Sentences with phrase «idea about the evolution»

It only serves as further evidence that creationists get their ideas about evolution from creationist sources, sources that are misinformed or dishonest.
You certainly can't look at one characteristic of one individual for any ideas about evolution.
You can't prove your cute little crazy ideas about evolution being untrue, or you'd go do it and become one of the most famous scientists in history.
A series of extraordinary discoveries over the past decade has transformed our ideas about the evolution of early animals, and of the world they lived in
And some of our ideas about evolution underwent revisions in 1999.
While the new discovery confirms scientists» ideas about the evolution of disease, the worrying implication is that the same process could cause other virulent strains of cholera to emerge at any time.
It may be that are a huge number of dwarf spheroidal galaxies out there, something that would have profound consequences for our ideas about the evolution of the cosmos.»
One of the most delightful, witty, and beautifully written of all natural histories, The Voyage of the Beagle recounts the young Darwin's 1831 to 1836 trip to South America, the Galápagos Islands, Australia, and back again to England, a journey that transformed his understanding of biology and fed the development of his ideas about evolution.
In the 19th century, scientists were competing to explain the marvelous diversity of species on the earth, and not everybody bought into Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution through natural selection.
Scientists continue to respond to the latest attacks from creationists, and at the same time propose profound new ideas about evolution.
It stars Paul Bettany as Darwin, who, in the 1850s, is not keen to publish his revolutionary ideas about evolution, for fear they will offend the deeply religious, including his dour wife (real - life spouse Jennifer Connelly).
In Paris in 1815, naive Daniel Connor falls in with a ring of philosopher thieves who have some radically new ideas about evolution.
«In all but a few cases, I have no idea about the evolution of the image or where it's going until I'm finished,» he has said.

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The concept of God did not spring out of thin air - intelligent humans created him and then thousands of years later used the idea to explain what they did not understand and / or like about evolution.
With all the emphasis on creation or evolution coming out of the first few chapters of Genesis, we often miss some of the most important ideas about our humanity and how God created us (not physically, but spiritually and psychologically).
But as we celebrate that win, we reinforce the idea that our spiritual evolution is about cutting out negative behaviors.
On one hand you talk about an idea «evolution,» and on the other hand you are talking about matter «clump of cells.»
well for starters he started work on his idea of natural selection before he even met his wife, let alone lost any kids so you are off to a shaky start before you even try to claim anything else about evolution.
Here is a hint, whoever has been teaching you this about evolution has no idea how it works either.
To say, as Joe says, that «God making evolution appear undirected is similar to the idea that he planted dinosaur fossils and created geological strata to fool us into thinking the earth has been around more than 6,000 years,» is in my view completely to misunderstand what scientists and ordinary people mean when they speak about random processes.
However, many Christians in the last century have been paralyzed with fear about the whole idea of evolution.
to J.W. and fred — i think its rather silly to argue anything as fact if its cleary thought based (i.e. lacking proof / evidence) when asked about the where did we come from or how the universe (whatever) i always answer with i don't know, but then i pose an idea — i state openly thats its only an idea... if any one of you religions folks would simple agree to the FACT that what you BELIEVE is real is REALLY only an idea until proven (much like evolution) then i would find much more pleasing conversations beyond the realm of atheists... but alas, i am still waiting — i found some but most are imovible in there beliefs that god is real, provable, and most def.
Always the bashing of evolution from those who haven't the foggiest idea about what the theory actually demonstrates.
Their claim was that Fr George Coyne's publicsupport for the Darwinian idea of biological evolution had brought him into conflict with other Vatican doctrinal officials, and so brought about his replacement.
In that sermon Sir Edwyn remarked in effect that while the Lady Margaret Professor (Dr Bethune - Baker) was urging that the task of theology was to bring about a reconciliation of evolution and faith and to re-state faith in terms congruent with such evolutionary ideas, in his (Hoskyns») opinion the theologian's task was precisely the opposite: it was to show the inadequacy of such ideas and to make clear the incongruity between evolutionary thought and Christian faith.
Hodder and Pidgeon were jointly recognised for their contribution toward developing Cabernet Sauvignon for the future; a 17 year partnership which has included an evolution of ideas about growing and making Cabernet Sauvignon.
Despite its importance as a foundational concept, evolution is a particularly difficult idea for many students, and misconceptions about natural selection and genetics are prevalent.
Unease about the latter idea will grow as evidence mounts to show that rewinding evolution may not be that difficult (see «Chicken revisits its dinosaur past»).
Our ideas about later human evolution, meanwhile, have been shattered by the remains of a tiny, novel human species with a small but intricately folded brain.
When geneticists offer contrary ideas about how speciation occurs, they're debating the nuts and bolts of how evolution works, not arguing over whether it happens.
In other words, the results confirm current popular ideas about the physics, makeup, and evolution of the universe.
Some of the ideas in my book on religion were inspired by Johnson's musings on evolution, and I like to think that some of his ideas about the benefits of video games were inspired by mine on kids» media.
When children are taught about evolution, for example, they should explore both Darwin's ideas and the Christian viewpoint.
«What is fantastic about this paper is that Herman and his colleagues have effectively integrated all of the earlier ideas into a unified theory for energy and the evolution of human characteristics,» Aiello says.
Neotrogla offers new opportunities to test ideas about sexual selection, conflict between the sexes, and the evolution of novelty, the researchers say.
Schwartz's conclusion — that today's reality may be tomorrow's discarded truth, and that ideas which run counter to received wisdom should not be dismissed out of hand — is particularly welcome, and a refreshing sentiment from a participant in the current debates about human evolution.
According to paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his colleagues, who unearthed and analyzed the remains, they represent a new species of human — Homo naledi, for «star» in the local Sotho language — that could overturn some deeply entrenched ideas about the origin and evolution of our genus, Homo.
At a meeting on human origins, held this month in Gibraltar, bones in a Spanish cave and stone tools in Asia sparked controversial new ideas about human evolution and migration.
The finding shakes up our ideas about how sex chromosomes influence gender and also suggests that at least some parts of the X chromosome are playing an unexpectedly dynamic role in evolution.
«Magnetic fields provide crucial information about the interiors and evolution of planets, so it is gratifying that our experiments can test — and in fact, support — the thin - dynamo idea that had been proposed for explaining the truly strange magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune,» said Raymond Jeanloz, co-author on the paper and professor in Earth & Planetary Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.
It's all part of a gradual rhetorical shift away from talking about creationism and intelligent design toward casting doubt on evolution, says Joshua Rosenau, spokesperson for the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, Calif. «They have this idea,» he says, «that it's a zero - sum game, so anything you can do to knock evolution down actually promotes creationism without having to say the word.»
He independently comes up with the same idea Darwin did about the evolution of species from really similar evidence.
His ideas about fossil analysis and dinosaur evolution were remarkably prescient, as this article in the October issue describes.
Brown knew he was looking at something strange, something that would challenge our ideas about human evolution, as soon as he laid eyes on that first skull from Liang Bua Cave.
So over decades, I had read all sorts of stories about people who had gone out into the wilds and explored the unknown, and I thought that if we could just focus on the central experiences of their lives, I could condense all sorts of stories into just chapter length tales and put a bunch of them together, sort of show the whole arc of the discovery of the idea of evolution and really where we stand today, right up to very recent things like Neanderthal DNA and the discovery of some recent transitional fossils.
Such familiarity would have been crucial in designing the forgery, which catered to geologists» desire for confirmation of ideas about human evolution based on a small number of fossil remains, and would have validated Dawson's well - known scientific aspirations.
They took it very seriously in 1925, the idea that there would be a fight about evolution versus (unclear 30:03), it was kind of shocking and it was a big event.
models and exacerbated long - standing foundational problems with the theory, providing new reasons to consider competing ideas about the origin and evolution of the universe.
But we do have some ideas about their origins and evolution.
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