Sentences with phrase «other ancient group»

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It does not describe said individuals and their posterity, ancient or modern, as of less worth, or value as human beings than any other group.

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

There are a number of discussion groups on the Bible and the ancient world and hundreds of Web sites that provide exegetical, archaeological or other helps.

@ Cedar Tree:????? All sorts of miraculous, superhuman nonsense has been attributed to ancient rulers of other figures of yore whose existence was once accepted by this or that group and who may or may not have been based in part on some historical person or persons and absolutely NO ONE these days takes every word in every text written about these figures to be literal truth.

However, if I was an ancient Israelite, and I saw things like the Red Sea parting, staff turned into snakes, and the Shekinah glory, and prophets predicting specific future events with 100 % accuracy, and other nations setting their face against Israel to destroy her and / or engaged in human sacrifice, and they weren't typical humans but were actually a group of hybrids like the Nephalim or the Rephaim that were polluting the gene pool to try to foil God's plan of ultimately bringing a Messiah to save all mankind one day, and God wanted them to repent and sent them warning after warning, and they refused, and God commanded me thus....

In Jesus time when he fled Herod with his parents, the largest group of Jews where he possibly fled to, were located in Alexandria, a place where 300 years earlier Alexander, who conquered as far as India and tried to have his subjects learn about and understand each other... had followers that built the great library of Alexandria, holding much of the knowledge of the ancient world.

While radical Muslim groups like ISIS use ancient religious texts to support their horrific deeds, others violate historical and scriptural witness to promote a more appealing version of Muhammad.

Other groups were the Scotists using the works of the philosopher Duns Scotus, championed by the Franciscans; the Thomists using the texts of Thomas Aquinas, championed by the Dominicans — Aquinas had worked philosophy and religion into a great single Summa, transposing Aristotle into the context of Christian theology under the influence of Augustine and Bernard, in which fides quaerens intellectum, faith seeking understanding, was integrated organically with philosophy; finally there was also a via antiqua, the ancient way, which was centred on Plato, but was also used to describe the Thomists.

Other reports say that the forces of the group, increasingly known by its Arabic acronym Daesh, are using bulldozers to demolish ancient buildings.

In 2014, Weiss» group analyzed other ancient meteorites that formed within the solar system's first 2 to 3 million years, and found evidence of a magnetic field that was about 10 - 100 times stronger — about 5 - 50 microtesla.

Since these physiological features are shared by both Pereskia groups as well as other cacti, despite their ancient evolutionary split, the team concludes that they must have evolved first, and that the first cacti were «shrubs or small trees with photosynthetic leaves.»

«This religious group probably mixed less with later waves of people than others in the region and therefore preserved more of that ancient ancestry,» said Broushaki.

«For example, we identify distinct events happening at different times among groups sampled within Pakistan, with some inheriting DNA from sub-Saharan Africa, perhaps related to the Arab Slave Trade, others from East Asia, and yet another from ancient Europe.

And sequencing his nuclear genome — the genetic information inherited from both parents — and that of other ancient specimens could give a more complex picture of the way groups mixed with one another.

The probe from DeLong and Hinrichs, on the other hand, had worked right away: The Hydrate Ridge sediments were loaded with their methane eater, which is not a bacterium at all but a species of Archaea, an ancient group of microbes that diverged from bacteria billions of years ago and are as distinct from them now, genetically speaking, as humans are.

Although the Misliya fossil — which includes a partial upper jaw, intact teeth, part of the cheekbone, the roof of the mouth and the bottom of the nasal opening — displays a few features in common with Neandertals and other ancient Homo groups, several dental traits appear only in H. sapiens, Quam says.

«We wanted to test if the conquest of Alexander the Great and other foreign powers has left a genetic imprint on the ancient Egyptian population,» explains Verena Schuenemann, group leader at the University of Tuebingen and one of the lead authors of this study.

His group showed that the petrous bone, containing the tiny inner ear, harbors 100 times more DNA than other ancient human remains, offering a huge increase in the amount of genetic material available for analysis.

The two species also show other dental features that group them with later Old World monkeys and apes, but are still different enough to be classified as separate — and more ancient — species.

The team, which included other geochemists, palaeoecologists and geologists from UCL and the universities of Edinburgh, Leeds and Cambridge, as well as the Geological Survey of Namibia, analysed the chemical elemental composition of rock samples from the ancient seafloor in the Nama Group - a group of extremely well - preserved rocks in Namibia that are abundant with fossils of early Cloudina, Namacalathus and Namapoikia aniGroup - a group of extremely well - preserved rocks in Namibia that are abundant with fossils of early Cloudina, Namacalathus and Namapoikia anigroup of extremely well - preserved rocks in Namibia that are abundant with fossils of early Cloudina, Namacalathus and Namapoikia animals.

According to the researchers, these groups were the newly identified Ancient Beringians and the ancestors of all other Native Americans.

Comparisons with other ancient European farmers show that agriculture was brought to Iberia by the same migrant groups that introduced it to central and northern Europe.

Rhys - Jones believes that this ``... extraordinary situation» is due to Kow Swamp people being a - ``... relict group of the original occupants of Australia... «41 Thorne believes the two distinct Australian groups -LRB-» modern» Mungo and «primitive» Kow Swamp) had separate ancestries - one from Java and the other from ancient China.43

Sponges are an ancient group of animals that diverged from other metazoans over 600 million years ago.

Some five decades on, the story feels both ancient and present, as we can not comprehend the vile restrictions of one group while others continue to fight for their own recognition.

Map skills Prehistoric Man Customs / customs of the world Mesopotamian - First Historic people (also covered other groups in the region including the Phoenicians) Ancient Egypt Greeks Romans Middle Ages Introduced civilization of China and Japan (around Chinese New Year time) Rise of Europe Introduced civilization of India If, time, did a short unit on Economics at the end of the year.

The Krewe of Ancient Druids teased a number of other parade groups with its «Phobias» theme and the Mystic Krewe of Nyx reveled in cinematic takes on «What a Girl Wants» Wednesday night, as Carnival parading on the Uptown New Orleans route resumed after its week off.

According to DNA testing, the Chow Chow is grouped with thirteen other dogs as one of the most ancient breeds in existence.

The Ancient group did not include the Pharaoh Hound, Ibizan Hound or some other breeds that we believe have been around for thousands of years.

Before joining other group members for the Inca Trail trek, we'll visit ancient Inca ruins in the Sacred Valley and take a warm - up walk to the Salinas salt pans.

In addition, the Museum's collection of American decorative arts has been significantly expanded by Landon T. Clay's gifts of pre-Columbian art from the ancient Americas - notably gold works and a wonderful group of Maya polychrome ceramics - along with other acquisitions of furniture, sculpture, silver, glass art, ceramics, pewter, and other American items from prehistoric times onwards.

Because of the grand scale and artistry of the emperor's mausoleum, «we can compare his achievement to other great cultures in the world, for example Alexander the Great and the civilization in ancient Egypt,» archaeologist Zhang Weixing told the museum group through interpreter Li Jian, co-curator of the VMFA exhibition.

Actual examples: Ancient China, every couple of hundred years, the old empire would crumble under the weight of bureaucracy and associated corruption, what would always follow is a time of banditry, as people who no longer believed in any group other than themselves did whatever they wanted to enrich themselves.