Sentences with phrase «place in the universe by»

The exhibition Penumbra, a series of three video installations by Demetrius Oliver, connects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos.

«She's not trying to speak for everyone, but she is trying to understand her own humanity and place in the universe by making art,» Namara adds.

The exhibition Penumbra, a series of three video installations by the artist, connects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos.

One part art - house film, one part nature documentary, one part guided meditation, Everything asks you to contemplate your place in the universe by experiencing the point - of - view of hundreds of other creatures, plants, and objects.

Not exact matches

Even his most complex theory which seems to involve matter in the universe disappearing permanently in various places, which he even challenged to his opponents to prove wrong, was pretty much proven wrong by a group of determined scientists.

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.

The one place where the exception is clearly visible is in the anonymous Letter to Diognetus from the mid-second century CE, where [45] God's use of persuasive and not coercive power is affirmed in regard to how God leads wayward humanity to salvation: The invisible God, the Ruler and Creator of all, sent «the Designer and Maker of the universe himself, by whom he created... like a king sending his son who is himself a king.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

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.

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.»

At least according to YOUR definition of «god» perhaps.By placing your «god» outside of the known universe, you then protect your flawed idea of a god from scrutiny, simply saying god doesn't have to play by the rules, is pure speculation in a) the existance of a «god» and b) where or how this «god» exists if not in our existance.

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.

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.

What place is there for tilling and keeping in the perfect fellowship and unity represented by God's work, in this creation in which there is no division, when everything has a part in everything else, when each fragment is not just a fragment united to all the others but also an expression of the total unity of a creation that reflects the perfection of its creator, when the bond between the Lord and the universe is of such perfection that the Lord's rest is the equilibrium of his creation?

This is a sad fact of which we are all aware, and because of this separation of head and heart we are bound to conclude that, however social necessity and logic may impel it from behind, the human mass will only become thoroughly unified under the influence of some form of affective energy which will place the human particles in the happy position of being unable to love and fulfill themselves individually except by contributing in some degree to the love and fulfillment of all; to the extent, that is to say, that all are equal and integral parts of a single universe that is vitally converging.

What is sad is that you expect your nation's leader to base policy on a fairy tale concocted by the ancients trying to understand their place in the 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.

The writer Delmore Schwartz, who almost certainly was one of the models for Bellow's Humboldt, liked to say that life is a wedding, by which he meant that the universe is meaningful, and one can happily take his place in it like the figures in Brueghel's painting.

We today stand in need of a new conception of nature, for this is indispensable to the conception by man of himself and his place in the universe, a conception of fundamental importance to every sphere of man's life and activity.

For by placing the soul or mind in a sphere radically different from that of physical reality, dualism abandons the physical universe to the realm of the spiritless and mindless.

By placing Deutsch within the context of Whitehead, we can consider not only the relevancy of his model to the political phenomena it attempts to make intelligible, but we also can give thought to the organizing power of a communications model in terms of its coherence with the general character of the universe.

We may help ourselves by imagining ourselves in the place of God, facing the responsibility of creating and managing the universe.

I hope also, it will, by shedding further light on the place of mathematics in Bergson's universe, allow us to make sense of the otherwise murky «vitalism» of Creative Evolution, and of the possible heuristic value of Bergson's approach to biology.

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.

I am so small, Lord, a speck of dust in vast universe, and yet, You tell me that I'm loved by You and that You have prepared a place for me where You dwell in majesty and glory, that I could share eternity with You in your presence.

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.

He explained each existence, both by resolving them very skillfully into their primary elements, then by reversing the process and detailing the constitution of the universe and of each part, and the manifold variation and change in every portion of it, until carrying us on with his wise teaching and arguments, both those which he had learned and those which he had discovered, concerning the sacred economy of the universe and its faultless constitution, he established a reasonable, in place of an unreasoning, wonder in our souls.

Well the universe took care of my ongoing struggle by presenting me with the twins I'm expecting in October and that reality has forced me to re-evaluate what I set out to do in the first place.

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.»

Sightings since 2006 have shown that gargantuan monsters with masses of at least a billion suns were already in place when the universe was less than a billion years old — far too early for them to have formed by conventional means.

My interest in the tiles has to do with the idea of a universe controlled by very simple forces, even though we see complications all over the place.

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

Extraterrestrial life is life that may exist and originate outside the planet Earth, the only place in the universe currently known by humans to support life.

My interest in the account of the thoughts of cosmologist Max Tegmark was tempered by something more than surprise — I learned that the rejection of the early cosmic inflation or of the Copernican principle, that Earth does not occupy a special place in the universe, «are anathema to cosmology», (24 September, p 8).

But if you look at the very biggest picture, our place in the universe is defined by the Big Bang, an equal expansion of space in all directions.

This year, ALMA - J Project Office presented: explanation of ALMA using poster exhibition and a miniature of the ALMA site; mini-lectures by six lecturers; celestial journey in the Chilean skies using a constellation camera at the Operations Support Facility of ALMA; a mini-experiment to see if rubber balls fallen from a higher place (to resemble radio waves from the universe) are collected into the focal point of an antenna dish; and another experiment to receive satellite broadcasts using a lid of a pot, instead of an antenna dish.

Science has faced challenges throughout history, from one administration to the next, but year in and year out it has led to human progress, enriching our culture by improving quality of life and human knowledge about our place in the universe.

NATARAJAN: We see bright beacons in the universe — quasars — in place powered by black holes that are roughly a billion times the mass of our sun in the young universe, just a billion years or so after the Big Bang.

But once I was able to relax and let go into the meditation, this anxiety lessened, and by the end of the session, I felt much more grounded, relaxed, and in a better place to tackle whatever the universe would bring me.

The greatest gift that these opportunities have offered is enabling me be a catalyst in this new paradigm shift that can only benefit people on an individual basis, benefit communities by having healthier, more positive members and benefit the greater universe by helping people find their place of optimal health where they are able to give their best to the world.

A long - unavailable underground hit that anticipated The Hunger Games novels by eight years, veteran director Fukasaku's epically violent, still - controversial and deeply influential genre masterpiece takes place in a dystopian alternate universe.

Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci - fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by grown - ups.

Once Thanos collects all the Stones and places them in his Infinity Gauntlet, the universe is his to remake, merely by snapping his fingers.

A failure to tread any new ground thematically or even current ground mechanically dooms Aliens vs. Predator to a place in the collections of only the most die - hard fans of the universe, who will play through the game once and relegate it to the same shelf of shame occupied by their AVP Requiem DVDs.

The game is based on the animated series originally created by Avi Arad and will take place in the Pac - World universe, which finds itself in trouble from the Netherworld ghost leader, Betrayus.

If you've never heard about the games made by Image & Form before, it is important to know that SteamWorld Dig 2 isn't only the sequel to the first game in the SteamWorld Dig series, but it also takes place in the well - crafted and ever - expanding SteamWorld universe.

According to this Gematsu article which contains details from a Japanese Famitsu report, Code Vein is being developed by the same team behind the popular God Eater series, though the developers note it takes place in an entirely new universe and has no ties to God Eater.

One of the dozens of smart choices made by the filmmakers of the latest entry in the Marvel Studios cinematic universe, «Captain America: Civil War,» is that they realize the only place one can go is to make the stakes more personal again.

There is a satisfying amount of Benedict Cumberbatch's Dr. Strange, so, for those unsure about the character's place in the universe, will be won over by the actor's dry wit and the character's abilities by the end of the film.

And by bookending the film with passages from Carl Sagan on our little place in the great universe Reitman only underscores this feeling of stifling over-calibration.