Sentences with phrase «on ancient science»

The homophobic statement in the Book of Discipline is based on ancient science developed in the mid-1800s (the «H - Word» didn't exist prior to this).

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When Steve Jobs passed away, friends and family attending his funeral received a small gift from the late tech genius: Autobiography of a Yogi, a book focused on the «ancient science of Yoga and its time - honored tradition of meditation.»

Probably creationist don't turn to Leviticus 13 for medical advice on how to treat skin disease (leprosy); nor do they turn to Joshua 6 (Siege and fall of Jericho) for lessons in military science; nor do they turn to the staple of ancient legal science in Exodus 21:23 - 2 (lex talons «eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth») for modern jurisprudence.

What cracks me up is the religious attack our science... we have their god pushed all the way back to TBB... they seem to lose track of the fact that their beliefs are based on, at minimum 1350 year old thinking (quaran) and somehow ancient philosophy can trump The Big Bang and the solid science that its based on.

Thus modern science is built on Christian foundations, and this explains why there was no science as we know it in any of the ancient civilisations ofantiquity.

Even while acknowledging some lat.itude in these early chapters, it appears that science is increasingly able to corroborate what we have held in faith based upon biblical texts, including bases for such matters as an ancient deluge, genetic linking back to one mother and possible on father, and the possibility of extended life - spans prior to the deluge.

For a person who toots his own horn about how smart he is, you certainly seem to need a lot more study on ancient history, science, and general philosophy coupled with theology.

The grounds on which church authorities resisted the advancing claims of the sciences were in the first place simply that they were at variance with the accepted teachings handed down from ancient times.

Focusing, as you might guess, on evolution, our friends at the Portsmouth Institute are offering a conference on «Modern Science / Ancient Faith» from June 22nd to 24th.

Their beliefs in the natural motions of objects, the stars, etc. was predicated on Aristotelian physics and ancient science.

Yes, science adjusts its position as more knowledge is obtained; this is in stark contrast to religion which relies on ancient texts to explain the world even though those texts were written in ignorance and scientific knowledge shows them to be false.

Just don't base public policy on ideas which he gleams from an ancient text written by men who did not understand science.

They praise ancient Greek and Arabic sciences as successful on their own terms but have lost sight of the fact that the theories advanced by early science were largely false.

It is remarkable that in spite of the massive scholarly work on medieval science there are still books on the history of science that begin with an account of the achievements of the ancient Greeks and pass immediately to the Renaissance, completely ignoring the contribution of the Middle Ages.

The world's foremost expert on detecting fake wines, Maureen Downey, shares six tips for ensuring you don't end up the victim of fraud... Today's News: Understanding the Science Behind Ancient Wine For hundreds of years, questions -LSB-...]

Wellness workshops are centered on Ayurveda Daily Routines, the ancient Indian science of life and wellness, and include such options as sleep tips, relaxation / stress management, and herbal remedies to combat common ailments.

These herbal medicine remedies are based on the principles of Ayurveda, the ancient Indian science of healing.

But others point out that science could benefit if Native American tribes use ancient DNA to secure the return of more remains, because this may deliver long - sought data on the peopling of the region.

This week the authors issued a note explaining the mistake in their October 2015 Science paper on the genome of a 4,500 - year - old man from Ethiopia — the first complete ancient human genome from Africa.

NASA's Curiosity rover will mark one year on Mars next week and has already achieved its main science goal of revealing ancient Mars could have supported life.

Subsequent genetic studies have supported the NCC deficit hypothesis, most recently an April report in Science on the sequencing of 14 ancient horse genomes up to 4,100 years old; that's close to the estimated dawn of domesticated horses some 5,500 years ago.

Even back then, explains Marzari, a physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, his now - ancient handset took just 40 seconds to carry out quantum - mechanical calculations that once took many hours on a supercomputer — a feat that not only shows how far such computational methods have come in the past decade or so, but also demonstrates their potential for transforming the way materials science is done in the future.

In 2005, the European Consortium for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) drilled an ice core in Dome C on east Antarctica's plateau that stretches our record of the ancient atmosphere back 800,000 years (Quaternary Science Reviews, DOI: 10.1016 / j.quascirev.2010.10.002).

When he began studying flotation in 1995, Rorres simply wanted to fill in the gaps in a classic book of ancient Greek science, On Floating Bodies.

And in the 20 % of her time she isn't working on ancient sites or forensic cases, she teaches archaeology and forensic science to both undergraduates and mature students and also does in - house training for police and similar staff.

In a paper the journal Science published last June, Tom Dillehay, an anthropological archaeologist at Vanderbilt University, revealed that the squash seeds he found in the ruins of what may have been ancient storage bins on the lower western slopes of the Andes in northern Peru are almost 10,000 years old.

And by the way, it was a good year for science because that was also the year that Vesalius publishes his influential book on human anatomy, correcting some of the mistakes of the ancient Greek thinkers, which actually is what Copernicus was doing, too.

In the December Scientific American science writer Zach Zorich reports on the discovery of a spectacular artwork in the ancient Maya city of Holmul in Guatemala.

Sparrow and Kessler's results on the role of ancient methane sources are consistent with the findings of their Rochester colleague Vasilii Petrenko, an associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, who also radiocarbon dated methane.

When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought

«The ability to identify nicotine and other plant - based drugs in ancient dental plaque could help us answer longstanding questions about the consumption of intoxicants by ancient humans,» said Shannon Tushingham, a WSU assistant professor of anthropology and co-author of a new study on the research in Journal of Archaeological Science Reports.

STScI / NASA press releases: Hubble Makes the First Precise Distance Measurement to an Ancient Globular Star Cluster Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo Hubble Identifies Source of Ultraviolet Light in an Old Galaxy ESA press releases: Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy Public speaking: On the Trail of the Missing Galaxies High - Level Science Products from Large and Treasury Programs: GO - 9453: The Age of the Andromeda Halo (126 orbits) GO - 10265: The Formation History of Andromeda (107 orbits) GO - 10816: The Formation History of Andromeda's Extended Metal - Poor Halo (128 orbits) GO - 11664 / 12666: The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: Populations, Formation History and Planets (56 orbits) GO - 12549: The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies (113 orbits)

«Do ancient eastern sciences hold the key to earthquake prediction on the basis of unusual cloud patterns?

A commentary published on 30 January in the leading science journal Nature Plants highlights the importance of an ancient grass species for wheat breeding.

And now, there is a beautifully written book on the subject, HOW TO CLONE A MAMMOTH: The Science of De-extinction, by Beth Shapiro at UC Santa Cruz, where she does most of our ancient DNA analysis and supervises Ben Novak's graduate work.

From the days of ancient technology to modern science - find out what happened on this day in the history of science.

Though it's an ancient mineral that we've relied on since the beginning of time, science is just starting to uncover the multitude of ways that atomic No. 12 can support modern well - being.

She prides herself on blending ancient Chinese Medicine with modern science then adding humor and reality to treat regular people who don't know how to pronounce quinoa.

Of late, modern day psychology and science are taking a renewed interest in the ancient perspectives on happiness.

An ancient spiritual science, yoga focuses on the natural tendency toward health and self - healing.

Additionally, there are frequent camps and yoga ashram work exchange programmes, intensive courses on yoga, meditation, pranayama, stress management, acupressure, Reiki and other ancient Indian sciences.

Drawing on her wisdom and notable expertise, Amy Weintraub guides us in bringing this ancient science of healing into clinical settings.

Learn the ancient science of Ayurveda on how you can fight that stubborn fat forever by making certain lifestyle changes.

On the much - desired expedition to the learning and practice of the most ancient forms of science ever explored, it becomes equally painstaking to get in touch with the right place which can deliver the knowledge of this science with veracity.

Developed over 5000 years ago, it is an ancient Indian science and practice, based on:

Curcumin, the active agent in turmeric, as been used in Ayurveda, the Ancient form of Indian Medicine for thousands of years and Western Science is catching on.

Hands on or energetic healing is a part of the wisdom of many cultures since ancient times, and the existence of «life force energy» has been verified by science.

Like foot massages that focus on ancient acupressure or reflexology points, effective foot pads tap into the ancient science of reflexology.

The ancient Indian health science of Ayurveda offers helpful tips on how to navigate holiday season without gaining weight or over-eating.

Black seeds were found in King Tut's tomb, and used by ancient physicians, yet are well - researched by modern science, with 500 medical papers published on them.