Sentences with phrase «modern scientific culture»

Having myself, as a recipient of modern scientific culture, gone through a subjective experience like this, I feel sure that it must also have been the experience of many, perhaps of most, of you who listen to my words.

This inability of Islamic thought to respond to modern scientific culture seems to stem from two fundamental problems.

Not exact matches

What distinguishes the Muslim from the Hindus, he said, is a particular kind of dress and a few remnants of Mughal refinements which will soon be swept away by the scientific and international culture of the modern age.

The quotation captures the noble project of the book in this way: «The old Catholic religion - culture of Europe is dead... the inheritance of classical culture... has been destroyed, overwhelmed by a vast influx of new knowledge, by the scientific mass civilisation of the modern world.

For Genesis, that audience is an ancient near - eastern culture, not our modern scientific one.

This is a far cry from liberal theology's effort to adapt Christianity to the modern world and make sense of culture on terms relevant to a rather confident secular and scientific age.

In this we can again distinguish the scientific and technological changes brought about in modern times, alongside a humanistic culture and the unification of the world under capitalistic globalization.

Central to the Faith Movement is the perception that the modern scientific world view has deeply affected our culture.

Indeed, most cultures in human history have generated no such marvel as the modern scientific movement, and even in our own culture, scientifically oriented as it is supposed to be, most people accept the benefits of technology and use the vocabulary of science but do not in fact choose to abide by the disciplines that alone make scientific productivity possible.

And the further interesting thing is that the forms of religion that are more bizarre or alien to modern Western «scientific» culture — astrology, occultism, Zen, yoga, Sufism — appeal to the «intelligentsia» and so ironically tend to cluster about our contemporary university centers (the remaining seats of that culture).

But that these concerns would reappear in fresh and vigorous power, not only in the midst of a modern scientific and industrial culture but as a conscious and relevant reaction to the tensions and dilemmas created by that culture — that was not at all expected.

It is a curious fact that while the general culture of contemporary theologians is still markedly literary, rather than scientific, they seem to forget the many lessons concerning the human situation to be learnt from tragedy, whether ancient or modern.

(Jn 14:6) Yet, can we still in the post modern, scientific culture in which we live really assent to this truth.

First published anonymously in 1818, the book and subsequent films and plays have become what Jon Turney, author of the book Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, calls «the governing myth of modern biology»: a cautionary tale of scientific hubris.

The culture of modern research is still, in large part, set in an era of science that has now passed, the era in which most of today's scientific leaders were trained.

In many instances, although the scientific medical community still prevaricates, some of the ancient medical cultures did have something real; something which in many cases is only now being proven through the latest advances in modern medical science and our better understanding of diet and how our bodies work.

History and building The Fundación Juan March promotes humanistic and scientific culture by organizing temporary exhibitions, mostly focused on modern and contemporary art, as well as concerts, lectures, conferences, seminars, workshops, and research activities.

By suggesting that the failure of ECS estimates to converge casts meaningful doubt on the scientific case for AGW, JB and DDS merely reveal how alien they are to the modern culture and practice of the Earth Sciences.

* From lecture «What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society», given at the Galileo Symposium in Italy, 1964

I have an aversion to wasting my time on non-peer-reviewed «scientific» arguments, especially by those who haven't put the time in to understand the relevant principles, nor participated in the modern culture and practice of the Earth Sciences, to say nothing of ignoring the multiple lines of evidence for AGW.

As one of three keynote speakers to present at the Garrison Institute's 10th Anniversary Gala, Dan Siegel suggests bridging the insights of the world's contemplative traditions with the rigor of modern scientific investigation in an effort to help build resilience in people and cultures.