Sentences with phrase «just as a civilization»

The level of expertise needed to build a radio is just a little less than that required to build a nuclear weapon, they argued, so just as a civilization starts tuning up its transmitters, some internal spat causes it to go off the air in a storm of mushroom clouds.

Not exact matches

Just this month, he called AI «the greatest risk we face as a civilization,» and called for swift government regulation.

Just as the invention of the printing press created the advent of knowledge and information being made available to the masses, the compass meant civilizations were given the tool to explore.

Furthermore, there is certainly enough evidence in the discrepant personalities of the OT v. NT deity to indicate a «changing nature,» i.e., one who sees no other option but to destroy humanity and then later destroy entire civilizations as opposed to one who prefers the option of alleged self - sacrifice coupled to a merciful «grace» for those who are willing to just believe in the sacrifice.

Fine but if you're going to teach creationism alongside evolution, then it must be presented as «just an idea... just a concept that ancient civilizations with no scientific background developed in a one - answer - fits - all, fill - in - the - gaps manner.

Mead recommends Reinhold Niebuhr's achievement of «a rich and paradoxical view of the world using the classic elements of Anglo - American thought» as a guide to «the diplomacy of civilizations,» which must be conducted through the moral and religious life of the whole population, and not just at the level of government policy.

This unconscious decision turned out to be just as determinative of their whole cultural and intellectual development as had the corresponding choices in India and Greece for those civilizations.

The interrelationship of all forms of knowledge must become just as visible as the functional unity of life and of civilization.

The Chinese are universally conceded to be excellent people, honest, honorable, industrious, trustworthy, kind - hearted, and all that — leave them alone, they are plenty good enough just as they are; and besides, almost every convert runs a risk of catching our civilization.

I guess we are supposed to forget the fact that Christianity and thr bible are just a bunch of stolen, rehashed versions of ancient civilizations such as Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, etc..

Just like integralism today, it identified liberalism as its greatest foe, and diagnosed the dichotomies of modernity (spiritual - temporal, public - private, state - civil society) as the cancer that is eating civilization.

Ethics and morality are necessary for a species to form a civilization, and we see rudimentary understanding of these concepts in other species — just not as refined.

It is not always understood by the American section of the Christian revolt that a considerable section of the so - called German Christian movement, in which the confusion of gospel and nationalism prevails, had sources in just such a reaction as its own against an individualistic, profit - loving and capitalistic civilization, and against the church in alliance with that civilization.

For the old racism did not die with civil rights, just as the old Adam doesn't disappear with civilization.

«It becomes a pure act of consciousness, and leads to a spirituality which is just as bare of content as the hypothetical absolute» (Civilization, p. 302).

Long ago in the ancient timeperiods of Greek and Roman civilizations, there were these Theological Philosophers who made stories as to just exactly what was the smallest things and their roles in the meanings of Life.

Just as in China, this last generation, the passage from a patriarchal to a political and commercial civilization has been attended by turmoil, so the Hebrews made the transition only at the cost of practical and moral confusion.

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

It isn't just Christian scriptures, but writings from all cultures and traditions that foretell a disastrous end to civilization as we know it.

There are probably few short - cuts in civilization, just as there are few in growing up.

Centered around Percy Fawcett, who traveled across South America as a cartographer in the early 20th Century, The Lost City of Z doesn't just follow an epic story of one man obsessed with discovering a mythic civilization that exists only in rumors and sparse ruins.

Just as Schleiermacher's Speeches on the Christian Religion to Its Cultured Despisers (1799) won great renown in Germany, so too James» Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) convinced many of Christianity's utility inside industrial civilization, where feelings were being crushed on the assembly line.

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.

To this topic we now turn, for, just as the ancient Roman calendar disappeared with the decay of Roman civilization, the decline of Christian civilization may ultimately lead to the adoption of a new and non-Christian calendar for universal use around the globe.

Science and Genesis by coincidence agree on the general timeline for creation just as by coincidence the Garden of Eden is located in the cradle of civilization.

For him, civilization was the process of humans growing more civilized, the victory of persuasion, not just in the sense of rational arguments but as a manner of living, over brute force.

Of course, that you know the true character of a person, when in crisis, is as true now as it was in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the 1954 novel in which the best of British public school boys (metaphor for the best of western civilization) descended into feral brutes, just because they were marooned in a strange environment for a few days.

He said: «This is a humiliation not just to Nigeria and Africa as a whole but also to human civilization and the fundamental principles of human rights under the United Nations Charter.

It has become necessary for me to end the day's write - ups with this piece because of a discussion I had with one of my trusted political godfathers concerning the just ended accounting to the people tour by President Mahama.It is important we critically look at the person Mahama as we move on because of the sensitive position he occupies.I was also moved by comments his colleagues made about him in Kigali confirming that natural accolade that Ghana is the torch bearer when it comes to African civilization.

(Give the cephalopods time, though — maybe a few hundred million years — and they might eventually evolve ways to use their morphing as the basis for intelligence and a civilization, just as humans did with spoken language.)

«Begin your odyssey at the dawn of life as a simple microbe just trying to survive,» reads a Spore marketing blurb, embarking on «an epic journey that takes you from the origin and evolution of life through the development of civilization.»

«Shady and I and many Andeanists would look at Peru — not just in the preceramic but in later adaptations — as being different from most other trajectories of civilization,» he says.

Ancient civilizations also struggled with climate change just as the modern world is struggling today.

Some of our favorite natural remedies like apple cider vinegar and essential oils have been used by various civilizations throughout time and are just as effective today.

Shanghai is a modern city just as much as it is an ancient civilization, and there are many things to do.

This flick isn't just bad, it falls into that rare category of works that are actual harbingers of the end of civilization as we know it.

Why did it take a hundred years of Hollywood to give the world not just an African hero, but a view of an African civilization as advanced, strong, and utopian... Continue reading «Black Panther»

9 MILE POINT, La. — Director Steve McQueen was just a few yards from modern civilization — in this case, an air - conditioned sports utility vehicle that had brought him some 45 minutes from New Orleans — but as he looked around a sprawling plantation...

Even as some one who has played Civilization games in the past I was very impressed with how approachable things were in this game, everything just felt far more intuitive then in past games.

Ultimately the only certainty is that this flick is yet another harbinger that the total collapse of civilization as we know it has drawn just a little closer.

However, with eBooks it is even easier because vast majorities of eBooks in every country in the worlds marketing lists of books are given away free and it just doesn't fit in models of limited distribution, as have been the de rigueur rules of civilizations, all the way back to the dawn of our history.

- Kataoka believes the world of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the true protagonist of the game - at times, really beautiful and delicate, and other time's it's rough and ruthless - the natural beauty is one of the main appeals of the game - she wanted the music to not just reflect, but also enhance that appeal - she wanted the music to reflect the long History of Hyrule, but also the ordeals of the Link and Zelda of this particular entry - in order to express the idea of a world in ruin, yet so vibrant, she decided to use traditional instruments - these included the shinobue and the erhu, which are not commonly used in orchestras - these contrast the synthesizer sounds of the ancient civilization - the main theme includes chord progressions which are not really suited to classical music - Kataoka wanted reflect Link's 100 - year sleep in the main theme, which explains the rather strange break in the song - the break represents Link taking a «new breath», after 100 years in stasis - the break basically serves as the division between Zelda and the past, and Link and adventure in the present day - she usually does not pay much attention to such details, but had the opportunity to do so this time

Desmond is also given a choice by Minerva to let the world be destroyed, but shows him a vision of the future where he brings order and civilization back to the world, but in the end humanity just goes back to it's controlling and abusive roots using his teachings as it's power.

Civilization: Revolution is slated for a June 3rd release, and in order to bring together the online Civ community as well as assuage the fears of hard - core Civvers that this new release isn't just «Civ - Lite», CivilizationRevolution.com has gone live, offering up info, insights, and links to all things Civ - related.

Continuing the story - line set up by Season One (and integrating the 400 Days DLC into the plot as well), Season Two of the series follows our young protagonist Clementine out of the cement and structure of civilization and out into the wilderness — in more ways than just literally.

Even as some one who has played Civilization games in the past I was very impressed with how approachable things were in this game, everything just felt far more intuitive then in past games.

Civilization VI is dropping next month for PC users and now is the perfect time to check if you will be able to run the latest strategy title from 2K, as the system requirements have just been released.

The ancients seemed to be more aware of this, maybe because they had evidence of civilizations just as advanced as theirs that existed far before.

And just as grass grows through cracks in real concrete, small communities and individuals will start to appear through the metaphorical concrete of our industrial civilization.

Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.