Excuse me if I prefer God who cares about me & answers
me when human science fails me.
Not exact matches
Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious
science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of
human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory»
when «loss» is flashing all around them.
If you're interested in self - inquiry there are a lot of psychological texts written in recent years
when the
science was far, far in advance of anything understood about
humans back in biblical times.
It just seems that people like Hawking ignore religion completely
when a HUGE part of
science is questioning all beliefs including your own which I don't think
human beings do as much as they should, or respect other people's opinions.
It is only
when descriptive
science grows arrogant, and, not content with describing what lies within its province, makes naturalistic pronouncements which eliminate or belittle God and the
human spirit, that Christian faith is affronted.
When this philosophic dimension is admitted, the natural
sciences become prime sources of knowledge of man, not only in respect to those material properties shared with the nonhuman world, but also in respect to the uniquely
human qualities of mind and spirit.
These latter are good in themselves but become dangerous (n. 31, 34, 68, 74)
when materialistically interpreted (e.g. «the rejection of metaphysics by the
human sciences» n. 31, & cf. 53, 77) and abused (n. 5, 28, 75).
And back then, wasn't it the fans wrapped up in «theories» who were ultimately disappointed
when they found out that Lost wasn't really concerned with answering the thousands of questions it had raised — that it was less a heady show about theology and
science and more an emotional show about its characters and the
human experience?
In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of
science: «
When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the
human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical
science.»
actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us
humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy,
when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago
when there was no
science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang
Science just explains to us how God did something or created something, and many times it is just a
human guess that is wrong and said to be fact
when it is fiction.
Granted, the believers are perfectly happy relying on scientists and
science to — I don't know — talk to people around the world instantaneously via this comment board, and then get in their cars, and fly in planes, and use electricity, and watch TV — all of those things based on
science, and yet,
when someone points out that scientists have mapped the
human genome and other primates and can show, irrefutably, where the different primate families branched off — well, no, no no!
This is wrong: (1) it might not be possible to «judge»
human laws in a supernatural way, especially
when the supernatural hasn't been shown to exist; (2) we as
humans judge
human laws all the time — we do it through philosophy, political
science, and economics, for instance.
Under the guise of the scientific notion, I defy
science to reproduce the
human brain, create DNA that matches with another person, create a universe that has order, make
humans with all the complexities all the same with identical DNA factors, and every
human with the same finger prints as another, and
when an atheistic scientist can do that, I will rethink my level of thoughts in regards to God.
In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power
when integrated with the basic prehensions of
science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly,
human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling
human satisfaction.
Even
when they do act in the name of anonymous facts like rising seas and damaged planets, they rightly choose for
human beings as individuals and families over the nameless facts of
science.
The only reason they ever were is because religioins feel threatened
when science advances
human knowledge.
It was the age of Confucius in China, of the Buddha in India, and of Mahavira, founder of Jainism, the period also
when the principal Hindu Upanishads were written, of Lao - tzu and the flourishing of Taoism in China, of the prophet Zoroaster in the Middle East, of the great transformative prophets Ezekiel, Jeremiah and second - Isaiah in Israel, and finally this was the period of the birth of philosophy and
science and what we call Western culture in Greece, all these developments at the same time arising independently in different cultures for reasons not yet fully understood — a kind of quickening of
human consciousness all over the globe.
12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent
science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae
when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the
human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the
human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.
Because the One Spirit includes even the materialists, though they reject this
science, the mental act called «prayer» lifts consciousness
when believed in; directed spiritually, prayer overcomes negative thinking, doubt, fear, directs, guides, improves, empowers, meets the
human need and magnifies the consciousness of the divine Presence, Love.
Screwtape's aversion to and fear of
human reason and
science is especially understandable
when viewed in light of process thought.
The question of
when human life begins is indisputably and very publicly settled by
science.
A socio - biologist can tell a young woman on the best scientific authority that nature designed her, body and mind, to conceive, bear and care for children, but it he can not tell her in the name of
science that in so doing she will fulfill her
human possibilities, and he can not answer her
when she declares war on such natural necessities.
«In the names of reason,
science and liberty they had proved, rather effectively, that good societies need God to survive and that
when you have murdered Him, starved Him, silenced Him, denied Him to the children and erased His festivals and His memory, you have a gap which can not indefinitely be filled by any
human, nor anything made by
human hands.»
as
humans learn more intricate
sciences and venture out into space, religion will become a mythology taught to children as «
when the world was full of hate» or as a course on «how to start wars»
Fifth, the
human sciences can serve strategic practical theology only
when they are reconceived as hermeneutical inquiries.
This is possible only
when we develop
science and technology, which accepts the value of creation and responsibility of
human beings.
So tell me again about how accurate your
science claims / beliefs are and how foolish mine are
when you (
science) reject something as impossible that
humans have proven to be possible.
If imagination plays such a vital role even in such
sciences as physics and astronomy, where man can so clearly be an objective spectator, how much more must man depend upon his imagination
when seeking to understand the questions of
human existence, in which he is at the same time an active participant.
3) The quantitative measurement of
human science data as compared with the data of Scripture: avoiding secularism
when doing contextualization.
2) The qualitative measurement of
human science data by means of Scripture: avoiding syncretism and relativism
when doing contextualization.
What
science inescapably tells us then, is that each of us as a unique individual
human being began
when the sperm of our father and the egg of our mother united in what we call the «conception» of a new person.
Why would any Christian want to trust in the «foolishness» of
human - made
science and medicine
when there is prayer and their invisible Jesus friend?
What about that «flawed»
science that The Cornucopia Institute depended on
when exposing concerns that food - grade carrageenan poses
human health risks as an inflammatory agent and possible carcinogen?
I get that she was not exclusively breastfed, she had outside food in her developing digestive track at only 3 days old, but to count her as in the same statistics on how breastfeeding does or does not affect
humans babies as the baby who only breastfed for the 3 days
when mom was in the hospital and then switched to formal is not sound
science.
An associate professor of
human development and family
sciences at the University of Texas, Kim had been following more than 300 Asian - American families for a decade
when the book came out.
However, much more can be achieved
when the
science, engineering and health communities embrace
human rights as an area suitable for and deserving of robust inquiry, and become an influential voice in the defense of
human rights.
Today, researchers at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes
Science), previewed data from a recent poll showing that
when the word «
human» is replaced with «elephant» in the evolution question, 75 % of Americans agree — about 25 percentage points higher than before.
It sounds materialistic, specially
when compared to this romantic idea of doing
science for the progress of
human knowledge.
When science is increasingly regarded with suspicion, the best way to temper our detractors is to show them we're friendly
human beings motivated by something other than world domination.
«
When we first began this study, there had not been a lot of experimental research done,» said Prof Gail Tripp, one of the authors of the paper and director of the
Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit at the Okinawa Institute of
Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST).
That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of
humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established
science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on
humans only from the neck down.
A stark acknowledgment of a mismatch between goals and budget realities came in February,
when, after vehemently vowing not to take «one thin dime» from NASA's space -
science efforts to fund
human spaceflight, Griffin announced he was doing just that.
Bacteria release N2O
when they consume the nitrogen in soil or water, but
human activity now accounts for nearly 40 per cent of N2O emissions (
Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.11
Science, DOI: 10.1126 /
science.11
science.1176985).
According to research published in the journal Quaternary
Science Reviews, the chance find of a humanly - worked quartzite flake, in ancient deposits of the river Gediz, in western Turkey, provides a major new insight into
when and how early
humans dispersed out of Africa and Asia.
The reality is,
when it comes to carrying out serious space
science,
humans simply can't compete with spacefaring hardware.
Another possible issue with attribution
science, he says, is that the current generation of simulations simply may not be capable of capturing some of the subtle changes in the climate and oceans — a particular danger
when it comes to studies that find no link to
human activities.
The book is a heady ride through a cherry - picked crop of impressive discoveries in
science and medicine, all of them made
when the
human body was pushed to what we now think of as its limits.
Earlier in the year,
when the Chinese team's experiment was still a rumor, 18 researchers co-authored a letter in
Science that called for the community to address the ethical questions and potential hazards of using CRISPR in
humans.
When he finished his PhD in 2001, Palatnik decided to go abroad for his postdoc, taking advantage of a
Human Frontier
Science Program (HFSP) long - term fellowship to move to Detlef Weigel's lab, at the time in the Salk Institute in San Diego, California.