Sentences with phrase «questions about humanity»

Powerful and provocative, Long's exhibitions not only inspire disturbing questions about humanity's relationship to the environment but also pure and simple wonderment.

Anselm Kiefer's work reflects his ongoing exploration of fundamental questions about humanity's place in the cosmos.

From developer Frictional Games, SOMA is a survival horror game with serious existential questions about humanity, consciousness, and what it means to die.

Throughout the narrative The Turing Test attempts to tackle a lot of sci - fi staples, including questions about humanity, what makes a person and whether an A.I. can become essentially human, before wrapping up using the kind of ambiguous ending that writers always seem to think is clever To be brutally honest it's never as smart as it would like to believe.

Design creates the innovative products and solutions that will propel our economy forward, and artists ask the deep questions about humanity that reveal which way forward actually is.

More, they have constructed a story that asks tough questions about humanity, our place in the world and how we are treating both the Earth as well as those who live upon it that are pointed, well - reasoned and devoid of any simplistic answers.

The story and voice acting are good bringing up questions about humanity, artificial intelligence, and free will.

There's room for intelligent discourse around some of the most critical questions about humanity — how we relate to the world we share, how our beliefs inform our lifestyles, how we fit into this vast, cosmic scheme of being.

«Burtynsky's work functions as an open - ended question about humanity's past, present and future,» said Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs at the New Orleans Museum of Art and organizer of the traveling exhibition.

«Burtynsky's work functions as an open ended question about humanity's past, present, and future,» said Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Not exact matches

While nobody disputes the value of Habitat for Humanity's work, he said, the rest of the money raises questions about how it was decided who would be cut a cheque.

Star Wars and stories like it allow us to explore these questions and reflect on what we truly believe about the universe and humanity's role in it.

Careful readers of early Genesis are left with a whole range of questions about Adam, Eve and the origin of humanity: Why?

I hope I would remember to turn sincerely and expectantly to God for guidance as to how to do more — intelligently — to meet the immediate human needs of the multitude, but to take practical inspired steps for healing the fears, hates, misunderstanding, and cruelties that bring suffering to humanity» («Some Questions and Answers about Christian Science,» Christian Science Sentinel, September 2, 1985, pp. 1508 - 09).

What prompted some of Dark's questioning (and much of mine) was what he calls the «Uncle Ben» view of God — the view that God is an angry and controlling being who does not tolerate questions or curiosity or nonconformity, the view that God consigns most of humanity to eternal torment in hell for believing the wrong things about him, and the view that it is the duty of his followers to ignore their doubts and embrace him without question.

The agreement is that the question of the future is a question about God and humanity.

Sadly these misunderstandings about nature and grace distort people's understanding of Christian life, raising questions such as: Is grace at odds with our humanity?

This raises serious questions about the condition of humanity in general.

Perhaps if humanity survives it's religious zealots and exists for many millennia to come, we may gather enough evidence to point us in the right direction to answering that huge question about what caused the Universe to be.

If the norm of the new humanity in Jesus Christ obliges us to question the Apostle's opinions about the proper status of women and the institution of human slavery, so also that norm obliges us to scrutinize each of his moral judgments regarding its Christian faithfulness for our time — including his perception of homosexuality.

Such a fundamental question about the existence of God, is likely to change your view humanity, and the universe itself.

Far more important to most persons than any theoretical speculation about the future of humanity is a more immediate question.

Humanity faces profound questions about how our planet can sustain nine billion people by 2050 and beyond.

These assessments, based on reviews of the scientific literature, will answer questions about how much biodiversity is declining and what the implications of extinctions and ecosystem change might be for humanity.

It's forcing the question on humanity: How much do you care about when the sun comes up?»

This article was originally published with the title «20 Big Questions about the Future of Humanity»

At a time when «disturbing thoughts were beginning to dawn in the public mind about the nature of humanity in the scheme of things,» as he says, wild animals and mutants gave Victorians something to stare at in safety while asking themselves the big and suddenly urgent question: What, if anything, makes me different from that?

While questions related to the when and where of humanity's origins remain hotly debated, one matter about our collective genetic makeup is clearer: All humans appear to be hominid hybrids, made up of DNA from different and distinct populations.

«Together, robotics and humans will pioneer the Red Planet and the solar system to help answer some of humanity's fundamental questions about life beyond Earth.»

Fred deeply understood that the discovery of new knowledge about our world is essential if we hope to answer many of the deepest and most profound questions facing humanity.

Garland's previous feature, the exceptional Ex Machina, raised probing questions about the nature of consciousness and humanity — and offered clear, if provisional, answers.

Any film about artificial intelligence comes in - built with questions about existence, identity and the future of humanity.

Within its B - movie premise, Rise asks real questions about the future of humanity and the ethics of experimenting on animals... and doesn't take any easy answers.

Kevin Smith delivers a deeply disturbing movie that throws up plenty of questions about monsters and humanity yet still manages to give audiences enough of the Smith humour, charm and charisma that they'll be familiar with by this stage of the game.

When all is said and done, Tusk is a worthy follow - up to the fascinating Red State (another Smith and Parks vehicle), and Kevin Smith delivers a deeply disturbing movie that throws up plenty of questions about monsters and humanity yet still manages to give audiences enough of the Smith humour, charm and charisma that they'll be familiar with by this stage of the game.

Much like Ridley Scott's masterful predecessor, Villeneuve's sequel maintains the philosophical themes and ambiguous questions about life, death, and humanity.

More to the point, what Spielberg probably doesn't trust is the viewer's intelligence and humanity, meaning the real question is whether he thinks the kind of people who would go to a movie about Abraham Lincoln are morons.

And, when there were a lot of unanswered questions about the origin of the monster as well as the fate of humanity at the end, audiences immediately want a sequel.

For the witnesses of the most recent court session, the experience raised questions about justice, humanity and the ethics of the death penalty.

It's rare to see a film that asks open ended & existential questions about death, evolution, genetics, humanity's true nature, & our mutually assured self - destruction.

That's a blessing for those who like getting lost in alienating dystopian worlds, and thanks to Roger Deakins» career - highlight cinematography (which is saying something), they'll be more than happy to meander in the film's high - falutin» questions about the evolving nature of humanity.

The same question can asked about this outrageously insulting rubbish fully wallowing in the stench - ridden viscera of humanity.

There's a half - baked attempt to answer some existential questions about the nature of humanity when you're a murderous robot person, but the sentimentality doesn't mesh with the film's desire for cathartic, cinematic violence.

Any movie about artificial intelligence comes in - built with questions about existence, identity and the future of humanity.

Misconception (PG - 13 for mature themes and some sexual references) Population Boom documentary questioning the conventional assumptions about humanity's exponential growth rate.

Looked down upon by his colleagues, Fawcett hoped to find answers to the questions about where humanity came from by learning whether or not the mysterious people of the jungle had a civilization that predated our own.

Salopek's efforts to engage a world audience in big questions about our collective humanity and to try to connect the dots between isolated news stories sit well with Project Zero's educational philosophy.

This noteworthy debut raises crucial questions about faith and humanity that are increasingly relevant in today's culture wars.

Although the ending of the game answered pretty much all the questions we might have had about Aloy's past and the events that led humanity close to extinction, that didn't stop Guerilla Games from giving fans more of this amazing world with The Frozen Wilds expansion.

The Children of Atom are as fanatical as ever, raising serious doubts over humanity's ability to live independent of blind faith (those of you familiar with Stephen King's The Mist will notice striking similarities), and the leader of the synth colony wastes no time in posing some genuinely thought - provoking questions to the player about synths who may not even know that they are synths, even going so far as to make the player question his / her character's true identity.