Sentences with phrase «modern knowledge of science»

Kristin is passionate about patient education and hopes to help patients transform their health using ancient wisdom that is supported and informed by modern knowledge of science and medicine.

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But your knowledge of science is so much less than so many Catholic Priests such as Gregor Mendel (1822 - 1884) the father of modern genetics, Georges Lemaître (1894 - 1966) the person who proposed the Big Bang Theory and Stanley Jaki Born in Hungary, he earned doctorates in Systematic Theology and Nuclear Physics, is fluent in five languages, and has authored 30 books.

In short, how are the truths of the Catholic faith to be synthesised with the leaps forward in our knowledge yielded by modern science?

Philosophy continues, it is said, only as a meta - narrative for modern science and contains no positive knowledge of its own.

In Science and the Modern World, metaphysics was to complete its work and thereby provide a first step in the knowledge of God to which additions could be made from religious experience.

The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed with information, knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses of an even greater order than those of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons, sciences, nations and industries.

They are at least surely right not to fall back on the Catholic proofs of the soul from abstract knowledge adduced before the arrival of modern science.

He therefore has an intimate knowledge of how modern science has operated both in its early centuries and lately.

Just as we do not practice medicine as it was practiced in the first few centuries A.D., we have to practice Christianity in the context of modern knowledge and science.

The Bible, The Qur «an and Science by Dr. Maurice Bucaille THE HOLY SCRIPTURES EXAMINED IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE Translated from French by Alastair D. Pannell and The Author

Especially when those people lived long before the modern era of science and had no knowledge of the things we now know to be true about the universe.

I can not discuss them all here, but the following references are a start: Theodore de Laguna, review of The Principles of Natural Knowledge in Philosophical Review, 29 (1920), 269; Bertrand Russell, review of Science and the Modern World in Nation and Athenaeum, 39 (May 29,1926), 207; Charles Hartshorne, Creativity in American Philosophy (New York: Paragon House, 1984), 5,32,279 - 280; and even though Stephen Pepper believes both Whitehead and Bergson are mistaken in their views, he believes they are extremely similar: see Pepper, Concept and Quality: A World Hypothesis (LaSalle: Open Court, 1967), 340 - 341.

Neither the alleged source of divine revelation, nor modern science can make this claim about the knowledge to which they lead us.

It is a commonplace of modern science that facts are one thing and values quite another, that we can rely on objective scientific knowledge, while subjective metaphysical thinking (the logical positivists would say) is dubious and to be avoided whenever possible.

At the time Thornton had closely read The Concept of Nature (1920) and Principles of Natural Knowledge (2d edition, 1925), tended to interpret Science and the Modern World (1925) in line with these earlier works, and was acquainted with Religion in the Making (1926) though somewhat unsure what to make of its doctrine of God.2 He took comfort in Whitehead's remark concerning the immortality of the soul, and evidently wanted to apply it to all theological issues: «There is no reason why such a question should not be decided on more special evidence, religious or otherwise, provided that it is trustworthy.

The Bible is not a textbook on science, for it was written many centuries before the modern scientific method and the vast accumulation of facts we call scientific knowledge had been dreamed of.

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.

St. Thomas described the philosophy of nature as the intelligible essential knowledge of ens mobile (being capable of motion, i.e. change) and modern science as empirical accidental knowledge of physical reality.

One of these thirteen contributors is Cardinal Schönborn of Vienna who reminds his readers that «The knowledge we have gained through modern science makes belief in an Intelligence behind he cosmos more reasonable than ever.»

As contrasted with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view of nature, postreductionist in its view of science, postanthropocentric in its view of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society.

The delicate balance he strikes between modern scientific knowledge and traditional Christian faith exemplifies his longtime vocation as a distinguished Mennonite scientist and historian of science.

The great heritage of knowledge made available by the sciences and the modern «knowledge explosion», determines the pattern and content of education today.

This is the way followed by some thinkers, for example, A. N. Whitehead in a series of books, The Principles of Natural Knowledge, The Concept of Nature, and Science and the Modern World; by Milic Capek in his The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics; and by C. F. von Weizsäicker in his recent Die Einheit der Natur, as well as other books of his — this list is intended as illustrative, not exhaustive.

But it confuses «can not» with «has not yet been grasped in the current state of our knowledge», often through an unwitting empathy with atheistic, reductionist philosophy of modern science.

And the knowledge gained from modern science shows that he is further constituted by a wide array of distinct chemicals, atoms, and sub-atomic particles.

(AP, n. 31) Furthermore, Pope Leo understood that what we moderns call science - sophisticated knowledge of the natural world - has an impact on philosophy.

But -LSB-...] to grasp reality as it is, we must return to our pre-scientific and post-scientific knowledge, the tacit knowledge that pervades science -LSB-...] Prior to both science and theology is philosophy, the «science of common experience» -LSB-...] Modern science first excludes a priori final and formal causes, then investigates nature under the reductive mode ofmechanism (efficient and material causes)-LSB-... It is] reason -LSB-... which grasps] the «vertical» causation of formality and finality».

In this cosmology, allowing for the 800 - year development of vocabulary and knowledge, we can see openness to biological and cosmic evolution, complexity, emergence, matter as density - of - energy — all cherished by modern science — as well as metaphysics, finality and theology, which the Church seeks to uphold and defend: all of which, incidentally, your magazine seeks to bring together, too.

[8] It may be that a lot of effort is still required for Jaki's insights to become common knowledge and the received explanation as to the origins of modern science.

In order to understand how Whitehead developed the concept of God, one may begin by comparing his earlier works such as The Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919) and The Concept of Nature (1920) with his later works such as Science and the Modern World (1925), Religion in the Making (1926) and Process and Reality (1929).

Our modern science knowledge has broken down affects of each type of mineral, vitamin or other nutrient on our bodies and the bodies of developing fetuses.

The second is desperately trying to patent new varieties, extracts and components of the plant in the knowledge that modern science now proves that cannabis is as close to a panacea as possible.

The branch of philosophy known as metaphysics overlaps with modern science and the two can push the boundaries of knowledge together

Better knowledge of Venus could help answer two of the most important questions in modern science: how is Earth's climate changing, and are we alone in the universe?

«We believe that this knowledge may be important for the further understanding of complex interactions in some major public health issues, that modern science still hasn't been able to explain fully», says Antonio Barragan,

The board and membership of the Weston A. Price Foundation stand united in the belief that modern technology should be harnessed as a servant to the wise and nurturing traditions of our ancestors rather than used as a force destructive to the environment and human health; and that science and knowledge can validate those traditions.

Let Me Combine The Power Of Nature And The Knowledge Of Modern Science To Help You And Your Family Achieve Your Optimal Level Of Health And Well - being.

The board and membership of the Weston A. Price Foundation stand united in the belief that modern technology should be harnessed as a servant to the wise and nurturing traditions of our ancestors rather than used as a force that is destructive to the environment and human health; and that science and knowledge can validate those traditions.

He also acquired knowledge regarding yoga science and modern science of Human Anatomy.

The board, staff and membership of the Weston A. Price Foundation stand united in the belief that modern technology should be harnessed as a servant to the wise and nurturing traditions of our ancestors rather than used as a force destructive to the environment and human health; and that science and knowledge can validate those traditions.

Nevertheless, employers and universities alike are looking at well - rounded globally literate applicants, capable of not only mastering modern Knowledge such as engineering and entrepreneurship, social sciences and information literacy, but also are Skilled: creative, critical thinkers who are communicative and collaborative; display Character qualities: mindfulness, curiosity, courage, resilience, ethics and leadership; adapt and learn how to learn via Meta - Learning abilities with growth mindset and metacognition.

Thus, the book — which grew out of a series of three lectures — draws on a range of contemporary science and knowledge as Gardner reframes both the teaching and practice of old virtues within the constraints of a modern society.

I supported the idea of a national curriculum that defined core bodies of knowledge in English, mathematics, science, history, geography, art, music, physical education, information technology, design technology, and, in secondary schools, a modern foreign language.

To gain a better knowledge of computer science, crystallography, and various other branches of modern mathematics.

What if you found yourself in medieval Scandinavia with nothing but a knowledge of modern science, mathematics and technology?

Inspired by nature, by her own observations of earthly and celestial phenomena and by knowledge of recent discoveries in the sciences, her work is devoid of political content, and reflects her belief that modern art, at its best, transcends politics and temporal concerns.

Inspired by nature, by her own observations of earthly and celestial phenomena and by knowledge of recent discoveries in the sciences, her work is devoid of political content, and reflects her belief that «modern art, at its best, transcended politics and temporal concerns.»

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We have some questionable «post modern» science built on shaky foundations that assumes we have a much greater knowledge of the historic record than we do, or assumes that the historic record - such as sea surface temperatures to 1850 - are a rock solid piece of science from which an edifice can be constructed.

ExxonMobil is a science - and engineering - based company and we employ roughly 16,000 scientists and engineers who every day explore the boundaries of scientific knowledge in order to develop the energy supplies that power the modern economy.