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  • Therefore the darkness and sadness of Holy Friday is for us something real, alive, contemporary; we can cry at the cross and experience everything that took place in that triumph of evil, treachery, cowardice, and betrayal; we can contemplate the life-bearing tomb on Holy Saturday with excitement and hope.

    Eric Simpson: Why Christ's Resurrection Matters Eric Simpson 2011

  • BSG was somewhat cagey over how twelve life-bearing planets can exist in one star system, but could afford to be, since the Colonies were mostly left behind after the opening mini-series a subplot set on bombed-out Caprica excepted.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Whitehead 2010

  • Given that life exists, the probability that the dark matter/non-dark matter ratio is conductive to a life-bearing universe equals one.

    Dark Matter Can Enlighten Minds 2008

  • The fact that the ratio is so conducive to a life-bearing universe "looks like a tremendous coincidence".

    Dark Matter Can Enlighten Minds 2008

  • I continued, telling them that the elements which make up our bodies—carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and more—were formed in the furnaces of stellar forges and that mighty supernova scatter this life-bearing seed throughout the universe.

    When Tragedy Strikes: Losing Faith, Telling Stories, Finding Hope. | Mind on Fire 2010

  • The God, one supposes, didn't "become flesh" in order to extricate our human persons from our bodies, but to infuse (maybe to re-infuse) our mere animality with life-bearing spirit.

    Scott Cairns: Art and the Meaning of Creation 2010

  • Soil is the life-bearing medium that God repeatedly uses to create plants, animals, and of course us.

    Norman Wirzba: Gardening with God Norman Wirzba 2010

  • But if there were life, if only dragged up into ice-covered waters that remained under low pressure by dust covers as ice persist over time yet today on Mars, and at times transported under openly ? to other waters, it may be that our then life-bearing seas looked upon other life-bearing waters.

    New Images Suggest More Recent Lakes on Mars | Universe Today 2010

  • The God, one supposes, didn't "become flesh" in order to extricate our human persons from our bodies, but to infuse (maybe to re-infuse) our mere animality with life-bearing spirit.

    Scott Cairns: Art and the Meaning of Creation 2010

  • BSG was somewhat cagey over how twelve life-bearing planets can exist in one star system, but could afford to be, since the Colonies were mostly left behind after the opening mini-series a subplot set on bombed-out Caprica excepted.

    The Twelve Colonies of Humanity Adam Whitehead 2010

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