Sentences with phrase «with human limitations»

For all we've learned about galaxies and the wider cosmos, though, astronomers have struggled with human limitations as heavenly observers.

Niebuhr's realism required «recognizing that the imperfections of the world stemmed from fallen human nature, that the social implications of human selfishness had to be reckoned with, that to improve the world it would be necessary to work with human limitations and not dream of obliterating them.

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We can «know» with a lesser or greater degree of probability, but, without the attribute of omniscience, the human intellect will always have its limitations.

That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing free human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some power of self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply by creating a world containing no self - determined beings (GPE 271).

Of course, we are engaging a Mystery in the deepest sense when we seek a direct encounter with God and existentialism has its serious limitations as do all human attempts at understanding; but I am drawn to Kierkegaard's insight into prayer:

So being human, with its limitations and its complexity is a lot more comfortable for me.

It has been an attempt to suggest that the Western novel is haunted by the story of Jesus, in the sense that like the hiddenness of God in that human life, the image of human life in the Western novel is one in which human beings grapple with the transcendent through the inexorable limitations of historical existence.

Again, the unspoken assumption is that what is important in the differences between religions has nothing to do with how close their theological descriptions of God correspond to reality, either because those differences don't exist or because they are impossible for us to judge, differences too subtle to be detected by us, lost in the «noise» of our human limitations, personal history, genetics, and so on.

If you can not distinguish the truth being communicated from its culturally and historically conditioned manner of expression, then it seems impossible to cope with advances in human knowledge which show up the limitations and inaccuracies of the earlier ideas.

But yet, the fact remains that in man's «common» experience, in those very human and historical — and sinful — limitations we know so well, we have the right to find in parabolic fashion creaturely representations of that which God is, and that which God has done, and that which God purposes to bring to pass in and for and through and with and to this his world and the men and women whom he has placed in it.

Rather, in my view, they are most faithfully engaged with as a collection of books written by fallible human beings whose work bears the hallmarks of the limitations and preconceptions of the times and the cultures they lived in, but also of the transformational experience of their encounters with God.

For evangelizing, in its essence, is taking the authentic Christian gospel (albeit with the limitations of human understanding) through word or deed to those who need it and are at least prepared enough to take a look at it.

I think that's why for a while they refused to name god to start with — a name is the beginning of human perceived limitations.

It has almost been as if we humans, with our limitations and in our finitude, not to mention our obvious and tragic defection from right alignment with the divine intention for the world and for us, were to insist that until and unless we are given what we regard as due recognition and the security of our own survival in an individualistic sense, we shall refuse to take our place and play our part in the creative advance of the universe.

Paul «the rabbi» must be countered by Paul «the Christian»; Scripture as human (reflecting the historical limitations of its authors» insight) must be contrasted with Scripture as divine.55

They do not see the transformation of every physical limitation as a guarantee, or even as necessary for fulfilling our human potential, and they construe healing in a holistic sense, as the inclusion of all people, regardless of bodily or mental function, in communion with God.

From the vantage point of Humanity 3.5, the insistence on faster solutions to human limitations seems a lot like an inability to come to a mature reckoning with finitude and death.

As said before, when we look for the revelation, according to Tillich, the man Jesus with all his human limitations fades away so that we see not the man but the power of being for which and in which and by which he lived.

It includes that, to be sure, yet it is more extensive: it signifies this concrete human nature in which we find ourselves, with its weaknesses, limitation, brokenness.

Sure, if you can compare physical limitations between two people who desperately want to communicate with each other, to a supreme being who, for what ever reason (completely unknown to everyone), has decided to never communicate with the human who desperately wants some actual communication.

Aside from the limitations imposed by the halting problem, there are two basic reasons that computers can not accomplish certain things today — for example, be programmed to act with human common sense.

Christian faith believed in «God with us»: God not merely reflected through, but mediated in, a human life with all the limitations of genuine manhood; God incarnate and entering into the human condition, even to the point of suffering and death.

As necessary as its analysis of the self as existence still seems to me to be to any anthropological reflection, the value of this analysis as well as its limitations are more likely to be justly appreciated when it is viewed together with the other post-Hegelian philosophies of human activity that Richard J. Bernstein has so ably discussed in his book, Praxis and Action.

One begins with realizing human limitation.

Moreover, he would be quick to acknowledge that the most frequent and fertile source of error in a metaphysics that follows his method would be the inevitable human limitations upon the metaphysician's powers to abstract from his experiences with sufficient generality for his conclusions to be universally valid.

Just as Jesus took on human flesh with all its weaknesses and limitations, so also God, in the Old Testament «incarnated» Himself into the affairs of humanity with all of our weaknesses and limitations.

This basic duality is intimate and basic to human self - consciousness: that is the distinction between matter and mind, between deterministic things with limited life cycles and goals, and my ability to manipulate these things beyond these limitations for my own goals.

In fact, I wonder if part of the appeal of the words, the flowers, the lace, the cakes — or, for that matter, of the liturgy, the premarital counseling, and the minister's earnest appeal for «seriousness» and «dignity» — may be a complex rationalizing away of this embarrassingly human event, in short, weddings are an embarrassment because they reveal the limitations of our tidy, virginal, whitewashed, pristine theologies which can not yet deal with incarnation.

Comparison with Gilgamesh, which the author of Genesis 2 - 3 may have had in mind in writing, would perhaps have given a deeper resonance to the reality principle, including the limitations of human capacities and the acceptance of death.

One other thing to throw in the mix, if we care to challenge ourselves to grow, can be to take a deeper look at the very things that provoke us (be it our wish to be more green colliding with our own human limitations to be perfect, or the injustices that seem clearly «wrong» to us).

All humans work better with having boundaries in place, whether this is how far they can go or the limitations of their work.

Perhaps they are capable of empathising with humans, but there is certainly some limitation on their ability to empathise with animals.

«Future researchers should continue to explore the human - animal bond for older adult populations, particularly for those with cognitive, physical, and financial limitations.

In general, animal movements were shorter in areas with high human impact, likely owing to changed behaviors and physical limitations.

Understanding the regulation and limitation of the telomerase enzyme holds the promise of reversing telomere shortening and cellular aging with the potential to extend human lifespan and improve the health and wellness of elderly individuals.

The strategy used by infants should not be seen as a limitation for lexical learning, but rather as a feature of human memory that interacts with language learning mechanisms.

The monkey model has its own limitations: Monkeys don't develop severe disease when infected with different serotypes of dengue virus, which clearly happens in humans.

This means that chimps have greater limitations on the ways in which their brains can develop and on their capacity to learn new behaviors or skills compared with humans.

This approach also has limitations as it impedes comparisons with findings in other studies and other species, which is essential if you want to use research on chimpanzees to better understand the evolution of human personality traits.»

That's the handiwork of another MacCready who happens to inhabit the same body: the sky's - the - limit inventor who parlayed a preternatural talent with model planes into Da Vinci - like human - and solar - powered vehicles that shattered the world's notion of the limitations of such machines, the passionate naturalist who gets teary - eyed talking about the monarch butterfly and the sooty tern, the easygoing fellow who accessorizes his blazer, tie, and gray slacks outfit with black sneakers.

There is no human vaccine and only few treatments are available, all of which show one or more important limitations with respect to administration, toxicity or cost.

The real question is, will human evolution continue to be limited by the ponderous rate of nature or will we overcome even this limitation with our brains?

The authors should be more circumspect in reporting their results, acknowledging that the stature estimates from modern humans are likely exaggerations, and focus their interpretations on the more appropriate (but still tenuous) australopithecine - based predictions — still with the caveat about the limitations of the data from which the predictor is derived.

The phrase «intelligent interactive systems» describes many of Gajos's interests: understanding how intelligent technologies can enable novel ways of interacting with computation and in the new challenges that human abilities, limitations and preferences create for machine learning algorithms embedded in interactive systems.

We have developed SCID mouse models that support high levels of engraftment with human cells and tissues to overcome these limitations.

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In this dark comedy that portrays bloodsuckers as wise but melancholy figures, Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston play eternal lovers who have learned to tolerate the predictably disappointing limitations of the humans with whom they must share this planet.

In a new article for Education Next, Susan Payne Carter of the United States Military Academy, Major Kyle Greenberg of the Army's Human Resources Command, and Major Michael S. Walker of the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation within the Office of the Secretary of Defense report that allowing computer use in the classroom, even with strict limitations, significantly reduces students» average final - exam performance.

Among these are accountability for student success, parental choice even for students with severe disabilities, and human capital limitations.

Christina Baker Kline showed her to be just another human, with hopes and dreams, limitations, strengths, flaws, and gullibilities.