Sentences with phrase «of traces of life»

Marshall and his colleagues proved the concept of testing for vanadium on known microfossils with acknowledged biological origins on Earth — organic microfossils called acritarchs that might not be far from the kinds of traces of life possibly existing on the Red Planet.

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But tracing one's thought process with a dry - erase marker in front of a live, skeptical audience can create extra stressors for people from underrepresented groups.

Titan traces Rockefeller's life from his humble origins as the son of snake - oil salesman to his pinnacle running the much feared monopoly Standard Oil.

The documentary traces Buffett's life story, from growing up the son of a U.S. Representative from Nebraska who had some trouble in school, to amassing upwards of $ 73 billion by leading Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a).

Lee's life traced a long arc of modern East Asian history: the last vestiges of colonialism; the advent of affluence; the introduction of democracy, albeit flawed and limited; the spread of globalization; the decline of Japan and the rise of China; and, now, the retreat to nationalism.

In fact, the majority of Weschler's performance can be traced to two large investments that he owned throughout the life of his fund: DaVita and WR Grace.

While coal is believed to be about 300 millions years old, it contains substantial amounts of Carbon - 14 which has a half - life of approximately 5730, with a margin of error + / - 40 years, and can only trace age back to approximately 50,000 years.

F.Y.I. Judaism, the Christian Faith, and the Muslim Faith can all be traced back to Abraham, it's just different interpretations of the same «stories» meant to be an example of how to live life as a good person.

Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway - which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells - has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

When you actually look at bone and trace fossils you get more of a sense of life as a messy realization of potential.

Every trace of guilt departed and I experienced a spiritual renewal, knowing that I was forgiven and that I had experienced the living God.

They quietly moved around the room, lightly tracing the sign of the cross on their small foreheads with anointing oil, praying for each of them to encounter Jesus, to know Jesus, to step into their lives as an act of worship.

In a Czech land called «Comenia» that could be Bohemia, first the Nazis and then the Russians impose terror and devastation, through which the author traces the fate of several families, including that of an aristocratic woman who both supported the Nazis and saved the lives of Jews.

The Gospels do not afford the kind of evidence needed to trace the course of his life or to explore his mind and personality.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

Finally, if one goes by texts and not anecdotes, the UCC Constitution and Statement of Faith represent who we really claim corporately to be, not to mention the seven recent volumes of The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ, tracing our lineage from the ancient creeds forward.

The lesson of the Copernican controversy, for them, was that science must avoid any trace of anthropocentrism, such as the idea that we live in a special part of the universe.

«Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth.

Egotheism, by contrast, is awestruck wonder and thanksgiving to God for the staggering miracle of unrepeatable life, the utterly unique self - consciousness that enables one to say «I.» In a 1960 remembrance of his childhood, Updike traced his transcendent sense of self - importance to the mystery of being an incarnate ego: a self within «a speck so specifically situated amid the billions of history.

I can trace my heritage through my cultural and racial ancestry, and thence further back through my animal ancestry, and still further back along the whole course of evolution — living, organic and inorganic.

It is difficult for us to trace the final moments of Bonhoeffer's life.

If this trace of a trend among solid thinkers develops further, the books that result may also be a leaven for those who seek a meaningful spiritual way of life but often have to settle for something that is less than substantial.

The first is expressed in two hon mots: we «live in the space age with Stone - Age brains»; and we are «hunter - gatherers in pinstripe suits» Both sayings affirm that we were not designed to be alone, our brains evolved as social brains; but at the same time they indicate that this social brain still bears traces of having evolved in the context of surviving in a Stone Age world.

There, he sought to show how Jesus» earthly life «traced out» each man's journey: Just as Christ is the way for each man, each man is the way for the Church, «the way that leads invariably through the mystery of the Incarnation and the Redemption.»

They trace the understanding of the heroic life from Homer to Virgil to the New Testament to Augustine to Milton to Bonhoeffer, and up to the present day in America — except, when we get to the present, we seem to have run out of heroes and heroines.

Wolfe has chapters set in the neuroscience classroom interspersed among chapters tracing the social and personal lives of Charlotte and her friends, and by this device Wolfe probes deeply into the nature of personal identity, free will, and the relation between the mind and the brain.

This is a statement from an official of the church that traces its foundation to Jesus and his life, yet, in fact, the church stands for almost everything that Jesus would have reviled.

As the volume's editor, Michael Sherwin, observes, this book is «nothing less than a theology of conversion and Christian vocation expressed in a narrative that traces the effects of God's mercy upon the lives of a generation searching for meaning.»

All the fears of the clergy were realized when in 1871 Darwin published The Descent of Man, in which he traced the origin and development not of the general forms of life but of man himself.

In the last lecture we traced one line of development from the original apostolic Preaching; that, namely, which starting from the eschatological valuation of facts of the past — the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ — resulted in the production of that distinctively Christian form of literature known as Gospels.

It is very difficult, however, to avoid the plain evidence of inequality in many ways, and these inequalities must be traced ultimately to whatever are the sources of being upon which life depends.

Much more recently Eldridge Cleaver has pointed out that the splitting tendency in American culture, which we have traced back to the early Puritans, tended to make the white man a mind without a body and the black man a body without a mind.20 Only when the white man comes to respect his own body, to accept it as part of himself, will he be able to accept the black man's mind and treat him as something other than the living symbol of what he has rejected in himself.

They can be traced through many passages of poetry and prophecy in the Old Testament; they had a flourishing career in the «apocalypses» which pullulated in the period just before and just after the beginning of the Christian era; and they lived on.

These writings have their being, as they had their origin, within the life of a community which traces its descent from Abraham and Moses, from prophets and apostles, and plays its part in the history of our own time; and the Scriptures not only recall its past, but serve the needs of its day - to - day existence in the present.

Noll traces the use of the Bible in American public life from the Puritans» roots in the Reformation through the Revolution.

December 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the...

He would trace the first moment of that manifestation of Wisdom through which creatures are raised up to share in the very Life and Being of God, right back to the creative act of the Almighty which initiates the Cosmos in the beginning.

: Emerging Mummy with In Which I Write a Letter to My Daughter for International Women's Day «I'll trace the line of time backwards for you until you see the women that came before you in a great cloud of witnesses for your life.»

Because virtue ethicists tend to trace their lineage back to Aristotle, when they discuss the connection between ethics and metaphysics they also tend to do so in Aristotelian terms, specifically in terms of a natural teleology that tries to determine which functional properties are essential for a full human life.

And it traces this insidious individualism precisely to the marginalization of the Church in the life of England, the failure of clergy to be the makers of English manners, and the consequent intrusion of other forces as the makers of manners.

In the essays that make up Love» s Knowledge, she focuses on the novel as the literary genre most useful in tracing the lineaments of our moral lives.

Those lucky enough never to have known the accompanying fear and uncertainty can hardly begin to understand the cynicism and darkness of the lives of normal people in such countries, or of the liberation they felt when the last traces of the Communist Party were scrubbed away.

But they traced through the tragic life of their people the divine working of judgment, of healing, and of mercy, and they recognized the Lordship of the righteous God over all life.

Origin of Life: Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

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So much of the suffering in modern American life» we see it every day» can be traced to our misdirected desires, and the distractions we use to feed them.

«51 In consequence, therefore, of all these principles, one can not detect in Hartshorne's doctrine of man even the faintest traces of despair of life's ultimate meaning, fear or perplexity in the face of death, moral vertigo, or denigration of the enduring value of our transient earthly life.

And when the great Socrates traced the arguments for immortality in his address to his disciples on the day of his death, he did not merely teach this doctrine: at that moment he lived his doctrine.

And that oil prospectors look for traces of fossils that indicate there might have been life on that spot MILLIONS of years ago to help them determine if there's oil under there.

With infinite resignation he has drained the cup of life's profound sadness, he knows the bliss of the infinite, he senses the pain of renouncing everything, the dearest things he possesses in the world, and yet finiteness tastes to him just as good as to one who never knew anything higher, for his continuance in the finite did not bear a trace of the cowed and fearful spirit produced by the process of training; and yet he has this sense of security in enjoying it, as though the finite life were the surest thing of all.