Sentences with phrase «of years of civilization»

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Because if we say, like, the same amount of threshold for self - sustaining studio Mars or civilization would be a million people, well, and you can only go every 2 years — if you have 100 people per ship, that's 10,000 trips.

Or, as the paper put it: «If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to our own era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today?»

In essence, at a bifurcation in history, civilizations could be capped at a few thousand years or, alternatively, last for hundreds of thousands — or even millions — of years.

Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

If something catastrophic happens to Earth, we lose billions of years of evolution and thousands of years of advanced human civilization.

China, Fukuyama judges, has a strong central state bureaucracy — indeed, it was the first civilization to have one, some 2,000 years before the West — and leaders who, if not democratically accountable, have managed to stay focused on the basic needs of its citizens.

«In order to understand stock performance in the past 200 years, and the next 20 years, we must be able to understand and explain the basic trajectory of human civilization.

The presumption that China, a 5000 year old civilization and the historical HEGEMON of aisa, was going to be our pet dragon is laughable.

When the compass was invented by the Chinese during the Qin dynasty (221 - 206 B.C), it radically changed civilizations and ushered in many years later the Age of Exploration in the 15th century.

There were much more advanced civilizations (thousands of years before) with very similar stories than the nomadic tribes wandering the desert.

«Twenty or 30 years ago, a show like «Tyrant» would have turned into a clash - of - civilizations plotline.

I see we've learned nothing after nearly 7,000 years of human civilization and 250,000 years of homosapian existence.

Stupid humans fight and kill over their imaginary friend for 1000's of years and goes back even further to the polytheistic civilizations before that.

Those considering joining the rest of civilization in owning a cell phone, and those thinking about replacing the blasted thing when their two - year agreement finally runs out must address the...

Sorry, you believe that the majority of western civilization is built on a delusion or that somehow in the last 200 years people suddenly grew special reasoning skills never known to man before.

@flash Millions of people over thousands of years give witness to the Truth!I'll go with the numbers, thank you, sufficient evidence or proof for all but you, and a few additional self deluded.You have no position and no authority, in short the facts remain you have lied to yourself and are trying to drag civilization down with you.You are exposed as a fraud and a liar and will stand before God as such unless you change.God bless

Call me Linda Blair, but enough of religion in politics... it didn't work and it SURE won't work in 4 years when civilization is that much more advanced.

This probably indicates that there are no alien civilizations at our stage of development within a radius of a few hundred light years.

Many civilizations have lived even before Catholic church held Europe in darkness for hundreds of years.

You know the world is an amazing creation of God if you don't spend your time trying to demand that God exists today as he did to a civilization 2000 years ago.

Centuries ago, during the B.C. years, India was perhaps just forests interspersed with pockets of civilization.

mandarax Or, as Hitchens pointed out, sentient man existed for about 200000 years before God supposedly stepped in and offered him spiritual aid, and then in the backwaters of the world and not in one of the civilizations, like China or even Egypt.

We worry that the supply of oil on which our industrial civilization is based will be largely depleted within twenty or thirty years.

The historic churches, shrines, monasteries, hospitals, homes and other holdings; the priceless art and libraries, not to mention the intellectual capital and value of political connection and influence of a 200 year old organization that essentially built western civilization.

During the past ten years, some of the sharpest observers of our time have come to believe that the tectonic plates underlying Western civilization have shifted momentously.

Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.

Past Master tells of Thomas More, brought forward a thousand years to Astrobe — a planet settled from Earth, the inheritor of American civilization.

However, after the rise of the first civilizations some 5,000 years ago, powerful conquerors have forced a number of different social groups to enter into a compulsory form of unity.

Teilhard relates this movement towards the planetary unity of civilizations with what he describes as the increasing convergence of men in a consciousness which is super-individual and with the passing years more and more super-national; and he has some specifically Christian things to say about that movement and its meaning.

Seeing them together in their robes — large jeweled pectoral crosses, long ebony shepherd staffs in hand, the golden double - eagled symbol of Byzantium topping each staff — one was reminded of the civilization that shaped the Christian East for 1,000 years.

Or maybe in the 10,000 + years of human civilization that predates Judeo - Christian thought.

And then, after only about 150 years of inbreeding, there is a big enough human population to have a civilization building a tower up towards God.

What of the Yugabdha sanatan Hindu Calendar that says its the year 1986772928 And human civilization began 6,000 years ago, how do you explain sites like Cueva de La Pasiega that contain cave painting dating back tens of thousands of years?

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.

Once The Quest of the Historical Jesus is set in the context of his other writings, and once we begin to discern the fundamental concerns that weighed upon Schweitzer's mind during those years; we can only marvel at his prescience — for we too are finally coming to realize that «the suicide of civilization» is imminent.

For Stark, refusing to acknowledge the influence of Christianity on Western civilization suggests an advanced stage of wrong - headedness: «What I find so astonishing is that the people who are willing to blame Christianity for having «destroyed» civilization for 2,000 years are unwilling to see that it had any effects on another level.

Many thousands of years ago, ALL people were pagans, do human civilization naturally has pagan echoes mixed in with more recent celebrations.

The «endtimes» as your refer it have been predicted by dozens of civilizations over the past 3,000 years... guess what... NOT ONE... prediction has come true.

Here's Mitt actually defending his stand on marriage: «I believe that marriage has been defined the same way for literally thousands of years by virtually every civilization in history and that marriage is by its definition a relationship between a man and woman and if two people of the....

Why is it JVD that around 2 thousand years of our civilizations ongoing mannerisms are daily being subjected to folks like you who would rather be religiously bound up and hog tied in transfixed ideologies that will never truly find their messiah's returning?

Archaeologists draw conclusions about earlier civilizations, often from items that have lain buried for thousands of years.

Take the traditional family structure which has been the core unit of civilization for at least 10 - 30,000 years.

He argues that the decline of Islamic civilization over the past 600 years resulted from defeats at the hands of the West — in trade, technology, science, philosophy, political development, modernization, diplomacy and war.

It was not until somewhere between eight to five thousand years ago that this tribal existence gradually gave way in certain regions to broader and more complex social arrangements that eventually led to the great civilizations, nations and cultures of more recent times.

Toynbee observed that since the dawn of civilization there has been a growing «morality gap» between humankind's physical power over nature and the level of its spirituality — a gap that has increased rapidly in the last 200 years.

Well, remember, this is Paul who is writing, and he lived about 2000 years ago during the peak of the Roman civilization.

Then, only seven or eight thousand years ago, there came the first civilizations, each covering a large part of a continent.

One of the paradoxes attaching to the human species, a cause of some bitterness among biologists, is that every man comes into the world as defenseless, and as incapable of finding his way single - handed in our civilization, as the new - born Sinanthropus a hundred thousand years ago.

Judaism essentially laid waste to those religions over the course the following 3000 years and was demonized as a result of so many civilizations feeling threatened.

Twenty - one years ago Albert Schweitzer said, «It is clear now to everyone that the suicide of civilization is in progress.