If the Creator wanted to bring about a result like us -- life, that is, capable of contemplating, appreciating, and sustaining life -- he, she, or they surely might have done worse than to create a Universe with just enough scope and variation to let evolution do all the labor of design.
Man is now capable of contemplating separated beings as such and can live his life in almost stoical detachment from the concerns of sublunar existence.
Rather, what is needed is a president who recognizes the multidimensional nature of the world, is realistic about the plethora of challenges that confront us at every turn, and capable of contemplating what is actually possible.
(That may, in part, account for the swift and sudden condemnation of his words and thoughts). Surely, more people are capable of contemplating the evil that Neeson did than enacting the evil that Bundy did.
But starting over is not, apparently, a possibility NASA is capable of contemplating.
"He incidentally did a little to help the enemy, but I don't think he was in a state of mind to be capable of contemplating the consequences of his actions in doing that intentionally".
Man is said to be the only animal capable of contemplating his own mortality - indeed, for some of us it's a miracle we find time to do anything else - but rarely do we stop to reflect upon the problems that arise from insufficient mortality, from our increasing national reluctance to die on time.
Our minds are capable of contemplating the abstract, i.e. the non-material (there are no "square roots" to be found out in the material world), while our bodies are as immersed in the material world of pleasure and pain as they can be.
Bob Quick, a former head of counterterrorism at Scotland Yard, said in a BBC radio interview that the plot "serves to remind us that there are still people out in the country contemplating and capable of carrying out terrorist attacks on innocent people".
Provisional diagnosis of obstruction was contemplated and a percutaneous nephrostomy was placed.
