Sentences with phrase «on creation myths»

JMcK: Your most recent exhibition Origination at the Nohra Haime Gallery in New York City (October - November 2014) focused on creation myths and the natural world.

This original take on the creation myth is more than just empty metaphor.

The Primordial Molder, is a continuation of her large - scale ceramic sculpture series that ruminates on the creation myth from Taoist tradition: in the primordial world, Nüwa the Snake Goddess marked the beginning of humanity by patching a giant hole in heaven with five - colored stones, using the legs of a great turtle as pillars to support the collapsed sky from the earth.

Not exact matches

Reading up on various creation myths, you'll note extreme similarities between religions like Islam and Christianity, with tweaks that coincide with the political climate of the time these religions were evolving into popular movements.

For example, modern knowledge based on scientific discovery shows us that disease is not caused by evil spirits, so why believe in ancient creation myths which are shown to be incorrect.

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

Also, I think it reinforces the notion that one must choose between believing in evolution and believing in a loving, personal God - a common myth on both sides of the creation / evolution debate.What do you think?

In the Babylonian creation myth, for example, man was created as a kind of after - thought in order to perform the menial tasks, which otherwise would have been part of the responsibilities laid as a judgment on the defeated rebel gods.

Depending on which version of the Genesis creation myth you go with, they were either created together, or Adam was around for a while before God made Eve to keep him company.

You use you own COMIC BOOK BIBLE TO DEBUNK A BADLY TRANSLATED VERSION OF REAL MYTH BASED ON YOUR OWN VERSION OF THINGS and then USE THAT SAME BOOK TO SUPPORT WHAT YOU KNOW IS UNTRUE BECAUSE THE BIBLE IS YOUR COMIC BOOK CREATION.

The creation of the birds also precedes or follows the creation of Adam, depending on which version of the myth one reads.

The story had its dim beginnings and it betrays its distant involvement in an ancient myth of creation out of the Near and Middle East which survived in various forms but best and most fully in the Babylonian Enuma Elish (a title derived from its opening words, «When on high»).4 Here chaos is represented in the goddess Tiamat, a name perhaps echoed in the Hebrew word for «deep» tehom (1:2).

The importance of the first two chapters of Genesis (which are quite contradictory) is that they are the creation myths of a prescientific people who were attempting to make sense of the world based on their knowledge, which included the Sun going around the Earth and required supernatural beings as explanations for natural phenomena.

Barton pins the creation of the «myth of separation of church and state» on 20th - century judges.

(Cf. Raffaele Pettazzoni, «Myths of Beginnings and Creation Myths,» Essays on the History of Religions (Leiden, 1954), pp. 24 - 36.)

Just about the only thing that hasn't been added is the Hindu creation myth that the Earth sits on top of the giant elephant that rests on the shell of a enormous turtle.

So the long and short of your question is: Yes, I know what the crucifixion means to most Christians, however that has no bearing on the real world for it's based on flawed logic and faulty creation myths.

It looks like Richard Gere has set his sights on a much younger beauty, because E! News confirms that the 65 Dating creation is the attempt to provide an estimate of the age of Earth or the age of the universe as understood through the origin myths of various

A brilliant opening sequence by John Hubley details the creation myth of the rabbits, offering each animal on the planet a vicious gift and a taste for rabbit flesh that is protected only by a fleetness of foot and a highly developed community warning system.

A brilliant opening sequence by John Hubley details the creation myth of the rabbits, offering each animal on the planet a vicious gift and a taste for rabbit flesh that is protected only by a fleetness of foot and a highly - developed community warning system.

Is it some esoteric riff on the Book of Genesis and the Creation myth?

The lesson asks students to reflect on their ideas of the origins of the world and uses a myth to help them reflect on the arguments surrounding creation.

My 6th grade students will be working on a cross curricular Pi activity with Humanities (just finished a unit on Greek mythology) where the students will be writing myths on the origin, creation, or the original use of Pi.

Recently, this work has involved the creation of a new white paper on the timely topic of passive target - date funds (TDFs), dubbed «Passive target - date funds: Separating myth from reality.»

Hancock's work centers on an epic pseudo-biblical creation myth whose protagonists are the Mounds — creatures that are part human, part vegetation.

A graduate of Wesleyan University (2007), Z is a founding member of the filmmaking collective Court 13 and is currently in production on her first feature film: a female artist creation myth.

In her video, the 34 - year - old Parisian artist presents footage of these artifacts — and of herself rummaging through the archives — in windows that pop up on the screen (as on a computer desktop) while a voiceover raps out a crazy quilt of creation myths over a drumbeat.

Next up is the 1998 piece «The Creation Myth,» a sort cityscape built from scrap wood, folding tables, buckets and mirrors; a toy train outfitted with a fake snake and a live - feed video camera navigates the piece, its findings are projected on monitors.

Paolo Canevari presents highly recognizable or even commonplace symbols in order to comment on such concept as religion, the urban myths of happiness or the major principles behind creation and destruction.

Now on view at the Museum of Modern Art, this addicting and idiosyncratic 13 minute film explores various creations myths, through a dizzying display of modern and ancient artifacts and images which open and close in windows on the screen, set against a hip hop beat and spoken word poetry on the origins of life, in some ways taking aim at the history and science of anthropological collections.

Another intriguing comparison is between Picasso's etchings of the 1930s on Ovidian themes and Rivera's 1931 watercolor illustrations of the Popol Vuh creation myth, which could not be more different.

Earthly Delight and Back to the Garden twist iconic imagery associated with the Garden of Eden creation myth, commenting on our uneasy modern relationship with both technology and utopias.

Concentrating on video derived from performance — most often staged for the camera — «Video Acts» encompasses approaches ranging from structuralist experimentation and more or less overt political statement to the creation of idiosyncratic narratives and the amplification of personal myths.