Sentences with phrase «more ancient past»

Because these samples were buried, they are believed to indicate the Martian environment in the more ancient past.

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Further, the liturgical renewal of the past half - century has made Protestant worship more similar in form and in spirit to the ancient liturgy that the Orthodox champion and purport to continue uninterrupted.

You can't wrap your head around the bible because it is nothing more than an ancient fable from the past and has no relevance with the advent of modern science and modern civilization.

If it gives us a sense that we come from nowhere, that our past is inchoate and our tradition shallow, so that we begin to doubt our own identity and some of the sensitive among us flee to more ancient lands with more structured traditions, it also gives us our openness to the future, our sense of unbounded possibility, our willingness to start again in a new place, a new occupation, a new ideology.

Now we have technology and are more educated and knowledgable than those primitive tribes of the ancient past.

Modern Homo sapiens are remarkably sophisticated creatures, capable of writing symphonies, solving the Poincare Conjecture, and inventing Nutella, yet we carry around a number of fears that seem to be more characteristic of our ancient past.

The implication of the question was that we know immeasurably so much more now than ever in the past that ancient ideas of religion have become obsolete.

Stratigraphic records are proving to be useful for learning about the CSZ's past, and microfossils may provide more answers about large ancient earthquakes.

In carbon dioxide, for example, these multiple isotopes are found more often than expected — a phenomenon called clumping — which leads to a powerful tool for measuring the temperatures at which the molecules formed, now and in the ancient past.

An ancient record Assessing lake sediment cores from the region reaching 15,000 years into the past, a Montana State University team found whitebark pines more abundant despite higher summer temperatures and fire frequency than today.

«Only more genetic data from ancient human remains will allow us to disentagle our pre-historic past.»

Over the past decade, ever more sophisticated dating of the ancient basalt has shown that the lava bed could be about the same age as the extinction, and recent studies have revealed that it covered twice as much area as previously supposed.

The professional care of feet was in existence in ancient Egypt as evidenced by bas - relief carvings at the entrance to Ankmahor's tomb dating from It's fair to say that the social norms around love and sex have gotten a lot more complicated in the past few decades.

The ancient araucaria family (Araucariaceae) contains three genera (Araucaria, Agathis, and Wollemia) and forty - one species of cone - bearing trees native to The past, present, and future of your family tree are all far more fascinating than you realize.

Set on three distinct maps; an Ancient Roman gladiator arena of The IX, the sinking Titanic in Voyage of Despair, and a remake of past Zombies maps in Blood of the Dead — featuring the original Zombies mode cast — there are plans to offer more variety in the off - the - wall game mode.

It also allows the brain to access more long - term memory areas, which is an ancient survival strategy, thereby helping students make greater connections between new and past learnings.

Learn More Mediterranean & Adriatic Experience up close the sun - soaked cultures, romantic cities steeped in an ancient past and the rich culinary and wine - making traditions of the fabled Mediterranean.

Many travellers no longer want a simple beach holiday, instead they want to be inspired — to see some of the wonders of the ancient world, explore a culture's past, and find out a bit more about their ancestors and themselves.

A more family - friendly track can be found along the outskirts of the Kaitoke Swamp, past an ancient conifer forest, to the sulphurous hot springs.

The fact that the ancient Mayans created the mysteries of Belize's past means that there is still more to know.

Whether you take the more traditional route of exploring the world's great museums and art galleries, or go even further back in time to explore our ancient ancestral roots in Africa, cultural holidays are an important reminder of the lessons of the past.

7:45 am: Spend a half day with Willie Gordon, a Nugal - warra elder and master storyteller from Guurrbi Tours and join an Indigenous walk past an ancient birthing rock to learn more about this deeply spiritual location.

Massively OP reader Francois recently pointed us to IGN's Top 100 RPGs of All Time, which we thought was worth a nod since unlike many such lists, it includes several early MMORPGs: including EverQuest (100), EVE Online (81), Phantasy Star Online (63), and of course, World of Warcraft (5), plus other multiplayer games we've covered in the past, like Diablo II, Titan Quest, Torchlight II, Stardew Valley, Neverwinter Nights, and more Ultima, Elder Scrolls, and Final Fantasy franchise games than you can shake an ancient console cartridge at.

While RPGs have grown a bit more outlandish with their inspirations over the past few years - hello, Undertale - the vast majority still happily frolic in the mystic meadows of Tolkien and Vance, complete with haughty elves, swarthy dwarves, and dubious ancient prophecies.

Arie Bouman catches up with artist Tony Berlant and Thomas Wynn, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, who, for the past 8 years, have traveled to more than 22 museums across Europe, the U.S., Africa, and the Middle East in pursuit of ancient tools, some of which are more than 2 million years old.

A selection of ancient artifacts from the National Museum of Beirut, melted together by shell fire endured during the Lebanese Civil War, speaks to the preservation of objects whose profound transformations make them even more powerful representatives of the past.

Human activities are releasing greenhouse gases more than 30 times faster than the rate of emissions that triggered a period of extreme global warming in the Earth's past, according to an expert on ancient climates.

A study of tree rings in ancient logs and other data meanwhile indicated that since the 1860s, Northern Hemisphere temperatures had soared to a level higher than anything in at least the past thousand years, and at a more rapid rate.

On this planet, the atmosphere is about 100 times thinner than Earth's — a very different situation from the ancient past, when geological evidence shows that water used to flow on the surface more than 4.5 billion years ago.

They based their findings on analysis of the chemical isotopes locked in ancient ice from the Weddell Sea embayment, and the evidence suggests that in the past, when polar waters became more stratified, the ice sheets melted much more quickly.

In the almost sure knowledge that the earth never experienced a runaway greenhouse even with ancient CO2 levels 10 to 20 times greater than today, these anti-science scoundrels insist with a «high level of confidence» that this amplification is real and it's based on nothing more than faster than expected surface temperature rise in the past few decades which can be TOTALLY explained by multi-decadal cyclic behavior in ocean currents, trade winds, and / or solar magnetic activity causing small global average albedo changes.