Sentences with phrase «other than myth»

A thousand years after our 21st century civilization was obliterated by an asteroid, little remains other than myth and superstition; but a wasted world is coming back alive and the hope of recovery rests on Dismé who will uncover the truth and reclaim a lost world.

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There's little doubt that our own obsession with social media, blogging, personal branding, and user - generated content has done more to propagate the insidious myth that others have it better than you than anything else.

But for other targeted groups, like the superwealthy or high - tech workers, we're dealing with more myth than reality.

There is nothing to gain from this, other than knowing that the bible is a collection of myths.

Science writers Carl Sagan and Fritjof Capra have pointed out similarities between the latest scientific understanding of the age of the universe, and the Hindu concept of a «day and night of Brahma», which is much closer to the current known age of the universe than other creation myths.

(Romans 1:20) there was no other alternative explanation for the world existing than the various supernatural creation myths.

Your particular myth is no different than any of the other myths spouted.

Your religion is based on many myths that preceded it, yours is no different than ALL of the other religions... man made stories, man made myths, man made gods.

also, PS: not that I'm a «Satanist», nor that I defend it more than any other religion, but I will say that a lot of Christians don't know much about them other than H0llyw00d myths.

Myth and fact are inextricably entangled, and a person is not necessarily a more authentic Christian by being more firmly grasped by the one or the other: «For this is the marriage of heaven and earth: Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact: claiming not only our love and our obedience, but also our wonder and delight, addressed to the savage, the child, and the poet in each one of us no less than to the moralist, the scholar, and the philosopher.»

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

That is, if you call time spent reading one single book and / or praying instead of living, learning to live with and embrace those who are different than you, the people you alienated due to hateful rhetoric, and having stronger relationships with others around you without the Jesus myth getting in the way, «nothing.»

In her case one of the New Testament's major figures remained of virtually unknown origin, character and destiny, so roughly sketched that she could easily be confused with other unnamed and unsketched women and grow into a myth far different, far richer in some ways, than her actual self.

The second question is whether the translation of myth into the language of concept leads to the existentialist interpretation rather than any other.

«Here, unlike the concept familiar in the science of religion, myth means nothing other than the report by ardent enthusiasts of that which has befallen them.»

Bultmann suggests that there are other languages than those of science arid myth.

I think that God may have been whispering His truth to other cultures and generations than just the Jewish one, so that when Jesus came, He could be seen as the fulfillment of their hopes, dreams, and myths.

The French Revolution of 1789, perhaps more than any other event in recent history, has implanted in western consciousness the myth of the heroic popular revolt against oppressive authority.

Why do you find the mythology of Genesis more appealing than the thousands of other creation myths mankind has created?

Though he preferred to speak of biblical «saga» rather than «myth» in order to distinguish biblical myth from the monist mythologies of other religions and philosophies, he urged that, by either name, the «mythical» aspects of scripture should not be regarded as dispensable for theology.

But there is nothing in the universe that points to any of the gods of ancient myth as anything other than the desire for self - acknowledgement within a narrative structure.

other than just sayin that irreducible complexity is a myth, you do nt have anything to say.

If I were born into a faith organization that was a solid socialist oligarchy having fair flat tax, budget surpluses, welfare without shame, culturally sensitve worldwide outreach, and promise to rule over a planet of my own, I would find sticking around to be a good bet, and all the myths to be no more bizarre than those found in other faith traditions.

It is no good our going on about Scripture if our audience thinks it has been shown to be no truer than the myths of other religions.

The similarity in style and content between the stories I knew from the Bible and the myths of other Mesopotamian cultures suddenly made those strange tales of talking snakes and forbidden fruit and boats packed with animals seem colloquial, routine — nothing more than myths operating from the religious and literary conventions of the day.

Again, we are the ones who are demythologizing, but according to the intention of the myth, which aims at something other than what it says.

Dawkins, Krauss, Hawking, etc. develop theories and explanations and expose their theories to other scientists and the public for rigorous review, unlike religion which is no better than unproven myth and astrology.

Could it be that the two sides are more like each other than we care to admit??? LOL, why didn't they put the money they used to put up the billboard to prove without a shadow of a doubt that it is a myth and nothing in the bible actual happened since it's all about reason and science so we can put all the speculation to bed.

While ordinary theologians can not conceive that ontological truth would be accessible in forms other than metaphor, myth and symbol, scientist - theologians tend to be dissatisfied with anything less than relatively straightforward concepts that can claim truth.

The bible is a book of myths and fables... It just has had better promoters, who found it useful for their purpose, than Aesop or any of the other fiction writers of the past...

In the narratives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the chosen ones are not natural heroes, stronger or more eminent than others, like the heroes of myth or tragedy.

To characterize Wiltshire as Olympus is to resist the prevailing ethos of bureaucratic individualism that denies binding myth, indeed any binding force other than utilitarian contracts.

I'm angry at your stupid myth slowly killing hundreds of thousands of infants that have no ex.istence other than pain — all because you don't want a piece of plastic between a man and a woman doing what every man and woman try to do because it's the second strongest drive in human ex.istence..

And if evolutionary theory can be accommodated by calling creation accounts myths, presumably other aspects of the biblical world need to be corrected or altered in meaning when confronted by materials from more sources of knowledge than I wish to list.

Henry Murray describes «cognitive and convictional functions» of myths, which must be credible to their adherents, though he considers these secondary to other functions.28 Even though a living myth is closer to daily life than to metaphysical speculation, it does seem to presuppose some sort of truth - claims which can be examined.

The myth that justice required Eddie Machen to fight Champion Floyd Patterson, which would have called for capitulation by Patterson's manager, Cus D'Amato, was exposed by none other than Machen in a lusterless draw with Zora Folley a couple of weeks ago.

To be perfectly blunt, the «other side» of this issue is nothing more than a collection of old myths and deliberately deceptive research that's utterly undeserving of recognition (except perhaps in the context of a discussion about modern - day quackery or the like).

It's certainly no myth that many babies take longer than most parents would wish (most parents with jobs and other children to be accommodated, that is) to sleep for stretches.

I mean, I do come from a place where there are supposedly more restaurants per capita than any other city (thought I'm not sure how much of that is myth vs. fact).

More and more parents are saying NO to unnecessary routine male infant circumcision and more than 68 % of new parents are opting to take their whole baby home, despite myths about intact babies being more likely to get UTI's and other nonsense.

Ayers was interviewed on ABC's «Good Morning America,» telling anchor Chris Cuomo that he doesn't know Obama any better than «thousands of other Chicagoans» and that «a secret link» between the two men is a «myth.»

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «These statistics clearly demonstrate that having no religion is no barrier to civic participation and volunteering, exploding myths that religious people contribute more to civil society than others.

Your Party gains from the myth that it cares more about healthcare than other parties, and loses from the truth that it's less exacting than them about welfare claimants.

It's now common knowledge that the policy — like so many of the government's proposals — is based on myth and imagined public sentiment other than actual data.

But rather than simply debunking a myth about the heirloom's diversity, Tanksley's deconstruction of the tomato genome, along with work by others, is showing how an unassuming berry from the Andes became one of the world's top crops.

And if you've been worried that lifting weights will give you masculine muscularity, we urge you to immediately ditch that stupid myth — women have a naturally lower production of testosterone and a few other muscle - building hormones than men, so they have a very hard time building huge muscles.

Myth Teenage suicides make headlines, but the elderly are more likely to take their own life than any other age group, says Dr. Valenstein.

Note that, contrary to marketing materials, certain types do NOT cause more water retention than others - this is a myth.

If people don't want to run and are only doing it to punish themselves for eating, or derive no enjoyment at all from it other than the incentive to lose weight, then yes, debunk the myth.

The only way it works is to get over the diet mentality, the idea the «calories - in needs to be less than calories - out for weight loss», and all of the other myths we've been told in the last few decades.