it is today.

The six - wheeled Curiosity has already accomplished that goal, determining that a site called Yellowknife Bay was indeed habitable in the ancient past.

In carbon dioxide, for example, these multiple isotopes are found more often than expected — a phenomenon called clumping — which leads to a powerful tool for measuring the temperatures at which the molecules formed, now and in the ancient past.

The answers to that crucial question lie in the ancient past.

Slavery, Racisim, and hatred of non believers is codified in both, and they both need to be left in the ancient past.

Attacks like this one just make it clear how stuck in the ancient past the Vatican really is.

Christians, Muslims, Jews etc are still living in ancient pasts where ignorance ruled the day.

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Big pharma has been a persistent villain in the public's consciousness over the past year in the wake of exorbitant drug price hikes, including on ancient medications.

In fact some of the evidence you didn't mention which was popular fodder in the past has already been proven incorrect (horses in the americas before the spanish, and the BofM reference to elephants) Both considered ridiculous errors by Joseph Smith until elephants appeared on ancient Mayan / Incan temples and horses from the Brea tar pits were dated before the spanisIn fact some of the evidence you didn't mention which was popular fodder in the past has already been proven incorrect (horses in the americas before the spanish, and the BofM reference to elephants) Both considered ridiculous errors by Joseph Smith until elephants appeared on ancient Mayan / Incan temples and horses from the Brea tar pits were dated before the spanisin the past has already been proven incorrect (horses in the americas before the spanish, and the BofM reference to elephants) Both considered ridiculous errors by Joseph Smith until elephants appeared on ancient Mayan / Incan temples and horses from the Brea tar pits were dated before the spanisin the americas before the spanish, and the BofM reference to elephants) Both considered ridiculous errors by Joseph Smith until elephants appeared on ancient Mayan / Incan temples and horses from the Brea tar pits were dated before the spanish.

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

In light of the above, we need to get past this tendency to identify the West with ancient Israel as the people of God.

Cordwainer Smith's «The Dead Lady of Clown Town» begins in a time when Christianity is no longer even a name, since the Church expired in the ancient, unknown past.

Further, the liturgical renewal of the past half - century has made Protestant worship more similar in form and in spirit to the ancient liturgy that the Orthodox champion and purport to continue uninterrupted.

One thing I look to in affirming the historical existence of figures of the ancient past is to look to the New Testament wherein many of the ancient figures and episodes are affirmed by Jesus and various sacred writers.

In a land as frequently fought over as ancient Palestine the chance discovery of valuables hidden for safe keeping in some past emergency was by no means unusual, and every peasant ploughing his field must have had some such secret dreaIn a land as frequently fought over as ancient Palestine the chance discovery of valuables hidden for safe keeping in some past emergency was by no means unusual, and every peasant ploughing his field must have had some such secret dreain some past emergency was by no means unusual, and every peasant ploughing his field must have had some such secret dream.

Unlike most contemporary philosophers, who restrict their examination of induction to the modern sense of the term, in which it is construed as a method of inference which permits some prediction of future events on the basis of past events, Whitehead also recognizes the importance of the ancient meaning of induction.

If it gives us a sense that we come from nowhere, that our past is inchoate and our tradition shallow, so that we begin to doubt our own identity and some of the sensitive among us flee to more ancient lands with more structured traditions, it also gives us our openness to the future, our sense of unbounded possibility, our willingness to start again in a new place, a new occupation, a new ideology.

Heretofore in Israelite Yahwism the meaning of the present was taken primarily from the understanding and interpretation of the past, as, for example, in the ancient cultic confession of faith recorded in Deut.

The bloodthirsty, vengeful bits of the Psalms were still sung in the ancient monastic cycle inherited from the Romish past.

For the event to which we have been led back by all lines of approach, from outside and from inside, is not some remote, forgotten episode of the past, recovered, as it might be, through digging up an ancient tomb or unearthing a manuscript in a cave.

The ancient human civilizations gradually developed by the conserving and handing on of the knowledge and practices which had proved themselves in the past.

Critical historical exegesis during the past hundred years has undoubtedly aided unprecedented advancements in our biblical knowledge: in the better understanding of literary genres, source history and textual composition; in etymology and archaeology; in the penetration of ancient languages and cultural settings.

He sanctioned «In Search of Ancient Astronauts,» the TV travelogue that has been screened throughout the U.S. in the past year or sIn Search of Ancient Astronauts,» the TV travelogue that has been screened throughout the U.S. in the past year or sin the past year or so.

Rooted in the past as she was, intimately a part of the culture of the ancient world and heir of its thought, it is apparent at once that such wide divergence unavoidably implies bold and vigorous thinking, not by a few individuals, but by a long succession of them through the nation's history.

First, in the depths of the past, we find a thin scattering of hunting groups spread here and there throughout the Ancient World.

To blame the past for errors which have brought us to this pass is to indulge in the ancient fallacy of saying that the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge.

This general pattern has been repeated three times in the past: in the ancient world, in the medieval, and in the modern.

In Vorträge und Aufsätze he states: «But absence is not nothing; it is actually the appropriating presence of the hidden plentitude of what is past, and hence it is the collected presence of the divine things of ancient Greece, of prophetic Israel, of the sermon of Jesus.

Though the roots of this attitude can be found in ancient mythic and religious forms of thought, in the past three centuries the estrangement of human subjects from the natural world in turn has been built up in our imaginations under the influence of certain types of scientific epistemology and cosmology.

Heck, even every day people today live magical and mystical lives compared to those in the past not even 30 or 40 years ago, much less those in ancient times.

We have known for a long time that the ancient Israelite believed that through certain actions or rites he was able to be present at, and actually share in, the events of the past which had created his people's life and thus had made him what as a member of that nation he was: a man who belonged to «the chosen people of God».

To Pagels and company, the discovery of the ancient texts in the Nag Hammadi library in 1945 has had the salutary effect of forcing Christianity to reconsider its past.

When we read Genesis in an awareness of what is to follow, we know that these stories of origins were created and preserved through the centuries not so much to inform ancient Israel about the past as to inform about the present; not so much to speak of what once was as to make clearer what now is; not so much to show interest in what had gone before the history of the people of Israel as to make that very history clear in its significance and meaning.

In rebuttal I brought up the Greek Christians during the past thousand years» — Luther was right of course that the Greeks did not acknowledge the authority of the papacy — and also the ancient fathers who had not been under the authority of the Roman pontiff although I did not deny the primacy of honour due to the Pope.»

the bulk of the immaterial comes in fact out of Israel's ancient past, transmitted first orally and given... written formulation (first) by the Yahwist... Nor do we mean to say, then, that the story of Joseph came into being as a messianic message with the intention of treating Joseph as a messianic figure.

The implication of the question was that we know immeasurably so much more now than ever in the past that ancient ideas of religion have become obsolete.