The Mimivirus genome may also help explain
how complex life emerged.
By suffocating sponges and searching underwater lakes we're overturning the story of
how complex life began on Earth
Science is just now starting to realize
how complex life really is.
Darwin ripped the heart out of one of the God of the Gaps arguments (i.e. we don't know
how complex life forms arose, therefore the Judeo - Christian god did it) but Hubble showed that the whole idea of there being any cosmic importance to planet Earth is naked parochialism to the highest mathematical degree possible.
Not exact matches
It matters not so much
HOW the universe was created (although the first version creation in Genesis is interestingly similar in some ways to the modern scientific view, going from light — the big bang — to simple then more increasingly
complex life, but I digress) what matter is that it was created by a loving God.
The world is full of many
complex things which occur naturally & without any aid or suggestions the supernatural being involved, the only reason you opt for the «god did it» excuse is b / c we do not have a comprehensive understanding on
how life originated, but we do have many sound hypotheses.
That reminds me of my comparison of the Christian Industrial
Complex and
how they sell Jesus (like Apple sells ipods), the top down organization, not questioning those at the top, putting a smile on your face no matter what b / c
life is perfect with Jesus, and now the patent on exclusive rights!
I just don't see
how it's any of the damned business of the people on this forum to demand responses to what you know are
complex, deeply emotional, painful events
lived out in the intimate
lives of others.
How can a Pinter or anyone else possibly suppose that «human
life is very, very
complex»» except when it comes to politics?
No more than if you found a watch lying in the desert, running or not, that you would or could assume it happened by accident... common sense would dictate that intelligent
life had to have made this watch as
complex things simply do not «create» themselves by accident, no matter
how many millions / billions of years have passed.
To those who think that: If God is
complex enough to create
life, then
how did He come to exist?
I will put Cobb back on the defensive by saying that I fail to see
how the model of an all - encompassing, regionally inclusive experience is compatible with the hiddenness of competing drives, aspirations and fears which psychoanalysis reveals in the» «depth» dimension of the psyche,» by which term I mean something broader than the unified experience of the analogue to the «soul,» namely, the restless depths of the
complex societies which support the regnant nexus and which have a «
life» of their own, which is in some instances incorporated into, melded into the conscious experience of the occasions in the regnant society, and sometimes is not.
Although at times Scenes seems to be administering the physic of the consciousness movement in rather heavy doses, the film is too
complex to be dismissed as a celebration of «
How to Save Your Own
Life» in the mode of Erica Jong, Jerry Rubin or Gail Sheehy.
Now, to go back to the point I left open at the start of this post, what evolution does not explain (nor attempt to) is
how the first
complex living things arose.
Ok, by your logic we could say: «But knowing
how complex god is... I couldn't imagine it coming to
life without someone having time to make it».
I make this extended autobiographical introduction to indicate
how in the liberal Methodist tradition I first encountered the guilt
complex about missions which I have since come to know so well after
living more than two decades in the West.
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?
But
how do we justify now our claim of Jesus» role as key to our understanding of God, as focus to the whole
complex of meaning in our
lives?
Recent political events have compelled us to ask
how we may know our way when it comes to law, morality and the tests of loyalty demanded by
complex political and social
lives.
How can we attain the intellectual and moral maturity to
live fully and safely in a
complex world?
How do the fundamental principles of Christian theology illuminate the question or
complex of homosexual / heterosexual
life styles?
Two of them pointed to the social dimension of the sickness when they wrote: «The Church's job, I think, is to shed the searchlight of the Gospel on the causes of human misery of which alcoholism is a symptom»; and «We can prevent it by helping people learn
how to
live in a
complex world.»
I knew
how to cook several dishes, even the
complex Mole Poblano, but after a few weeks into the married
life, I realized that my cooking repertoire wasn't that big!
Therefore, it is easy to see
how an abandoned child who is raised in an orphanage or multiple foster homes during the first few months or years of
life may develop Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and
Complex Trauma.
We leaped onto rare snippets of meaningful news or progress, extrapolated wildly, were surprised, proved wrong and, above all else, taught just
how complex real
life political challenges can be.
And it's so
complex and weird that most most members of the public - or anyone with a healthy social
life - would not understand
how it works.
The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of
life; molecular biology studies the
complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all
life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines
how various organisms interrelate.
How does this
complex system change from childhood to adulthood to late
life in order to maintain optimal behavioral responses?
«For
complex animal
life, color is a factor in
how individuals recognize and respond to others, determine friend or foe, and find mates.
A group of scientists at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and collaborators at Stockholm University showed for the first time
how this big protein
complex inside
living E. coli cells disassembles after each round of division.
The first simulations of input - output processes will probably be small - scale too, but Gu hopes to ultimately see quantum technologies simulating
how complex systems will react and evolve in real
life situations.
«These ideas open up exciting opportunities for inherently robust electronics and show
how complex concepts in mathematics, like the one of topology, can have real -
life impact on common electronic devices,» said Yakir Hadad, lead author and former postdoc in Alù's group, currently a professor at Tel - Aviv University, Israel.
Dr Liebeke, formerly of the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial, and now working at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, in Germany, said: «Using these molecular microscopes is changing
how we understand
complex biochemistry of
living beings; we are now able to locate every molecule in, for example, an earthworm to a specific location.
The problem is we have no idea what the true occurrence of genuinely habitable planets is, or the likelihood of
complex life, or
how often it might become recognisably intelligent and then survive long enough to be noticed.
«If we are able to understand
how the brain learns math, and
how it understands numbers and more
complex math concepts that shape the world we
live in, we will be able to teach math in a more intuitive and enjoyable way,» says Dr. Leibovich.
One of the great puzzles in biology is
how simple
life evolved to become
complex.
But understanding
how bats use their wings to manipulate the air around them is extremely challenging — primarily because both experimental measurements on
live creatures and the related computer analysis are quite
complex.
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.
Examining research on
how children's home
life impacts their language development, article author Natalie H. Brito at Columbia University Medical Center concluded that children from higher - income homes are typically exposed to more words, gestures, and
complex grammar and phrases then their peers from low - income homes.
That could help scientists understand
how certain
complex molecules, including some that could be precursors to
life, came to exist in space, Hudson said.
Though little is known about Loki, scientists hope that it will help to resolve one of biology's biggest mysteries:
how life transformed from simple single - celled organisms to the menagerie of
complex life known as eukaryotes — a category that includes everything from yeast to azaleas to elephants.
In your look at
how life on Earth might have emerged, Nick Lane notes that
complex cells evolved just once...
Though other mathematical models are capable of simulating
complex phenomena, only Darwin's approach shows
how certain
complex systems not only arise but also adapt over time to the constraints imposed by their environment, as
living systems do.
Your article exploring
how simple and
complex life may have emerged on Earth (23 June, p 32) presumes that it...
In your look at
how life on Earth might have emerged, Nick Lane notes that
complex cells evolved just once (23 June, p 32).
«Learning more about primordial
life, and
how it can be re-manipulated, will open up a lot of new avenues for science, and shed light on the puzzle of
how complex biological systems evolve at the most fundamental molecular level» underlines Lynn Kamerlin, corresponding author, from the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University.
«It might be useful for orientation and mobility specialists who teach people with eye diseases
how to efficiently use their remaining vision to negotiate the
complex world we
live in,» he says.
What proved more
complex was
how timing of different
life stages was altered by higher temperatures.
The structure of this
complex, determined using cryo - electron microscopy, shows
how it converts near - infrared light into an electrical charge in order to power cell metabolism, which enables this bacterium to
live at the extreme red limit of photosynthesis on Earth.
In place of testing
live warheads in the desert, our national laboratories now employ
complex computer simulations to try to predict
how aging plutonium - based weapons might behave.