However, the continuity of structure and function from nonliving matter to living and
from the simplest forms of life to the most complicated strongly suggests that even the most characteristic human activities such as thought and consciousness have an explanation, as yet only partly known, in chemical and physical phenomena.
differentiation The maturation of a cell or organism
from a simpler form to a more complex form.
The SMU Geothermal Lab is an active research facility with a variety of ongoing geothermal resource projects which strive to broaden the understanding and use of geothermal energy,
from the simplest form - geothermal heat pumps for buildings, to the large - scale deployment of geothermal power plants providing energy for our cities while also exploring opportunities to integrate renewable geothermal projects in an oil & gas setting.
The ContractExpress family of software solutions enables lawyers and non lawyers alike to quickly and accurately draft legal documents
from the simplest forms to the most complex.
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Sequoia's investment was in the
form of a SAFT, or a
Simple Agreement for Future Tokens, an emerging fundraising technique in which investors buy a share of cryptotokens
from companies.
Guaranteed - income schemes can take various
forms, but in its
simplest the government sends every citizen an annual check in an amount sufficient to keep the wolf
from the door when misfortune strikes but not large enough to satisfy anyone's idea of a good life.
Just fill out the
simple form to let us know the details of your bonus, what content youd like
from me, and how many people youll reach.
So have just one or two product offers to choose
from, and give very
simple ordering instructions: «Call, Order on line, or Mail / fax the attached order
form.»
Well, to sum up today's call, we obviously had a good quarter, and we're optimistic about our second quarter as the reasons for our restored sell - through and momentum are
simple: One, we've removed Session
from our lineup and restored our proven HERO
form factor, now with touch displays, to the $ 199, $ 299, $ 399 price points that GoPro's brand was built upon.
Big and small companies have a complex array of channels and sources for inbound sales leads, ranging
from pay - per - click ads to B2B publications to web
forms to
simple phone calls.
Demanding a phone number
from someone asking a
simple question or leaving a comment is invasive and changes the type of
form from a basic contact to a sales lead
form.
Cintell is built on one
simple truth: customers
form the cornerstone of every business function,
from sales to service, marketing to product development.
The process can be as
simple as letting your company know about your gift and they take it
from there, while others require you to send The Sato Project your company's matching gift
form with your contribution.
Evolution says life
forms developed
from previous ones more
simple than they, going back all the way... to what?
Every life
form on this planet is a bag of chemistry, starting
from a
simple egg, developing in some cases to extraordinarily complex life
forms.
Here's the rest of it:»... Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations
from a
simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be
formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.
Humans likewise could have evolved
from a
simple organic structure into diverse life
forms that includes man just as galaxies or stars have diverse properties.
But their chief wisdom about the family seems to lie in this
simple statement
from the former Lutheran Church in America: «The family appears in many
forms in different times and places.»
(6) Evolutionary schemas present a dramatic ascent
from an elementary formlessness to the highest of
forms, as though the movement
from raw energy and the
simplest atoms to highly intelligent life were fully comprehensible internally.
The discovery of electric bacteria shows that some very basic
forms of life can process energy in a very
simple form, electrical energy, harvested
from the surface of minerals.
John Dewey makes this point succinctly when he suggests (EN 229) that «Locke's
simple idea is the classic Idea,
Form, or Species dislodged
from nature and compelled to take refuge in mind.»
The
forms that provide definiteness can be analyzed to logical
simples; but this is a mere abstraction, an «abstraction
from actuality,» to be exact.
If science ever creates even the
simplest life
form from the basic elements I might believe you.
In Whitehead's cosmology — which is, in the main, simply the most fully elaborated expression of tendencies widespread in recent philosophy — all existence is «social,» is «feeling of feeling,»
forming «societies» of interlocked experiences, and societies of societies,
from electronic, almost inconceivably
simple and rudimentary, societies, to the universe.
On the basis of current information
from 25 institutions, it appears that a
simple liturgical framework (hymn, prayer, lessons, responsively read psalm, anthem, sermon, hymn, benediction), using traditional materials adapted as needed to suit the participation of Protestants, Catholics and Jews, is the most prevalent
form.
Simple physical feelings are but «the transmission of a
form of energy
from event to event in the physical world» (PW 123/131).
Forty percent of Americans hold that God «guided» evolution
from simpler to more complex life
forms over millions of years.
No, said Darwin, he evolved
from the most
simple form of life through the various stages of lower animal life, through the mammal
form, until he arrived at where he now stands — on two feet!
All of these scientific hypotheses boil down to first there was an planetary mass covered with water and providing the correct conditions for chemical reactions to create a
simple organic compound
from which life was
formed.
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.
My reflections arose, as I have indicated, in part
from formative books and teachers, but they also grew out of grappling with Scripture (one of the lightning bolts here was the
simple but profound insight of realizing once again the ineradicable connection of
form and content — for instance, what is said in a parable can not be said in any other way), and with the complex business, endemic to academic theologians, of, as Kierkegaard would put it, becoming a Christian (not in general or for someone else but in particular and for me).
Which again amounts to saying that
from the time of Man (above all, modern Man) the factor consciousness, which for a long time perhaps represented no more than a secondary and accessory effect in Nature, a
simple superstructure of the factor complexity, is finally becoming individualized in the
form of an autonomous spiritual principle.
In its
simplest form, we can certainly find it in the joy
from which He's brought us, the joy He has set before us and the joy available at every step in the present.
The prevailing view holds the plethora of biological
forms that now exist have evolved through transitions
from simpler autocatalytic reaction - networks to more complex ones.
Art is the process of expressing in concrete
forms human emotions and aspiration, ranging
from the
simple joys of being to the most complex metaphysical expressions.
At the very bottom of the board we have the 92
simple chemical elements (
from hydrogen to uranium)
formed by groups of atomic nuclei together with their electrons.
To get
from there to the
simplest cell all you need is the combination of a 15 - 17C oil molecule and an amino acid, in water they spontaneously
form a sphere since the oil part is hyrophobic and the amino acid is hydrophyllic.
Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations
from a
simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certain the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be
formed by natural selection, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.»
The species are related to one another by derivation: the later, more complex life
forms are derived
from earlier, more
simple life
forms.
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...
Hence none of the new species lend any credence to the idea that life gradually evolved
from simple to complex
forms.
Taking the
form of a letter to Mother Nature, it began by offering brief thanks to her for «raising us
from simple self - replicating chemicals to quadrillion - celled animals.»
Or rather, our talk arises
from a nervous awareness that our traditional diversity is eroding away, and we are increasingly left with
simple difference, in its most negative and abrasive
forms.
There is grandeur in this view of life... having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few
forms or into one; and that...
from so
simple a beginning endless
forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Our modern conviction that human beings and their mentality have evolved through long ages
from simpler and still
simpler natural
forms also suggests that there is some family connection between human experience and the entities of the natural world.
We have no doubt that, in substantially the
simple form just described, the making and meaning of the Sinai Covenant was
from early times re-enacted in a kind of liturgical celebration.
Humans were not created instantaneously
from dust and breath, but evolved over millions of years
from simpler life
forms.
In other words, Greek in its various
forms,
from simple Greek of the first two centuries to the fourth century second Sophistic style appears here.