The organic, sentient cohesiveness in all of nature, however, does not eliminate the possibility of qualitative leaps in the emergence of higher and more complex organismic arrangements. (religion-online.org)
In the language of The Concept of Anxiety, she only sees the «quantitative determinations» of sinfulness in human history, without seeing the «qualitative leap into sin,» which is human evasion of God in the present moment in time. (religion-online.org)
The absence of sudden qualitative leaps of matter from one kind to another (as depicted by geology, paleontology, comparative anatomy, embryology and other sciences) reinforces the gradualist hypothesis. (religion-online.org)