Sentences with phrase «evolutionary thinking»

For one thing I discovered racism based on a type of evolutionary thinking.

Actually, the billions of years that Bill Nye points to still is not enough time for the slow change in evolutionary thinking.

Henry Ward Beecher, an early liberal, introduced evolutionary thought into his sermons in the 1870's.

The immutable law acknowledged by evolutionary thinking is * adapt or die.

Jean - Baptiste Lamarck (1744 — 1829) Lamarck may be remembered as a failure today, but to me, he represents an important step forward for evolutionary thinking.

When the argument from creation to Creator had begun to lose convincing power, even before the rise of modern evolutionary thinking, Immanuel Kant proposed that we think of God in relation to our ethical experience rather than cosmology.

There have been many such changes, 8 so significant, in fact, that one wonders if Darwin must not be regarded, even by the biologists themselves, more as a precursor of developments leading to present - day evolutionary thinking rather than as a continuing historical source of our scientific understanding of man.

The notion of dimensions or levels of reality within nature has introduced into this later mode of evolutionary thinking qualitative distinctions which alter one's understanding of the conditions under which evolution occurs; such a concept also alters the implications of the notion itself.

In line with evolutionary thinking, a developing reality is half - true because it has not yet reached its fullness or maturation.

From Whitehead's point of view, at least, evolutionary thought requires that there be continuity from the simplest subatomic event to the most complex human experience.

For example, evolutionary thought cuts differently from the static vision that preceded it.

This point is, of course, not original with Shepard since it follows quite directly from standard evolutionary thought.

This was the phase of evolutionary thinking about which the term neo-Darwinist was first used.

The proper response to all this is not to adopt a Procrustean technique of chopping down the range of human experience until it fits into a narrow Darwinian bed, nor is it to abandon evolutionary thinking altogether.

Once more one encounters a mystery impenetrable by conventional evolutionary thinking.

Although I am not entirely happy with Smith's recent books on science and religion, especially since they fail adequately to appropriate evolutionary thought, I think there is value in his own hierarchical vision and his critique of the epistemology of control.8

Some biologists are trying to shoehorn the new knowledge into traditional evolutionary thinking.

Reborn, I left my ivory tower to see if I could make a difference in my own city of Binghamton, New York, and worldwide through the creation of the Evolution Institute, the world's first evolutionary think tank.

During this period, Dawkins discovered the animating idea of his career — an idea that took some dense evolutionary thought inspired by Tinbergen to a new level and packaged it with an artful turn of phrase.

The comparative study of spiral cleavage was one of the cornerstones of evolutionary thinking back in the late 19th Century.

Anand Mehrotra is a world renowned visionary master, evolutionary thought leader, and entrepreneurial and social change trailblazer.

A Duck for Mr. Darwin is a group exhibition of nine contemporary artists exploring evolutionary thinking and the theory of natural selection.

9 The use of examples derived from the infrahuman level of evolution is a valid epistemological procedure in evolutionary thinking.

(This is not to deny that in a subterranean way the biblical view of time has also prepared the way for the arrival of evolutionary thinking in the West.)

From the perspective of process theology, Haught also addresses the problem of evil as amplified by evolutionary thought, with its eons of struggle and extinction.

In this context, evolutionary thought was of critical importance.

I agree with you and I know you didn't mean it this way but I should say that I am an American but am ashamed that so many Americans have bought into the lies of evolutionary thinking.

The change that has come about in theologies that partake of creative and emergent evolution can be described in this way: since mechanism is no longer the base of their evolutionary thinking, idealism is no longer essential as a strategy of thought in resolving the tension between science and faith.

Evolutionary thinking has much less to offer than it continually boasts.

It was common in the nineteenth century and even later to set Darwin over against Lamarck or vice versa, and by this means to point up the contrast between the inner and the outer orientation of evolutionary thinking.

One can see, then, that the theological significance of this reorientation of evolutionary thinking could be considerable.

Laszlo, here betraying his indebtedness to evolutionary thought, maintains that the most valued state of a natural system is to be adapted to its environment.

Otherwise at some point a metaphysical divide was crossed for which evolutionary thinking can give no account whatsoever.

The type of evolutionary thinking that I use here is one that I have developed and elaborated from the world - view of Teilhard de Chardin.

Cf. David N. LIVINGSTONE, Darwin's forgotten defenders: the encounter between Evangelical theology and evolutionary thought, 1987, passim, and «Situating Evangelical responses to evolution)-RRB-, in Evangelicals and science in historical perspective, ed.

Let us try to understand why Whitehead, by reason of his evolutionary thinking, opted for just this explanation, and what his «conceptual» prehensions have in common with the «concepts» of the old metaphysics of spirit.

For example, there is Père Teilhard, who spoke as a convinced Roman Catholic although he was also a distinguished representative of the sort of evolutionary thought we have been expounding.

I only wish that they could have allied their hierarchical thinking more deliberately with science and evolutionary thinking.

In the past, when purpose has been introduced as a category into evolutionary thinking, it has been attributed to animals as complex organisms enduring through time.