Not exact matches
Yet, thinkers
from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases
of the social contract theory
of Lockean (and Hobbesian)
origin, one that is premised upon a conception
of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached
from a web
of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.
Its easier to related to Muhammad than to Jesus or Buddha because he never claimed that he was
of divine
origin, he was as shocked at his revelation as anybody else, he frequently said many times «I'm a man amongst men,» he frequently said «all the good that happens comes
from Allah and everything that is not good is my fault,» he's very
human and that is what makes him relatable.
Let's just admit we don't know the true
origin of any «creator» and understand that morals, ethics and our
human nature come
from a deeper nature than we probably understand, but more likely
from a desire to continue the
human race, survival.
Denying the divine
origins of the
human person, our government has withdrawn the law's protection
from unborn children in the womb» the most absolutely innocent and defenseless members
of our
human family.
Today I think that the religious dimension
of human life is one
of the irreducible roots
of language, and I suspect that quite a few
of our words developed
from religious
origins.
Evolution and the Fall is a collection
of essays
from a multi-disciplinary and ecumenical group
of authors, which sets out to address «a set
of problems that arise
from the encounter
of traditional biblical views
of human origins with contemporary scientific theories» (p. xv)-- not, one might add, in general, to answer them.
In the final chapter
of Personal Knowledge, The Rise
of Man, Polanyi tells us that, «We must face the fact that life has actually arisen
from inanimate matter, and that
human beings... have evolved
from the parental zygote in which each
of us had his individual
origins.»
Human beings are a part
of nature, and evolved
from lower forms
of life, whose
origins sprung
from a lifeless planet some 3.6 billion or so years ago.
Thus, for reasons quite different
from those associated with the
origin and meaning
of the western calendar, the year 2000 appears to mark a significant turning point in
human history.
So the ignorance revealed by those «scriptures» proclaims their
human origin, and disproves any hint
of origin from a god.
[4] Instead
of looking backward through
human history to find the
origin of sin in Adam and Eve's disobedience, Kierkegaard is teaching us to look inward (within ourselves) and upward (to God), to find the
origin of sin in our own individual flight, in anxiety, away
from our
origin, God the Creator.
Creation
from nothing, the
origin of death among
humans, the murder
of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood
of judgement, the righteous judgement
of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic
origin of the Torah, manna
from heaven, the reliability
of Deuteronomy, the driving out
of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship
of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went out
of their way to validate all
of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.
Moreover, it is foundational to Catholic orthodoxy that God, the
origin and end
of all things, «can be known with certainty by the natural light
of human reason
from the things that he created».
We respect the created order both because it comes
from God and is sustained by him, and because it is the matrix
of our
origin, growth, and fulfillment as
human beings.
It is apparent
from the very point
of origin of human cognition (though it has only been possible to indicate this briefly), that spirit is a reality that can only be understood by direct acquaintance, having its own proper identity derived
from no other.
Your flawed book claims humanity is a mere few thousand years old while actual evidence
from cave art to DNA show
humans origins are much much older by a factor
of 10.
From its instinctively cooperative
origins in
human nature to the self - initiated perfection
of its civilized enterprises, a civilized society is, in Whitehead's metaphysical scheme, a community
of social beings who belong to one another essentially.
In Miscellany she wrote: «I should blush to write
of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures as I have, were it
of human origin, and were I, apart
from God, its author» (p. 115).
the doctrine
of «evolutionism» in so far as it inquires into the
origin of the
human body as coming
from pre-existent and living matter — for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God.»
John Maynard Smith and Eörs Sazthmáry considered five major evolutionary transitions, ranging
from the
origin of life to the beginnings
of human language, using an approach somewhat similar to that
of Dawkins.10
As regards the psychopathic
origin of so many religious phenomena, that would not be in the least surprising or disconcerting, even were such phenomena certified
from on high to be the most precious
of human experiences.
The differences in citizens» beliefs about the
origin and destiny
of human life may keep them
from coming to politics with the kind
of shared enthusiasm and exuberant rivalry that they bring to sporting events.
Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority
of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state
of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part
of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine
of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the
origin of the
human body as coming
from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].
In the Old Testament, God is known as Creator only because he is first known as Sustainer - Redeemer.27 The creation faith
of the Old Testament nowhere gives the impression that its Primary interest is in
origins as
origins; rather is it a faith that speaks
from, and back to, historical
human existence and in its articulation is concerned to say what man is and what in that faith his existence means.
He emphasized the active, integrating self (rather than the frail, victimized ego); held to a «soft» (rather than a «hard») determinism; had a strong interest in future, goal - directed strivings (rather than
origins); emphasized the organism as a whole centered in the self (rather than a conflict view
of personality); regarded the striving for worth and power (rather than sexual striving) as the central dynamic in mental health and illness; emphasized the possibilities for continuing change in the later years (rather than regarding the early years as utterly decisive)(2) It is clear
from these motifs in Adler's thought that his vision
of human beings was positive and growth - centered.
FAITH: In 1952 Pius XII did indeed write in Humanae Generis that the Church is not closed to «the
origin of the
human body as coming
from pre-existent and living matter», but that it «obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God».
Pope Pius XII declared that «the teaching authority
of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state
of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions... take place with regard to the doctrine
of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the
origin of the
human body as coming
from pre-existent and living matter --[but] the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» (Pius XII, Humani Generis 36)»
If this enterprise, this movement
of theirs, is
of human origin it will break up
of its own accord, but if it does in fact come
from God you will not only be unable to destroy them, but you might find yourselves fighting against God.»
The Vatican in its Instruction on Respect for
Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day offers an answer: the human being must be respected as a person from the first instance of his or her existence as a fertilized
Human Life in Its
Origin and on the Dignity
of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions
of the Day offers an answer: the
human being must be respected as a person from the first instance of his or her existence as a fertilized
human being must be respected as a person
from the first instance
of his or her existence as a fertilized egg.
And the self - adopted identities
of «Protestant» or «Reformed» or «Catholic» do little to elucidate these intentions, whose
origins lie in deeper
human recesses
of the soul, and whose Christian ideological justifications were in any case inherited at least
from the Middle Ages.
But
human experience has a continuity in
origin from the feelings that constituted the being
of the first mammals, the reptiles
from which they evolved and all individual entities prior to them in the evolutionary sequence going back to the physicists» initially featureless universe — hence Whitehead's proposition that the cosmic evolution
of the universe «is a creative advance into novelty» (PR 222).
Her inspiration had come
from the work
of a Russian, Dr Igor Charkovsky, who in the 1970's had organised dolphin - assisted births in the Black Sea and felt that the common evolutionary
origins of humans and dolphins in water explained a natural affinity.
But when they are delivered during breastfeeding, they have a very different effect, because breastfeeding is not only natural and
of human origin, but the milk is ever - changing to meet the infant's changing needs, changing throughout the feedings,
from day to night, and as the baby grows.»
The child's transition
from gesture to symbol could be a developmental model
of the evolutionary pathway to
human language and thus evidence for the «gestural
origins of human language,» Greenfield said.
The swelling circles represent the amount
of human -
origin influenza in swine population, «with the viral populations increasing first in Oklahoma and then in Minnesota and Iowa,» as pigs move
from the south - central to the Midwest.
Nelson and her colleagues found that flu in pigs «follows long - distance swine movements
from the southern U.S. to the Midwest,» with most
of the
human -
origin H1N1 arriving at Midwest hog farms coming
from the Southeast, and most
of the swine -
origin H1N2 coming
from the south - central U.S. And that means the Midwest, as the final destination for many
of these pigs, is «likely to provide a reservoir for multiple genetically distinct variants to co-circulate and exchange segments via re-assortment because
of the continual importation
of swine influenza viruses
from other regions,» the researchers noted.
Another source
of uncertainty comes
from the direct effect
of aerosols
from human origins: How much do they reflect and absorb sunlight directly as particles?
The circular wheel with a long rod or axle protruding
from its center is the archetypal
human invention: though its precise
origins are lost in time, it has contributed to any number
of technological advances since being deployed more than 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamian potters» wheels.
The Sima de los Huesos genome is particularly exciting because it is
from a time that is very close to the
origin of our
human line.
Senior author Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., the Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor
of Medicine and Immunobiology, and chief
of Hematology, said the study, using tissue and blood samples
from humans and mice, shows that chronic stimulation
of the immune system by lipids made in the context
of inflammation underlies the
origins of at least a third
of all myeloma cases.
«Thus, both palaeo - anthropological and genetic evidence increasingly points to multiregional
origins of anatomically modern
humans in Africa, i.e. Homo sapiens did not originate in one place in Africa, but might have evolved
from older forms in several places on the continent with gene flow between groups
from different places,» says Carina Schlebusch.
For Vyvyan Evans, a cognitive linguist, studying emoji entails exploring everything
from the nature
of communication to the evolutionary
origins of language to how meaning arises in the
human mind.
The
origins of this dog -
human relationship were subject
of a study by behavioural scientists
from the Messerli Research Institute at the Vetmeduni Vienna and the Wolf Science Center.
Poinar suggested in the journal American Entomologist that the
origins of this deadly disease, which today can infect animals ranging
from humans and other mammals to birds and reptiles, may have begun in an insect such as the biting midge more than 100 million years ago.
Malaria, a scourge on
human society that still kills more than 400,000 people a year, is often thought to be
of more modern
origin — ranging
from 15,000 to 8 million years old, caused primarily by one genus
of protozoa, Plasmodium, and spread by anopheline mosquitoes.
Changes to skin pigmentation pathways probably reflect selective pressures related to sunlight exposure that
humans experienced as they spread out
from humanity's
origins in Africa to other parts
of the world and adapted to local environments.
Researchers have identified the evolutionary
origins of human herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 and -2, reporting that the former infected hominids before their evolutionary split
from chimpanzees 6 million years ago while the latter jumped
from ancient chimpanzees to ancestors
of modern
humans — Homo erectus — approximately 1.6 million years ago.
Researchers at the University
of California, San Diego School
of Medicine have identified the evolutionary
origins of human herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 and -2, reporting that the former infected hominids before their evolutionary split
from chimpanzees 6 million years ago while the latter jumped
from ancient chimpanzees to ancestors
of modern
humans — Homo erectus — approximately 1.6 million years ago.
This evidence indicates that LB1 is not a modern
human with an undiagnosed pathology or growth defect; rather, it represents a species descended
from a hominin ancestor that branched off before the
origin of the clade that includes modern
humans, Neandertals, and their last common ancestor.
Through this collective effort, and the translation
of individual data into baselines against which any impact —
from human or natural
origins — can be assessed, nearshore ecosystems worldwide will be actively known, managed and protected.