Sentences with phrase «views on human evolution»

All three offer intriguing views on the man and his theories, and their mutual impact on society and science.Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution by Adrian Desmond and James Moore...

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«Every single human being who walks on the face of the earth has a lense that they view the world through... Since Evolution / Atheism denies the existence of God and the biblical account of creation, they have to make sense of the fossil record and geologic formations somehow.»

Psychologists David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, in The Caveman and the Bomb: Human Nature, Evolution, and Nuclear War (McGraw - Hill, 1985), express this view with their useful observation that «the nuclear arms race goes on because people allow it» (p. 22, their emphasis).

I maintained that, contrary to the commonly expressed or tacitly accepted view, the era of active evolution did not end with the appearance of the human zoological type: for by virtue of his acquirement of the gift of individual reflection Man displays the extraordinary quality of being able to totalize himself collectively upon himself, thus extending on a planetary scale the fundamental vital process which causes matter, under Certain conditions, to organize itself in elements which are ever more complex physically, and psychologically ever more centrated.

But I think it's important to pass along the rational view and what it's based on... exactly because I believe striving for more rational thought is a requirement for the (societal, non-genetic) evolution and progress of the human race.

It's not enough just to assert disagreement with Darwin's views on how language evolves or Chomsky's theory that evolution endowed all human babies with a built - in hardwired «universal grammar.»

Differences in religious affiliation and worship service attendance are central to the public's views on a handful of science topics; foremost among these are beliefs about human evolution.

At least the present AiG writers have not stooped to quoting Zuckerman, who has hitherto been the other anatomist that creationists have deigned to acknowledge as an expert on human evolution; but they have not come to terms with Oxnard's own evolving views, and continue to cite him as if he still thought the same as he did 15 years ago or more.

Author of books: Atmospheres of Mars and Venus (1961, nonfiction) Planets (1966, nonfiction, with Jonathan Norton Leonard) Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966, nonfiction, with Iosif S. Shklovskii) Planetary Exploration (1970, nonfiction) Planetary Atmospheres (1971, nonfiction, with Tobias C. Owen and Harlan J. Smith) U.F.O.'s: A Scientific Debate (1972, with Thornton Page) The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973, nonfiction) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1973, nonfiction) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977, nonfiction) Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record (1978, nonfiction) Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979, nonfiction) Cosmos (1980, nonfiction) Comet (1985, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Contact (1985, novel) Nuclear Winter (1985, nonfiction) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (1990, nonfiction, with Richard P. Turco) The Demon - Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996, essays) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are (1992, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994, essays) Billions and Billions (1996, essays) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006, nonfiction, posthumous, with Ann Druyan)

In preparation for this launch, the Government of India (GoI) has thus far tasked a Committee for Evolution of the New Education Policy with producing a set of recommendations, while the Ministry of Human Resource Development (the government ministry overseeing education)(MHRD) has assembled a document, Some Inputs for Draft National Education Policy 2016, which was released for public viewing on June 29th and outlines the broad contours of the NEP.

Whatever your views on scientific advancements, there is one factor that is indisputable - they are advancing at an extraordinary rate - Radical Evolution offers four scenarios as to how things could pan out: In the «Heaven» scenario genetic engineering leads to happier, healthier humans.

Trickle - Down Effect The evolution of supplements on the human market have helped changed the way retailers and consumers view supplements for pets.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

No matter how AAAS members are categorized, their views starkly differ from the public's on key scientific issues such as global warming and its causes, human evolution, vaccination strategies and the safety of eating genetically modified foods or foods grown with pesticides.

Since 2004, groups have tried to link the two issues by pushing «academic freedom bills» that would mandate the teaching of dissenting views on global warming, evolution, human cloning and stem cells.