Sentences with phrase «human evolution by»

All three offer intriguing views on the man and his theories, and their mutual impact on society and science.Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution by Adrian Desmond and James Moore...

The Darwin Award is an annual tongue - in - cheek honor recognizing individuals who've contributed to human evolution by removing themselves from the gene pool — doing something stupid enough to kill themselves.

Directed by John Amiel, screenplay by John Collee, based on the book Annie's Box: Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution by Randall Keynes

The script by John Collee, adapted from Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, his Daughter, and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes, Darwin's great - great grandson, is ambitious, if frequently awkward, and certainly helped along by Bettany's persuasive performance.

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One of the most influential works on that list is «Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind,» originally published by a Canadian psychiatrist in 1901.

Take for example, the observation by futurist Ray Kurzweil that technology is the evolution of human biology.

From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution by Brendan Purcell New City Press, 370 pages, $ 34.95 Benjamin Disraeli famously asked whether man is «an ape or an angel» and answered that he himself stood «on the side of the angels.»

You're talking about the type of «evolution» that we always knew existed and to make matters worse you're bragging about the advancements made by INTELLIGENT HUMAN BEINGS which still don't even come close to the complication of macro evolution but still required thousands of years of scientific advancement and knowledge and a team of researchers with high iq's working aroudn the clock with microscopes.

No, Darwin's evolution by natural selection was most certainly not based upon merely seeing some bacteria change in a petri dish, and leaping directly to humans and apes having common ancestors.

and there has yet to be definitive proof of ape evolving into human if you have it please by all means post it the world would like to see it, oh and you forgot to put in how evolution has as many gaps as any religion like Genesis Park describes a number of images drawn by Neanderthals and by humans in the Middle East which resemble dinosaurs.

By extension, evolving from less advanced life forms is distasteful to those same individuals, as that necessitates a point in evolution at which humans are not really humans at all in the modern sense, which then brings up problems such as «do slugs go to heaven?»

Our laws are modern laws, created by the evolution of the human mind.

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

In his typical humanistic, ethicomystical way of thinking, he points to a belief in the «evolution of human spirituality» where «the higher this development in the individual is, the greater his awareness» of God» (Dr. Schweitzer of Lambarene, by Norman Cousins [Harper & Brothers, 1960], pp. 190 - 191).

to Jake, in every era or times in the past, humans have different perception of reality, because our knowledge improves or changes toward sophistication, For example during the times of Jesus, there was no science yet as what we have today, since the religion in the past corresponds to their needs, it is true for them in the past, but today we already knew many new ideas and facts, so what is applicable in the past is no longer today, like religion, we have also to change to conform with todays knowledge.The creation or our origin for example is now explained beyond doubt by science as the big bang and evolution is the reason we become humans, is in contrast to creation in the bibles genesis,.

What so many Catholics seem to be saying is that, so far as we can determine with our unaided human intellects, according to even the «metaphysically modest» version of neo-Darwinism, there is no real plan, purpose, or design in living things, and absolutely no directionality to evolution; yet we know those things to be true by faith.

We have reached that point in the evolution of the human species where traditional tribalism must be superseded by the acceptance of the essential unity of all human society.

Religion was necessary in the development of human evolution to control violence by imputing guilt onto the scapegoat.

scot, It's one thing to believe so deeply that you eschew evolution or the biological fact that humans are animals, it's entirely another to willfully misrepresent statements by others to support your position, and to deride and taunt people with other positions.

It is also entirely consistent with the patterns we notice in cosmic emergence for us to maintain that the human sphere of mentality is now being invited by the «forces of evolution» to leave itself open to an informing and patterning by a yet higher and more «conscious» level.

Now it is entirely possible, as I have said earlier, that the appearance of the human species with its peculiar form of consciousness is by no means the end of evolution.

When, for example, at first in the 19th century down to Pius XII the Church adopted a very reserved attitude to any inclusion of the human bios in the idea of evolution, that was motivated, and rightly so, by a fundamental conception of the nature of man which for good reasons required to be defended.

Despite agreeing with mainstream science on these issues, they deny evolution: they believe that the vast majority of species (and especially humans) were independently created by God during earth's long history.

Human life is not the only end toward which evolution has been called by God.

Of course we know that this evolution was promoted by humans but it doesn't really matter.

The prospects for conscious control of human biological evolution posed by recombinant DNA research raise directly and sharply certain questions about the future not only of our own culture but also of the human species itself.

The human eye is the (still evolving) product of evolution by genetic mutation and natura selection by the environment.

The primary answer is that modernist thinking assumes the validity of Darwinian evolution, which explains the origin of humans and other living systems by an entirely mechanistic process that excludes in principle any role for a Creator.

Part of that evolution is an increase in the average height of humans since this time period, by about 8 to 10 inches.

A priori (by «dichotomic» analysis of the various outlets theoretically offered to our freedom of action) as well as a posteriori (by classification of the various human attitudes in fact observable around us), three alternatives, together forming a logically connected sequence, seem to express and exhaust all the possibilities open to our assessment and choice as we contemplate the future of Mankind: a) pessimism or optimism; b) the optimism of withdrawal or the optimism of evolution; c) evolution in terms of the many or of the unit.

That's a natural trait of humans, developed by evolution.

Christians, however, may understand the decisiveness of Christ as the moment in evolution when God's promise and self - gift, which have been continually and creatively present to the cosmos from its birth, are embraced by a human being without reservation.

Human evolution: from bond fires started by rubbing sticks to hydroelectric power plants - from gazing at the Moon to actually going there - Indeed we are evolving!!!

As reason sets human beings apart from all other animals, it seems that our rational nature can not be explained by evolution alone, for we do not find stages of lesser reflective selfconsciousness before the human species but evolution requires only gradual changes at a time.

The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say About Human Origins by Peter Enns — This book came along and just the right time for me.

Darwin's theory of evolution, as understood by most of the modern scientific community, has nothing to say about the «gap» between humans and «lower» animals, because no such gap is recognized.

The key to human nature therefore lies in both the organic inheritance of evolution through the brain, which is instinct with natural law, harmonic order and finely tuned mutual balance, and in the free, dynamic seeking of truth and values and their free administration by the directly created spirit.

As we try to plan and direct the evolution of human society and its pluralistic values and styles, by what are we to be shaped and transformed?

If you search the Coursera website on «evolution», you will see that «Evolution: A Course for Educators» taught by instructors from the American Museum of Natural History» and «Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology)» taught by professors at the University of Maryland both startevolution», you will see that «Evolution: A Course for Educators» taught by instructors from the American Museum of Natural History» and «Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology)» taught by professors at the University of Maryland both startEvolution: A Course for Educators» taught by instructors from the American Museum of Natural History» and «Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology)» taught by professors at the University of Maryland both start in June.

Atheists rely on science and Scientists themselves will be the first to admit they're constantly being stumped by new discoveries regarding human and universal evolution.

The term moderate evolution might therefore be applied to a theory which simply inquires into the biological reality of man in accordance with the formal object of the biological sciences as defined by their methods and which affirms a real genetic connection between that human biological reality and the animal kingdom, but which also in accordance with the fundamental methodological principles of those sciences, can not and does not attempt to assert that it has made a statement adequate to the whole reality of man and to the origin of this whole reality.

The Darwinian metaphor of evolution was used to express a faith in a Historical future, in either the coming end of History (Marx) or a more indefinite perfectibility in which our alienating technological progress would finally be ennobled by a corresponding moral progress (say, John Stuart Mill or Walt Whitman) that would be the source of the elusive human happiness promised by modern liberation.

According to evolution things are made by themselves things just happen by chance to say that evolution knew than humans would need to eat to survive suggests that something would have to know this are they considering evolution is a thinking force that knows what a creature needs to do to adapt ti certain things or that evolution knew that spiders needed to make webs to catch flies?

The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say About Human Origins by Peter Enns (see my review)

This postulate of invariability seems at first sight to be admissible in the «Darwinian» zones of Life, where the instinct of self - preservation predominates (this seeming by its nature to be more or less constant among organized beings), but it certainly loses all value in the «Lamarckian» or human zone, where biological evolution, from being passive, becomes active in the pursuit of its purpose.

But it is just this supposedly impenetrable envelope of pure «phenomenon» which the rebounding thrust of human evolution pierces, at least at one point, since by its nature it is irreversible.

that the human Earth should already have attained the natural completion of its evolutionary growth, then it must mean that the ultra-human perfection which neo-humanism envisages for Evolution will coincide in concrete terms with the crowning of the Incarnation awaited by all Christians.

Freddie has written a post that forces me into the odd position of defending Sam Harris; the crux of which is the claim that once we accept the human mind as being a contingent accident of evolution, we necessarily must abandon any faith in the intellectual edifices constructed by such minds:

If the human mind, enlightened by the grace of God which is offered to every man, will lift its eyes a little from the earth, it will see the mighty consummation in the human nature of Christ of the whole process of living development through evolution.

I maintained that, contrary to the commonly expressed or tacitly accepted view, the era of active evolution did not end with the appearance of the human zoological type: for by virtue of his acquirement of the gift of individual reflection Man displays the extraordinary quality of being able to totalize himself collectively upon himself, thus extending on a planetary scale the fundamental vital process which causes matter, under Certain conditions, to organize itself in elements which are ever more complex physically, and psychologically ever more centrated.