Sentences with phrase «for complex life forms»

Five hundred years ago God was the only known explanation for complex life forms.

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«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

To fill the gap left by a weakened church, people are not only experimenting with both new and ancient forms of the spiritual and psychic life; they are searching for religious books that deal with the complex problems of society in personal, direct and simple ways.

If evolution is a fact and if the most basic meaning of evolution is that the complex forms of life emerge from the simple, how can the dualistic forms of evolutionary theory account for the emergence of the human mind from inert lifeless matter, the animate from the inanimate?

Process - relational thinkers here find scientific backing for their contention that there is an element of freedom, mentality, purpose in anything actual at all, and that needs to be the case in a consistently evolutionary view where the complex forms of life emerge from the simple.

Yet, for process thinkers, an important value, the virtue of creativity, is the zest for novelty and adventure — characteristics of life itself, particularly in the more complex forms, such as animals with central nervous systems.

Solve for us the question of the reasonableness of athiesm, where you get something (big bang) from nothing — there must be a first cause of everything; explain implications of the anthropic principle and the wildly unprobablistic likelihood that our universe could even form in such a fashion as to be capable of sustaining life (which has, interestingly, your athiest heavy hitters (i.e. Dawkins, Schwartz, etc.) necessarily positing multiple universe theories to get around the near probablistic impossibility of all conditions be present at time of big bang for life to be possible without acknowledgement of a divine designing hand guiding the process); explain The probablistic impossibility of non-irreducibly complex basic cells (life) coming together spontaneously (DNA, cell membrane, etc), even the most basic, simple forms of life allowing for reproduction, metabolism, etc...

you can find examples of this pathetic god and its very human traits... its all thru out the bible, and it even makes excuses for why god seems so human — two possible reasons for this — either those who wrote the bible screwed up and forgot to make god seem godlike because its all a lie... a fabrication of man... or god isn't a god but rather a petty, hateful alien with a napoleon complex (not sure they have a napoleon in the alien form... godzilla — lol, but godzilla at least is a true possibility... god and those who believe are living in a fantasy world!!

Measuring the ratio, Gibson says, can help scientists understand changes in primary productivity; that is, how much food there is for more complex forms of sea life, like crustaceans or fish, to «graze» on.

In the discussions of intelligent design, one hears a yearning for an old - fashioned creation story, in which some singular, inchoate entity stepped in to give rise to complex life - forms — humans in particular.

Scientists know that eventually, these RNA chains must have become longer and longer, setting the stage for the evolution of complex life forms like amoebas, worms, and eventually humans.

These complex carbon - containing molecules do not necessarily signal life — they float in the harsh environment of interstellar space, for example — but they do form the building blocks of life as we know it.

If Enceladus has had a liquid ocean for billions of years, life would have had the chance to emerge and evolve into a more complex form.

Scientists can hunt for extraterrestrial cellular life forms, such as bacteria or more complex life, by looking for

Scientists can hunt for extraterrestrial cellular life forms, such as bacteria or more complex life, by looking for certain chemicals on a planet or in its atmosphere, but virions do not create by - products like methane or oxygen.

Messenger RNAs (mRNAs) that code for proteins and noncoding RNAs are key components in the transmission of genetic information in all life forms - from viruses to complex mammalian organisms.

I may not be the biggest fan of Robert Zemeckis» films (at least from what I've seen; Back to the Future not included), but this is a very fine return to live - action form for him that is boosted by an brilliantly complex, Academy Award - worthy performance by Denzel Washington.

Yet subject - bound thinking is likely to put this knowledge into discrete boxes for eons yet, unless we re-see all forms of categorisations and classifications as simply our coping strategy as human beings living in a complex world.

The book follows Sarah and Handful over the next 35 years, «as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other's destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love,» according to the publisher.

For organisations that need a break from city life, De Doornkraal offers conference facilities in the renovated, air conditioned former freemasons «Lodge Frere» built in 1888 that forms part of the complex.

CA Spectral Hues, curated by Sharon Bliss, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA Art Market, with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, San Francisco, CA Building the Art House, curated by Katherine Connell and Emma Spertus, Rosenberg Library, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Big Idea, curated by Sue Collier, Leslie Ford, Jack McWhorter and JoAnn Rothschild, The Painting Center, New York, NY Along the Lines, Harrington Gallery, curated by Julie Finegan, Pleasanton, CA 2016 Plus +1, Trestle Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Group show, November - December 2016, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX Palette, curated by Kelly Inouye, Theodora Mauro and Lisa Solomon, ampersand international arts, San Francisco, CA Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Art Market, with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, San Francisco, CA 2015 Therely Bare Redux, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN Therely Bare Redux, Clara M Eagle Gallery, University of Tennessee, Murray Territory of Abstraction, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Out of Storage, Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito, CA Art Market San Francisco, (with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary), San Francisco, CA The Airplane Show, B Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA 2014 un.bound.ed, curated by Brent Hallard and Don Voisine, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (edition) DOPPLER SHIFT, curated by Mary Birmingham, Visual Arts Center, Summit, NJ (catalogue) The Intuitionists, curated by Heather Hart, Steffani Jemison & Jina Valentine, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (catalogue) First / Last, curated by Heather Phillips, Park Life, San Francisco, CA 2013 DOPPLER, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue) Generations IX: The Red / Pink Show, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Made In Paint: 2012 Artists in Residence, The Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY Rituals of Exhibition II, Light Space Project, H Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand Rituals of Exhibition, curated by Giles Ryder and Gilbert Hsiao, Don't Be Selfish, Phayao, Thailand POSTE CONCRET II, curated by Richard van der Aa, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR 2012 Soft Luminosity, curated by Guido Winkler and Iemke van Dijk, IS Projects, Leiden, NL (edition) Art On Paper 2012, The Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC (brochure) Islands of Order in a Sea of Chaos, curated by Ruth van Veenen, de Vishal, Haarlem, NL Doppler Stop, Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam, NL (catalogue) Doppler Stop, Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL Doppler Stop, Fluctuating Images / General Public, Berlin, DE Doppler Stop, trenutak.39 / Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, HR Trade - O - Mat, curated by Kathryn Kenworth, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2011 A Romance of Many Dimensions, curated by Brent Hallard, Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY POSTE CONCRET I, curated by Richard van der Aa, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR BYO, IS Projects, Leiden, NL Stop & Go Rides Again, touring exhibition curated by Sarah Klein, Z Space, San Francisco, US; Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL; Fluctuating Images / General Public, Berlin, DE; Fluctuating Images / Interventionstraum, Stuttgart, DE An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Massachussetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (catalogue) ReTrace, Cesar Chavez Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 2010 TOUCH, curated by Brent Hallard, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR (catalogue) Factor XX, curated by Jenny Balisle, Los Gatos Museum, Los Gatos, CA (catalogue) The Rule of Typical Things, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 TRANS: form color, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) TRANSformal, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA (brochure) The Grid, curated by JT Kirkland, MP5, Portland, OR 2008 Calculated Color, curated by Jane Lincoln, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod, MA (brochure) The Space Between, curated by Cathy Kimbell, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (brochure) Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (also 2005, 2004) TOUCH, curated by Brent Hallard, Busdori, Tokyo, Japan Out of the Fog: Artists from Headlands Center for the Arts, curated by Dianne Romaine and Holly Blake, Art works Downtown, San Rafael, CA 2007 TRANS: Abstraktion, Weltraum, Munich, DE (brochure) 7 - 07 Hung Liu curates 7 Women Artists in the year of the Pig, b.Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (brochure) Bay Area Currents, The Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Visual Noise, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO The Unknown Quantity, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA Systems & Transmutations, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) Still, Contemporary Quarterly, curated by Chandra Cerrito, www.ContemporaryQuarterly.com (brochure) 2006 Suitcase: Bus - Dori, curated by Brent Hallard, Tokyo, JP Summertime, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL microcosm, curated by Victoria Wagner, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (brochure) Sketch, The Memorial Union Gallery, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 2005 Contemporary Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA 2004 and now they aren't.

What began simply in his youth necessitated by a desire to manage a seemingly endless amount of resources, questions and life information, has continued as a grand narrative into adult life, pulling in a deepening understanding of life's thematic complexities, current events and existential conundrums which have come to form the complex narrative basis for Hancock's paintings, drawings, murals, theatrical performances and film.

The work I have brought together for the Biennial reflects this, whether through complex relationships between linguistic and visual forms; the interface of digital technologies with more traditional media, and the recorded past with the lived moment; the development of two - dimensional scores, scripts, and patterns into three - or even four - dimensional actions and environments; the challenging of binary conventions of gender; or the intricacy of cosmopolitan, cross-national identities.

With 9 billion or more of us scavenging the earth for every last bit of flesh or plant, there will likely be precious little left for the living world to jump - start complex life forms from.

Rather, the rising levels of oxygen in the oceans became the trigger for complex life - forms to attain mobility and features of modern animals.

The sudden increase in continental crust building and the increase in water on the planet at that time is the likely explanation for the Cambrian «explosion» of complex life forms.

It's hard to be succinct about universe - sized matters, particularly when you're innumerate, but as I understand it, this argument (made seriously by some serious scientists, I note) says one explanation for the absence of contact is that there's a flaw in the process that would otherwise lead to truly complex life forms and truly complex societies, such that intelligent life fails at some point short of its ability to manage interstellar travel or communication.

That is why Natalia Bielczyk adjusted Strogatz to a more life - like model by considering the time necessary for processing and forming the complex emotions in relationships.

With his usual flair for presenting complex data in a form all can grasp and understand, Joe Sorge quickly made the case for how home and work life in the United States have changed dramatically yet our family laws and our family law courts and child support guidelines have remained stuck in the past.