Sentences with phrase «over thousands of years by»

Those of us in the north are smart because the dumbest 60 - 80 % of our ancestors were killed off over thousands of years by difficult living conditions or never left to go north.

Formed over thousands of years by living coral growing on top of an extinct volcano, it lies in one of the richest marine habitats in the world.

Cenotes are formed when the limestone that makes up the Yucatan Peninsula is eroded over thousands of years by rainwater, resulting in large «sinkholes» that appear on the surface, exposing hollowed - out caverns below that act as natural cisterns for water.

Surrounded by the craggy peaks of the Remarkables and fringed by Lake Wakatipu's sapphire waters, Queenstown provides access to the region's splendid landscapes, carved over thousands of years by slow - moving glaciers.

We know that traditional diets developed over thousands of years by groups all over the world that had successfully fine - tuned nutritional strategies that allowed them to pass radiant health from generation to generation consumed diets rich in foods like liver, other organ meats, cream and butter, shellfish, or insects, that provided a rich assembly of fat - soluble nutrients that included plenty of vitamin A.

There are other arguments for the Bible as Divine revelation, such as fulfilled prophecy, and the Bible being written over thousands of years by dozens of authors, and not containing contradictions, and numerous other arguments.

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«Over the course of a 25 - or 30 - year retirement, it reduces anticipated Social Security income by tens of thousands of dollars.»

At Vision Critical, our software has been used by thousands of brands over 15 years and we have built a deep pedigree in market research.

Increasing your mortgage interest rate by even half a point can cost you tens of thousands of dollars over the lifetime of a 30 - year loan.

VANCOUVER — A New Democrat government will get Metro Vancouver commuters moving again by increasing the provincial share of capital funding for public transportation improvements to 40 percent, clearing the way to shorter commutes and thousands of new construction jobs over the next 10 years.

Likewise, two - thirds of the new unemployment claims reports over the past year have been subsequently revised upward by several thousand.

For the most part, not many people are aware of the Native American contact with Islam that began over one thousand years ago by some of the early Muslim travelers who visited us.

Or Allah or the other thousands of gods invented by humankind over the last 200,000 years?

He finds it appealing to appear in the middle of a desert to uneducated people after allowing humans to suffer for over 100 THOUSAND years just to be tortured by humans as to allow HIMSELF to forgive his own creation.

It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.

A practice that has been used by millions of people over thousands of years.

Come to think of it, its been written and translated literally thousands of times over thousands of years and that was done by mortal men who are at best imperfect.

I have spent thousands of years surrounded by millions of sycophanty people like Frederica and HeavenSent, all doing nothing other than brown - nosing me endlessly and repeating the same old cliches over and over.

It's written in the Bible — a book written by humans dead over thousands of years now.

Of course, none of these horrors even come close to those visited upon humans by bible god over the past few thousand years or the horror he will visit upon those he considers his «enemies» in hellOf course, none of these horrors even come close to those visited upon humans by bible god over the past few thousand years or the horror he will visit upon those he considers his «enemies» in hellof these horrors even come close to those visited upon humans by bible god over the past few thousand years or the horror he will visit upon those he considers his «enemies» in hell..

I submit that it is perfectly reasonable to dismiss a claim, any claim, that is made over and over again for thousands of years, yet never backed up by one shred of evidence.

Remarkable and significant as is the emergence of self - conscious persons by natural processes from the original «hot big bang» from which the universe has expanded over the last 10 - 20 thousand million years, this must not be allowed to obscure another fact about humanity, namely its relatively recent arrival in the universe, even on a time - scale of the history of the Earth.

I mean, obviously the bible... written by man thousands of years ago, and revised, by man hundreds of times to keep fear and influence over common folk thru the ages could be so believeable.

Is it a collection by numerous authors from different cultures over thousands of years, or just one guy?

sry, if u believe in a book written by men over a few thousand years that includes all kinds of silly stories as a basis of actual history you are an IGNORAaNT MOROON...

However, do you «really» believe by allowing gays / lesbians to just be o.k, and have their relationships, that they are somehow over a thousand years going to cause «any» kind of a fall of «heteros - e-x-uality» and reproduction...?

So, when you come up with a book written by dozens of men, over thousands of years that is as true as the bible, then you might have something.

Except it is not just one person jack the events described have been testified to by millions of people over thousands of years.

Just out of curiosity... if Bin Laden has gone to hell, where are the rest of us Americans going who stood by and watched as hundreds of thousands of Iraqs were killed over the last eight years, as well as numerous Afganies I'm sure.

Tell us all the objective Reality of what good has been provided by religion for thousands of years that make people hold on to it in spite of already knowing these wonderous truths you keep reminding us about over and over about like a broken record.

This rigid theological position of «no salvation outside the Church» was maintained throughout the Churches for over a thousand years, even by the greatest of scholars and saints like St. Thomas Aquinas.

This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.

The human eye has evolved over thousands of years and has adapted to it's enviroment little by little.

A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State by Daryl Hart Ivan R. Dee, 288 pages, $ 26.95 Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religion in the Public Square by Brendan Sweetman InterVarsity, 256 pages, $ 19 AFTER TWO THOUSAND years, we are still mulling over....

«Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful» That was said by Seneca, the Roman statesman, over THOUSANDS of years ago and STILL people fall for these LIES.

both stories pre date the existence of Israel, Judah and any evidence of israelite culture by well over a thousand years.

As we explore the path taken by the concept of resurrection over some four thousand years of the cultural history which is our heritage, we shall find the resurrection theme expressed in a great variety of ways.

There have been dozens of Gods and Religions over thousands of years you would think by now that folks would realize that they can't all be right.

You and everyone knows «The Book» of rules was written WELL OVER a thousand years ago by people we've never met nor would we ever know their hidden agendas.

I would have no way of understanding what was said, much less being able to remember it and tell it over and over by the campfires for hundreds or thousands of years before it was written down.

I will always trust an atheist in office over a «believer» — at least their policies will be guided by reason and critical thinking, not magical thinking and thousands of years of mythology.

Such as how many hundreds of thousands of women, and children are feed each year through the"www.samaritanspurse.org One of many organisation over the years started by either, Billy, or his son Franklin.

God has been seen and heard by millions of people over thousands of years, myself included, sorry about you.

You know nothing of the afterlife, only of words written by MEN, lost in translation over hundreds and thousands of years.

''... book made up of 66 books written by 40 authors (most who never new of or met each other) over thousands of years.»

I'm sorry you've never met a good man... by the way, which of the thousands of gods contrived by mankind over the years did you have in mind?

However, one point of many facts about the Bible, (do the statistical math) find another book made up of 66 books written by 40 authors (most who never new of or met each other) over thousands of years.

It is impossible by definition to prove a negative — theism: a) to billions of people, over the past 4 thousand years the answer is irrefutably yes.

a book written thousands of years ago, translated hundreds of times over, and all this by men...

Though far from the Nordic countries, the little neighborhood north of downtown Seattle had drawn immigrants by the thousands over the years.