Not least of which is the question of original sin, a tradition that seems harder and harder to reconcile with what science is telling us about human origins, because it presupposes a fixed idea of human nature.
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The idea that using more human labour to produce something is a good idea is simply wrong.
Lord Pannick argued that there was no danger of a successful challenge under human rights law, because the European Court of Human Rights precedent was firmly against the idea that people had a human right to a particular kind of religious marriage - so if a marriage was refused for religious reasons, the courts would uphold that decision.
He questions why the idea of human nature has become a taboo subject, exploring "hot buttons" like violence, gender and aggression.
And this idea of human capital necessarily attaches itself to tax issues.
As in previous years, it heard from researchers whose studies strongly support the idea that human influence on climate is real and growing.
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Moreover, the HDI tree represents an alternative way of branding the idea of Human Development and communicating its message graphically to a wide audience.
Boiled down, Sean Parker is a human accelerant, an idea catalyst who has fueled some of the most disruptive companies of the last two decades.
But many conservative and evangelical Protestants adhere to a literal view of Genesis, rejecting the idea that human life evolved from lower primates over millions of years.
The book is a polemic, and its main target is what Mr de Waal takes to be a distorted idea of human life as relentlessly selfish and ruthlessly competitive.
Rep. Peter Deutsch, D-Florida, a co-sponsor of the Greenwood measure, said he agreed with the idea that human cloning should be banned, but said some cloning practices should be allowed for the sake of scientific research.
He had generated an idea of using human-powered batteries for television or portable video game consoles.
Capitalism makes possible entrepreneurship, which is the realization of an idea birthed in human creativity.
We're not defending an idea that every human being should eat corn flakes, play baseball or watch MTV.
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Yet the adult human investors had the clearest idea of the investment window and the most significant incentive: Their reputations were at stake.
For the latest research shows their physiologies are linked in ways which make the idea of a human superorganism more than just a rhetorical flourish.
His has been a triumph of ambition over intractable matter, a fulfilment of Mahler's faith in Arthur Schopenhauer's idea that the human will can overcome any force on earth.
For Ive, the idea of taking on human interface, beyond hardware, must be incredibly exciting creatively.
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One argument against the idea that a new human-dominated epoch has recently begun is that humans have been changing the planet for a long time already, indeed practically since the start of the Holocene.
This includes having a realistic idea of the amount of human and financial means needed.
We are a nation born of an idea, a commitment to human freedom.
"It's not gender based or age based, it's the idea that we are all human and we react to our environments, " he adds.
He had a clear idea of what was conducive to human flourishing and what conspired against it.
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The idea of a futures market for human organs could gain ground soon.
Earlier philanthropists have tried to get charity to run like a business, only to see the idea dissolve in the messiness of human problems.
The idea is to use the natural human instincts of playing and learning to familiarize patients with their illness and to help them to better monitor and treat it.
Dr White is a philosopher, and he sought to establish the idea that a person need not be human.
Natural law, that is, the extrapolation from nature of laws for human society, has at times been a compelling idea.
What is new is the idea that this research can be extended to human history, which Mr Buchanan does not succeed in supporting.
Wright, the former Global Head of Human Resources at Zurich Financial Services, suggests a novel idea: prohibiting new managers from changing anything for a year.
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