Sentences with phrase «millennium ago»

That conclusion is based not on climate models or recent trends in forest fires, but rather on records of forest fires that occurred more than a millennium ago, during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, a period when global temperatures were comparable to what they are today, and about half a degree warmer (on the Celsius scale) than they had been for several centuries prior.

There is every likelihood that current changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide are being influenced by events up to a millennium ago.

Because, a quarter millennium ago Watt gave its people steam power so that coal could be mined for warmth and wrangling iron, a century and a half ago Rockefeller standardized oil to give them lamp light and then mobility, and a century or so ago Edison gave them electricity.

There are two crucial differences between the droughts that occurred a millennium ago and modern drought events, however.

This is why, more than a millennium ago, the Anglo - Saxon poets rhapsodised about twisted gold and firelight, because such things offered a comforting contrast to all the monsters they believed were stalking the hostile wastelands outside.

A millennium ago, a dark lord corrupted three great monsters — Oceanhorn, Sealork, and Evertuso — to conquer the Arcadians.

Once inside, people can clamber over rocks and splash through the water, while admiring stunning cave formations created over a millennium ago.

Some Indonesian islands still have their nature as it was a millennium ago.

A millennium ago, when Europe was in its dark ages, Persia and the rest of the Muslim world were dotted with observatories.

The orange horseshoe in Chandra's X-ray image (right) surrounds those visible lobes; it may be the remnant of an outburst that happened a millennium ago.

A millennium ago, Viking navigators may have used crystals known as «sunstones» to navigate between Norway and Greenland.

A millennium ago, Viking navigators may have used crystals known as «sunstones» to navigate between Norway and settlements in Greenland.

But it can legitimately be asked whether many of these characteristics are unique to the modern period, whether they are intensifying, or whether they might not also have characterized Western religion a century or even a millennium ago.

Half a millennium ago God had called by name a certain Jeremiah «before He formed him in the womb.»

To take literally passages from an old relic of a book, written by man many millennium ago, and interpreted once again, by mortal man since, is rudimentary and without any credibility.

China in the late - 21st century will be the greatest field of Christian mission since the Europeans crossed the Atlantic a half - millennium ago.

The waves of six oceans will come rolling in tomorrow just like they did yesterday and the day before and a millennium ago.

It's not enough to take seriously writings based on other writings, based on word of mouth stories handed down from other writings and word - of - mouth stories from millennia ago when man didn't understand a lot of things and was afraid of them.

Suppose the first «inculturation» had been in a setting where it made perfect sense to say «Jesus is Lord» and «Jesus is not Lord» at the same time — like the culture of India two millennia ago?

Just remember: just because some words some men wrote 2 or 3 millennia ago say some interesting things about God doesn't necessarily make them the literal truth.

Buddhists turned from Hindu substantialism to the primacy of events more than two millennia ago.

Jesus may be loosely based on one of the 3 messianic leaders of Israel two millennia ago, but the new testament is very clearly fiction, not fact.

Our primitive ancestors three millennia ago lived in an animistic realm of nature - spirit - wind gods, cloud - spirits, and the like.

I am amazed that people can't see the obvious, the bible is not a timeless book of laws from an omniscient being, it is a man made docu ment based on the moral, technological, and scientific state of knowledge millennia ago.

So... some old men, living two millennia ago, whose ignorance by today's standards was towering, and who wrote about god without putting their own names to it, but demanded that those words be believed, notwithstanding, have collectively written a book we call the «Bible,» and we're all supposed to bow down and believe it.

Like the Saints and Ministers of Christ who were arrested for preaching the Word of God and Christ two millennias ago, we believers of Christ may have to endure arrest, conviction and death as sufferage.

I think the bible is a book of myths and parables based on historical events, that was state of the art a few millennia ago.

That was a few millennia ago for a religion that has long died out.

If Tillich meant by this merely that today we can not think of God in just the way the biblical authors thought millennia ago, his distinction of his view of God from that of the biblical authors would be of little importance.

Jesus was the name of the physical body — the original body of Christ that walked in the Holy Land two millennia ago.

It commented: «Since the decadent Roman wrote two millennia ago about the attraction of boy - man love, observers have noted the linkages between homosexuality and paedophilia».

In their perceptions of the Middle East conflict, they might, consciously or unconsciously, think that the Jews abused their power and incurred God's punishment millennia ago when they failed to heed the prophetic warnings, and are now returning as warriors and oppressive rulers.

The word is most often used for the great universal systems that arose two and a half millennia ago to supersede the local religions of the earlier epoch.

An argument could be made that the old puritan was too generous, thinking that God had killed his son for a thought crime rather than for a crime committed by ancestors who lived millennia ago.

all ancient myth and folklore... Xtianity is BS, made up folk tales of millennia ago.

The chiles, tomatoes, and squash seeds make this a very New World dish, as squash has been a staple of the Mexican diet since it was domesticated millennia ago.

Besides, we made marriage up several millennia ago and there's no reason we can't remake the rules now to fit more of who we have become — a higher functioning, complex culture.

The idea that things from millennia ago still stand blows my mind.

And it has happened since politics has been invented, a couple of millennia ago.

It is exactly the same as the great ritual humiliations of the Tudor courts, half a millennia ago - from the bawdy public songs to the self - important constitutional contortions of the great and good.

On Sunday, Greeks voted in a referendum which has been as much a corruption of democracy as their practice of voting two - and - a-half millennia ago was a noble innovation.

It reveals the far fainter outer material, shed millennia ago by the star.

Speaking of suits, playing cards were likely invented in China more than a millennia ago, but diamonds weren't one of the four suits in a deck until relatively late in the game.

We've been cooking forever, but if you think about it, while technology and software have wormed their way into almost every aspect of our lives, cooking is still very, very primitive — we still cook over an open flame, like our ancestors millennia ago.

Archaeologists uncovered a two - story cultural center built during the reign of Emperor Hadrian nearly two millennia ago.

Researchers traditionally draw the divide between Paleolithic huntergatherers and Neolithic farmers about 12 millennia ago, with the onset of agriculture in the Middle East.

The lake and adjacent bog record some 8,000 years of human activity in the vicinity, from the advent of farming millennia ago to the industrial revolution, and remains largely unchanged throughout its history But in the last 50 years, «everything changes,» Swindles says.

Millennia ago, farmers in Asia recognized the value of seed permeability and artificially selected the trait to produce the predecessors of modern cultivated soybean varieties, Ma said.

Two millennia ago, millions of giant tortoises roamed Madagascar, an island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa that is rich in species found nowhere else on Earth.

The water may be liquid every martian spring or summer, or perhaps it only melted many millennia ago.