Sentences with phrase «of human civilization by»

The good and more stable weather and much higher CO2 levels relative to the previous Ice Age made possible by the Holocene appears to be what enabled the development of human civilization by enabling the cultivation of crops rather than hunting and gathering.

Barton Paul Levenson has forecast the end of human civilization by 2050 due to AGW.

Although there is no way Leonardo can possibly know it, his book is going to change the course of human civilization by bringing to the West the method of writing numbers and doing arithmetic that we use today.

Not exact matches

«Human civilization was largely enabled by the domestication of livestock,» says Nicholas Genovese, Valeti's co-founder.

Such conversions are likely to grow more frequent as self - described «lovers of death» such as ISIS force the French to explain and defend a civilization firmly based, for all its inconsistencies, excesses, and aberrations, on the reverent love of human life demanded by the doctrine of the Incarnation.

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..

The moral philosophy of Western Civilization perceives intrinsic human equality as an objective truth under which our moral status need not be earned by possessing favored characteristics; it comes with the package of species membership.

Where in Genesis does it tell who created the parallel civilization of Nod where the first human baby created by God (who killed the second human baby) went?

Rolston laments that many influenced by the mechanistic worldview of industrial civilizations think of nonhuman nature as something devoid of value until assigned importance by human beings.

Built around 9600 B.C., the site predates Stonehenge by about 6600 years and places the origins of human religious experience much farther back in the historical progress of our civilization than scholars previously believed possible.

If and when we are ever visited by an alien civilization, I can imagine one of the creature staring incredulously at the Vatican or wailing wall and asking its human hosts, «so, you REALLY thought it was all about you?»

In the great Western civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic sphere.

It is understood that the benefits of civilization do not come automatically from the cornucopia of nature but must be continually created and renewed by human effort.

The murder of Abel by Cain represents the fratricidal, murderous violence upon which all human civilization is built.

The ancient human civilizations gradually developed by the conserving and handing on of the knowledge and practices which had proved themselves in the past.

Failure to control population, the possibility of the possession of atomic weapons by dozens of nations, the issues of race and colour which affect every society and every civilization, disclose the human condition shared by all.

Today, when our very planetary civilization is endangered by human irresponsibility, I see no other way to save it than through a general awakening and cultivation of the sense of responsibility people have for the affairs of this world.»

Machines are thus seen to constrict rather than aid civilization by relegating the human spirit more and more to the background of the real shapers of society — our technological inventions.

One can imagine, if and when we are eventually visited by an alien civilization, one of the creatures staring incredulously at the Vatican and asking its human hosts, «so, you really thought it was all about you?»

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or by one of the earliest of civilizations, one of half - human gods (chimeras) or monsters, little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?

Not only do our practices spoil Mother Nature's design for the continuation of the human race, our civilization keeps on mutilating the mother by silencing her, by not helping her heal, and when breastfeeding, which could help her heal, doesn't work as expected, that too is taken away from her.

Long before the space age, humans looking at Mars thought they saw evidence for the presence of water, in the form of giant canals built by some very advanced, very thirsty civilization.

The report was accompanied by endorsements from a long list of climate change luminaries, including former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, whose blurb reads: «Without immediate action to solve the climate crisis, catastrophic warming will fundamentally change our planet and disrupt the climate balance in which human civilization has flourished.

And now new research indicates that the structures are not human - made at all, rather they are natural formations sculpted by the breakdown of methane gas within the ocean floor — millions of years before civilization.

Human populations were broken down by geographic area, moving out of East Africa, believed to be the cradle of human civilization, and into western Europe, eastern Asia and southern AfHuman populations were broken down by geographic area, moving out of East Africa, believed to be the cradle of human civilization, and into western Europe, eastern Asia and southern Afhuman civilization, and into western Europe, eastern Asia and southern Africa.

This find and others nearby (including the ancient city of Caral and a 3,600 - year - old adobe carving of a human sacrifice) are rewriting history by showing that the Americas had booming civilizations at the same time that Mesopotamia was thriving half a world away.

«By 2045, we'll have expanded the intelligence of our human - machine civilization a billion-fold.

Significant epidemiological and clinical evidence has emerged that suggests AD belongs among the «diseases of civilization,» primarily caused by modern Western diets and lifestyles at odds with human physiology.

«As you may realize by now, salt has had a very colorful history, both in the development of human civilization as well as public health politics in the past century.

It is regarded by many as an important factor in the genesis of the diseases of civilization, the degradation of the health of modern humans.

Meet Filipina Girls and Woman, Singles and appreciated by thousands for dating American single man, boyfriend or Generally, during much of recorded history of humans in civilization, and into the Middle Ages in Europe, weddings were seen as business arrangements

The premise of the show centered around human civilization on distant planets being wiped out by machines known as Cylons.

Then there was 2014's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, set 10 years later, in which the uneasy detente between the growing new civilization of smart apes and a small cluster of surviving humans was shattered by mistrust and unhealable pain on both sides.

The constellation's formation matches a number of others indexed across ancient human civilization, constituting sufficient evidence to justify aging zillionaire Peter Weylan (Guy Pearce, heavily augmented by prosthetics, and likely some CGI) sending a team of scientists to the far reaches of the galaxy, trailing the origins of human life on a hunch.

Whatever apocalyptic associations its title may generate, «Captain America: Civil War» turns out to be an infinitely smarter piece of multiplex mythmaking, blessed as it is with a new villain (played with unnerving subtlety by Daniel Bruhl) who has more on his mind than blowing human civilization to smithereens.

Water was «read» by their mind, heart, sensorial attitude, into a valuable process of transdisciplinary knowledge.3 The visit to The Water Tower4 of the town and its museum facilitated the real knowledge of the objects and instruments that were used during the centuries by the rural and urban civilization concerning the use of water; the creative workshops facilitated unexpected «meetings» between poetry, music and painting in the artistic imaginary frame of water; the presentations revealed the magic powers of the water as they are known in folklore, mythology and also the astonishing Bible significations of the water and its use in religious rituals; the scientific outlook on water brought forward for discussion its physical - chemical properties, its role in the human metabolism and in all living beings.

The conference was opened by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, where Mr. AlQasimi delivered with a powerful opening address, stressing that there had been many conferences as matter to human nature and human values adopted by all peoples of the world, regardless their identities and civilizations.

Inspired by the life and thought of St. Josemaría Escrivá, Scepter Publishers seeks to help men and women put Christ at the center of their lives and at the summit of all human activities, and to help them evangelize the world from within, bringing about a new civilization in keeping with the dignity of the human person as a child of God in Jesus Christ.

When the undersea kingdom of Seatopia is threatened by Japan's atomic testing, the Seatopians fear for the survival of their civilization; they send their secret weapon, Megalon, to destroy Tokyo and eliminate the human race.

The geographical area that today is Iraq is regarded by historians as the site of some of the earliest human civilizations, including the Sumerians (who lived between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia, a Greek word meaning land between the two rivers).

Explaining both the drama and the engineering, Brooklyn Bridge captivates readers of all ages by documenting the technical challenge and human perseverance that resulted in a practical structure that serves as a metaphoric victory for civilization.

The great thing about this particular complex is that it has been nearly untouched by human hands, standing testament to the original architecture of an old civilization.

The remnants of human civilization are threatened by gigantic creatures breeding beneath the earth.

Human civilization (which doesn't sound like it's doing all that great to begin with) has come under siege by gigantic creatures who live beneath the surface of the Earth, and it's up to you to create and control powerful mechs to fend them off.

The story revolves around a world where battle rages on between robots controlled by other worldly invaders and remnants of the human civilization.

Far Cry 3 — Beyond the reach of civilization lies a lawless island ruled by violence and human suffering.

The game is set in the distant future, where the world is ruled by intelligent animal - like forms that evolved from the machines responsible for the fall of an advanced human civilization centuries ago; the former rulers of the world survived, but their lifestyle was reduced to that of primitive, isolated tribes.

Designed by Will Wright, the creator of SimCity and The Sims, Spore was supposed to simulate the evolution of life, from single - celled organisms to small creatures to tribal human societies to an advanced civilization exploring outer space.