Sentences with phrase «man as species»

For some scholars, the cruelty of economic systems, the wars, and the domination of man by man would be no more than a reflection of the most fundamental characteristics of man as a species: wild instincts, aggressiveness as an engine for development, laziness and the indulgence as maintenance factors of domination of the weak by the strong.

For years, advocates for radical animal - rights agendas have sought to undermine the view of man as a species set apart.This isn't really news.

Man as a species is born to die, but before he dies, he regenerates his species through the female.

Not exact matches

There are 6 species of sloths in the world, and two of them are considered threatened — while the pygmy sloth is classified as critically endangered, the maned sloth is classified as vulnerable.

They rejected, as Paine wrote, «the savage idea of man considering his species as his enemy, because the accident of birth gave the individuals existence in countries distinguished by different names.»

Personally i think here is a man who does not understand his limitations or that of mankind as a species.

The fact that someone can profess to believe in something as insane as an invisible magic man in the sky in the first place tells me their grasp on reality is tenuous to begin with, and probably shouldn't be the sort of person to be trusted with the means to wipe out our species.

As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work The Satanic Bible, Man — using his brain — invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species can not accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires.

We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and looking at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back on 2000 year old beliefs and you thank a god who has never been proven to exist.

They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.

Obviously, the human species is not evolving as we still have «cave man» reactions.

As for me being attracted to other men... well I think we went over that I'm not gay, but if you want to go to the whole «It's not natural thing» well considering that there has been ho.mose.xuality in other species, it actually does occur in nature, what doesn't however is monogamous relationships.

Until the coming of Man the branches or shoots composing the different living species tended inexorably to diverge and spread ever more widely apart as they developed.

We are accustomed to regard a man as an individual of the species «man,» a being endowed with definite capacities, the development of which brings the human ideal in him to realization — of course with variations in each individual.

Thomas's reply is that something can be a certain something in two ways: either as a complete subsistent individual of a species (as Socrates is of the species man), or in a more generic sense that does not exclude parts, incomplete as they may be, from subsistence.

You are a very religios man santa, but in fact evolution as a means to species was proven false by the global geological record 40 years ago.

And as for the origin of species and evolution in terms of the scientific method, that scientific method has given us the ability to decode the DNA genome of many animals, and to show where, back in time, the various relatives of man and modern apes, for example, branched off into separate species.

He may be either spiritual as in the Bible or an alien species who introduced their DNA into prehistoric man to jump - start the evolution process but he is real for sure.

The changes are extremely gradual, they can not be observed over the short time span of human civilization so far, and the term «species» is a man - made concept to make categorization of life forms convenient... it is not an immutable feature of the natural world as you seem to think it is.

Think about it: The earth, at 25,000 miles «round the equator, is just barely big enough to contain all life... and perhaps... It IS N'T big enough to contain the (self - over-populated) species «H.Sapiens.Sapient», («Human - Kind»)... also known as «H.Sapiens.Egotisticae», (aka, «Egotistical Man»)!!

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

If this aspect differed in kind in the case of Jesus from every other member of the species man, then in the present state of our knowledge it would seem impossible rightly to describe Jesus as a man.17 It may be the case that most Christians (and most Christian theologians) in most centuries have accepted this claim: but most have not shared either our modern sensitivity to the difference between history and mythology or our concern for the principles of logic.

At this point a man knows himself unequivocally as an «I» who, by bearing his own responsibility and making his own decisions, ceases to be fundamentally a part of a biologically defined species or a culturally defined tribe or community.

As both St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have said, modern man has lost his sense of sin, or rather restricts it to offences against his own species and the physical world.

Nor, as a species, can we afford the luxury of ignoring man's ecological situation.

This overlooks the fact that each new principle of individuality creates a new species, and Christ is here depicted as belonging to a different species from man.

As the Bible underlines, the Almighty is no species - egalitarian; the creation accounts bring man and woman into view as the summit of the visible creation, with everything else placed at their service, and in general, with lower things being placed at the service of higher ones (plants are given to animals for food, and later, after the flood, animals are given to men for foodAs the Bible underlines, the Almighty is no species - egalitarian; the creation accounts bring man and woman into view as the summit of the visible creation, with everything else placed at their service, and in general, with lower things being placed at the service of higher ones (plants are given to animals for food, and later, after the flood, animals are given to men for foodas the summit of the visible creation, with everything else placed at their service, and in general, with lower things being placed at the service of higher ones (plants are given to animals for food, and later, after the flood, animals are given to men for food).

Thus Christian faith in God as the Creator has usually been understood to require assent to a whole series of beliefs that are now widely regarded as false — e.g., that the creation of the world took place as recently as 4004 B.C. and that man and the various animals were all created as fixed species, in no way related to one another by any pattern of evolutionary development.

As he observed: «We now stand at a turning - point in the history of the biosphere and in the shorter history of one of its products, mankind... Man is the first species of living being in our biosphere that has acquired the power to wreck the biosphere and, in wrecking it, to liquidate himself.»

One of the paradoxes attaching to the human species, a cause of some bitterness among biologists, is that every man comes into the world as defenseless, and as incapable of finding his way single - handed in our civilization, as the new - born Sinanthropus a hundred thousand years ago.

Through the centuries life has become an increasingly heavy burden for Man the Species, just as it does for Man the Individual as the years pass.

the planet earth, a speck in the universe hosting species known as man.

They «can properly imply that in some respects man is only a «plain citizen» (Aldo Leopold) of the planet on a par with all other species, but they are sometimes interpreted as denying that humans have any «extraordinary» traits, or that, in situations involving vital interests, humans have no overriding obligations towards their own kind.

We debate endlessly about Peace, Democracy, the Rights of Man, the conditions of racial and individual eugenics, the value and morality of scientific research pushed to the uttermost limit, and the true nature of the Kingdom of God; but here again, how can we fail to see that each of these inescapable questions has two aspects, and therefore two answers, according to whether we regard the human species as culminating in the individual or as pursuing a collective course towards higher levels of complexity and consciousness?

As species, man produces the configurations of history, culture, society, technology, politics, economics, the arts and religion which serve as his «life - world» and represent his «dominion over the earth.&raquAs species, man produces the configurations of history, culture, society, technology, politics, economics, the arts and religion which serve as his «life - world» and represent his «dominion over the earth.&raquas his «life - world» and represent his «dominion over the earth.»

The fossil record includes the Stromatolites, colonies of prokaryotic bacteria, that range in age going back to about 3 billion years, the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, widely regarded as among the earliest multi-celled organisms, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale in Canada (circa — 450 million years ago) the giant scorpions of the Silurian Period, the giant, wingless insects of the Devonian period, the insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, clams, crustaceans of the Carboniferous Period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the 700 odd known species of dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the saber tooth tiger, the mammoths and hairy rhinoceros of North America and Asia, the fossils of early man in Africa and the Neanderthals of Europe.

This is not to be taken as implying equality of the sexes in the writer's mind, merely that in the context of the relation of man to nature, all human beings share in the distinctive superiority of their species in the created order.

Non-human species suffer as a direct result of the fall of man.

Man has the ability to choose between good and evil, and he has the choice of helping or harming other species as well as his own.

As a species we represent a triumph in survival against the odds, and we survived by way of wits and will, by way of cooperation and interdependence, man and woman, young and old.

why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.

What women today are figuring out and returning to is the concept that being pregnant and having babies is a normal function for the female species, and as long as there are no extenuating circumstances, it doesn't require the intervention of men, machinery and medicine.

Narrow species ranges and fragmented appropriate habitats (as well as man - made and natural barriers like cities and mountains) will make it hard for more temperate and tropical plants to move.

The Leakey team later designated the remains as a new species that they called Homo habilis, meaning the handy man.

It is a land of odd creatures: giant anteaters, tapirs, maned wolves, the llama - like guanaco, flightless rheas as tall as I am, and as many as 10 species of armadillo.

Man has become the dominant species now in Africa as well as on the rest of the planet.

It is at those times especially, when he emerges as the dominant species in an environment, that man must take care not to make demands upon the community that may destroy his habitat.

Dr. Hamilton coined the name because the species is found in California near Folsom Prison (famous for Cash's song «Folsom Prison Blues») and because mature males are generally solid black in coloration (paying homage to Cash's distinctive style of dress where he has been referred to as the «Man in black»)(see Image 2).

Scientists even refer to these rediscovered organisms as «Lazarus species,» after the man said in the New Testament story to be raised from the dead by Jesus Christ.

They include traits linked to competition between males such as men on average being larger than women, a pattern that characterises nearly all polygynous species, along with males being more inclined to violence.