Sentences with phrase «in ancient peoples»

When you account for these biases in the fossil record and consider that rare cancer - ridden ancient skeletal remains have been found, the data suggest that, apart from tobacco - related lung cancers, cancer rates in ancient peoples, and probably in our ancestors as well, are not too different from those we find today.

«Otzi Iceman had genetic predisposition for atherosclerosis: Much the same in ancient peoples as it is today.»

Since the stories of the Bible remain so central to who we are as a culture, even today (and even for those who dismiss it), it seems entirely fitting that we should be equally interested in the ancient people who composed them.

Study of the genetic and environmental risk factors for atherosclerosis in ancient people may offer insights into this common modern disease.»

Further study of the genetic and environmental risk factors for atherosclerosis in ancient people may offer insights into this common modern disease.»

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The company, which employs approximately 400 people in King's Cross, is perhaps best known for developing an AI agent that defeated the world champion of the ancient Chinese board, Go.

You see, the same problem existed in ancient Babylon that existed in 1926 and still exists today: most people are broke.

The only currency in the history of mankind that had actual intrinsic value was when people traded barley in the markets of the ancient city of Ur.

Using a dating technique that measures how much radiation had built up in the flint since it was heated, Hublin and his team say the ancient bones belong to people who lived roughly 300,000 - 350,000 years ago.

From water - and snow - resistant parkas made from skins worn by hunters in polar regions to garments fabricated using woven straw, such as the ancient Japanese mino, people have long sought ways to remain dry while outside in wet weather.

In ancient times, people who were dissatisfied with their lives dreamed of finding magic lamps, buried treasure, or streets paved with gold.

Any large - scale human cooperation — whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe — is rooted in common myths that exist only in people's collective imagination.

In FIVE STARS: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great (St. Martin's Press; June 5, 2018) bestselling author of Talk Like TED, Carmine Gallo argues that mastering Aristotle's «ancient art of persuasion» — combining words and ideas to move people to action — is the key to standing out and getting ahead in the age of In FIVE STARS: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great (St. Martin's Press; June 5, 2018) bestselling author of Talk Like TED, Carmine Gallo argues that mastering Aristotle's «ancient art of persuasion» — combining words and ideas to move people to action — is the key to standing out and getting ahead in the age of in the age of AI

Bitcoin Core proved in a huge way that they are not ancient dinosaurs, who can be ignored, but rather the people Bitcoin users still listen to and trust.

His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).

Christianity is every bit as ridiculous as the ancient Egyptian god Ra pulling the sun across the sky in his golden chariot, and perhaps finally enough people are waking up to that simple truth.

It's one of those ancient fear things that was created hundreds of years ago when people still believed that bad things can happen to you if you don't believe in God and obey Him.

you believe in a narrow view of a god based on ancient fairy tales and that if you adhere to the teachings of a supposed son of god you will go to disneyland in the sky forever... which is damm ridiculous... I consider myself an atheist but I am aware of the possibility of a creative force which created the universe... but that god chatted with people 2000 years ago and brought out a book is childish and stoopid!

People don't behave the way we do, good or bad, because of ancient scripture or the voice of burning bush in the desert or the face of the messiah on French toast.

Maybe Jesus and Muhammad existed as people in ancient cultures but not in any way as divine beings or messengers or sons of someone's God.

I've heard that in other ancient flood stories, people were saved for other less noble reasons.

No, the actual intent must be to get scientists to abandon their search for answers in this field, thus leaving people to claim that the ancient myths are actually the answer unchallenged.

«R.M. Goodswell Christians would have you believe that they were singled out by the Romans... other cultures and peoples faired poorly when encountering the empire... heh... even being roman didn't buy you a pass sometimes in ancient rome... if they felt they needed fresh bodies for the arena, you became fodder.

As for silly people who spend a year or any amount of time trying to live exactly as the ancients lived, by re-enacting practices found in the Bible, they do a great disservice to God's Word and His people.

That is a misunderstanding that many people assign to atheism, but has never actually been a part of the words usage (even in ancient times, atheists were those without god, while other terms were used to refer to those that BELIEVED there was no gods).

It wasn't just how the early Christians died that inspired so many people in the ancient world; it was how they lived.

The Jews people are great people, but what the Zionist are doing in the region is a complete hijacking to the good spirit of the ancient people.

I choose to live according to a morality that I have some say in, not one that was originally imposed upon an ancient people, hopelessly removed from my culture.

In his encyclical on Holy Scripture, Pius XII warmly acknowledges that the inquiry of modern exegetes «has also clearly shown the special preeminence of the people of Israel among the other ancient nations of the East....»

The claim was a simple thing to do in ancient times because scientifically ignorant people still did not know why the sun rose and set and why the seasons changed and why lightning and why thunder and why earthquakes and why disease and why just about anything... so people all thought that a god or gods controlled it all.

Despite its tiny size, Israel prevailed in these wars, preventing its people from being uprooted again, as they had been in ancient times.

Sameth opines that in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, «well - expressed gender fluidity was the mark of a civilized person,» and «the gods were thought of as gender - fluid.»

To continue to call people the ancient «carnal» is childish in the extreme.

Its mind boggling to me that people still believe in these ancient fairy tales.

you really think ancient people in the middle east were describing underwater volcanoes?

Your god sets forth many reasons for which it wouldn't accept people in to heaven and the gullible believers do their best to keep the ancient fairy tales alive - creating divisions where none should be had.

I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

Dr. Gafney is the author of Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel, and the Peoples» Bible, which she co-edited, available through Fortress Press.

It seems almost unthinkable, apparently, to such people that these ancient Hebrew texts could have been written without a passionate interest in the physical relationships of space and time.

In ancient biblical cultures, the term was often used in connection with a person being bought from the slave markets and then being given their freedoIn ancient biblical cultures, the term was often used in connection with a person being bought from the slave markets and then being given their freedoin connection with a person being bought from the slave markets and then being given their freedom.

In local communities, Hassler suggests, ancient truths abide: words retain their power to save or ruin lives, good and evil can yet be distinguished, people remain accountable for their acts, and sin, penance, and absolution are still valid coin of the realm.

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

Part of the problem with the Bible is that since it is written in an ancient format, people have trouble reading and understanding it.

This is to affirm that, while the institution of Israelite prophetism developed relatively slowly and attained maturity relatively late, the essence of the prophetic was present from the Mosaic era, inherent in the faith of ancient Israel from her formation as a people out of Egyptian slavery.

In the understanding of most ancient people and, thus, in the Bible, the sun orbits the EartIn the understanding of most ancient people and, thus, in the Bible, the sun orbits the Eartin the Bible, the sun orbits the Earth.

For this idea he had support in the ancient prophetic conception of a faithful and saving remnant standing out from a disobedient and apostate people.

Using all available means, they examine the ways of living and thinking, the customs and institutions, and the life - situations of the people originally addressed by the ancient writers in order to determine the intended meaning.

Shortly after multiple midnight bulldozing destruction of a ancient Islamic cemetery in Jerusalem crushing hundreds of headstones and monuments under the guise of forcing a Israeli Peace Museum on the Palestinian people, rabid bands of Zionists firebombing a Mosque must seem rather tame.

And in the ancient churches it's easy to construct a vision of the medieval man or woman who once sat in the same hard pew — a person who understood, as we never can, his or her place in the universe.

In the ancient debates, scientists and philosophers used criteria such as reaction to stimuli, modes of nutrition, and origin of motion to determine when the embryo receives a soul and can be considered a person.