Sentences with phrase «understanding of life sciences»

«He has a really sophisticated understanding of life sciences in the Asia - Pacific region.

A working understanding of life sciences and medical terminology is required.

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I came away from this recent conversation with a deeper understanding of the ethical risks posed by AI, insights into behavioral data science, and cautious optimism that we can use these tools and technology to create the financial world we want to live in.

Secondly, you have no understanding of science clearly, and choose to be nasty because you are upset that your life is a tragedy, you never got to get a decent education and you are too stubborn to face this fact.

But I would never base my life on them, and I would never try to make them true in our twenty - first century understanding of science, medicine, history, and technology.

If we now understand religion and morality as forms of life and experience that are quite different from that of science, the same can also be said of our understanding of philosophy and metaphysics.

We have to begin to realize that laws and codes of conduct handed down in a time before science, before understanding biology and evolution, before our world was so grossly overpopulated, should no longer govern our lives, even if we otherwise subscribe to the faith.

Science in the usual sense does not deal adequately with the factor of coded sequence; it does not often even advert to it, though the use of computer models is beginning to enhance our understanding of the many possible patterns of information at every level of matter and life.

Let it be said here and now, however, that we need not conclude that the very sciences which are forcing us more and more to abandon as invalid our traditional understanding of the nature and destiny of man, have thereby solved the riddle of life and of the mystery of man.

Richard Dawkins, in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologists:

It is indeed to be considered «free thinking» to always curiously trying to understand the origins of life and the universe through science rather than just accepting a 2,000 year old (or more) fairy tale.

So, for instance, with the discovery of the New World and the rush of Catholic missions to far - flung lands, many Catholics understood that they were living in a new era of exploration, industry, education, art, literature, devotion, science, and philosophy.

If you could understand science than you would see the lack of «accident» and the beauty of scientificly inevitable evolution both in life and the universe.

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

With that in mind, I generally discount all of the science and knowledge that has been developed throughout human history as being useful for living in the world we understand, but not truth by any means.

This young woman is very confused and seems not to understand what science has taught us about the origins and evolution of life.

There is in Berger's discussion of religion and everyday life a courageous optimism, despite the existential despair in which humanity is assumed to live, a courageous optimism that the social sciences will reshape and reinvigorate our understanding of ourselves.

In light of this fourfold division, it appears that the current disputes about Darwin and design are at bottom not so much conflicts between science and religion as disagreements about whether there is room for only one level — not a plurality of levels — on which to understand the story of life.

Along with this religious emphasis goes an understanding of science not as the leisured activity of a few whose ordinary life is secure, but as an activity devoted to serving ordinary life and enhancing it for everyone.

We can not share in this mythological picture, continues Bultmann, because we live and think within «the world - picture formed by modern natural science» and within «the understanding man has of himself in accordance with which he understands himself to be a closed inner unity that does not stand open to the incursion of supernatural powers.

The physical sciences and the life sciences also yield their full harvest of knowledge about man only when the understanding gained through direct self - consciousness is used in the interpretation of the methods and results of objective scientific investigation and of technical invention.

What actually happens with Gutiérez and others close to him is something like this: they turn to the social sciences for help in understanding the dynamics of the world in which they live; among those they read is Marx, who describes a world in which a «class struggle» is going on.

Instead, proponents of «creation - science» hold that the creation of the universe, the earth, living things, and man was accomplished through supernatural means inaccessible to human understanding.

Beyond astronomy, the more one understands about the physical sciences and the world we live on, the more you come to see that it is too dang perfect to be the result of some random, godless cosmic event.

Thus, if we now understand religion and morality, say, as forms of life and experience that are quite different from that of science, the same can also be said, mutatis mutandis, of our understanding of philosophy and metaphysics.

So far as I understand the matter, the conditions of reasonableness in our situation are secular, even if not secularistic, conditions, i.e., they demand the unqualified acceptance both of the method and world - picture of modern science and critical history and of the reality and significance of this world of time and change, which is the context of our lives as secular men.

Science represents both a method of understanding the universe and a form of the life of the mind.

«Science,» she writes, «is important for exactly the same reason that the study of history or of language is important — because we are beings that need in general to understand the world in which we live, and our culture has chosen a way of life to which that understanding is central.»

The fear today isn't so much of not understanding science, but of taking responsibility for one's self, for your destiny, your life, your family, your decisions, and yes, your morals.

You can say science is God's way of helping humans cope with not understanding the meaning of life.

If our theology is to be taken seriously by scientists and other intellectuals, it is imperative that we frame our theories of revelation in terms that reflect our living in the universe as it is described and understood by the best of contemporary science.

And no, I don't just disregard science (nor the common consensus in matters of politics, social norms, alternative lifestyles, etc.)-- I understand the importance, but also the shortcomings of relying on man's own inferences about the nature of life, the universe, and the meaning of existence.

We are brought up with a certain level of belief in a prescribed religion but as we live in a time of exploding understanding of science and amazing access to information we question some of the «arcane» practices and try to sift thru the rest to personalize it.

Mike is an author, podcaster (he has his own and co-produces The Liturgist Podcast) and a speaker who travels across the world helping people understand the science of life's most profound and mundane experiences.

Seeking to understand the true teachings of Christ by reading the Bible is a lot like trying to understand the lives of pre-historic humans by reading their abandoned camp sites using the science of paleontology.

Nevertheless, just as in science there are some overarching governing rules of the universe which tend to be active in all situations and events, so also in trying to understand some of the bad things that happen in life, there seem to be some overarching rules which guide and govern these actions.

But this is not to conclude that the sciences which are forcing us more and more to abandon our traditional understanding of the nature and destiny of man, have solved the riddle of life and of the mystery of man.

He clearly says that evolution is the foundation for all of life sciences, and helps us to understand our world and life as we know it, and that without a belief in evolution, it's almost impossible to make life science follow logically.

Religion has NEVER been able to prove any of their calims... no religion... not once... hence it is more than reasonable to trust science as a way to understand the world we live in and completely unreasonable to trust religions baseless claims.

Tell me if you understand that science does not offer evidence for origin of life.

You and I are in total agreement in trusting science as a way of understanding the world we live in.

In Science, it makes one refuse to see signs of design and purpose in the universe, or admit the possiblity of life after death, God, or anything that we do not currently know or understand.

Though you can not completely eliminate your teenager's chances for depression, consider whether your child participates in physical and extracurricular activities, maintains a positive social life and understands how to cope with stress, suggests John Curry, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Center for the Study of Suicide Prevention and Intervention at Duke University in Durham.

The intention of this course is to give the teacher a living connection to science so that this same enthusiasm, understanding, and interest can be shared when the teacher is working with the students in the classroom.

Instead, Pixar's Inside Out is an exciting and compelling tour of inner life that's grounded in science plus an authentic understanding of how kids feel.

Specific plans for the research will remain to be developed, but potential areas under discussion include accelerating the pace of discovery to support the most innovative and promising science of the brain, including: chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE); concussion management and treatment; and the understanding of the potential relationship between traumatic brain injury and late - life neurodegenerative disorders, especially Alzheimer's disease.

World experts from the fields of social, biological and medical science will today (Monday 25 June 2012) gather in Edinburgh to discuss how they can cooperate to improve our understanding of the way behaviours and life experiences can influence how our genetic inheritance is expressed (epigenetics).

«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.

Toward High School Biology — Developed with support from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences and in partnership with BSCS, AAAS Project 2061 has developed and tested an innovative eight - week curriculum unit designed to integrate physical and life science concepts to help middle school students understand chemical reactions and their role in the growth and repair of living organisms.

The memorandum of understanding identified four areas in the life sciences where AAAS and the Cuban Academy of Sciences will seek opportunities for sustained cooperation: emerging infectious diseases, brain disorders, cancer, and antimicrobial drug resistance.