Sentences with phrase «longer than evolution»

It is often said in Scotland that devolution took longer than evolution.

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Evolution — including what Mr Ham would call «micro-evolution» resulting in variations within a species (like the degrees of melanin concentration in the human species) takes longer than a couple of thousand years in a complex organism.

One article suggesting that evolution would take 10 - 15x longer than the existence of the universe does not really * prove * anything.

The «overwhelming evidence for naturalistic evolution» no longer overwhelms when the naturalistic worldview is itself called into question, and that worldview is as problematical as any other set of metaphysical assumptions when it is placed on the table for examination rather than being taken for granted as «the way we think today.»

The third section, fifty percent longer than the first two together, considers several theological and philosophical questions raised by the relation between sacred theology and contemporary evolutionary theory, They include the distinction between spirit and matter, the unity of spirit and matter, the concepts of becoming, of cause and of operation, the creation of the spiritual soul, the insights of Aristotelian scholasticism, and the biblical narrative of man's origin as it relates to the theory of evolution.

these are creates that adapted to zero light, its like a blind man who develops very good hearing senses after being blind for so long, so there are so many examples of evolution all around us but everyone rather believe something very simple like oh yea god created all, rather than explain step by step how things came to be....

While I do not believe that Genesis 1 speaks directly against the theory of evolution, I do believe that the theology behind the theory of evolution has been around a lot longer than the theory itself, and Genesis 1:24 - 25 speaks directly against some of these theological ideas.

, while I agree that what is known about evolution is evolving, there is way more evidence for it than for any god or the jesus myth, despite religion being around much longer.

Having said that, whether the six days were literal 24 h x 6 or longer than that to accommodate evolution is a matter of one's interpretation.

The study, which combined genetic analysis with a 19 - year - long selection experiment, supports the idea that the mechanisms of adaptive evolution may be more predictable than previously suspected.

PETRI PLATTER A petri dish more than a meter long helped scientists visualize the evolution of antibiotic resistance in E. coli bacteria.

«For example, small stars live a lot longer than larger stars,» Kane explained, «and so that means there is a much longer period of time for biological evolution and biochemical reactions on the surface to take place.»

It makes sense: Humans have been perfecting sonar for more than a century, but evolution has been honing echolocation for much, much longer.

However, in the evolution from dinosaurs to birds, it lost its lower end, and no longer connects to the ankle, being shorter than the other bone in the lower leg, the tibia.

«Human evolution was uneven and punctuated: A new study in Heliyon suggests that Neanderthals survived at least 3,000 years longer in Spain than we thought.»

«There has been a long - standing problem with the masses of cepheids — they usually turn out to be less massive than theoretical models of stellar evolution had predicted.

It's not clear how long it will take for the stars to fully merge, or what will happen when that occurs: Some models of stellar evolution suggest the merged star could explosively release a massive amount of energy, while others hint it could simply burn through its fuel more quickly than each star would on its own.

The impatient gene It's long been known that evolution sometimes happens very quickly — as in the development of resistance to antibiotics in bacteria — but the discovery that lizards on two islands in Croatia evolved significant differences in body type and social structure in the span of fewer than forty years is shocking enough to warrant publication in a top - shelf journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Verizon's 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) network is available in 74 markets throughout the U.S., with plans to expand to more than 145 markets by the end of the year.

The details of 5G are a long way from being decided but it is expected to provide Internet connections 40 times faster and with at least four times more coverage worldwide than the current 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless communications standlong way from being decided but it is expected to provide Internet connections 40 times faster and with at least four times more coverage worldwide than the current 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless communications standLong Term Evolution (LTE) wireless communications standard.

The long exposure captures the evolution of the firework's tracery, which is arguably more beautiful than our ordinary real - time view of pyrotechnics.

In 2012, for example, Willerslev's lab published an analysis of proteins, which are generally longer lived postmortem than genetic material, of 43,000 - year - old woolly mammoth bones.16 And last year, Willerslev, Orlando, and colleagues published a genome - wide nucleosome map and survey of cytosine methylation levels in the DNA they pulled from the 4,000 - year - old hair shafts of a Paleo - Eskimo, effectively launching the field of ancient epigenetics.17 Also last year, Pääbo's group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology published the first full DNA methylation maps of the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.18 «For the first time we'll be able to address what is the role of epigenomics and epigenetics in evolution,» Willerslev says.

The study of planetary atmospheres other than the Earth's, and in particular the study of the role of plasma - neutral interactions in their evolution, could contribute to our understanding of the long - term space weather (referred to also as space climate) effects and finally the origins of life itself (Yamauchi & Wahlund 2007).

While the specialized adaptations of our hands have long been assumed as a major evolutionary advantage, the human hand is less developed in terms of evolution than that of a chimp, having changed little from the hands of the last common ancestor shared with our simian cousins millions of years ago, scientists report.

With that said, seeing they already got the best end, long - lived species will, in theory, benefit less than short - lives species (who in them evolution favorizes (inverse) strategy of massive sexual reproduction offspring output (quick sexual maturity) to offset loss from specie's short lifespan and gene dysfunction / unoptimization / inflammation as the survival strategy).

During the whole long runtime, she is our throughline — we really need her as the anchor — and Costa sell's Victoria's emotional evolution through all these various phases perhaps even better than the film itself.

But if anything, it's «10 Cloverfield Lane» that confirms McCreary's true address is the blockbuster multiplex arena, no more so than when his score is creating a world far outside of an bomb shelter, a two year - long escape that he describes in a booklet that's one of the compelling examples of a composer describing his score's technical, and personal evolution.

«Kong: Skull Island» clocks in at 115 minutes, a rarity in an era in which filmmakers seem to think longer is always better (the upcoming «The Fate of the Furious,» aka «Fast and Furious 8,» runs a whopping two hours and 40 minutes, which is longer than «2001: A Space Odyssey,» and that was a movie about the evolution of mankind from apes to space travelers).

Nissan's smallest sedan appeared at the New York auto show with a long list of changes, but the 2012 Versa looks more like an evolution of the old car than a full - fledged redesign.

The move to turbocharging for the non-Turbo (note capital T) 911s is arguably even more controversial than the car's various generational evolutions to water - cooling, adopting a longer wider platform and, shock horror, moving to electric steering.

Its Long - Term Evolution (LTE) support delivers a superior internet experience with network speeds that are up to four times faster than 3G.

Coming later in 2011, AT&T will deliver a second layer of 4G network called LTE (Long Term Evolution) that is even faster than HSPA + speeds.

Its offers 4G Long - Term Evolution (LTE) support for the best possible internet experience with network speeds that are up to four times faster than 3G.

Though there are some cases where vestigial traits linger longer than necessary, for the most part, evolution has crafted mammalian bodies to be remarkably efficient.

Providing an apt metaphor for the long shadow cast by Sun Ra and others, the exhibition features more than sixty works of art, including ten new commissions, charting the evolution of Afrofuturist tendencies by an international selection of established and emerging practitioners.

The short - term variability of my account balance also has completely different reasons (e.g. purchase of a new stereo or a tax rebate) than the longer - term evolution (ruled by small but persistent changes in regular items like salary, housing cost...) so when you're looking for a linkage, you must first assess on what time scale you need to be looking.

There's also a number of interesting applications in the evolution of Earth's atmosphere that branch off from the runaway greenhouse physics, for example how fast a magma - ocean covered early Earth ends up cooling — you can't lose heat to space of more than about 310 W / m2 or so for an Earth - sized planet with an efficient water vapor feedback, so it takes much longer for an atmosphere - cloaked Earth to cool off from impact events than a body just radiating at sigmaT ^ 4.

For one thing, the science of evolution has matured more than a century longer than the science of anthropogenic climate change.

There's a vast literature on cultural evolution, and a more modest yet still sizeable one on memetics (more than I will live long enough to read!).

Intelligence was greatly augmented by the recent (maybe no longer ago than 50,000 years) evolution of higher intellectual function.

It is also assumes that the past history of the climate system is more or less irrelevant to its future evolution, that no phenomenon with a time scale longer than a year or two is relevant to whether the global average temperature goes up or down (the Markov approximation).

A more practical way to promote change within the sustainability movement would be to a) create narratives that portray and encourage the desired ideas and actions as historical and current reality or as historical precedent in support of a nuanced evolution within the current orthodoxy, rather than to portray them as a significant change in belief or practice; b) to portray the desired ideas and actions as long - held beliefs and practices of the most widely - admired leaders of the orthodoxy and as actions and ideas typical of orthodox believers; or c) to shame believers into seeing the desired beliefs and actions as acceptable means of atonement for past sustainability sin or as new «stones» that can be thrown at non-believers.

In the middle Miocene (~ 18 - 12 Ma), major climate change trends appear to be coupled to pCO2 changes; however, in the late Miocene (~ 12 - 5 Ma), climate was warmer than today even while pCO2 was similar to today, indicating a decoupling between long - term climate evolution and pCO2 change.

(To learn more, see Long - Term Care: More Than Just A Nursing Home and The Evolution Of LTC - Insurance Plans.)

So evolution doesn't take long, especially in organisms whose life - cycles are counted in mere hours rather than years.)

Through decades of evolution and innovation, Long Realty has achieved undisputed regional dominance, fielding more than 1,200 agents from more than 38 corporate and affiliate realty and property management companies.