Excellent questions... we are hedged with uncertainties, not least in discerning which «pathways» really lead through the thicket and
which are dead ends.
Not exact matches
But even if we
were to accept the proposition of «guided» evolution, we
're left with the question of who designed the designer
which only leads to arguments of special pleading... I.e. a
dead end.
Their presence
is most obvious in the Reform branch of modern Judaism,
which altered the traditional prayer book to soften or even erase the affirmation that God will raise the body from the
dead at the
end of time.
That
is, it
was done prematurely without sufficient legal and international underpinnings and support and the
end result
was the Arab - Israel war
which has led right up to where we
are right now with over 100,000 innocent Iraqi victims, 4500 US soldiers
dead, and trillions of dollars spent.
The Holy Spirit
is with millions (just ask) at this moment and Christ rose from the
dead about 2,000 years ago
which is close to the
end of what
is typically considered ancient history (476AD).
At one
end of the gamut
is Acts 20:10, where Paul, finding a supposed
dead man still breathing, cries, «Make ye no ado; for his psyche
is in him»; at the other
is I Peter 2:11, where the full spiritual meaning of the term
is evident — «Abstain from fleshly lusts,
which war against the soul.»
If a mother
is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her
dead child has lost, it
is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the
end for
which it
was created....
In the last chapter we explained that the «resurrection of the
dead» expresses the hope that the whole of a man's life from beginning to
end will
be raised before the divine Judgment Seat and
be accepted by God as possessing something of value
which will give it an eternal meaning.
«To exalt the crucified Jesus to the right hand of God»
was a statement
which implied another, namely, «to raise from the
dead», and the two seem to have
been used almost synonymously at first.49 At this point we must take note of the widespread belief in the resurrection of the
dead at the
end - time, already described in the previous two chapters.
At one extreme there
are many conservative Christians, both in sects and in the major communions, who, because of their belief in the authority and inerrancy of Holy Scripture, still look expectantly to a future point in time when the world will come to a sudden
end and when, at the Judgment
which follows, there will
be a general resurrection of all the
dead in some bodily form.
The term «resurrection of the
dead» should not
be interpreted as a hope for the prolongation or restoration of our own conscious existence, but rather a hope that human life has meaning, that when our conscious existence
is ended, the historical life we have lived may
be raised before the eternal Judge, and may
be vindicated, as
being of some value for that Kingdom
which is eternal and for whose fuller manifestation on earth we ever pray.
Such a future would
be redirected away from the dehumanizing,
dead end toward
which technological society
is moving us.
A guide then would not destroy his freedom; to tell him to take this way out if he wants to
be free rather than that one
which leads to a
dead end is not to destroy his freedom because he
is not free to begin with; rather it
is to give him freedom.
So, people who go to Hell, go there for a» designated period of time»,
which at the
end of that period, they, as well as all other
dead souls,
are CALLED forth to the judgment of works.
Kim has
been led to a
dead end because, correctly seeing that a nonreductive materialism
is impossible, 8 he believes that there
are only three other options, all of
which are extremely problematic: reductive materialism,
which reduces the psychological to the physical (as conventionally understood); eliminative materialism,
which, realizing that reduction
is impossible, excludes the psychological from its ontology; and ontological dualism,
which rejects physicalism altogether.
It
is precisely those images used in the New Testament to describe the condition of the
dead in Christ
which prove that even now, in this interim state of the
dead, the Resurrection of Christ — the anticipation of the
End —
is already effective.
In I Thessalonians Paul outlines the belief that the resurrected Jesus would, at the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God
which herald the
end of all things, descend in a cloud and there meet the saints, both those still living and those who will have
been raised from the
dead.
Towards the
end of the Parliamentary session before the recess, a lobby
was organised in Portcullis House (the office building many MPs use just across Bridge Street, overlooking the Thames) by Not
Dead Yet UK, in
which disabled activists invited their MPs to discuss assisted suicide with them.
Wherever you
are as a couple on the marital journey — at the beginning, along the way, or near the
end; on the main road, at a
dead -
end, or on a detour — we hope we have tempted you to new efforts in the struggle and discovery, the pain and joy
which together create a marriage.
Because according to the teaching of Scripture, death
is sleep, a prolonged sleep
which will eventually
end, and then the bodies of the
dead will reawaken as they
are reunited with their immortal souls.
«God hears» in the sense that the giving of thanks
is not a
dead -
end process, but
is a creative act
which «registers» in terms of consequences
which confirm or strengthen community.
What
was that way towards fellowship upon
which Paul had struggled only to find that it
was a
dead end?
But death
is not simply the inescapable
end of each man's life; it
is also the plain demonstration of his mortality, a mortality
which both conditions and characterizes everything that he
is and does up to the moment when he
is pronounced
dead.
Wake up USA, reject this
dead -
end in
which the jewish lobby
is cornering you in.
«Old Marley
was as
dead as a door - nail,» the first paragraph
ends — to
which the second paragraph adds: «Mind!
Simply put, what this means
is that there
are no
dead -
end streets in personal or public life in
which sin and evil have the last word, no enclosures from
which there
is no exit.
But I
am equally certain about what will remain at the
end: not the Church of the political cult,
which is dead already, but the Church of faith.
Two hours in, a search that may have started with a simple pan-seared duck breast eventually
ends in «Mozarella Ganache Stuffed Nutella Coffee Cake Pancakes with Red Velvet Honey Mustard,» and you
're staring open - mouthed and
dead - eyed at the screen, your senses so thoroughly overstimulated that you no longer know
which end is up.
There
is a problem since any money in
which the Hawks take
dead money into CAP space for the Hawks would have to wait until after the NBA year
ends in July.
The forward progress rule reads, «The Forward Progress of a runner or airborne receiver
is the point at
which his advance toward his opponent's goal
ends and
is the spot at
which the ball
is declared
dead by rule, irrespective of the runner or receiver
being pushed or carried backward by an opponent.»
I expect Wenger signing another contract will
be announced just after John Cross at the mirror newspaper announces 14 players leaving to make room for world class players
which of course will
be dead and buried come the
end of the summer transfer window.
My current clean - up for today involves a child who only radomly uses the potty including leaving her «leavings» on the persian rug, an entire bag of dog biscuits has
been upended, finding all of the seats for the couch,
which seem to
be a never
ending prop for games, 3 days worth of food & crumbs, clothes strewn everywhere because the children refuse to keep clothes on (even though its
dead winter here) the «Baby Gate»
is missing the gate part, as my children ripped it full force from its hinges.
The Loretto Early Childhood Center,
which sits on a vast green campus tucked at the
dead end of a residential street,
is no longer sustainable, says the Loretto Convent nuns who run it.
And that isn't even talking about the chance of someone (anyone — driver, innocent bystander) dying,
which is somewhere on the order of 1000 times less likely (for every 1 million people who drink and drive, 2 people will
end up
dead (most likely the driver)-RRB-.
Additionally, an assassin who
is caught
is someone who won't
be getting paid and who might rat out who it
is that wanted them
dead,
which is highly undesirable on all
ends.
May
is pedaling furiously now, but it
is down a path
which everyone has already warned her leads to a
dead end.
Paladino's article
is just the latest twist in a saga that started two weeks ago when Artvoice published an
end of the year survey in
which the developer said he wanted to see President Obama
dead and the first lady return to Zimbabwe and live with a gorilla.
It came at the
end of a Labour conference
which was noticeably lethargic and
dead, especially after the frenzied historic drama of the Scottish campaign.
Only the Democrats want to continue down this path
which is really a
dead end.
Then the shooting starts up again, Saturday night and into Sunday morning, and finally one more shooting for good measure in the middle of Sunday afternoon in the Bronx, a 24 - year old man shot and killed on Briggs Ave.. That makes it seven
dead, three boroughs, 24 hours,
which is why City Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo issues her own plea for the
end of bloodshed in New York.
The pile of
dead bees
ended up revealing a previously unrecognized suspect in colony collapse disorder — a mysterious condition that for several years has
been causing declines in U.S. honeybee populations,
which are needed to pollinate many important crops.
Moore
is instructive too on
dead ends such as that
which, at the close of the 19th century, confronted investigators who
were trying to fathom the basis of inheritance by using the techniques of cytology alone.
These shadowy figures — some of
which are as large as the Milky Way but with just one - thousandth the number of stars — could
be dead ends in galactic evolution.
In the
end success
was secured by the fact that the stone -
dead galaxy
was positioned behind a foreground cluster of other galaxies — a cluster
which functioned as a «natural lens» by amplifying as well as enlarging the image of MACS2129 - 1.
So
which is the ancestral state, why did the earlier onset of maturity (the tricellular state) evolve so often, and
is the tricellular state an evolutionary «
dead end»?
The findings shed new light on the biological nature of protein aggregates,
which have
been widely considered to
be toxic
dead -
end products, but
are increasingly
being recognized as a new layer of cellular organization.
Although T. brucei gambiense has also
been found in various wild and domestic animal species, these
are usually considered sporadic, «
dead -
end» hosts, from
which the disease isn't transmitted further.
We can try a dozen new approaches, some of
which will
be dead ends, knowing that when one approach does work, we have the capacity to pour time and energy into it to see where it takes us.
That damage accumulates with age to cause secondary effects,
which in turn cause further issues, and by the time the process of dysfunction rises to the level of
being called a disease it has become a huge mess of broken mechanisms, confusion, and
dead ends.
The patch
is in an area of ocean between California and Hawaii called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre — a kind of swirling
dead end for Pacific currents,
which have
been depositing floating plastic trash there for decades.