As self - replicating entities, memes are subject to the same forces, laws, and
principles of evolution as genes are for physical development.
That is, even devote creationists will accept microevolution and the basic
principles of evolution.
For one thing, it implies that
the principles of evolution — competition, innovation, reproduction, and adaptation — are more useful for understanding the inner workings of the financial industry than the physics - like principles of rational economic analysis.
Due to tremendous variations in climate, indigenous food supplies, environmental conditions and
the principles of evolution, adaptation, and heredity, different cultural and ethnic groups, over a period of many centuries, developed distinctly different kinds of dietary requirements...»
The paper concedes that commercial beekeeping operations face major challenges to shift to health management practices rooted in fundamental
principles of evolution and ecology.
The Mammalian Ear: Physics and
the Principles of Evolution — Geoffrey A. Manley, Andrei N. Lukashkin, Patrício Simões, George W. S. Burwood, and Ian J. Russell
«There is no reason why
the principles of evolution wouldn't apply.»
This method, which is inspired by
the principles of evolution, allowed Ulijn's team to identify a range of heretofore unseen peptide - based materials.
In the cases, just this last couple of elections, where stem cell politics, for example, has been played out in the electoral process, stem cell research is [has] done better than the winning candidates for offices; and I think, apart from that, I think that we do have a serious problem in general education of the sciences and that accounts for the reluctance of a large segment of the population to accept
the principles of evolution and think that there is still a debate about it, which there isn't — and that's a problem we need to solve, — but I still think there is an incredible constituency for science in this country.
Horst Thieme studies rapidly reproducing parasitic populations, which, as he notes, «are ideal objects to study
the principles of evolution; in turn, it is important to understand these principles to control infectious diseases effectively.»
Im sorry if no one allowed you the opportunity to understand the basic
principles of evolution and science.
The principles of evolution have been used by farmers, agronomists, and animal husbandry to create the foods we eat today.
The operative
principle of evolution is credo et spero ut intelligam.
There is a dearth of orthodox modern theology that contains a similar metaphysical
principle of evolution.
The Cultural Dimension As culture develops, so too will religion in order that it may answer more adequately the basic problems of human life and to further deepen the synthesis of scientific knowledge with religious knowledge -
the principle of evolution is written into the nature of religion, as in all life.
Even while he was denying
the principle of evolution, how could a vehement man doubt such intimate evidence?»
`... we now need to consider how the discovery of «natural cooperation» — as what Martin Nowak calls the «third fundamental
principle of evolution» (alongside mutation and natural selection)-- might (help)... theology and metaphysics (need) together (to) strive to complete the vision toward which evolutionary cooperation seemingly gestures... the phenomenon of cooperation... provides a significant modification of the «nature red in tooth and claw» image that Darwinism early accrued to itself...
Not exact matches
The constant
evolution of buyer behavior is the primary driver behind this
principle.
This would be OK except for the small detail that
evolution is the fundamental, underlying
principle of all biology.
Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full
of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less
of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very
principle of physics and
evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash
of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.
Most religions have consistently resisted progress — including the abolition
of slavery; women's right to vote and choose contraception and abortion; medical developments such as the use
of anesthesia; scientific understanding
of the heliocentric solar system and
evolution, and the American
principle of state / church separation.
The fact
of the matter is that every system you can conceive
of evolves -
evolution is a universal
principle.
Evolution is the central guiding
principle of all biology, a scientific discipline that is responsible for our successes in medicine and agriculture.
@KatMat: your analogy would begin approaching realism if: — during the pledge
of allegiance kids were forced to say «one nation under The Orioles» — our nation's currency said «In Dallas Cowboys We Trust» — if millions were slaughtered, tortured and burned to death because they weren't fans
of The Pittsburgh Penguins — if NASCAR fans endlessly attempted to have Intelligent Car Driving taught beside
Evolution in science class as a possible explanation for how mankind developed — if «the 5 D's»
of Dodgeball (Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge) were constantly attempted to be made into law so everyone would live by the same ridiculous notions, even if those notions knowingly discriminate — if nutters constantly claimed America was founded on the
principles of Darts, even though our country SPECIFICALLY calls for a separation between Darts and State because the founders knew the inherent dangers
of Darts becoming government instead
of staying in the realm
of sport where it belongs
But
evolution as a great explanatory
principle grasped the imagination
of the culture only through the work
of Charles Darwin.
In
principle, it may be barely conceivable that
evolution could occur in open systems, in spite
of the tendency
of all systems to disintegrate sooner or later.
In any case, even if what you said it's true and
evolution and all scientific
principles tomorrow were found to be strong, out still would not be evidence
of a god's hand in anything.
And we argue that the direct creation
of the spiritual soul falls directly under the
principles of the Unity Law, which also govern
evolution (see above mentioned pamphlet and elsewhere).
For although certain
principles of wear and dissolution, which apparently can not be prevented from growing more pronounced with age, seem to be inherent in the structure
of our individual bodies, there is no indication
of any similar factor in the global
evolution of a living mass as large as the Noosphere, where the overriding evolutionary law seems to be that,
of statistical necessity, it must simply converge upon itself.
God then becomes the one exception to the universal
principle or process
of evolution.
Has
evolution been completely unaccompanied by any
principle of care and concern?
Nor will it do to affirm both Darwinian
evolution and a vague theism, for the engine
of such
evolution is, on
principle, incompatible with any design or direction from above» and that includes moral design and direction.
«
Evolution, a foundational
principle of modern biology, is supported by overwhelming scientific evidence and is accepted by the vast majority
of scientists.
To suggest that we haven't seen much evidence
of evolution in the lab «for thousands
of years» shows you don't understand the
principles involved.
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.
However, if there are groups
of atheists, and I am not saying there are, with organizing
principles like, elevating humanity, belief in
evolution, belief in the big bang theory absent God, or other such beliefs consistent with atheism as a belief, AND they organize to promote those beliefs and theories, or educate people regarding their belief that there is no God, then those groups consti tute a religious organization.
another one them tried to make a case for
evolution using
principles of adaptation and then claimed that even though it did not fit into the evolutionary timescale it was the methods used that proved the validity
of the experiment.
For philosophical vitalism evil is the static, anything that stands in the way
of vital
evolution, while good is vital movement, which it is assumed will ultimately be triumphant, as if there were still another
principle of good underlying the whole process.
Behind the mystery
of the physical laws that govern the universe, the beginning
of the cosmos, time, gravity, and everything, as well as wonder
of evolution and the rise
of biological life, I tend to see some unknown
principle or thing (perhaps unknowable) that lies behind it all.
In other words, the ascent
of evolution is mathematical and equational in
principle».
Indeed what he outlined claims to be a profound insight into the
principle, or Law,
of the dynamic development in stability and equilibrium, or «
Evolution»,
of reality itself as framed by the Mind
of God.
Evolution is the «free will
principle»
of the animal and vegetable dimension
of creation and free will itself is the ultimate manifestation
of this
principle within the human (moral and spiritual) dimension.
What remains for an account
of evolution, then, is not to account for a dynamic
principle as such, since being dynamic must be taken for granted if anything is to be hypothesized about the origin
of the cosmos.
This discussion began with the observation that Peirce offered an insight into speculation about
evolution when he introduced the notion
of agape as an operative
principle.
Oh, next time I go to the zoo, I'll say HI to some
of your relatives that didn't evolve Mr. Catholic Christian believing in «An evolving creation»; where the
principles of biological and social
evolution are indeed part
of the design
of an intelligent creator who is NOT all powerful and not «NICE» in the Human context, but «benevolent» at a cosmic scale.
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.
*** Having said this, I am a catholic christian and I believe in «An evolving creation»; where the
principles of biological and social
evolution are indeed part
of the design
of an intelligent creator who is NOT all powerful and not «NICE» in the Human context, but «benevolent» at a cosmic scale.The few parts
of the Bible and other holy books that are actually accurate, are more metaphorical to me than literal.
Having said this, I am a catholic christian and I believe in «An evolving creation»; where the
principles of biological and social
evolution are indeed part
of the design
of an intelligent creator who is NOT all powerful and not «NICE» in the Human context, but «benevolent» at a cosmic scale.
Even less to be expected is a retrospective revision
of the exegetical
principles for the interpretation
of Genesis that have been worked out in the course
of the last century and which in the end have led to theological toleration
of the theory
of evolution.
The exegetical
principles referred to, do in fact represent a real progress, and this forbids any retrospective revision even
of the position at present reached in the question
of evolution.