Sentences with phrase «into ancient worlds»

Three years ago, at the first international conference on ancient DNA, there appeared to be few limits to the possibilities of gazing into ancient worlds by extracting genes from fossils.

CNN: Buddhas in 3 - D: Technology and the battle to preserve Asia's heritage A darkened room in a Hong Kong university building is an unlikely portal into an ancient world.

Hong Kong (CNN)- A darkened room in a Hong Kong university building is an unlikely portal into an ancient world.

And yet every year, after a few obligatory months in the United States to gather school credits and grant money, he bolts back to the island, slipping comfortably into this ancient world of taboos, forests, and ever - so complicated modes of transportation.

What happens when you take all the fighting out of a video game and turn it into an ancient world to explore?

It is a trip into an ancient world and its authenticity, beauty and magic are evident.

All of this immersed in atmosphere where the clocks seem to have stopped long ago, plunging the traveller into an ancient world of colonial villages, rum plantations and pirate's coves.

Even further back into the ancient world is the answer as Kratos» main adversaries this time are The Furies, three beings who hunt down anyone who has broken a blood oath to a god.

Ancient Amuletor Ancient Amuletor is an action tower defense game that throws you into an ancient world to battle magical creatures, monsters, and other legendary foes.

Not exact matches

AlphaGo, an algorithm that's made headlines for mastering the ancient Chinese board game of Go and defeating some of the best human players in the world, has been modified and reprogrammed into a new AI called AlphaGo Zero.

Now available online, «Primeval: Enter the Incomappleux» takes audiences deep into one of the world's last stretches of untouched, ancient, temperate rainforest and discusses a plan to protect it from logging.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

Therefore a reasonable person rightly grasp that Zeus was just a figment of the ancient Greeks imagination, a way to salve their conscience as to how they perceived the «world» came into existence.

The current evangelical biblicism turns a few scattered condemnations of certain homosexual practices in the ancient world into a law against all forms of homosexual activity today.

You know all of that, but you're still able to hear these as true stories, as metaphorical narratives using ancient archetypal language to make, among other affirmations, that Jesus is the light coming into the darkness, to make the affirmation that the Herods of this world constantly seek to destroy that which is born of God.

Aliens created humans on this planet just as we are told from all ancient Civilizations around the world even the bible tells us from the book of Enoch, Ezekiel tells us they took him up into space in a ship does God need a ship?

(The Latinity of the pre-Vatican II Church sustained a meaningful continuity with the ancient Roman world, reaching even into working - class Los Angeles of the 1960s, where I was raised and educated.)

He offered a forceful «Christian» view of man, comparing this view with others that fail to take into account all the facts of human existence — Greek classical views in the ancient world, and naturalism in the modern world.

It also made possible new adventures of the human spirit, for it was like a great reservoir into which the currents of ancient civilization flowed, and out of which rose all the streams of later history in the western world.

With the Babylonian conquest it is absorbed into the all - embracing empire of the Middle East, which under various dynasties persisted through many centuries of the ancient world.

While it may be hard to understand, our knowledge of the world has actually evolved over the last several thousand years so many of the ancient understandings of the way the world works — and written into religious text — are obviously and verifiably wrong.

Because it was so important to the commerce of the ancient world, many different kinds of people settled there and found their way into the church Paul had established.

Up and down its narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.

The Bible was not the ingrown musing of some remote peasant folk; it was the achievement of a people whose painful destiny it was to live at the crossroads of the ancient world; it gathered up the best that that ancient world had created and, under the genius of a people who were uniquely fitted for their task, transmuted all into forms and expressions of their own incomparable convictions.

Ancient man recognized that the mystery of resurrection also was built into the world.

Here is the sheer miracle of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.

This experience, crystallized into permanent form in the Old Testament, constitutes the most remarkable theory of government that came out of the ancient world and at the same time an ideal that rebukes and challenges the distressing imperfections of our boasted modern democracy.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

It is a form of explanation which made use of the ancient concept of God's Wisdom, pictured almost as a distinct personal entity, God's agent in the creation of the world and his intermediary towards his rational creatures, who enters into the souls of men and makes them the friends of God.

The holy places would be turned into museum pieces or archaeological curiosities, as they have been elsewhere in the ancient world, such as Turkey or Tunisia.

The classical prophets of ancient Israel regularly report seeing into another world (cf., for example, the opening verse of Ezekiel: «The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God»), though they are without the healing powers characteristic of the holy man proper.

When the Roman Empire collapsed, Christianity, although by that time closely associated with it, not only survived but won to its fold the barbarians who were the immediate cause of the overthrow, spread into regions in Northern and Western Europe which had not before known it, and became the chief vehicle for the transfer of the culture of the ancient world to the Europe of medieval and modern times.

The use of ancient prayers in public worship unites us with our ancestors in the Christian way; modern prayers bring us into contact with the contemporary world and its needs, as well as with our brethren across the world in our own day.

Faced with a world in which some form of encounter with other faiths can no longer be avoided, the ancient religious traditions are breaking into increasingly bitter wings.

The glorious freedom in which the early church rejoiced had by the Middle Ages been transformed into a new form of bondage, actually the resurgence of an ancient form of bondage, that in which man was enslaved to his own mythological world.

Dionysius argued that, just as the Romans had come to regard the foundation of Rome as the beginning of the civilization of ancient Rome, so the coming of Jesus Christ into the world marked the beginning of a new era in the history of the world — the Christian era.

I believe we are experiencing in the West right now an upheaval comparable to that which the fourth century produced, with the end of the Roman order and the general spread of Christianity: the moment when the ancient world was plunged into another world, another society, another conception of the universe.

Among the most potent was the one launched by the mad sophists of the modern age» those radicals who promised, at long last, to make us at home in the world, not by reconciling us to its imperfections, as their ancient counterparts had proposed to do, but by transforming the world into a post «political paradise.

First off, the wine is for me, the dad, a guy who seriously loves his kids and his wife and is ultra-excited to welcome a baby into this world in the same old and ancient way that he likes to welcome all sorts of good things into his life: with a glass or two of Rioja or Cabernet Sauvignon.

You see kids, back when I joined the online world in the ancient days of 1995 (you wouldn't BELIEVE how much of a pain it is to cram a cuneiform tablet into a modem), the internet was a much different realm — email existed, FTP existed, a few text - heavy websites existed, but a significant part of our social interaction took place in a huge and diverse set of discussion groups collectively called the Usenet.

Boyd, an archaeologist and director of SHUMLA (Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art), an education and research center in Comstock, Texas, will spend the afternoon scouring the shelter for insight into the ancient residents and their spiritual world.

Studying the ancient DNA of gray whales has opened a new door into how ecosystems have changed over time — and underscores the unprecedented pace of change in today's human - altered world, Alter says.

Digging out and examining human remains from ancient cemeteries is the expertise of osteoarchaeologists (osteology being the examination of human remains and archaeology their recovery, with anthropology a combination of both)-- a hobby that turned into a profession for Duhig and took her into the world of crime investigation.

As Canadian classicist A. Trevor Hodge has noted, this overlooked Roman technology «tempts one into speculating how close the ancient world was to making the full - scale breakthrough into printing.»

«Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past: Scientists conduct ancient climate research on oldest cave glacier in the world.»

Over years of engaging with modern neuropsychology and other forms of scientific inquiry, in addition to immersing himself in the ancient disciplines of meditation, Charlie has developed unique, effective ways of bringing meditation into the modern world.

In essence, many ancient mantras serve as vehicles for the mind to cross over the material world and into enlightenment.

Access health and happiness with ancient yet little - known yoga practices from around the world that tap into the healing power of nature.

In this workshop guest instructor, Swami Vivekananda Saraswati, teacher of the ancient lines of Indian and Tibetan Yoga and founder of Agama yoga, provides deeper insights into the world of the yogis, how to live from these examples and gain an empowered attitude toward life.