Sentences with phrase «place in the universe as»

Seems like an awful lot of wasted space if our place in the universe as described in the bible is to be believed...

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We will take care only to the extent that, as cantor, we sing the songs that bestow meaning upon the universe and our place in it.

As a final word, it is also interesting to note that The Space Trilogy technically takes place in the same universe as The Lord of the RingAs a final word, it is also interesting to note that The Space Trilogy technically takes place in the same universe as The Lord of the Ringas The Lord of the Rings.

Many people place man at a higher plateau in knowledge as we learn more and more about our universe through science, and yet our predecessors knew enough to not throw out their religion just because their knowledge grew in scientific matters.

And all this took place because, in a universe which was disclosing itself to me as structurally convergent, you, by right of your resurrection, had assumed the dominating position of all - inclusive Centre in which everything is gathered together.

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardener.

The code of laws provides the regulations which create the proper relations between man and God, such as saying prayers, fasting, and other religious duties; they guide man in his relations with his brother in Islam or the non-Muslim community, in organizing the structure of the family and encouraging reciprocal affection; they lead man to an understanding of his place in the universe, encouraging research into the nature of man and animals and guiding man in the use of the benefits of the natural world.

And in the ancient churches it's easy to construct a vision of the medieval man or woman who once sat in the same hard pew — a person who understood, as we never can, his or her place in the universe.

The Christian indeed has always recognised the immediate primacy of secondary causes in the bringing about of natural phenomena, but as serial causes have been traced further back, and their astonishing inter-dependence demonstrated, the scientist has tended to proclaim either a mathematical universe in which theses secondary causes may be identified with some primary basic formula, or equation, synonymous in definition with a physical ultimate, a universe inwhich God has no place; or else he has preferred to identify intellect with matter itself and has come to accept that idealistic cosmic pantheism which is almost as common a philosophy today as evolutionary materialism.

NONE of you have proof of «God's» existance... a made up fairy tale created by people who lived over 2,000 years ago as a way to explain the universe and apply a general set of laws... yeah, it was great for the time... i guess... but there is no place for religion in today's societies.

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 said, the case has been made that if the Christian god exists, then «God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans», with the conclusion that» [e] xisting scientific models contain no place where God is included as an ingredient in order to describe observations.»

I see the universe as a perfect and balanced place created by god in his own special way, he is all powerful and evil does not exit rather the ability to have freedom of will.

It has almost been as if we humans, with our limitations and in our finitude, not to mention our obvious and tragic defection from right alignment with the divine intention for the world and for us, were to insist that until and unless we are given what we regard as due recognition and the security of our own survival in an individualistic sense, we shall refuse to take our place and play our part in the creative advance of the universe.

Here we have the interesting notion fairly and squarely presented to us, of there being elements of the universe which may make no rational whole in conjunction with the other elements, and which, from the point of view of any system which those other elements make up, can only be considered so much irrelevance and accident — so much «dirt,» as it were, and matter out of place.

A «beginning» presumes spacetime to already be in place, and as far as we know, spacetime fell out of the Big Bang, and until it's verified as true for anything external to this universe, it's speculation.

The emphasis on symbolic universes has placed the study of religion in a broader cultural context, suggesting means by which private experiences of the sacred, as well as functional trade - offs between religion and secular symbol systems, can be rediscovered.

Until now, the discussion has focused on developments in physics, primarily as a way to describe the reality of the universe in which we live and how we conceive of our place within it.

As for omnipotence, a being that is the first cause of any change that takes place in the universe, and which causes such a change effortlessly because without changing in itself, can hardly be denied this attribute.

Once that infrastructure is in place, there is little doubt that the subject of world Christianity as the unique legacy of the modern missionary movement will make its long - overdue impact and channel back some of its revitalized energy into the necessary transformation of our preCopernican historical universe.

As the natural sciences have helped man to understand his place in the totality of the universe, so they have also given him means by which he can adjust himself to the natural processes and by which he may even control them.

Thus man is told to define his place in life not in terms of himself, as if the universe had been created for his special benefit, but rather in terms of a long natural process, in which, objectively speaking, he plays but an insignificant part.

Our place in the universe, including all our human history all along, as is seen from space starting at 600,000 miles away, and down to a flyby proximity, a tiny speck.

As far as we know, natural laws like gravity are the very reason why we have a universe in the first placAs far as we know, natural laws like gravity are the very reason why we have a universe in the first placas we know, natural laws like gravity are the very reason why we have a universe in the first place.

But such congruity is possible only if this principle of order is at the same time understood as a constant source of novelty as well.5 For it is in the influx of novelty into our universe that those deviations from order, regularity and tranquillity that we loosely refer to as «chance» occurrences take place.

All appearances to the contrary, «the universe remains as it was in the beginning, when all places were one place, all times one time, all things the same thing.»

Haeckel's universe is as unified as Adams's is disunified, and Haeckel is as confident about his place in his universe (and his location in a process that will ultimately solve all riddles) as Adams is wracked with doubts.

These aspects of the world in which we find ourselves today, require us to readjust our thinking about the place of man in the universe, the nature of the God who could be thought of as the Creator of this vast expanse, and the relationship, if any, which obtains between earth, man and God.

While it can be used to report subjective experience («I felt sublime in church today») it has no place in extrapolating this subjective experience to external assertions about the structure of the universe («I felt sublime in church today, THEREFORE there exists a supernatural agent who acted upon me in a such a way as to make me feel sublime»).

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

In the first place, we have seen that, from the very sciences themselves, the universe reveals God as the supreme Mind behind the amazing order, design and beauty of creation.

In the place of an alienated self at the center of an arbitrary, amoral universe, or a postmodern ghost trying to conjure up its name through myriad manipulations, we choose to live as those known and called by name.

In a fascinating and potentially far - reaching judgement, the judges ruled: «Religion could be described as a belief system going beyond sensory perception or scientific data held by a group of adherents, which claims to explain mankind's place in the universe and to teach its adherents how they are to live their lives in conformity with the belief system.&raquIn a fascinating and potentially far - reaching judgement, the judges ruled: «Religion could be described as a belief system going beyond sensory perception or scientific data held by a group of adherents, which claims to explain mankind's place in the universe and to teach its adherents how they are to live their lives in conformity with the belief system.&raquin the universe and to teach its adherents how they are to live their lives in conformity with the belief system.&raquin conformity with the belief system.»

Peter Kilfoyle thinks my co-authoring an evidence - rich policy paper on urban regeneration's failure to generate economic convergence in places such as Liverpool and Hull means that I live «in a parallel universe» (TP Debate, April).

According to the Many Worlds theory, as Everett's idea is now known, every possible physical event actually takes place — in its own parallel universe.

America's place in the scientific universe is different, as is the way science and scientists are perceived by the society we work within.

When Kant said «these elliptical figures are just universes,» the actual term he used in German was Weltordnungen, which is literally translated as «world orders» (or in some places Weltgebäuden or Weltsystemen, world systems).

When it comes to reporting findings, whether they reverse the direction of the whole universe or merely tilts our knowledge of it slightly, being a good communicator is almost as important as doing the work in the first place, Beutler says.

As experiments place ever more stringent constraints on the strength of dark matter interactions, there are some current theories that end up overestimating the quantity of dark matter in the universe.

Indeed, high - energy collisions such as those at the LHC have already taken place — for example, in the early universe and even now, when sufficiently high energy cosmic rays hit our atmosphere.

«We know precious little about our place in the universe, except for one thing: we, and any existing cohort of civilisations, will appear as «first born» to anyone living in our universe a 100 billion years from now.

Quantum particles such as atoms and molecules have an uncanny ability to appear in two places at once, spin clockwise and anticlockwise at the same time, or instantaneously influence each other when they are half a universe apart.

More unusually for such a book, March also places successive scientific revolutions in the social context in which they took place — such as the dismantling of Isaac Newton's deterministic clockwork universe in the chaos of the Germany of the 1920s.

Its purpose is to explore questions of humanity's place in the universe, especially as it relates to topics in astrobiology and SETI research.

We know our place in the universe and see things as they are.

«As we expanded into multiple categories — our business is primarily wholesale through department stores — having our own retail extension has become a way for people to experience the Byredo universe in one place.»

As Weird Al sings, «At least you can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that, somewhere out there in this crazy mixed - up universe of ours, there's still a place called Albuquerque.»

Based on our city's census data, our high number of Starbucks coffee shops, and the fact that there seems to be a lot of cheesy romcom movies and TV shows set here set in our city than any other place on Earth, huge publications like Forbes magazine and Marie Claire have been frequently ranking the Seattle adult dating scene as the center of the singles universe..

As his path continues to unfold unexpectedly, the counsel of a kindred spirit astronomer (Allison Janney) helps him understand how to truly carve out a place in the universe.

It's almost as if all of his movies take place in the same universe, a space where all of the women are as hot as they are horny and all of the men are as tough as nails.