Muller, a native of Munich who grew up in Germany and France, had his curiosity captured
by the biology of aging when he was 12.
Curricular enhancements in early childhood education that are guided by the science of learning must be augmented by protective interventions informed
by the biology of adversity.
On the other side of it, understanding how the brain functions as a computing device will help inform our engineering of computers that are inspired
by the biology of brain - circuit architecture.
The intervention models that have been generated in the past year — and are currently in various stages of development, implementation, and testing — are based on approaches that have been heavily influenced
by the biology of adversity.
Which effect is dominant has to be determined
by the biology of BCPs.
Not exact matches
That was the eye - opening opening
of a keynote address given yesterday
by the brilliant John Quackenbush, a professor
of biostatistics and computational
biology at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute who has a dual professorship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School
of Public Health and ample other academic credits after his name.
A former health care investment analyst with a degree in
biology from Yale University and current CEO
of the company, Wojcicki is fascinated
by the mysteries
of the genome and what it can reveal about the human body.
Take for example, the observation
by futurist Ray Kurzweil that technology is the evolution
of human
biology.
His public remarks at a coding event aimed at girls, first reported
by The Verge, come after a week
of controversy sparked
by an internal memo written
by a Google employee criticising the Californian tech company's diversity policy and arguing
biology may be behind the gender divide in tech.
This approach begins
by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities
of disease and understand the fundamentals
of human
biology.
He earned degrees in cell
biology and tissue engineering and eventually got a job in a lab run
by Vladimir Mironov, who was investigating the use
of bioprinting — 3 - D printing using living cells — to generate replacement organs.
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Lie4Him, Schweitzer, one
of the first scientists to use the tools
of modern cell
biology to study dinosaurs, has upended the conventional wisdom
by showing that some rock - hard fossils tens
of millions
of years old may have remnants
of soft tissues hidden away in their interiors.
By the way I have 24 units
of graduate and undergraduate
biology.
I can even say that libertarianism should be chastened a bit
by the semi-true discoveries
of evolutionary
biology, although the progressives misunderstood what those discoveries really are.
By the way, from the look
of your dialogues, you seemed to be quite knowledgeable about human
biology.
md2205 The basics
of evolutionary
biology are easy to find, as these others have indicated, but you really do have to get educated
by actual scientists, it seems.
The concept that a god or gods had a hand in the development
of the universe and life can not be disproven, but creationism, the literal interpretation
of Genesis, can be and has been disproven
by geology, astrophysics,
biology, etc..
You are exactly right, the process
of death is not defined
by biology alone, as any real nurse who has decades
of caring for the terminally ill konws.
How do spiritual realities, such as the soul, fit into the world
of matter described
by physics, chemistry, and
biology?
The controversy will not be over the facts but over whether Behe has gone «outside
of science»
by attributing irreducible complexity in
biology to «design» rather than to some undiscovered material (i.e., mindless) mechanism.
The technical error at the heart
of my analysis
of neo-Darwinism, says Barr, is my misunderstanding
of how the term «random» as used
by Darwinian
biology.
A degree
of kinship between human beings and the rest
of physical creation has always been clear to an extent, but the depth and detail
of our interrelationship with the rest
of life on the planet is being confirmed over and over again in breathtaking detail
by new scientific advances such as genetic studies and molecular
biology.
Nearly every scientific society, representing hundreds
of thousands
of scientists, have issued statements rejecting intelligent design and a peti.tion supporting the teaching
of evolutionary
biology was endorsed
by 72 US Nobel Prize winners.
Religion and the Social SciencesConversations with Robert Bellah and Christian Smithedited
by R. R. Reno and Barbara McClayMore often than not it's a class in the social science that challenges the faith
of students, not a class in
biology.
In the United States, the following Universities have extensive evolutionary
biology departments staffed
by thousands
of the most gifted biologists in the World; Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Colombia, Duke, the Massachusetts Insti.tute
of Technology, Brown, Stanford, Berkley, and the University
of Chicago.
In Australia and Asia, the following universities and colleges have extensive evolutionary
biology departments manned
by more
of the most gifted biological scientists in the World; Monash University in Melbourne, The University
of New South Wales, Kyoto University in Ja.pan, Peking University in China, Seoul University in Korea, the University
of Singapore, National Taiwan University, The Australian National University, The University
of Melbourne, and the University
of Sydney.
Collins coins his own term for this idea: «BioLogos», a clumsy term, perhaps, but intended to express the harmony between the
biology and the idea
of Creation
by the Word
of God.
Similarities
of development, part
of, or parallel to the processes discovered in
biology, are now recognised in all branches
of empirical science, and have justifiably resulted in the universal acceptance
by the intelligentsia
of all countries
of evolutionary philosophies
of matter and
of the nature
of living beings.
Our entire discussion
of this point may be focused on the question
of the logic
of the contention that
biology and,
by extension, neurophysiology are reducible to physics and chemistry.
The possibility that any such mechanism can exist has now been virtually ruled Out
by the findings
of molecular
biology.
When theology faces off against the account
of the world set forth
by evolutionary
biology, God's goodness and power and God's plans for the future seem to be called into question with new force.
I am suggesting that perhaps the same sort
of single - level approach is being taken today
by those who reduce the science
of life to molecular
biology.
Scientific reductionism, however, wants to reduce
biology to physics and chemistry, to explain the properties
of «life»,
by thorough specification
of the particulars (atoms and molecules) that are integrated into cells and organisms.
These roles and relations are not fundamentally natural phenomena integral to human identity and social welfare but are mere accidents
of biology overlaid with social conventions that can be replaced
by functionally equivalent roles without loss.
Very few
of the Catholic universities (with the exceptions
of Notre Dame and Georgetown) are considered on the vanguard
of any cutting edge research
by leaders in the field, whether in
biology, physics or astronomy.
In the field
of biology, evolution may be «just» a theory (as some politicians painfully point out), but it is the theory subscribed to, for good reason,
by every real scientist in every established university in the Western world.
Whereas the dichotomy
of subject and object has been challenged
by experiments in modern physics, a Cartesian dualism still provides the philosophical background
of modern molecular
biology and, more recently, sociobiology.
Scientific discoveries in physics or
biology do not disprove the existence
of God, but in my view do just the opposite
by uncovering some
of awe inspiring complexities
of this universe that could only have come about through a creator.
By using the language
of chemistry modern
biology has also given us an updated version
of Darwin's theory
of evolution.
Richard Dawkins, in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction
of biology to a molecular science may be found in the writings
of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one
of the most forceful renditions
of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret
of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program
of inquiry still emulated today
by many biologists:
Though I think the issues raised
by biology and medicine are important; I fear that this area may receive more than its share
of attention because
of the resources it can command.
From Whitehead» s vision
of reality as informing and informed
by insights from
biology, Birch and Cobb develop a distinctively «process» environmental ethic.
«Evolution, a foundational principle
of modern
biology, is supported
by overwhelming scientific evidence and is accepted
by the vast majority
of scientists.
Were any
of these people alive today and involved in molecular
biology in addition to physics, they would be amazed at the facts we have managed to gather about the world and probably independently come to the conclusion
of evolution
by natural selection.
Are we the sum total
of our
biology and environment or are we capable
of being influenced
by forces outside the boundary
of personal consciousness and physical connection?
How life first began is irrelevant, the first cell could have been placed
by your god, and evolutionary
biology, that is, the explanation for the diversity
of life on earth, would be unchanged.
The hard sciences
of physics and chemistry and
biology are twisted into grotesque propaganda machines fueled
by corrupted versions
of sociology and psychology, where science itself dies alongside genuine inquiry and clarity
of thought, as man is assimilated into a faceless colony
of manageable data points.
If a YEC can not understand how their beliefs are contradicted
by evidence from really any field
of science, from physics to geology to
biology, then I have doubts about their abilities to be talented engineers.
And Whitehead says that he does not think it is inevitable that the human mind spatializes, though it often does this, and when it does, one way or another, whether through partiality or something else, it deforms the object
of knowledge and
of experience... [But] Bergson believed that, at least to some significant degree, the spatializing tendencies
of the human intellect and
of human intelligence, can be overcome
by a
biology and a physics that is less mechanistic.