Sentences with phrase «natural events of their world»

The basic realities they conceptualized in order to explain the phenomena and natural events of their world they spoke of as gods and spirits.

Not exact matches

The fact that our knowledge of the natural world has changed and our belief about the cause of natural events has changed over time only highlights the importance of Science.

It's like a related issue: how did the prophets predict with accuracy unlikely events 100s of years in the future, while the world is running entirely by natural law?

It smacks of times when humans were fearful of the natural world and imagined angry gods behind every natural event..

No one claims any of them are sentient entities that have the power to create worlds, alter the course of natural events, hear your prayers, perform miracles, heal the sick, make it possible to exist beyond death, and so on.

Economics is not a natural science, describing how events in the world of production and distribution must occur, whether by the laws of the free market or by the dialectic of economic determinism.

But the eventual result of exorcising nature (as it were) was to generate an image of the natural world wholly devoid of value, the mere concatenation of events.

myth (noun) \ «mith \ 1 a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon b: parable, allegory

The natural scientists, especially the elite group who are members of the National Association of Scientists, have taken Einstein's advice that a personal God could not intervene in a world of «ordered regularity of all events» and that «religion should give up a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings.»

Where Whitehead and Santayana are strikingly similar is in holding that the spatio - temporal world is ultimately atomic or quantic so that what constitutes the world at any one moment, or a piece of history, is a system of facts, events, natural moments, or actual occasions, whose relations (or perhaps rather possibilities of relations) constitute space and time (as opposed to their being as mere possibilities of relations) rather than are in them as containers (see ED 27).

From the natural order of the world comes its dependability, without which there would be no science, no ordered control of physical forces or events, none of the security which comes from knowing that the physical world is at least in large measure calculable.

What we have to do in our preaching and pastoral counseling is to combine a Christian doctrine of providence with an understanding of the way in which God works consistently in his world through a natural sequence of events.

By «modern common sense» we mean the basic understanding that in order to explain the events and circumstances of this natural world we must look to other events and circumstances within this natural world.

An event occurs that could not have been performed by any of the natural agents at work in the world: for example, a man at the point of death is restored in a moment to perfect health.

For the natural mail, who sees his world in terms only of secular events, such a double image is unnecessary even if possible.

It should be easier to believe that at this point Whitehead was not thinking of events in nature as having subjectivity or experience, when we see how many thinkers today affirm the intrinsic value of the natural world and the interconnectedness of all things without taking this step.

Lewontin was satisfied that creationism can not survive because its acceptance of miracles puts it at odds with the more rational perception of the world as a place where all events have natural causes.

Definition of MYTH 1a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon b: parable, allegory 2a: a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone; especially: one embodying the ideals and inst - itutions of a society or segment of society b: an unfounded or false notion 3: a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence 4: the whole body of myths

Even if we believe that the world as we know it will come to an end in time, we expect the end to take the form of a natural catastrophe, not of a mythical event such as the New Testament expects.

His idea of God, whether as an immanent being working through natural events, a transcendent being above yet influencing events, or a transcendent - immanent God both related and not related to history, has to be placed within some kind of world view.

Whoever affirms Jesus» thought accepts also the paradox that an event which from the observer's viewpoint must be regarded as a natural occurrence, as a part of the world process determined by law, is in reality something different, that is, a direct act of God.

«A balanced theology of creation care accepts that God created a world in which the events that we call «natural disasters» have a normal role to play,» he said.

Jane, Buddhism is one of the great religions of the world, in panthrotheism it is one of all religions that God had willed to serve humans who believes on its doctrine.But since we are all humans, we have to experience all the trials of life so that in the future when His Will shall be implemented by us, the wisdom of experience of all religions will be the basis of our decisions.Thats why genocides, wars,, pestilence, natural calamities, and all what we percieve as injustices, such as tyranny, persecutions and all the negative events in history is part of His will, because in panthrotheism, there is no devil or satan.everything has a reason.and we have to accept it, Remember that He is not faith selective but performance appreciative, it is the good things you do that He wills.

From Merriam Webster: Myth 1 a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon b: parable, allegory 2a: a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone; especially: one embodying the ideals and inst.itutions of a society or segment of society b: an unfounded or false notion 3: a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence 4: the whole body of myths 1.

In the ancient world, official messengers brought news of military victory or defeat, natural disasters, notice of future unscheduled events.

Neither the usual notion of matter nor the usual notion of mind helped in understanding these discontinuous events that seem to be the ultimate entities of the natural world.

For example, for the frequently used word «events» (used in describing natural phenomena in space - time coordinate systems) he substituted the term «actual occasions,» which for him gave a more accurate (and richer) picture of «real» or «concrete» happenings in the natural world.11 In this regard, he avoided the use of such commonly employed metaphysical terms such as «sensation» and «perception» — derived from seventeenth and eighteenth philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant — since for him they had a narrow psychological rather than appropriate epistemological meanings.

It should be noted that while medieval scholars relied heavily on final causes in their descriptions of the natural world, modern developments in the natural sciences since the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have placed almost exclusive emphasis on efficient cause as the basic determinant of physical and biological events.

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March 10, 2013 Natural Products Expo: Rice, Kombucha, Honey Lead Gourmet Food Trends By Amy Riley 2013 One of the events I consider to be at the top of the culinary world's calendar each year took place in Anaheim, California this week.

And then you need to communicate about topics outside of their control like violence in the world, events being reported in the news, or natural disasters.

Kids learned about science, crafts and the natural world on Maker Faire's Education Day, before the official kickoff of the two - day event.

As Thomas Berry said, «Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events in their lives.»

Meanwhile a senior research fellow with the Legon Centre for International Affairs (LECIA), Dr. Ken Ahorsu, who also spoke the event revealed the covetous agenda of the world's super-powers to pursue the vast natural resources on the Africa continent hence the desire the establish a military base, urging government not to sign the deal.

In the interest of our future world, scientists must seek to understand the complexities of linked natural events and field observations that are revealed in the geologic record of past warmer climates.

Over millennia, as natural selection bolstered our unconscious anthropomorphic tendencies, they reached beyond specific objects and events to encompass all of nature, goes Guthrie's theory, until we persuaded ourselves that «the entire world of our experience is merely a show staged by some master dramatist.»

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

To find out more about its history, the researchers collected samples from around the globe — yeast in different parts of the world has changed over time partially due to natural events and partially due to human intervention.

This 3 - day menagerie of food is the world's largest natural, organic and healthy product event.

In addition to her Thyroid.Yoga ™ practice which is also available internationally, Fern teaches meditation and yoga retreats and experiences and speaks on the topics of natural beauty, self - love, meditation, and healing at events around the world.

There has been a lot of serious news recently: natural disasters, political upheavals, and while I'll not saying we should shift our subject, I am urging that we make room for these more substantial, real world events happening in real time.

Commentating on the horrors of human greed, which sees both Chase and Pollard pursue a «whale haven» despite warning, Howard blurs the line between fiction and real events to explore the powerlessness of man against the forces of the natural world.

This ultimately leads Joe to discover that the events that have taken place aren't really natural disasters, but rather a giant cover - up of mysterious creatures that could potentially destroy the world as we know it.

12, used Taktse to launch the very first workshop of Creative Capacities, an organization they founded that teaches learning and innovation skills in the developing world, with a series of poetry events that put students in touch with their core belief systems and natural surroundings.

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There are additional risks related to commodity investments due to large institutional purchases or sales, changes in exchange rates, government regulation, world events, economic and political conditions in the countries where energy companies are located or do business, and risks for environmental damage claims, as well as natural and technological factors such as severe weather, unusual climate change, and development and depletions of alternative resources.

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Carlos Vogeler, Executive Director for Member Relations at the World Tourism Organization, discusses the challenges facing the tourism industry and how key players are leading the charge in preparing for the threat of disasters — from natural causes, tourism, or pandemic events.

Community Outreach Events The Museum and Sea Center host, co-host, and participate in a number of special events to offer the community opportunities to learn more about preserving and sustaining Santa Barbara and our natural world through hands - on educEvents The Museum and Sea Center host, co-host, and participate in a number of special events to offer the community opportunities to learn more about preserving and sustaining Santa Barbara and our natural world through hands - on educevents to offer the community opportunities to learn more about preserving and sustaining Santa Barbara and our natural world through hands - on education.

Pristine beaches, awe inspiring temples, and areas of outstanding natural beauty will be host to this record breaking number of contestants in this, Miss World's 63rd year event.