Henry Ward Beecher, an early liberal, introduced
evolutionary thought into his sermons in the 1870's.
Not exact matches
First, let us put ourselves
into the
evolutionary pattern of
thinking by briefly recalling the ontological dimensions of reality - as - process as shown in the diagram below:
For a Whiteheadian and indeed for any process - thinker, any claim for the uniqueness of Jesus and any notion of his «finality» would require careful re-statement if they are to be accepted; they would need to be brought
into congruity with the general line of
thought appropriate to such a view of the world as the
evolutionary and societal interpretation would provide.
Don't let the media, the school system (mainly ours) and popular belief fool you
into thinking that every single scientist claims that the
evolutionary theory is a fact.
By «liberal theology» I mean the movement in modern Protestantism which during the nineteenth century tried to bring Christian
thought into organic unity with the
evolutionary world view, the movements for social reconstruction, and the expectations of «a better world» which dominated the general mind.
The unwarranted introduction of the
evolutionary idea
into social and political
thinking has been a deceiving curse.
It is
thought provoking and a deeper look
into the inner workings of the
evolutionary process.
And, I
think even the
evolutionary trends may be leading us
into unfamiliar land.
Some biologists are trying to shoehorn the new knowledge
into traditional
evolutionary thinking.
He
thinks some people are trying sneak religious ideas back
into evolutionary theory.
Or so scientists
thought, until
evolutionary ecologists Adam Shohet and Penelope Watt of the University of Sheffield, U.K., decided to poke their noses
into the male fishes» body odor.
The find suggests there was more
evolutionary experimentation in dinosaur flight before they evolved
into birds than we
thought.
But some researchers
think that the fossil is too weird to fit
into the snake
evolutionary tree.
«I never
thought I'd be peering
into the
evolutionary history of humankind.»
While it's perhaps instinctual to
think of spiders as existing in a big monolith of vague «spideriness» with minor tweaks on a common, eight - legged theme, spiders actually divide up
into distinct groups with important biological differences, the result of deep
evolutionary rifts that stretch back hundreds of millions of years.
Erik is looking for the following: literary / upmarket fiction with an emphasis on plot (as in, nothing too slow / quiet / static); popular and academic / trade science nonfiction, especially
evolutionary biology; narrative history and biography; contemporary culture criticism (
think Klosterman); sports books, if it's got a scope that extends past just games and players and
into culture / larger issues.
This is essential reading along with Craig Dilworth's Too Smart For Our Own Good in my opinion for any
thinking person who wants to understand the
evolutionary trap that humanity has fallen
into.
By choosing to portray these issues as negative rather than presenting them as opportunities for truly radically
evolutionary change, to cultivate compassion, patience, gratitude, by playing
into people's fears, insecurities, worries and by too little emphasizing genuinely positive emotional responses the environmental community is just activating ways of
thinking that stifle the very creativity and openness to new ideas that is needed in this hour of human need.