Where do
you think human evolution will go from here?
Larry Young, a professor of psychiatry at Emory University who studies the neurological basis of complex social behaviors,
thinks human evolution has harnessed an ancient neural circuit that originally evolved to strengthen the mother - infant bond during breastfeeding, and now uses this brain circuitry to strengthen the bond between couples as well.
Not exact matches
It's just one of dozens of quirks of the
human psyche, implanted through
evolution, that make us favor safe
thinking.
When I ask them, «How many of you
think something in addition to
evolution accounts for
humans being on earth as we now exist?»
The
evolution of
human's ability for abstract
thought... not it's your turn.
A modern banana, an ant, a bumble bee, a monkey (the ones you
think we came from), and the
human brain (among a million other things created) disprove the theory of
evolution in just one sentence worth of their description.
its time for a new
evolution in
human thought, one that favors truth over all otheir things.
Let me help Nathan out a bit... Christ, if you are a medical student as still
think that the theory of
evolution claims that the
human body happened «randomly,» please leave school now and do not endanger people's lives.
In his typical humanistic, ethicomystical way of
thinking, he points to a belief in the «
evolution of
human spirituality» where «the higher this development in the individual is, the greater his awareness» of God» (Dr. Schweitzer of Lambarene, by Norman Cousins [Harper & Brothers, 1960], pp. 190 - 191).
This point of view fully respects the progressive experimental concentration of
human thought in a more and more lively awareness of its unifying role; but in place of the undefined point of convergence required as term for this
evolution it is the clearly defined personal reality of the incarnate Word that is made manifest to us and established for us as our objective, that Word «in whom all things subsist.»
What ultimately turned the tide in a direction which could accommodate theological
thinking to the evolutionary view was a resurgence of personal idealism which purported to see the entire process of
evolution, animal as well as
human, in the context of a cosmic drama presupposing a Creator God.
Convinced that «God wants us to
think», Christian philosopher Calum Miller has written extensively and given presentations on numerous topics including
human rights,
evolution and the resurrection.
Along with biblical ways of
thinking it affirms a special significance of humankind within the context of creation, recognizing, as Conrad Bonifazi puts it in the context of explicating Teilhard de Chardin, that «in
human beings
evolution has revealed its profoundest energy and significance» (TNE 311).
Finally, when it comes to the
evolution of
human, I
think that Mark Twain had it right when he said that apes are descended from man.
Yes - the
evolution of
humans may have some missing pieces but to
think it's not real is ridiculous.
If you
think it is amazing that
evolution brought you such things as
humans, just
think of all the other lifeforms, many that are much more advanced than
humans, that no doubt inhabit this vast universe.
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.
Personally I
think «atheism» is the next step in
human evolution.
Without the process of biological
evolution, which produced the
human brain, there would be no sanctified souls; and similarly, without the
evolution of collective
thought, through which alone the plenitude of
human consciousness can be attained on earth, how can there be a consummated Christ?
the most convincing evidence of God of panthrotheism is the scientific proof of the Big bang, becasue after billions of years of
evolution when we
humans developed cosnsciousness we began to
think of Him, God is the source of everything and all religions.
Only in that way can it be made clear how being manifests itself in the
evolution of
human thought.
If one follows Whitehead in extrapolating from
human experience, one can find in this interpretation of the divine priority a doctrine of creation that is compatible with biological
evolution: in the concept of God supplying a «lure» to
evolution, «process»
thinking approximates to that of Teilhard de Chardin.
In the disturbing investigations and speculations of Julian Jaynes, language preceded self - conscious
thought in
human evolution.
There is no danger, therefore, that
evolution if it is understood in a truly metaphysical and theologically correct way, will teach us to
think less of the first
human being than was
thought in earlier ages.
According to
evolution things are made by themselves things just happen by chance to say that
evolution knew than
humans would need to eat to survive suggests that something would have to know this are they considering
evolution is a
thinking force that knows what a creature needs to do to adapt ti certain things or that
evolution knew that spiders needed to make webs to catch flies?
The moment within the progress of the
evolution of the
human body that this happens would indeed, we
think, be related to brain size.
You
think that
human beings are merely the products of blind, uncaring,
evolution but when it comes to
human reason (a product of the same process) we can believe in it without question!
But it is here, in my view, that the importance becomes manifest of an intuitive notion which, timidly evolved less than fifty years ago by a small group of
human minds, is now beginning to pervade twentieth century
thought as rapidly as did the idea of
evolution in the nineteenth century.
... Rather, God is that - without - which - there - would - be-no-
evolution-at-all; God is the atemporal undergirder and sustainer of the whole process of apparent contingency or «randomness,»... «We can apply this same model to the problem of divine providence and
human cultural
evolution,... we can
think not deistically but trinitarianly and incarnationally of God.
We are the latest dominant emergent in the earth's
evolution, and so all that we
humans do and
think and say is relevant for our understanding of the cosmos out of which we evolved.
Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific
thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of
evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life,
evolution and
human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.
The
evolution I love the most is the
evolution of
human thought to better understand these things that have been provided to us, so we can live better lives... and all true believers feel the same, though they are often limited by their own experiences in various ways — culture, education, social groups, life experiences.
Scientific, philosophical, and religious
thoughts, are all flawed with our limited
human perceptions based on our own
human experiences and the
evolution of those
thoughts over time.
I should, however, also remark that the more subtle developments of Whitehead's
thought seem to have been the inspiration for one of the most thorough and impressive discussions of the
evolution of
human mentality and language in its relation to cognate activities in earlier evolutionary forms, namely Suzanne Langer's impressive work, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised
human mentality and language in its relation to cognate activities in earlier evolutionary forms, namely Suzanne Langer's impressive work, Mind: An Essay on
Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised
Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised soon.
Please explain to me what the missing link is and where you
think the gap is in biology's current model of
human evolution is.
According to Giberson and Stephens, you might be an anti-intellectual fundamentalist if you are an evangelical who: dismisses
evolution as «an unproven theory»; deny that «climate change is real and caused by
humans»;
think that «the founders were evangelicals who intended America to be a Christian nation»; defend spanking children; believe in traditional roles for the sexes;
think that reparative therapy can «cure» homosexuality; and / or oppose gay marriage.
But I
think it's important to pass along the rational view and what it's based on... exactly because I believe striving for more rational
thought is a requirement for the (societal, non-genetic)
evolution and progress of the
human race.
I
think this is unwise, personally, because the role of fermentable fibers, including RS, in the
evolution of the
human gut biome / immune system has been monumental and frankly irreplaceable.
It reminds me of another odd phrase taught to me by a friend of mine who went camping with a group of very religious friends... Sitting around the campfire one night, someone actually said «It's so ridiculous how people
think they can prove
evolution with
human science ``.
I
think I had in mind the whole
evolution of the
human race, before we were officially Homo sapiens.
I
think so much of it is the way
evolution or God has created us to be as male and female and to further the existence of the
human race.
Monash University - led research has shown that the
evolution of
human teeth is much simpler than previously
thought, and that we can predict the sizes of teeth missing from
human fossils and those of our extinct close relatives (hominins).
«Our new study shows that the pattern is a lot simpler than we first
thought —
human evolution was much more limited,» Dr Evans said.
Some researchers
think stone tools can answer the big questions in
human evolution: How do we differ from other primates and when did our unique
human traits emerge?
The FOXP2 gene is
thought to have played a role in the
evolution of the
human brain and the development of language.
Palaeoanthropologists often use chimps as «proxies» for our common ancestor, so Ardi's debut may mean that much of what we
think we know about
human evolution will have to be rethought.
So while I
think the paradigm has been an extremely positive development on the whole, it has tended to prematurely narrow the kinds of hypotheses that are considered about
human evolution.
«Our data show this process was ongoing two and a half million years ago, which allows us to consider a very drawn - out and gradual
evolution of the modern
human capacity for language and suggests simple «proto - languages» might be older than we previously
thought,» Morgan added.
«I don't
think we're at the stage of
human evolution where we should give up on going out there,» Lou Friedman says.
«
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.»