Sentences with phrase «biological evolution which»

Cardinal Ruini spoke of «false interpretations» of cosmic and biological evolution which «contribute more than a little to a purely naturalistic understanding of man» and which also lead to «the denial of the existence of a personal God distinct from the world» and the denial of «the transcendence of the human subject, made in the image and likeness of God».

Not exact matches

If we compare it with biological evolution on different Geological Time Scale first developed life was also in the form of fish which originated during Cambrian period.

His idea is essentially «theistic evolution» — belief that God has established evolution as the mechanism by which He has introduced complexity and diversity into the biological sphere of life on earth.

In his pre-natal existence the embryonic person passes through various stages remarkably similar to those by which the whole race has developed by biological evolution.

Focusing on schizophrenia as a particular exemplar of this change, Luhrmann examines the evolution of psychiatry from psychoanalysis (mental illnesses are caused by emotional conflict) to a purely biomedical scheme (mental illnesses are caused by genes) to present theories, which incorporate both the biological and the social causes (and treatments) of mental illness.

Without the process of biological evolution, which produced the human brain, there would be no sanctified souls; and similarly, without the evolution of collective thought, through which alone the plenitude of human consciousness can be attained on earth, how can there be a consummated Christ?

My point is that those statements should be held to the same scrutiny as biological evolution, and yet there is not even a hint of the process by which God's will becomes physical reality.

The term moderate evolution might therefore be applied to a theory which simply inquires into the biological reality of man in accordance with the formal object of the biological sciences as defined by their methods and which affirms a real genetic connection between that human biological reality and the animal kingdom, but which also in accordance with the fundamental methodological principles of those sciences, can not and does not attempt to assert that it has made a statement adequate to the whole reality of man and to the origin of this whole reality.

However powerful its impetus in the early stages of the course of biological evolution into which it has thrust itself, the Marxist anthropogenesis, because it rules out the existence of an irreversible Center at its consummation, can neither justify nor sustain its momentum to the end.

He has instead made a perfect universe in which His laws are precisely obeyed, in and through which He, as the ultimate cause and the law - giver, controls and directs material and biological evolution.

Another form of this dualism is the commonly made claim that the evolutionary process continues on the human level with cultural evolution, which is totally distinct from biological evolution.

Thus, over and above the biological process of hominization is the process of personalization in which man is no longer a passive product of evolution.

This transformed human community forms a living organism, a biological phenomenon which we conceive to be the next stage in the emergent evolution of the world, and the incarnation of the divine Word.

It is the central problem of biological evolution in which groups of cells form larger and larger organizations by generating hierarchical constraints on subgroups.

Because it did so (and although in a sense, I must repeat, this ray was only one attempt among many) the whole essential stream of terrestrial biological evolution is now flowing through the breach which has been made.

From time to time fierce theological debates took place, such as that which followed the publication of Charles Darwin's (1809 -82) theory of biological evolution in 1859.

It is clear, however — and confirmed through an examination of his Harvard lectures from this period (see below)-- that the «evolution» to which Whitehead refers here is not macroscopic biological or geological evolution, but the transition from the immediate past to the novel subjective experience of the immediate present.

For though Darwin's particular theory of biological evolution was destined to undergo changes and modifications in the hands of successive biologists and zoologists (and with this we are not here concerned), there can be no going back to the simple Biblical picture of origins which was commonly held before Darwin.

While the evolutionary biologist might agree that no purpose can be discerned in the physical universe prior to the state at which evolution in the biological sense commenced (that is to say, where entities which are born, reproduce and die and in so doing are subject to natural selection), yet he might argue that evolution by natural selection automatically provides the «purpose.»

Baden Powell accepted biological evolution enthusiastically, writing, «a work has now appeared by a naturalist of the most acknowledged authority, Mr. Darwin's masterly volume on the Origin of Species by the law of «natural selection», which now substantiates on undeniable grounds the very principle so long denounced by the first naturalists....

After some thirty years of study, including several trips of exploration round the world, Darwin outlined a theory of biological evolution, which was destined to revolutionize the common view of the origins of life.

It aimed to follow an itinerary which began with the evidence for evolution in the biological world, and moved gradually towards its relevance and interpretation in the theological sphere, via the intermediary disciplines of anthropology and philosophy.

In this cosmology, allowing for the 800 - year development of vocabulary and knowledge, we can see openness to biological and cosmic evolution, complexity, emergence, matter as density - of - energy — all cherished by modern science — as well as metaphysics, finality and theology, which the Church seeks to uphold and defend: all of which, incidentally, your magazine seeks to bring together, too.

'' «Creationism», for the purposes of clauses 2.43 and 2.44 of the funding agreement and clause 23E above, is any doctrine or theory which holds that natural biological processes can not account for the history, diversity, and complexity of life on earth and therefore rejects the scientific theory of evolution.

Drawing on my background in Biochemistry, it struck me that a bill's passage through parliament can be likened to biological evolution, which proceeds by the accumulation of mutations.

23F) «Creationism», for the purposes of clauses 2.43 and 2.44 of the Funding Agreement and clause 23E above, is any doctrine or theory which holds that natural biological processes can not account for the history, diversity, and complexity of life on earth and therefore rejects the scientific theory of evolution.

«Our hypothesis is that these important biological characters, which affect the rate of DNA evolution, may have been influenced by the K - Pg event.»

One of the findings that stands out, he says, is that pop music shows a pattern from biological evolution known as punctuated equilibrium, in which periods of gradual change are separated by explosions of complexity.

«Our study demonstrates that parasites being attracted by feces does not appear to be the reason for which evolution has favoured this behaviour, despite this having been traditionally assumed to be the case,» Juan Diego Ibáñez - Álamo said, the paper's main author and an investigator at the Spanish National Scientific Research Council's (CSIC) Doñana Biological Station and at the University of Groningen (Netherlands).

Harvard's Steven Pinker, the celebrated author of The Blank Slate and an expert on the evolution of language and the mind, addressed that point in an interview in New Scientist magazine: «People, including me, would rather believe that significant human biological evolution stopped between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, before the races diverged, which would ensure that racial and ethnic groups are biologically equivalent.»

Teal Burrell discusses human purposes and goals — which we clearly have from biological evolution (28 January, p 30).

These mutations varied tremendously between populations, which counters a popular view that many of the differences between populations arose by chance or were genetic variants that hitchhiked along with other genes that improved reproductive success, says biological anthropologist Henry Harpending of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and co-author of another study of accelerated evolution.

Discovery of the evolutionary mechanisms by means of which epistatic interactions constrain the rate and direction of evolution of biological sequences (Kondrashov's and Notredame's groups, Nature 2012, Nature 2016).

More formally known as «Model - based Approaches to Biological and Cultural Evolution,» the program is informally called «IPEM», which stands for IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling.

Studies on horizontal gene transfer and enzymemediated DNA rearrangements lead him to postulate a theory of molecular evolution according to which nature cares actively for the promotion of biological evolution by using products of specific evolution genes as well as several intrinsic non-genetic elements.

We are very impressed by Fred Kavli's design of these new awards, which span from the very grand scale of astrophysics to the microscopic level of nanotechnology, and to the level in between: the brain - no doubt the most complex organ created by the biological evolution over a very, very long time... billions of years.

It was pretty groundbreaking stuff at the time, because rather than the prevailing, societally accepted view, which believed that man was at the apex of all things, Darwin put forth this idea that each species followed its own independent course of evolution, but with repeating structures and patterns, common solutions to biological problems appearing again and again.

That is the challenge we face today to achieve the MDGs, to which we must reply with a new awareness - identity of «Homeland - Earth», where the human being is seen as a same biological specie with the same evolution, because the future history of our biosphere will depend of the future history of knowledge we develop and how we choose to apply it.

Evolution is seen in a communal eye only as biological, which is a massive mistake and propaganda.

In this study, the EPE Research Center performed a systematic and objective analysis of state academic standards in science education in order to characterize the extent to which these documents cover the theory of biological evolution.

Ironically, it's also the home of the nonprofit Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, which, back in the early 1960s, almost singlehandedly reintroduced evolution to the nation's biology textbooks.

GC Taken as a whole, this exhibition creates an alternative present — a present in which contemporary and past events intermingle; live entities and ancestors commune; geology, evolution, sensation and emotion intersect in an entangled synthesis of natural and biological sign relations.

Jeremy Couillard views science as an aesthetic in his painting, which illustrates the evolution of totem poles in a cellular environment — in architectural and biological terms.

There was the geological evidence showing that the Earth was at least millions of years old; the evidence for extinction, and for wholesale changes in the biota over time; the work on biological classification which had advanced greatly since Linnaeus (it wasn't Darwin who recognised that «Darwin's finches» were all finches); work on the distribution of organisms across the earth; speculations about evolution going back to Lamarck, and Darwin's own grandfather Erasmus; Malthus» work on the implications of the tendency of populations to increase geometrically and hence the pressure on resources.

Then let us not forget that although entropy (heat loss) escapes the earth system, some is trapped in increasing random motions which influences both, short interval and chaotic weather, and longer term climate and as well as other biological factors, like evolution and carrying capacity.

We assumed only that due to the biological and physical effects the ratio fabsorbed (t) / (total CO2 content of then air) is more or less constant, hence a simple response pulse response exp -LRB-- t / lifetime) is applied to the anthropic time series of coal, gas, oil and cement which have different delta13C As the isotopic signature of (CO2 natural)(t) is slowly decreasing because plants living days or centuries ago are now rotting and degassing and as molecules entered in the ocean decades ago are now in the upwellings after a slow migration along the equal density surface from the high latitudes where those surface are surfacing at depth zero, there are common sense constraints or bounds on the possible evolution of the delta13C of the natural out - gassed CO2 molecules.

I mentioned human visual sensitivity as a «sanity check» on which method make physical sense, because biological evolution and natural selection has no «agenda» pro- or con - AGW.