Sentences with phrase «of evolutionary»

We are forced today to interpret the whole Universe in terms of one process of evolutionary development.

Now the interpretation of the perfecting of the human / word process, leading to a threshold of radical change, is both in keeping with the pattern of evolutionary change evidenced in the natural world, and the biblical concept of the eschaton as the threshold of the new aeon, and the total transformation of humanity and cosmos.

The perspective taken in this book (especially in Chapter 8) is that of an evolutionary cosmology in which the universe itself is the primary revelation of mystery and in which religions and their symbols are seen as expressions of the cosmos (and not just of isolated, cosmically homeless human subjects).

We should, therefore, not be under the illusion that when anatomically modern human beings emerged 100,000 or so years ago, after millions of years of evolutionary change, they ceased to be influenced significantly by their evolutionary past.

Our doing this as a function of our evolutionary status — «Our brains secrete bright ideas and forms of order; armored insects secrete wax from their backs» (p. 182)-- hardly seems cause for rejoicing.

To deny the doctrine of creation ex nihil is to limit God's sovereignty, as happens in the various theories which make God himself part of the evolutionary process.

His proposals regarding religion amount to assertions concocted on the basis of evolutionary hunches rather than conclusions proceeding from carefully constructed arguments.

This lack of evolutionary independence to spread one's seed and strengthen our species is quite unnatural and leads to jealousy and violence.

It is thus no coincidence that Wilson always regards religion as the archenemy of evolutionary theory.

Pharmaceutical bio-chemistry is absolutely predicated on a solid understand of evolutionary principles (as is epidemiology and various other branches of medicine).

Chad, not only have I watched the video, but I understand what punctuated equilibrium «is» and how it fits in perfectly with our current understanding of the evolutionary process.

Studying and being convinced of the truth of evolutionary biology didn't me love people or animals less.

Thus the rising scale conforms both to the ascending movement towards higher consciousness and to the unfolding of evolutionary time.

More of an evolutionary trait, we are programmed for the «religious experience»..

The wide and growing acceptance of the evolutionary outlook indicates that it is a highly suitable platform for «stories scientists tell.»

«I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book.

Joseph Earley, «Collingwood's Third Transition: Replacement of Renaissance Cosmology by an Ontology of Evolutionary Self - Organization,» With Darwin Beyond Descartes - The Historical Concept of Nature and Overcoming «The Two Cultures, edited by L. Zanzi (Pavia, Italy, forthcoming).

In this view, the predominant direction of evolutionary development is from simpler states of affairs to more complex ones.

This spontaneity may be minimal for protons and electrons, but in the course of the evolutionary advance, sustained until now, it has manifested itself in ever richer forms as the vitality of living cells, the conscious activity of the higher animals, and the self - conscious freedom of man.

As the title of the work indicates, Kauffman concludes that humans are integral parts of evolutionary nature, rather than intrinsically outsiders, as some others — both theists and naturalists — have held.

For Kauffman, an important part of evolutionary advance must have been simplification of such initially complex cycles — gradual elimination of ineffective and redundant steps.

Formation of sets of processes (at least one autocatalytic) in such a way that original conditions are regenerated is considered, by Eigen, to be the main origin of evolutionary development — but how these closures come to be is not fully explicated.

That is, that one of the main reasons for his attack on Darwinism is his conclusion that insufficiently critical adoption of evolutionary modes of thought by the majority of scientists, and also by educational (e.g., John Dewey) and legal (e.g., Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) leaders, has led to a highly unsatisfactory cultural situation, and to many evil consequences.

altruism, sympathy, and empathy are products of the evolutionary process in humans, genetically selected and very physical.

ID is thus a scientific disagreement with the core claim of evolutionary theory that the apparent design of livingsystems is an illusion.»

Those are the main classifications; but within each classification what an immense proliferation there is of branches and offshoots, each endowed with a sort of evolutionary potential, irresistible both logically and biologically!

The believer can SEE what the materialist sees (like the voluminous amount of evolutionary evidence), but he either refuses to believe what he sees, or he doesn't UNDERSTAND it, and so discounts it.

Whatever their differences, defenders of both approaches agree on the necessity of there being a creator and ruler of the universe, the objective (i.e., written - into - things) reality of purpose in nature, and the impossibility of evolutionary mechanisms bearing the sort of explanatory weight they are customarily allowed to bear.

All the faith he once had in a grand design of the evolutionary scheme forsook him.

It is from the creeping acceptance of an atheistic materialism as part - and - parcel of the evolutionary package that he desperately wishes to distance the Church.

The most malignant cells represent the most ancestral forms, a sort of reversal of the evolutionary arrow of time.

And whence can it arise, this accumulation of evidence that the extreme point of each of us (our ultra-ego, it might be termed) coincides with some common fulfillment of the evolutionary process, a common super-ego, except out of the principle of attraction which we have postulated as being necessary to bring together the rebellious seeds of our individualities, uniting them from within and unanimising them at the heart?

The mechanism of the evolutionary process is natural selection, the successful, that is to say capable of survival and propagation of the species, adaptation of species and populations to their environment.

At the lowest level of the evolutionary process, entropy manifests itself in physical form as the loss or disintegration of physical energy.

1) The scientific data in support of evolutionary theory and an old earth is overwhelming and sound.

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?

In such a scheme, reality is viewed in terms of an evolutionary process which has given rise in successive stages to novel forms of life, all aiming at the fullest possible realization of their potentialities.

Perhaps the ancients had some excuse when they thought in this fashion; for us today, with our awareness of an evolutionary creation, there is no excuse to continue in so mistaken a fashion.

Of course Teilhard de Chardin's vision of the evolutionary process need not be taken too literally.

Human freedom is just the highest point of the evolutionary process.

Thus Christian faith in God as the Creator has usually been understood to require assent to a whole series of beliefs that are now widely regarded as false — e.g., that the creation of the world took place as recently as 4004 B.C. and that man and the various animals were all created as fixed species, in no way related to one another by any pattern of evolutionary development.

The recognition of the centrality of an evolutionary perspective means that man needs to be viewed as a biospiritual creature who requires a delicate balance of favorable environmental conditions as the necessary prerequisite to any possible flowering of his unique human capacities.

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.

A sense of collectivity, arising in our minds Out of the evolutionary sense, has imposed a framework of entirely new dimensions upon all our thinking; so that Mankind has come to present itself to our gaze less and less as a haphazard and extrinsic association of individuals, and increasingly as a biological entity wherein, in some sort, the proceedings and the necessities of the universe m movement are furthered and achieve their culmination.

we have to unite by finding a common ground, scientific theology is the answer, we have to believe that all religions belongs to Him, the god who created scientifically and beyond any reasonable doubt that all came from the big bang 13.7 billion years ago.we evolved later to bcome what we are, the evolution of different religious faith in the past is just part of the evolutionary process, but all is under His guidance by evolutionary will.we are part of Him,

On the contrary, the strongest critiques of evolutionary doctrine come from Catholic philosophers and scientists who have no difficulty with large - scale timelines orvariations within kinds.

Many, if not most, species have become extinct in the course of this evolutionary advance, and there is good reason to anticipate that this may be our fate as well.

Hence we have used a very different framework of interpretation, that of evolutionary emergence, in order to interpret Paul's experience of the risen Christ.

For if it be true that the tide of evolutionary totalization sweeping us along requires, for its viability, not only that we must progress towards some form of irreversible unity, but also that this progress must be in the personal sphere, is not this a positive reason for believing that sooner or later something must happen in the world whereby certain basic conditions of the human phenomenon will undergo modification?

Can we make a case for seeing the angels in God's initial plan of creation not just as messengers but as in some way active agents with a specific role in the development of the evolutionary process, a role which he did not withdraw from those who rebelled, in the same way that he does not always or instantly remove bad rulers who affect the development of the historical process?