Sentences with phrase «complexities of organic life»

The detail pays homage to the complexities of organic life, its ceaseless regeneration, flux and decay, as well as its minor imperfections.

Not exact matches

The highest complexity, however, is found in between, in the mid-range among various modes of simplification; and it is these complex modes which have special «value,» which can maintain «intensity,» which lead to organic life and all that it entails.

By this he meant that although inorganic matter was inevitably subject to entropy, (all the structure of peaks and valleys puddling out into a flat line of cosmic death) organic matter, life, had a reverse drive for higher and higher complexities, from the amoebae to the whale brain.

We anticipate some sort of growth toward increased complexity: increasingly larger organic macromolecules, then the convergence of many macromolecules to constitute a simple living system, either as a cell with its protective wall and vital nucleus or as some functional analogue, then the convergence of many cells to form larger organisms.

For all the subtlety and complexity of living matter, the scope and contentment of its powers lie within circles of organic life.

8 «The metaphor of a war of nature», Keith Ward writes, «here gives way to a different metaphor: that of a developing emergent whole, with increasingly complex and beautiful co-adaptedness among organic life - forms, and which pictures nature as expressing a continuous growth in harmonious complexity.»

None the less, the contemporary Oxford theologian, Keith Ward (b. 1938), points out that although Charles Darwin spoke mostly of life on earth as a «war of nature», he occasionally struck a different note, as when he wrote, «I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the co-adaptations between all organic beings.»