Sentences with phrase «survival of»

It must have a beneficial effect to have persisted for so long (survival of the fittest meme).

The truth was to be found in the biology lesson when we were told that life on earth is essentially about the survival of the fittest.

Anyone who has spent much time in the wilderness will realize that survival of the fittest was a shallow look at the natural world, and that cooperation is prevalent, even among lions.

In fact, the only way the race (human) can survive is to look at reality square in the face and accept that the whole «survival of the fittest» (a true perversion of Darwinism and evolutionary ecology, by the way) is plain wrong.

Our Godly father of all things created is awesomely grand and He may well have had too many first born sons when in the very beginnings of Creationism, God had to do away with many of them in order for their survival of the most fittest sons to begin building all these celestial creations we know of as suns, and stars and moons and planets,,,

The survival of the habit can be partially accounted for by the nourishment it receives from a subterranean hope: perhaps today there will be a word from God.

Mark You don't consider Hitler's survival of that assassination attempt «freakish»?

Variants are survival of the fittest, get yours and get out, and other nonsustainable ideas.

A society that is almost enamored by social innovation for innovation's sake faces in virtual helplessness a situation that requires — not for the sake of a traditional national interest but for the survival of civilization, if not of mankind itself — an extreme effort of bold, innovating imagination.

Concerning the survival of the human personality after death, whether in the Platonic sense of the immortality of the soul or the biblical sense of the resurrection of the body, Hartshorne is at times agnostic and at others quite skeptical.

The story of Oedipus shows repeatedly the murder and banishment required for the survival of the city of Thebes.

Since all we are are neurons and since our consciousness»em erged» via mechanisms which favoured improved survival of the progeny, all we believe are illusions to keep our moods up and ourselves away from suicide and to persevere against hardship of existence.

Neither the excellence of what they do as measured by some set of rules nor their awesome survival of horrifying events can do that.

The belief in the survival of the soul did not give rise to difficulties, but the impious objected with irony to the doctrine of the resurrection of the body: «Give us back our fathers if you speak the truth!»

Yet David Crystal, an acknowledged authority in linguistics, has warned that the survival of English as the only language left in 500 years» time would be a great intellectual disaster.

Our Lord's command, said King, is not «the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer,» but «an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization,» lest it destroy itself through a vicious cycle of endless violence and retribution.

Second, Whitehead explicitly and forcefully denies that the existence of the soul is any evidence for its survival of bodily death.

It is not a very good history, but it is probably as good a history as we can expect, not only because it is the best of its kind, and practically the only survival of its kind (Several other authors, according to Josephus, had undertaken to write accounts of the revolt — see the opening paragraphs of his preface to The Jewish War.

So it's completely reasonable to say that both stories stand as game - changers for what ensures the survival of humanity long after the end of earth.

First, with reference to the topic of the last section, it seems that Whitehead is doubtful that so sharp a line can be drawn between animals and humans that there is real warrant for affirming total extinction of all animals and survival of all humans.

But the survival of the church of Christ is ironically and strangely identified with the survival of the ordained ministry.

Open Doors said the survival of the Bible symbolises the hope which the Christian community in Iraq continue to hold on to.

If death were always preceded, however, as unfortunately on rare occasions it sometimes is, by a period of slow decay, as long in years as the original period of growth to physical maturity, until any kind of personal communion had been rendered virtually impossible, then we would not only welcome death, as a merciful release, but be less inclined to assume the survival of the deceased in an «after - life».

Preprojectively, we see from Whitehead's analysis of the survival of complex resilient systems that the Category of Transmutation must apply across the serial evolution of a nexus.

One needs to speak of resurrection only when all forms of belief in personal survival of death have been abandoned.

That is, there is a fundamental falseness to the egotism that develops from one's physical instincts for survival, since the ontological reality is that one's own survival is bound up with the survival of all else.

Ellis wonders about the very survival of a recognizable Judaism, yet somehow Jews of conscience will witness to the commanding voices of Sinai and Auschwitz.»

It was in any case this faith, accommodating itself in one form or another to almost every conceivable circumstance of existence, which was responsible for the survival of Judaism's essential integrity, her unique entity — and, historically assessed, for the subsequent creation of the Christian faith.

Rather than a fall from a pristine state, modern science sees the human race arising from a long struggle characterized by natural selection and survival of the fittest.

By nature, humans are born and have evolved to be communal beings — for the most part — interested in the survival of themselves foremost, but also to a large degree of other beings (and other mammals) around them.

He says that»... the only immortality or resurrection which is essential to Christian hope is not our own subjective survival of death, but our objective immortality or resurrection in God... imperishably united with all creation into his own unending life.

Since the Greeks (as indeed most of the ancient world though often in vague and undefined ways) were accustomed to think of death in terms of the survival of an immaterial soul, the Jewish emphasis on the resurrection of the fleshly body seemed not only unnecessary, but unspiritual and even repellent.

If that cartoon is true, then we save ourselves; then, it's the survival of the fittest.

I consider myself a Secular Humanist with a primary focus of hoping to help in the survival of humanity.

Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, all have admiration for the self - sacrificing hero, but there is always some justifying practical end in view: the survival of the tribe, the avoidance of re-incarnation, and so forth.

What is the spiritual name for survival of the fittest?

Although she must leave for the pure survival of her heart, the way isn't easy.

Until the next world, violence alone ensured the survival of Christendom — and so, after their victory at the great Battle of Lepanto, Spanish and Italians butchered scores of defeated Turkish seamen thrashing in the bloody seas, determined that the sultan would lose all his skilled bowmen and rowers.

I consider myself a Christianity with a primary focus of hoping to help in the survival of humanity, too.

Under the most extreme conditions, the cultural - religious survival of the Jewish people altogether trumps the physical survival of any individual Jew.

This romantic transformism is just as nonsensical as kindergarten fundamentalism and both visions are equally alien to the spiritual sense of the survival of the self.

The cooperative activities provide for the realization and survival of ever more complex characters.

Privileging ethnic survival makes sense only when one understands that the survival of the Jewish people is not self - justifying: As a genuine task for Jews, survival requires a transcendent purpose and reason for existence, and a claim that without ethnic survival, Jews will sink into individual or collective nihilism.

The crucial issue is whether mankind can now take the needed steps to ensure the survival of its accomplishments and shortcomings, accumulated over uncounted millenia.

Let us speak truth to power for the sake of the survival of some and justice for all.

It is the drive toward the realization of this community that guarantees the growth of thought and the survival of mankind itself.

That Judaism is a religious civilization implies that the survival of the Jewish people in the Diaspora depends on its making religion a matter of vital interest (GJM 499).

This leaves open, of course, the question of whether the Torah exists for the sake of the survival of the Jews, or the Jews survive for the sake of the Torah.

Anyway this story just goes to show that Darwinism, per survival of the fittest is working well and doing its job - eliminating the less fit among members of a species.

Jewish tradition teaches the opposite: The survival of the Jewish people takes precedence over the survival of individual Jews.