Sentences with phrase «still primitive»

Their understanding of the changes going on in the world's land ice is still primitive.

And as to your contention that our understanding of Earth's climate is still primitive — that is complete utter BS.

In 1954, a year before his death: «The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.»

Since humanity is still recovering from the apocalypse, technology is still primitive compared to today's weaponry.

I understand that these early forays into digital publishing are still primitive, exploratory and cautious.

The original polynomial model was published in a by Thompson and Warren in 1982 at a time when GCM development was still primitive.

Global communications were still primitive.

You're seeing them on their ascendency, but they're still primitive.

But the shoulder and pelvis of H. erectus were still primitive, says Jungers, so the footprints also show that on the path to modernity, «the foot led the way.»

The umbilical cord and placenta are still primitive at this point, but they've started to deliver oxygen and nourishment to your baby already, which means you should be taking care to make good choices when it comes to your diet.

Albert Einstein: God is a Product of Human Weakness The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

Just for you, Tarver... «The Word of God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish» — Albert Einstein

«The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends,» Einstein wrote in German in a 1954 letter that will be auctioned on eBay later this month.

He did however, say this: «The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

As Albert Einstein wrote: «God is nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.»

Not exact matches

But encouraging as this start was, the Game was still quite primitive.

Let's teach kids that primitive people still cling to ancient folklore, but that those beliefs are no more reasonable than believing the Easter Bunny lays colored eggs.

I leave it to one of the greatest minds of all time who wrote... Quote: «The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.»

Why is society still tolerant of something so incredibly primitive and harmful?

He figured out some important concepts, but he was still under the spell of primitive superst «itions.

Its value lies largely in enabling us to see how the whole history of revelation with which the Bible is concerned is rooted in the good red earth of our common humanity; in primitive, elemental human affections and passions, the groundwork still of all our life, however sophisticated and civilized we have become.

Primitive minds can't even understand the creations they have created in their own minds and here we are in the modern age and these nuts still carry no clue on how to even associate the «why» of giving a name onto their magical friends.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

Bottom line is, we are still too primitive intellectually to come anywhere close to understanding this.

The age - long and still influential Christian doctrine of bodily resurrection thus goes back to primitive Hebrew behaviorism, which always conceived soul as a function of the material organism and never, like Greek philosophy, conceived immortality as escape from the imprisoning flesh.

Nevertheless we still leave it to grow as best it can, hardly tending it at all, like those wild plants whose fruits are plucked by primitive peoples in their forests.

Possession of the name of either man or god conferred on the possessor control over him — such was and still is the well - nigh universal belief of primitive religion.

Humans are still very primitive.

Just imagine — If the human race is still around in a thousand years and we were somehow able to listen in on a discussion regarding what we now think is true in all of these areas, I'm guessing there would be lots of chuckling about our «primitive» ideas.

I don't regret much in this life, only the fact I was born at time when man still had such primitive beliefs.

«Consciousness only illuminates the more primitive types of prehension so far as these prehensions are still elements in the products of integration.

The so - called Apostles» Creed in particular still betrays in its form and language its direct descent from the primitive apostolic Preaching.

If, for example, mammals are more advanced than amoebae, and flowering plants more than bacteria, why then are amoebae, bacteria, and a host of other «primitive» organisms still with us?

and they are all ancient myths, invented my primitive men... and here we are in the 21st century without a single scrap of proff of any deity, demon, or heaven or hell, and so many still believe the BS

«The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

Primitive ideas that people who look different are not quite human still rules the minds of most white people.

In their least condensed parts (that is to say, in what they still contain of the vestiges of primordial chaos), the matter composing them is extremely tenuous; probably hydrogen, the most primitive substance known to us in the field of distinguishable matter.

Instead of Mark's being influenced by Paul, it is the primitive, pre-Pauline view — which Mark still retains — that is the indispensable presupposition of Paul's own thought; Paul advances upon Mark, not Mark upon Paul!

Mark uses the term «Christ» only rarely, and where he does so it still bears its primitive significance as a title: Jesus is the «Messiah» of Jewish expectation, though the Jewish etymology and primary meaning, the «Anointed,» is not stressed.

When deep - seated anxieties are aroused by threats to his self - esteem or by failure to grow spiritually, the old temptation to regress to his primitive defense and curse still remains.

This nation, through a varied history, rich in external and internal experience, had become far removed from the primitive life of immediate dependence on nature, in which neighboring Oriental peoples still more or less lingered.

His resurrected body, as described in the assembled narratives of the New Testament, represents alike the original, primitive belief in a resuscitation of the flesh with all its earthly functions still intact and, as well, the later tendency to rarefy and spiritualize the idea of «body» in the risen life.

Our image - eating habits are still very primitive and indiscriminate.

The primitive eschatology, then, is still present: the present time of the church is a time both of faith and hope, present enjoyment and future expectation, but in John the details are much simpler, and the uneasiness and tension are if anything more acute.

And we still have the hubris to consider the beliefs of some peoples of the world «primitive.»

... Quote: «The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish»

After the still crude patterns of primitive religions, after the progress accomplished by the Jewish people, in Jesus religion manifests itself in structures whose critical reduction shows that they express the inwardness and universality that are the requisites of the mind.

These assumptions operate on a still more primitive level in the system of Buddhist - Lamaist prayer mills.

There are still «primitive» tribes who find it morally OK to kill someone for reasons that «civilized» societies might deem «bad.»

But the historian of religions aims to familiarize himself with the greatest possible number of religions, especially with archaic and primitive religions, where he has a chance to encounter certain religious institutions still in their elementary stages.