Sentences with phrase «account of human origins»

«Nearly a quarter of us believe the biblical account of human origins over the Darwinian account.

It begins with the story of Johanson's discoveries, then presents an account of human origins within the framework of the people and places he visited while making the television programmes.

James knew that the most challenging implication of Darwin's work is not its account of human origins but its claim that human existence and possible nonexistence is a matter of chance.

I no longer believe that there is any inherent conflict between the Scriptures and the scientific account of human origins, by which of course I mean evolution.

The irony is that evolutionists have no plausible theory to pit against religious accounts of human origins.

Not exact matches

For those of us who are comfortable with a theory of evolution that acknowledges the common origin of the human and animal kingdoms, the scientific evidence that corroborates this syndrome of dominance in the mythic Genesis accounts is of special interest.

The only places in which a general account of the coming to be of the human being is implicit are in pp. 290 - 296, and 528 - 531, extending my remarks to other living things, none of which do I believe to be intelligible either in their nature and behaviour or in their origin in purely physicalistic terms.

I've read material on one site (the site has 5K + pages, of which I read less than 100) that uses Velikosky as part of the starting point for a theory of the origin of the universe, and subsequently humans, that is congruent with Genesis, but also both explains and predicts things not found in that account.

Antonio Damasio's pioneering account of the origin of feelings shows how central they are to life, consciousness and human culture

This is one of the most readable and authoritative accounts available of human origins.

«Instead of invoking large, complicated scenarios to explain the majors shifts in molar evolution during the course of hominin origins, we found that simple adjustments and alterations to this one developmental rule can account for most of those changes,» says Alejandra Ortiz, a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins and lead author of the study.

This lesson looks at the origins of human life; Genesis account and the theory of evolution.

Interestingly, a 2010 poll showed that only 10 % of Australians did not believe in evolution, suggesting that a significant portion of those Australians who accept a Biblical account of the origin of humans accept a somewhat more scientific account for the origin of other species - or that they are very confused.

As long as climatology can't account numerically for the large natural fluctuations that obviously dominated climate change prior to 1950, we can not say what proportion of the current warming is of human origin.