Sentences with phrase «more ancient structures»

From ape to human, the brain grows about fourfold, but most of that increase occurs in the cortex, not in more ancient structures.

Not exact matches

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Actually, that is how the ancient Hebrews thought the «universe» was structured and it would have made more sense for their God to make something so economical rather than a super vast, almost completely empty expanse with us just a tiny island.

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.

Although brain - imaging studies of human participants watching funny cartoons or listening to jokes reveal the activation of evolutionarily ancient structures such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, more recently evolved, «higher - order» structures are also activated, including distributed regions of the frontal cortex.

The ancient structures — more than 330 meters inside the current entrance to the cave — include a scattering of small, deliberately arranged heaps of stone along with two large rings, one about 2.2 meters across and the other nearly three times that size.

Additional support for population structure comes from the clustering of all the ancient samples within C1 into a sub-haplogroup distinct from that of modern dogs, while it is also noteworthy that non-C haplogroups, including A, are more apparent in Southeast Europe in the archaeological record12.

The oldest known, microfossils of apparent sulfur - metabolizing bacteria were found in sandstone from an ancient beach that was dated back to around 3.43 billion years old, and some structures even appear to be dividing (more).

Reconstruction of a fossilized, sponge - like animal found in a 650 - million - year - old stromatolite (bacterial - mat structure) from the remains of ancient ocean reefs in Trezona Bore, West Central Flinders, South Australia (more).

In other words, the rigid structure of the symposium could lead to a broad range of outcomes — sometimes pleasant, but more often less so — and ancient Greek drinking culture left participants with little option but to follow the symposiarch - led herd.

Finally, in the more recent evolution of dog breeds, limited interbreeding has imposed a remarkable genetic structure such that nearly all breeds represent distinct genetic pools that can be divided into at least four distinct genetic groupings; Asian / Ancient, Herding, Hunting, and Mastiff.

Belize was the heartland of the ancient Maya civilization and is now home to more than 600 sites, including sacred caves and enormous pyramids that are still the largest manmade structures in the country.

It's amazing when you consider the fact that these ancient structures span more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican history.

Boasting an extensive collection of natural wonders, colonial structures, and ancient citadels, Vietnam is undoubtedly a Read More»

Hotel del Viale is a structure that will give you the opportunity to discover the history and traditions of Sicily and the charm of the ancient... Read more Greek civilization.

More than 25 ancient structures are still intact.

The deconstruction of the structure was possible because of its ancient architectural characteristics — a more than 1000 - year - old Chinese tradition where wooden columns and beams were completely independent and therefore detachable from the walls.

In Alex Majoli's exhibition SKENE, a term referring to part of the structure of an ancient Greek theatrical set, the Magnum photographer has fixed a wide swath of humanity — from India to Egypt to Germany — within the contours of an aesthetic more common to the stage or screen.

After 70 years of fire exclusion, the conifers have moved in to the point that it is hard to see the sequoias but more critically the new woods have created a fuel structure that could threaten the survival of the ancients by carrying fire into their crowns.

Now if you were talking about ancient Mayan ruins, or an Old West ghost town then this would be more of a gray area, I believe, since those structures have been abandoned for 150 + years.