«Biodiversity» is a concept that refers to the variety
of different life forms, from the genetic level to the species level.
Bergson also assumes that the recurrent appearance
of the different life forms in the course of evolution, throughout the various species, is an indication that they are necessary, at least from a practical standpoint.
Not exact matches
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If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely
different among the human species, especially
different than the other animals; how can the
life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms
of Hydrogen and one atom
of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest
forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.
If they looked and were biologically completely
different from every thing here on earth (Nitrogen based
life forms instead
of carbon based
life forms for instance)-- How do you suppose that would fit in with religions?
If we compare it with biological evolution on
different Geological Time Scale first developed
life was also in the
form of fish which originated during Cambrian period.
@JW, Yeah, but that would be tantamount to using college to expose young minds to
different world views and thought process and allow them to use that exposure to increase their understanding
of the world and
form a solid and well rounded basis for the views and beliefs that will drive their actions in
life.
Human
life and Earth are simply a minute part
of this chaotic, stochastic, expanding, shrinking process disappearing in five billion years with the burn out
of the Sun and maybe returning in another five billion years with
different life forms but still subject to the v - agaries
of its local star.
Lolololololololololololol... the god cop - out answer... there is NO evidence
of anything resembling a god anywhere throughout history... if your god loves you so much why did he wait until the earth had been around 4.6 billion years and created many
different forms of life before creating you?
One could have an abortion and happy they denied
life to an innocent in favor
of their own lifestyle, one could have a baby with the intent on sacrificing it to Satan in some way, shape, or
form, it could go lots
of different ways for lots
of different reasons but contradicting itself is
of absolutely no concern as a lot
of Satanists also label themselves «nonreligious».
Bachelor subculture, he holds, shaped and was shaped by city
life and contributed to the diversity
of America by encouraging new
forms of social order
different from, and in some ways richer than, family
life.
From that bag
of chemicals, an entire
life form with scores
of different types
of cells
forms, all by chemistry.
In fact, Buber goes on to say, changed conditions «sometimes allow [us] to make amends for lost opportunities in a quite
different situation, in a quite
different form, and it is significant that this new situation is more contradictory and the new
form more difficult to realize than the old, and that each fresh attempt demands an even greater exertion to fulfill the task for such is the hard but not ungracious way
of life itself.»
From a truly moral standpoint is one
form of life really that
different from another?
But regarding the creation story, it makes specific factual claims (albeit, internally contradictory when comparing the two
different creation narratives) regarding the order
of creation which are directly contradicted by observable, physical evidence, e.g. earth before sun, the order
of the appearance
of particular
forms of life, etc..
The body
of God, as theologians would say, is creation, understood as God's self - expression; it is
formed in God's own reality, bodied forth in the eons
of evolutionary time, and supplied with the means to nurture and sustain billions
of different forms of life.
everything is made up
of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the
different variables
of heat and light and things like that that cause
different reactions to make
different things and these things when they interact can create something completely
different and you and slowly the process
of mitosis or miosis starts to work and
form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions
of years ago i bet the universe was completely
different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the
different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends
of the scale
life as we know it will be
different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly
form into a slightly
different species hell maybe well evolve into 2
different species like in the movie time machine
Human
life and Earth are simply a minute part
of this cha - otic, sto - cha - stic, expanding, shrinking process disappearing in five billion years with the burn out
of the Sun and maybe returning in another five billion years with
different life forms but still subject to the va - ga - ries
of its local star.
to dandintac, the evolution
of stars or solar systems or
life forms to
different species takes billons
of years to complete., that we in our lifetime cant comprehend its teleology or purposefullness.At the University
of Illinois, a super computer called The nautilus, predicts the future by analysing through computational methods mathematical algorithim the historical inputs for hundreds
of years and discovered that it has a direction or intepreted as has a purpose.Someday in the future when we will be technologically advanced, Gods will will be clearly reveald to us.All
of this will be part
of his will, at this time beyond our comprehension, but will be in the future, The next generation
of quantum computers which are tens
of thousands more powerfull and faster than todays will provide us the informations to solidify the future religious faith based in science.
Just as there are many
different auto manufacturers making various styles and models
of cars that are in no way as complex as
life forms, we know without question they have a designer.Dosn «t it defy reason to not believe in a grand design and a grand designer?
If we now understand religion and morality as
forms of life and experience that are quite
different from that
of science, the same can also be said
of our understanding
of philosophy and metaphysics.
And yet the new
form of existence, the «spiritual body» (that is, a body made for
life on a
different plane
of existence,
life with the risen Christ), is not entirely unrelated to the body
of flesh and blood.
It can exhibit the «old» dogma from quite a
different angle, and profoundly alter the concrete
form in which it appears in the thought and especially in the
life of the Church.
The fact that
forms of life can succeed or fail (in the performance
of a skill, in the discovery
of a suitable environment, in reproducing, in warding off death, injury, etc.) places them at a
different level
of being from purely physical processes to which the terms success and failure are inapplicable.
Upon what basis do we teach a
different hope, a
different substance
of man, and a
different form of personal eternal
life?
The griever's senses
of meaning and purpose are translated into new and
different forms, making them available for incorporation into the survivor's present and future
life.
Human
life and Earth are simply a minute part
of this chaotic, stochastic, expanding, shrinking process disappearing in five billion years with the burn out
of the Sun and maybe returning in another five billion years with
different life forms but still subject to the va - garies
of its local star.
We share a common ancestor with other eukaryotes, but eukaryotes branched off into tons
of different forms of life.
This unique emphasis upon what in Anglo - Saxon cultures we call «the communitarian individual» (the individual who is not atomic and alone, but a member
of many
different, smaller communities) provides two
different forms of protection from the State, one for the individual person and the other for what Edmund Burke called «the little platoons»
of daily
life.
The additivity
of organic
life, as science now tells us, is something quite
different from the superposition
of characteristics added to one another like the layers
forming a sedimentary deposit.
EVOLUTION: the process by which
different kinds
of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier
forms during the history
of the earth.
This relation
of the Christian teaching to
life (in contrast with a scientific aloofness from
life), or this ethical side
of Christianity, is essentially the edifying, and the
form in which it is presented, however strict it may be, is altogether
different, qualitatively
different, from that sort
of learning which is «indifferent,» the lofty heroism
of which is from a Christian point
of view so far from being heroism that from a Christian point
of view it is an inhuman sort
of curiosity.
Living in the corners
of the American empire, they hope to be a harbinger
of a new and radically
different form of Christian practice.
If NT theology is understood as a response to certain key events
of the
life of Jesus in narrative
form, a comparison
of the
different traditions (synoptics, John, Paul) suggest a development, if not
different understanding.I view this as a «human construct».
Were the structure
of physical matter other than it is, the organization
of matter in its
living forms would likely be
different (CE 280).
It is conceivable, for instance, that with a
different concrete material substratum,
life might have expressed itself in
different forms, with the possible exception
of the sensory - motor system (CE 279).
The Universal Foundation for Better
Living, founded in 1974 by the Rev. Johnnie Colemon (who came out
of the Unity church), believes that «Everything that exists, or ever will exist is pressed out
of the body
of God (God - Substance) in
different forms of manifestation.
Thus, if we now understand religion and morality, say, as
forms of life and experience that are quite
different from that
of science, the same can also be said, mutatis mutandis,
of our understanding
of philosophy and metaphysics.
As many really distinct substantial
forms were directly assumed to be present as distinct «individuals»
of different living «species» were observed.
Drones are no
different from our many other
forms of raining indiscriminate death — other than they save the
lives of servicepeople who would otherwise be in harm's way.
The speech appropriate to macromolecules capable
of converging to
form the nucleus
of a
living cell is characteristically
different from the ethical imperative addressing twentieth - century Americans.
The unity between them is
of a
different order: they «
form a single, indivisible «cosmic» event which brings judgment to the world and opens up for men the possibility
of authentic
life.»
In global consciousness we know that, if we go far enough back in time, we share a common origin not only with people from very
different cultural and religious backgrounds, but also with all
forms of life on the planet.
As Christians in the U.S. learn to
live with many
different voices and cultures, one
of the greatest needs in theological education will be to
form persons in symbolic biculturalism — the ability to move and flourish amid various symbolic patterns.
the existence isnt any
different because no one here can prove what happens when you die, no one, so i suggest you make the best
of your time in this planet that has the perfect balance
of oxygen for you to breath and be thankful to whatever happened in this planet that made so many animals and plants and nature coexist and allowed us to have a place to
live... well sorry to those who were killed by religious agendas... Do you know that someone tried to shut me up once by saying, oh then how can we be so perfect in
form, we cant be evolving because how come we do nt evolve today..
New information This unbalanced exposition includes a peculiar and rather controversial division
of the
different forms of religious
life into three main strands: monastic, apostolic and evangelical.
Nevertheless it is apparent that in
living beings these
forms reveal themselves, on a
different level
of integration, as unity and totality, as subjectivity and self - identity.
Paul van Buren was a disciple
of Karl Barth, under whom he wrote his excellent doctoral dissertation on Calvin's teaching about Christ as the true
life of men; Hamilton was an opponent
of natural theology in all its
forms, even if he studied at St Andrews under Donald Baillie — but it was the so - called «rico - orthodox» line which had attracted him, theologically; Altizer is a slightly
different case.
Either the
different species, losing their powers
of «speciation», survive as
living fossils, which after all is a
form of death; or else, and there are infinitely more
of these, they simply vanish, one sort being replaced by another.