Sentences with phrase «state of human understanding»

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genesis 1:7 - 1:30 - those verses literally state what humans observe as a «full day», a single cycle facing the sun and a single cycle facing away from the sun is what humans since the dawn of time have understood to be a «day».

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

Being limited by our human state, we have not ever properly known all of Its laws no matter what some human wrote or said, and we will continue to have issues understanding until we do.

But I pointed out that there was new evidence — from biblical studies and from various empirical studies in the human sciences, especially psychology and sociology — that completely undermined the traditional understanding of homosexuality as a chosen and changeable state.

This «poetic dimension,» as Macquarrie calls it, is a state of mind in which things are seen in the light of their Being, much as Van Gogh portrayed, and Heidegger understood, an entire world of human involvements in a simple pair of farming boots.

In this understanding, human rights are not founded upon a myth about a «natural state of innocence.»

If the meaning of our principle of historical aetiology, as opposed to an eye - witness report by someone who was himself present at the event, has been understood, we presumably also possess a criterion for judging what was correct in the description given by traditional theology of the blessed, supernatural, original condition of man, as opposed to what was a simplified projection into the past, into human beginnings, of the state of man as it ought to be and will be in the future.

Every human existence which is not conscious of itself as spirit, or conscious of itself before God as spirit, every human existence which is not thus grounded transparently in God but obscurely reposes or terminates in some abstract universality (state, nation, etc.), or in obscurity about itself takes its faculties merely as active powers, without in a deeper sense being conscious whence it has them, which regards itself as an inexplicable something which is to be understood from without — every such existence, whatever it accomplishes, though it be the most amazing exploit, whatever it explains, though it were the whole of existence, however intensely it enjoys life aesthetically — every such existence is after all despair.

Rightly understood, marriage is one of those social institutions that exist «prior» to the state: prior in terms of time (marriage existed before the state), and prior in terms of the deep truths embedded in the human condition.

It condemns sex - selective abortion and female infanticide, although one wonders exactly why, and exactly how it intends member states to go about addressing what it calls the «root causes of son preference» in benighted native cultures that don't understand all about human rights the way that most EU countries do.

The «relatin rationis» of God to all created events in the universe is another way of stating this noncoercive Divine Presence or Mystery grounding all cosmic and human actualities, beckoning human freedom towards noncoercive world and self understanding and acting.

They are an attempt at stating an understanding of the human condition by it's groups of writers and editors in «mythological» terms.

A finely tuned sensitivity to human need and suffering may be a sufficient guide to action for the optimist who believes that the state can make everybody happy, but the realist who understands that every state rests on power and coercion is the one who most needs an ideal of power guided by justice.

Those who have not subscribed to political Zionism understand the return to Zion as a spiritual yearning for the messianic rule of justice and peace, not to be substituted with human accomplishment of resettlement in the former territory, or of establishing a nation - state.

Now, almost a decade later, I can testify of events and occurences absolutely inexplicable by the current state of scientific and technological human prowess, things that are physically impossible according to our understanding, and yet, they were.

WHAT ARE HUMAN Human are spirits in state of physical experience, not to be identified by their physical appearance but by their way, only visible in understanding to learn one's intentions and essence of his or her HUMAN Human are spirits in state of physical experience, not to be identified by their physical appearance but by their way, only visible in understanding to learn one's intentions and essence of his or her Human are spirits in state of physical experience, not to be identified by their physical appearance but by their way, only visible in understanding to learn one's intentions and essence of his or her path.

Given this understanding of human beings, the policies that have destroyed so many communities both in the United States and in the Third World, are entirely rational and moral.

The job then was at best merely external and mechanical, never the work of a participant, of one who shared our lot, who understood our sinful state, and who demonstrated the power of God to overcome it in actual human life.

The recommendation made by the United Church's Executive Council in 1973, if difficult to implement, is the appropriate stance: «It [the Executive Council] recommends to associations that in the instance of considering a stated homosexual's candidacy for ordination the issue should not be his / her homosexuality as such, but rather the candidate's total view of human sexuality and his / her understanding of the morality of its use.»

Like most UN human rights treaties, its implementation by state parties is overseen by a compliance committee, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which issues «General Comments» meant to guide our understanding of the provisions contained in the treaty, and which conducts periodic reviews of state parties, instructing them how to change their laws in order to comply better with the treaty, as understood by the Committee.

In June 1976 Secretary of State Henry Kissinger publicly criticized the Chilean government for its poor human rights record but privately reassured Pinochet that the U.S. understood his fight against communism.

This conclusion bears great theological significance for an understanding of human nature, obedience, and faith, but Turner seems content to state that it calls into question the idea that God's will overcomes all obstacles in Genesis.

And there is a deeper understanding of the fragile state of human life.

[2] Rather such practice often masks the extensive human rights abuses committed by the Ugandan army during the war by accentuating only the «local» dynamics of violence and redirects popular understanding of the conflict away from the structural inequalities held up by the Ugandan state and its foreign backers.

These explanations of human nature essentially challenge abstract understandings of states and anarchy.

As the discipline of IR matured in the 20th century, Realist theorists advanced understandings of states and conflicts as essentially rooted in human nature.

The Realist - inspired narratives have reflected an anthropomorphized view of the state, inspired from a narrow understanding of human nature.

Marxism's lack of understanding of human nature, it's morally flawed call for violence, it's debasement of the individual to be subservient to the Party and to the State, the lack of curtailment on the state's power, and a host of other issues caused it to be a political failure as precedent to it's economic failures, which are leState, the lack of curtailment on the state's power, and a host of other issues caused it to be a political failure as precedent to it's economic failures, which are lestate's power, and a host of other issues caused it to be a political failure as precedent to it's economic failures, which are legion.

«Our future in medicine and in health depends on understanding the information contained in the human genome, so it's a great topic for Science Week,» said Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology at UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.

The most effective way for scientists across disciplines to stand up for science is by reaching out to elected officials at the local, state and federal levels to offer evidence and findings to advance understanding of pressing issues from human health to the environment, said Holt and Ornstein.

«This study really deepens our quantitative understanding of human behavior,» said Dashun Wang, assistant professor of information sciences and technology, Penn State.

In the newly reconstituted Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights, and Law Program, the missions of the CSFR and NCLS continue to complement one another as staff pursue projects such as continuing seminars for judges on neuroscience and the law, personalized medicine, the state and future of clinical trials, advocacy in science, understanding responsible research practices in changing research environments, and joint AAAS - China Association of Science and Technology workshops on science and ethics.

Whereas most people have a basic understanding of the human body (and hence appreciate the need for hygiene, a healthy diet, and exercise), Philander is distressed that most «people have no idea why the earth is habitable and see no connection between the way they live and the state of the environment.»

«We'd Damn Well Better Understand What They're Doing,» says Alan Hudson of Wayne State University (above) about the human tag - along bacteria he studies using a $ 250,000 microscope (below) that magnifies cells 15,000 times.

The physician - scientist may study the same properties of the same molecule but for a different reason: because he or she believes that those studies will provide information on the fundamental pathology of a disease or insight into human biology that will provide a better understanding of healthy versus diseased states.

As to whether confusion is a predominantly human trait, I think that a suitable definition of confusion would be «a lack of understanding», so unless we first imbue animals with «understanding», their natural state is confusion so appearing confused or flumoxed would be unlikely.

Understanding the risks of radiation and the other extreme environments of space flight «is critical to provide safe passage for human exploration to the moon and Mars,» says microbiologist Cheryl Nickerson of Arizona State University in Tempe.

The bill's text, if passed into state law, would protect teachers from discipline if they «help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught,» namely, «biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.»

«The peach is an important part of human history, and it's important to understand how it became what it is today,» said Peter Wilf, a professor of paleobotany at Penn State and co-author of the article.

But as automation becomes more prevalent in everyday life, an understanding of how humans behave in an in - between state — known as «on the loop» — will become more important.

Scientists at Michigan State University's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, in two parallel papers published in this week's journal PLOS ONE, develop a new integrated approach to measure human dependence on ecosystem services and human well - being so as to promote the understanding of the linkages between them — an important step toward improved understanding, monitoring and management of coupled human and natural systems.

To understand molecular forces behind different cell states in development, aging and disease, these scientists want to track the molecular make - up of human cells in time and space.

October 28, 2015 — A consortium of 48 scientists from 50 institutions in the United States has called for an ambitious research effort to understand and harness microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms that inhabit ecosystems as varied as the human gut and the ocean, to improve human health, agriculture, bioenergy, and the environment.

To understand the role of human - induced climate change in these new records they compare simulations of the Earth's climate from nine different state - of - the - art climate models and the very large ensemble of climate simulations provided by CPDN volunteers for the weather@home ANZ experiments for the world with and without human - induced climate change.

Despite all of this progress, the current state of the art in sequence technology is far from generating a «perfect genome» sequence and much remains to be understood in the biology of human and other organisms» genomes.

Dolphins also show enlargement of a part of the brain called the insula, which is thought to be important in humans for empathy, understanding, and imagining the mental states of others.

An open comprehensive reference map of the molecular state of cells in healthy human tissues would propel the systematic study of physiological states, developmental trajectories, regulatory circuitry and interactions of cells, and also provide a framework for understanding cellular dysregulation in human disease.

Gage and Ghosh discuss how human skin cells induced to return to an immature state («induced pluripotent stem cells» or IPS cells) are revolutionizing our understanding and treatment of mental and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, as well as leading to new models of drug development for all diseases.

«Infectious disease can mean making trade - offs between the risks and rewards of meeting others,» says Eli Fenichel, Arizona State University assistant professor and co-organizer of a transdisciplinary working group at NIMBioS that has developed a better model for understanding the role human decisons play in the spread of disease.

In other words, yoga can be understood as a state of consciousness in which the mind becomes quiet, and the totality of the human attains a higher state of awareness.