Sentences with phrase «on human imagination»

The death of these reptilian giants continues to exert an extraordinary grip on the human imagination.

Clarification... I did not say they were BASED on human imagination, but rather that I believe there is much in the bible that is the product of such.

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A holder of more than 600 U.S. patents and one of the world's most prolific living inventors shares his perspective on the history of innovation, with a special look at Chinese artifacts from his personally curated Library of the History of Human Imagination.

I mean, I know the Freudian superstition has been largely discredited since those heady days — his results were falsified, his psychotherapeutic sorcery doesn't work, and so on — but that doesn't alter the extraordinary hold his model of human motives still has over people's imaginations, or the bibulous excitement his ideas once inspired.

research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in the public imagination.

A.: It is reasonable to hope that science and technology, along with other expressions of human imagination and creativity, will find progressively better solutions to our problems as time goes on.

Secondly, by linking «art» with «communication», performance studies helps homiletics resist those impulses in the church and / or seminary cultures to devalue the human imagination in favor of «practicalities» and overemphasis on affect and affectation.

Kirk, on the other hand, learned from Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More to regard imagination as the essential human quality.

This is why the Olympic Games retain such a powerful hold on our moral imagination: We get to see what human nature is capable of in its nobler moments.

The third danger to preaching caused by an overwhelmed imagination is that of allowing the mind and therefore the sermons to dwell on the more spectacular, the more newsworthy images of the human condition.

As pointed out at the time, this was in contradiction to statements he had made previously, inwhich he had repudiated the idea of human cloning: «Human cloning has grabbed people's imagination, but that is merely a diversion — and one we personally regret, and find distasteful,» he had said in The Second Creation, the book on Dolly's cloning which he co-authored with embryologist Kenneth Campbell in human cloning: «Human cloning has grabbed people's imagination, but that is merely a diversion — and one we personally regret, and find distasteful,» he had said in The Second Creation, the book on Dolly's cloning which he co-authored with embryologist Kenneth Campbell in Human cloning has grabbed people's imagination, but that is merely a diversion — and one we personally regret, and find distasteful,» he had said in The Second Creation, the book on Dolly's cloning which he co-authored with embryologist Kenneth Campbell in 2002.

The exceptional powers of sympathetic imagination and of literary expression possessed by this evangelist make his work the most effective of all as a human and, so to speak, secular approach to the «Jesus of History,» but it does not lie on the main classical line of development from the apostolic Preaching.

They formed a whole community on their own, and this divine society he pictured in his imagination after the pattern of his own human society.

My own lecture was titled «The Right to Belong Where I Come From,» and dealt with the importance of home in the human imagination, the struggle against placelessness in modern culture, and the cultural forces that come to bear on the human consciousness to weaken attachments between person and home place.

No more fantastic peg on which to hang the future of Christianity was ever invented by the human imagination.

As humans we have the greatest gift of all the animals on this planet: REASON but also IMAGINATION!

Myth therefore employs subjective means derived from the human imagination to describe a reality which utterly transcends consciousness, and which possesses an objective validity in its own right, quite apart from its effects on the disciples and witnesses.

Richard Viladesau tries to break away from this philosophical impasse by proposing a fundamental theology of the human imagination based on the Logos, the Son of God as Creator.

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

A fertilized egg is not a «human life» but not a surprise from someone that makes claims of the supernatural based on their imagination.

The dimensions of divine blessing on human enterprise and of the vast new responsibility it brings for creation and the quality of human life, have expanded beyond previous imagination.

The atheist stakes all on the proposition that God is just a figment of the human imagination, a name invented by prescientific man to explain what he could not understand.

Never anywhere has any doctrine on earth brought God and man so near together as has Christianity; neither could anyone else do it, only God Himself can, every human invention remains after all a dream, an uncertain imagination.

The Liturgy as a counter-cultural school is neglected, and the «sacramental imagination» — while properly lauded as a privileged Catholic contribution — is more a timeless perspective on nature and human life than an awareness of how we continue to hear, see, feel and taste the Word spoken into our world 2,000 years ago.

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

In theory, the answer should only be bounded by the limits of human physicality, imagination, and cruelty, and as such not really fit for publication on a family website.

While some frown on this aversion to the fantastical, concerned that it discourages children from being imaginative, I would argue that play food endowed with human characteristics, forces the adult's imagination on the child.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

It's hard to think of any modern human activity that has had more of a multiplicative impact on the imagination than space exploration.

Fuentes» recent books include «Evolution of Human Behavior,» «Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths About Human Nature,» «Conversations on Human Nature (s)» and the forthcoming «The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional.»

As David Quammen explains in Monster of God, we have turned the tables on the world's great predators and are rapidly killing them off — despite, or ironically, because of — the powerful role that large carnivores have played in the human imagination.

Richard Cowper asks what is wrong with that in his essay: «I realised early on in life that the ability to «escape» is but to exercise the divine faculty of the human imagination.

From capturing wind and wave energy off our shores to harnessing human energy from the floors of Grand Central Terminal or tapping heat under the earth's crust, there are exciting developments on the outer reaches of our imagination.

Ever since scientists realized that humans evolved from a succession of primate ancestors, the public imagination has been focused on the inflection point when those ancestors switched from ape - like shuffling to walking upright as we do today.

And humans tend to focus on the negatives and gloss over the positives, meaning that while you're stressing about how another mom's house is always clean, you're ignoring the fact that your wild imagination makes you the best playmate ever.

This may explain why partial advertising bans are ineffective and comprehensive bans on all forms of tobacco marketing are effective.As early as 1911 psychology of marketing theorist Walter D Scott said, «[t] he man with the proper imagination is able to conceive of any commodity in such a way that it becomes an object of emotion to him and to those to whom he imparts his picture... should be a practical psychologist and know the human emotions and sentiments...».

Some production notes state that «The appearance of the third monolith, Kubrick has explained, sends space voyager Bowman «on a journey through inner and outer space and finally... to where he's placed in a human zoo approximating a hospitable terrestrial environment drawn out of his own dreams and imagination.

Some production notes found in an earlier DVD release stated that «the appearance of the third monolith, Kubrick has explained, sends space voyager Bowman «on a journey through inner and outer space and finally... to where he's placed in a human zoo approximating a hospitable terrestrial environment drawn out of his own dreams and imagination.

Dir Clive Barker (Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Sean Chapman, Doug Bradley) From the disturbed imagination of gifted British fabulist Clive Barker comes a Faustian pact with a difference, involving a mysterious puzzle - box, a painful rebirth and the diet of human flesh needed to put the skin back on the flayed muscle of jaded sensualist Frank's resurrected body.

A lifeguard (Justin Timberlake) tells us a story that just might be filtered through his vivid imagination: a middle - aged carousel operator (James Belushi) and his beleaguered wife (Kate Winslet), who eke out a living on the boardwalk, are visited by his estranged daughter (Juno Temple)-- a situation from which layer upon layer of all - too - human complications develop.

And Roald Dahl's imagination seems to have given us a glimpse into the future early - on, by delving into the human mind and withdrawing its capabilities in terms of a story.

While chatbots — computer programs that conduct conversations via audio or text — have captured the imaginations of businesses hungry to automate conversations on the web, it will still be a while before any «digital friend» inside your computer can truly mimic human conversation.

Michael has displayed his quirky, multidisciplinary approach to science in books such as 2003's Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form (Viking) and Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination, which was selected as one of NPR's Best Science Books of 2007.

Whenever I'm working on a writing project, I keep a book in the rotation that reminds me what the human imagination is capable of, something that makes me feel both humble and inspired.

The second one left me with a question, was Tommy a human or a free little bird, so I had to use my imagination, and the third reminds me of a short story I have on hold.

With the stars their home and the unknown their destination, they are on a voyage of many lifetimes — an odyssey to understand what lies beyond the limits of human knowledge and imagination.

Perhaps nothing fires the human imagination so universally, or so early on, as the notion of the dinosaur.

Missions to Mars - from the past, present, and also some ambitious projects for the future - sparked our imagination about what it would be like to be the first human on Mars.

Pozanti expounds on the ideas and themes that motivated 63 (Average number of days it takes to break a bad habit): the effects of technology on humans, culture and the environment, our current transition from a knowledge age to an imagination age, verification of online information, inventing a new alphabet, and envisioning new futures.

Antufiev combines imagination with aspects of Russian and international cultures, personal stories, and a skilled appreciation for the effect on human culture of different materials such as stone, bone, wood, amber and bronze.