Sentences with phrase «evolutionary theory»

One of the major obstacles to early acceptance of evolutionary theory in biology was the empirical fact of relatively fixed species.

I believe in evolutionary theory, contraception, progressive taxation, and universal healthcare.

Isn't it possible the same thing will soon happen with evolutionary theory?

You clearly are not well informed about evolutionary theory.

This proves that educational policy informed by evolutionary theory can make a difference on the ground.

This is basic stuff, of course, at least for the 53 per cent of the American public that accepts evolutionary theory as a scientific explanation of life's rich diversity.

I will admit that I do not understand the ins and outs of modern evolutionary theory, however, I do understand the basics and do not discount them.

For a couple hundred years support for evolutionary theory has been piling up.

It's important to note that evolutionary theory does not attempt to explain the origins of life.

He provided reinforcement to that aspect of the social gospel synthesis that incorporated a modified evolutionary theory into theology.

The idea comes partly from evolutionary theories that suggest we will stay interested and alert if we have a sense that there are elements of our environment left to discover.

You don't seem to know much about current evolutionary theory nor atheism, based on this pathetic, simplistic, childish rant.

That being said, I don't see how an educated individual looks at evolutionary theory and feel 100 % convinced that it is truth.

Many religious folks accept evolutionary theory because they know they can't argue against factual evidence.

The Biblical account of development is not far off basic evolutionary theory.

He gives no indication that he understands evolutionary theory, but that is hard to know through the fog of motivated reasoning.

This is a profound advance in the kind of experiment available to test evolutionary theory, and it depends entirely on the progress that has been made in evolutionary developmental biology.

If evolutionary theory is replaced by a better theory that can explain the facts of evolution and make correct predictions, then science and the whole world has benefited.

But he doesn't think it poses any challenge to standard evolutionary theory as the epigenetic change is itself most likely a result of a genetic change.

But evolutionary theory proposed that there was an explanation for all this complexity that did not involve any creative act.

Only when the community of researchers who are applying evolutionary theory to human psychology begin to broaden the ways in which they do that will good answers begin to emerge.

The new evolutionary theory seemed to reject both and, of course, to conflict with the biblical account.

Although the reality was actually mixed, churches were thought by much of the public to oppose the new evolutionary theories arising in biology.

And my students would have rightly wondered whether evolutionary theory, or any natural or social science, can give a complete and adequate understanding of religion.

The most extreme response was simply to reject evolutionary theory.

With their data the researchers were able to confirm a key prediction of the classical evolutionary theory of aging that had been proposed more than 50 years ago.

In mutation - driven evolutionary theory, evolution is a process of increasing or decreasing an organism's complexity.

I hope that my example of evolutionary theory helps to clarify this distinction and to show its importance.

Traditional economic models assume that people act exclusively in their self - interest, just as traditional evolutionary theory describes competition among individuals.

What's more, people who deny evolutionary theory are more prone to reject other scientific theories that they feel threaten their belief systems.

There are many other independent sources of evidence that confirm evolutionary theory: genetics, animal behavior, medicine and physiology, developmental biology, etc..

This was true long before evolutionary theory came into being, but given that theory, the idea that human subjects emerged out of a world composed purely of objects seems absurd.

An important part of the current controversy over the theoretical status of evolutionary theory concerns its moral implications.

Does evolutionary theory undermine traditional morality, or does it support it?

Another difficulty is that evolutionary theories tend to be cast in such broad terms that essentially ambiguous data can be readily manipulated to support them.

Could not the species that inhabit the earth have come about without all the struggle and loss that evolutionary theory portrays?

Critics are against evolutionary biologists accepting this money and argue that evolutionary theory already embraces the best of these ideas.

Another application of evolutionary theory outside biology is the computer - programming technique known as genetic algorithms.

Ladies must be picky because they invest more in their offspring, according to the oft - repeated evolutionary theory.

I drew a comic about an event where you would propose bad evolutionary theories, then back it up with substantial research.

Additional interests include evolutionary theory, affiliation, trust, and happiness.

So yeah... there are technologies that can be hampered by one's stance on evolutionary theory and the scientific validity thereof.

For this reason, scripture does not at all compete with evolutionary theories (e.g. natural selection) when it comes to explaining the fossil record.

There is no claim to a special status of human beings that is weakened by evolutionary theory.

Most explanations offered to date have been based in evolutionary theory, but the exact mechanism is thought to differ for men and women.

I will give you a clue though, evolutionary theory does not meet the criteria..