No evidence
of the human origins of religious belief will upset the religious believer, because he can always appeal to a very convenient, and convently mysterious, relation between God and a defective humanity.
Analysts at the global think tank Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) warn that Russia's «ostrich approach to phasing out fossil fuels and its denial
of the human origins of climate change» could hamper climate action globally.
Not exact matches
While many
of the space industry's heavyweights — Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue
Origin, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — spent 2016 talking up their respective ambitions to go to Mars or build a space tourism business, Moon Express might be the company closest to getting
humans to a place they haven't visited in 44 years.
According to Sonia Zakrzewski, an associate professor
of archaeology at the University
of Southampton, Hublin's discovery could encourage other archaeologists to change the way they think about
human origins.
Other spaceflight companies, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Sierra Nevada and Jeff Bezos» Blue
Origin, are variously developing new spacecraft designed to carry
humans into orbital space as part
of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP).
«This a great book that opens the mind to alternative ideas regarding the
origins of human history.
What is lost sight
of, then, is the fact that God is the
origin and goal
of human beings.
«Thus, we see that one
of the obvious
origins of human disagreement lies in the use
of noises for words.»
Brand New New fossils bringing «Hobbit
humans» to life New bones attributed to Ho - mo floresiensis — aka the «Hobbit
Human» — along with other recent findings, are helping to reveal what members
of this species looked like, how they behaved and their
origins.
77 %
of American Jews believe evolution is the best explanation for the
origins of human life on earth.
The
origins of morality in
human cultures are not religion.
We can trace the evolution
of humans back to about 3 billion years ago and the
origins of the Universe to about 13.72 billion years ago.
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.
There is still no explanation for the spontaneous
origin of the universe, as well as the advanced cognition
of the brain (chemicals and genetics reveal general trends, but no one knows how complete thoughts are actually formed, nor emotions or personalities); creation and the
human conscious, the two fundamental focuses
of religion.
Religious Differences on the Question
of Evolution (United States) Percentage who agree that evolution is the best explanation for the
origin of human life on earth Atheist / Agnostic 87 % Buddhist 81 % Hindu 80 % Secular unaffiliated 77 % Jewish 77 % Catholic 58 % Religious unaffiliated 55 % Orthodox 54 % Mainline Protestant 51 % Muslim 45 % Hist.
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.
Most highly educated people who understand quantum physics and it's related fields realize that
humans might not ever be able to understand everything, including the
origins of the Universe, but it is
human nature to look for it and to try to understand as much as we can about the universe and how everything interacts.
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.
842 The Church's bond with non-Christian religions is in the first place the common
origin and end
of the
human race: All nations form but one community.
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.
I believe in science and as the
humans evolve there are more answers to the
origin of everything.
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.
Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the
origins and stability
of se - xual orientation is that it is a
human characteristic that is formed early in life, and is resistant to change.
As described in my article on The Judeo - Christian
Origin of Science» [1], science is based on specific fundamental beliefs about the natural world, namely that matter is good, rational and contingent and open to the
human mind, and that any discoveries that may be made should be shared freely.
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.
As long as it was assumed that the world that originally came into being was much like our present world, with
human beings coming into existence abruptly in their present form, it was hard to think
of origins in terms
of chance and necessity.
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.»
'' If any one asserts, that this sin
of Adam, which in its
origin is one, and being transfused into all by propagation, not by imitation, is in each one as his own, is taken away either by the powers
of human nature, or by any other remedy than the merit
of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ... let him be anathema.»
For if their purpose or activity is
of human origin, it will fail.
Therefore it is not affected by the profound wounding
of human nature caused by the sin
of Adam which happened at the
origins of our species.
to Jake, in every era or times in the past,
humans have different perception
of reality, because our knowledge improves or changes toward sophistication, For example during the times
of Jesus, there was no science yet as what we have today, since the religion in the past corresponds to their needs, it is true for them in the past, but today we already knew many new ideas and facts, so what is applicable in the past is no longer today, like religion, we have also to change to conform with todays knowledge.The creation or our
origin for example is now explained beyond doubt by science as the big bang and evolution is the reason we become
humans, is in contrast to creation in the bibles genesis,.
This need to have answers is what drives research and study
of natural phenomenon,
human behavior, the
origin of the universal, and so on.
• Quoting the Catechism: «
Human intelligence is surely already capable
of finding a response to the question
of origins.
Whatever its
origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible term for one who was thus both
human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable in their realm
of ideas)-- whatever its
origin, this first great step in the advance
of Christology was
of endless significance for the later development
of Christian doctrine, and it was
of paramount importance for the Gospel
of Mark.
The time and place
of the
origin of the
human species is not a religious question.
Whatever impulse his followers have had to labor for the amelioration
of human life in ministering to the sick, the weak and helpless, the ignorant, the poverty - stricken, the imprisoned by any kind
of chains, owes its primary
origin to the love
of God for persons as this was manifest in Jesus.
Start with them destroying
human kind, then travel back to their
origin through out the GN, until you finally reach the most evil, zombie - generator
of all.
The doctrine
of reincarnation is interesting because it attempts to provide an answer not only to the question
of human destiny but also
of human origin.
i accept all people as
human regardless
of race, creed, national
origin or se - xual orientation.
This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully
human productions — I point out that statements
of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate
origin and authority, not method
of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect
of literature
of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to
human experience.
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.
Having ascertained the place
of belief in the world and its role as the operative and creative principle in
human striving and drive toward the future, we shall next consider its evolutionary stages and
origin in order that we may realize its cosmic dimension.
Professor Michael King states: «The conclusion reached by scientists who have investigated the
origins and stability
of sexual orientation is that it is a
human characteristic that is formed early in life, and is resistant to change.
But they do disclose to us certain important truths, upon which the attainment
of our eternal salvation depends, and they do also give a popular description
of the
origin of the
human race and
of the chosen people.
I don't know much about the
origins of sacrifice in
human culture.
Among the biblical myths
of human origin, two are particularly relevant to the problems raised by globalization.
(Gen 1:24) Pope Pius XII, St John Paul II and the Catechism have lent increasing support to scientific views
of the
origins of the
human body.
It has its own divine
origin and its own natural place at the heart
of the
human community under the Unity Law
of Control and Direction.
In other words, the earthly, matter - bound
origin of human nature calls forth God's greatest act
of loving care and humility — the Incarnation
of God the Word through which humanity is united to Godhead in a union more intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortality.
«In CV, however, you will never find a statement
of religious
origin without an accompanying
human and rational justification, upon the condition, quite naturally, that reason complies in full with its duty and that the sciences do not let themselves be guided by ideologies.