Sentences with phrase «regarding human limits»
I am not supportive of the idea that human beings choose to ignore good science regarding human limits and Earth's limitations, to continue down a patently unsustainable «primrose path» of endless economic growth, and to adopt the posture of dunces by foolishly waiting for the world to change....
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Venter, who created the first synthetic human cell back in 2010, feels the FDA hasn't found a way to serve the public in regard to genome data regulation — it barred 23andMe from offering genetic - risk assessments in 2013 before later reinstating the right to offer limited genetic reports.
What we need is a greater understanding of the environmental limits which most certainly exist regarding human intervention into nature.
It is true that cultural prejudice and human sin has at times in history limited women's place in ecclesiastical life, and Christian civilization has made significant strides in this regard.
Therefore, it is essential that there be no sexual, racial, economic or religious barriers limiting people, because in the new creation we no longer regard each other from «a human point of view.»
Regarding the latter, classical theologians typically limit self - determining (free) creatures on this earth to humans (Or perhaps also to certain higher animals), 1 while process theologians typically would affirm that creative self - determination is characteristic of all beings.
That went on for some time with only minor hiccups such as happens whenever humans gather until at some point, unbeknownst to me, we seemed to have slipped into this point where we were expected to have an affinity for the denomination and thus automatically hold its leadership in high regard and limit our criticism of such.
The orthodox will reply that Jesus was limited, fallible and imperfect with regard to his human nature, but unlimited, infallible and perfect in his divine nature.
We debate endlessly about Peace, Democracy, the Rights of Man, the conditions of racial and individual eugenics, the value and morality of scientific research pushed to the uttermost limit, and the true nature of the Kingdom of God; but here again, how can we fail to see that each of these inescapable questions has two aspects, and therefore two answers, according to whether we regard the human species as culminating in the individual or as pursuing a collective course towards higher levels of complexity and consciousness?
Nevertheless, questions regarding the limits of science and the limits of human nature are not themselves solely or even primarily scientific questions — in fact, science in general has proven remarkably tone deaf to the bioethical implications of its own innovation.
But his control over the universe was regarded as quite limited; other gods and goddesses were free to do pretty much as they pleased in the particular realms of nature or human activity over which they held jurisdiction.
Regarding kidney health, animal studies suggest that marijuana might affect kidney function, but data in humans are limited.
«In the face of natural variability and complexity, the consequences of change in any single factor, for example greenhouse gas emissions, can not readily be isolated, and prediction becomes difficult... Scientific uncertainties continue to limit our ability to make objective, quantitative determinations regarding the human role in recent climate change, or the degree and consequence of future change.»
The «thermostat» to regulate the relationship between food and feeder populations with regard to the human community was rendered inoperative by the developing capability to increase food production at will, and seemingly without limits.
Unfortunately, what I am not underestimating is the extent to which you and I have become accustomed to living without regard to the well - established «limits to growth» of the human species within the biophysical reality of the habitat in which we live so well.
I hope that while placing the Tunguska event into perpspective we also come to realize that our false sense of security regarding impacts like this and worse is largely perceptual based on our limited understanding of our own history and its woefully human timescale, and I hope we realize that impacts might not be the rare events we've come to consider them as being, and that they may not arrive singularly and only on rare occasions, but as swarms of potentially devastating event producers, as our planet enters into regions of our Milky Way where clouds of potentially planet - disrupting objects are a genuine concern and are something we can and should do something about... and soon.
Many too many economists, politicians and their super-rich benefactors would have us believe that Earth can indefinitely sustain people conspicuously consuming its limited resources the way millions of fortunate people worldwide are doing; but I fear these «dreamers» have lost their reality - orientation with regard both to human biological limits and the limitations of the bounded physical world we inhabit.
Since the last century's backlash against discussing population size management, serious advocacy of limiting human fertility has been ridiculously regarded as nothing less than an attack on the poor and disenfranchised.
To have been so certain, with our limited knowledge of our biosphere, that we could have caused changes, on the huge scale as we have, particularly in regards to carbon dioxide emissions, as I have discussed above, and not seriously risk enormous and extremely damaging outcomes up to, and including, the outright extinction of the human species, is a degree of stupidity which still defies my capacity to comprehend.
It may very well be that the limit has been reached where the subject matter is, for example, impacts on human health, particularly where there is no assertion by the Federal Government that Aboriginal people should be treated differently from other human beings in that regard.