Sentences with phrase «serve human purposes»

The story of Horizon Zero Dawn revolves entirely around the predictable premise that these creatures, once built to serve human purposes, have revolted and destroyed the human world.

They do not start by asking what children need to do to adapt to a machine world, but rather, which technologies can best serve human purposes at every educational level and how we can prepare children to make wise decisions about their use in the future.

The natural world existed to serve human purposes.

Not exact matches

In the early days of human existence, for example, it served a survival purpose, helping us fight back when we were attacked by predators or other humans.

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

The bible was written by humans for self - serving purposes.

Psychology can serve many good purposes, Rieff wrote, but it must not be allowed to become a therapeutic ideology that aspires, like religion or morality, to order the entirety of human life.

Further, all that can rationally be said about that absent requires it to be viewed as interacting with human purpose, as itself conforming in all respects to the purpose of order and law, and also as exhibiting telic adaptations serving the ends of life and beauty and sublimity.35

It is penetrated by God who works through it and can lure it to serve God's purposes, but God and the world are never the same reality, not even in human nature at its highest.

A misguided, 150 «year «old stance taken by Darwin's «epigones» serves no purpose in current scientific inquiry as it relates to human origins.

In fact, that faith is itself a call to action, and part of the action is for us to serve as God's agents in overcoming evil wherever we see it and to work with God and with our fellow humans so that the divine purpose of God for creation may be more effectively realized.

And how can technology ultimately serve the purposes which Scripture tells us, as Christians, that God has had — that we might indeed flourish as a human community and serve Him.»

It is for those who are too weak to accept the reality that: (1) there isn't a being who will make sure, in the end, justice is served to those who cause harm and suffering to other humans, (2) there is a powerful being who will take care of us, (3) our lives have a purpose beyond us, (4) we are alone.

How much of this was merely ad hominem and how much represented Jesus» personal conviction concerning human destiny it is difficult to be sure, just as when Plato used demonology to serve his purpose it is difficult to know how literally he took the mental pattern he employed.

The first is that religious institutions, like all human institutions, have a way of existing for themselves as opposed to the purposes they claim to serve.

God intended equality among men; but «private property, slavery, imperialism, the State itself, appear in post-Fall society as regulations of God to preserve nature, which is always being disrupted by sin».26 Justice thus appears as the rough, necessary, coerced order of human societies which is not wholly antithetical to love, since it serves the purpose of God in the creation and history.

It means penetrating them in such a way as to be able to instruct the world concerning its purpose of serving human need, concerning its original foundation and the end toward which it moves.

You have been created again as God's masterpiece for two purposes: to show what God can do through Jesus Christ, and to serve human need, engaging in good works which reflect the nature of God as gracious love.

For this reason, they can not comprehend the prophetic religions (the Jewish, the Christian and the Islamic) which emphasize that the ultimate destiny of human beings is to serve God's Purpose in human history, which Purpose He has revealed in some unique historical Person.

The fact that this is really his argument, however, brings us to an additional problem, which is whether it is plausible to believe that all the suffering experienced by human beings really serves the soul - making purpose.

One of these instincts, our Warrior Instinct, serves the human hive with a very important purpose.

This new institutionalism has sought to determine how institutions can serve the purposes of social transformation that adhere to the democratization and human rights processes (Thelen and Steinmo, 1992).

-- Our people - serving institutions (especially churches, schools, and health agencies) should redefine their purposes and revise their programs to become better human wholeness centers devoted to helping people maximize growth throughout the life journey.

The meaning of internal relations as we humans experience them, is the influence of people and other things in our lives and the influence of the purposes we choose to serve.

(Train them to sleep alone, play alone, self - soothe, etc.) Baby gadgets, bottles, binkies, vibrating chairs, swings, baby monitors, etc. do serve a purpose but we must remember that these are substitutes for real human touch and interaction: breastfeeding, holding, rocking, carrying, and attentive parenting.

Anderson believes human milk banks serve a very important purpose and will become more common.

Be sure you've packed a cushy blanket that your baby can roll around and get some tummy time on, where you can serve your proper purpose as a human climbing gym, or where you can have a relaxing lying - down nursing session.

There was a time when it served a useful purpose — but that time has gone when «human rights» embraces so many fatuous cases as we have witnessed over the last decade.

Last year the National Institutes of Health announced plans to put some 180 ex-Coulston chimps currently housed at the Alamogordo Primate Facility back in service, to rejoin the roughly 800 other chimps that serve as subjects for studies of human diseases, therapies and vaccines in the U.S., which is the only country apart from Gabon to maintain chimps for this purpose.

The animals» underground burrows protect them from temperature swings and serve the same purpose as clothing and shelter in human communities.

«No knowledge, for its own sake, is worth this price... we need a physics that is more centred on human needs and concerns... we must be involved in deciding... what purposes we want [physics] to serve.»

Templeton, a devout Presbyterian, established the foundation in 1987 to serve as a «philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality,» according to its mission statement.

The finished atlas, Mazziotta says, will serve a purpose similar to what the Human Genome Project has done for geneticists, providing a detailed framework of the brain that researchers can use to perform experiments.

One additional benefit of transmitting messages into space at high power is that they serve a purpose analogous to digital time capsules, preserving the knowledge of human civilization, should our species become extinct.

Human infants solicit parental care by crying, while neonatal mice emit ultrasonic calls that serve a clear functional purpose as they trigger a dam's retrieval response.

Some people have argued that human head hair serves the purpose of conspicuous consumption much like the peacocks tail.

From a human health perspective, fibrous molecules are indigestible and serve a number of purposes such as, amongst others, aiding digestion, toxin excretion, reduction of cholesterol in the bloodstream.

What is particularly unique about Moringa tree is the fact that every part of the plant, including its bark, leaves, flowers, and roots serves a unique purpose in promoting human health.

What purpose has been served by the actions of the petty human characters at the center of the drama?

Consequently, Romochka's character (along with other human personalities in the novel) feels over-simplified, his role overly prepared to serve a predetermined purpose in the novel, as opposed to being an organic, complex and emotionally honest being.

Kittens meowing serves the same purpose as a human baby cry: It makes a demand and gets mom's attention.

While antidepressants such as Prozac are often prescribed for depression in humans, in pets, they serve a different purpose.

While this is not a kiss in the same way that a human mother might kiss her baby, it is still a gesture that carries affection even as it serves a more mundane purpose, like grooming.

It serves a certain purpose for cats that we may not realize because we humans just don't work like that....

When humans were first working with dogs and keep them as companions, they served the purpose of helping us to hunt and alerting us to and / or protecting us from danger.

They are used in multiple locations such as secure military facilities and airports, and can serve a number of purposes such as human and explosive detection.

Using these methods serves a dual purpose to teach inmates they can influence one's behavior, canine or human, without the use of pain, force or intimidation.

For anyone who hasn't worked with a «broken» cat before let me explain — this little trick serves many purposes, it gives me the «scary» human a bit more distance so I'm not leaning over Links (which would be way too scary at this point for him), and it keeps me safe because I do not know how Links is going to react to first contact.

These activities serve many purposes: they benefit the dog by keeping him in shape, giving him useful employment, and building a bond with his human companion; they benefit people by providing opportunities to work hand in paw with another species, gain assistance in hobbies or jobs, and broaden horizons and abilities.

The story of Detroit: Become Human, Quantic Dream's upcoming PS4 neo-noir thriller, centres around three androids, built with the sole purpose to serve out their programmed function in the titular city in the near - future of 2038.