Sentences with phrase «times about evolution»

A while back Cardinal Schonborn's op - ed in The New York Times about evolution and design caused that newspaper's editors to raise the spectre of past debates between science and religion (7/7/05, p. A27 and 7/9/07, p. A1).

TheCapitalist As I stated a few pages back, creationists lie all the time about evolution, and I don't think they could have been so thorough with their misrepresentation of evolution unless they had the correct understanding of the theory from which to work with.

There is an interesting article in the New York Times about evolutions role in finding a partner.

Not exact matches

The genius of first - time screenwriter Liz Hannah's script is that she makes the story about Graham's evolution as much as it is about the Pentagon Papers.

Those moments often occur around the time that online shopping reaches about 20 percent of total national retail spending in a category, the research firm L2 has concluded after studying the evolution of e-commerce.

Evolution says NOTHING about the origin of life, simply how it has changed over time.

Evolution makes predictions about what we would expect to see in the fossil record, comparative anatomy, genetic sequences, geographical distribution of species, etc., and these predictions have been verified many times over.

Interestingly, the Times story does not mention the North American Man - Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), an organization that has the merit of being utterly straightforward on a subject about which the Times, at least at this point in its political evolution, feels compelled to be somewhat coy.

God controls all of life and all of evolution, he isn't worried about time as he is eternal and time isn't an issuefor him.

If you want to get a sneak peek at what the Christian community will be talking about in 5 - 10 years, just spend some time on a Christian college campus.From evolution to religious pluralism to homosexuality, the issues that play out on the national scene often begin in classrooms, late - night dorm room discussions, and chapel services.

Old debates about evolution often turned on the question of whether a million monkeys could accidentally type Hamlet in a given amount of time.

Evolution is a bankrupt theory whose time is just about up.

Part of that evolution is an increase in the average height of humans since this time period, by about 8 to 10 inches.

The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say About Human Origins by Peter Enns — This book came along and just the right time for me.

At the time, the majority of the science faculty espoused young earth creationism, so I learned about evolution in the context of Christian apologetics courses, with the presupposition that evolution was incompatible with the Christian faith.

The programs taught me about (1) admitting I was beat, (2) coming to believe in something greater than myself (eventually a higher power)(many evolutions and concepts of HP, all of these at one time or another: nature, the 12 steps, creator, Love, spiritual principles)(Step 3) applying my low self worth and gigantic Ego to these spiritual principles (4) write down my liabilities and assets (5) share them with another and my higher power (6 & 7) ask for the liabilites to be removed and be patient with the process (8) Make a list of all that were harmed by me (9) make amends to such folks except whn to do so would injure them or myself (10) take a daily inventory of my day, checking for snafus, mean temperment, arrogance etc (11) meditation and prayer to communicate to my higher power and quiet reflection to listen for the Truth (12) after having a spiritual awakening as a result of working these steps, help others if they wish for help because now I am in the position to assist.

Now think about going back in time 5 thousand years and explaining 21st century evolution theories.

It seems that a whole lot of people, both Christians and non-Christians, are under the impression that you can't be a Christian and vote for a Democrat, you can't be a Christian and believe in evolution, you can't be a Christian and be gay, you can't be a Christian and have questions about the Bible, you can't be a Christian and be tolerant of other religions, you can't be a Christian and be a feminist, you can't be a Christian and drink or smoke, you can't be a Christian and read The New York Times, you can't be a Christian and support gay rights, you can't be a Christian and get depressed, you can't be a Christian and doubt.

It is interesting to me to think about evolution, where things change over long periods of time and where there may only be theories about the catalysts, in contrast to those that we have put on the fast - track ourselves, such as those you have exemplified.

And let's remember that evolution, while it's a theory, is a theory about the beginning and the transformation of life based on things we have observed, namely that cells change and mutate and that those mutations can produce cells that are unique and new, and that it would follow that it's possible for molecules to form into single - celled organisms which mutate and combine into multi-cellular organisms which mutate, adapt, and grow over time into new forms of life.

According to Tickle, we are living through one of those pivotal times right now as changes related to biology (evolution), physics, psychology, higher criticism, and the Information Age raise serious questions about the Bible, religious pluralism, authority, and faith.

That said, I've still got a lot to learn about evolution, and I've honestly never been that good at science, so it's going to take some time.

The post that follows, originally published May 29, 2013, is about the evolution of their relationship over time.

So, if there's evolution, it's about the evolution of your own family over time

We've talked several times in these pages about Facebook's continuing evolution into a pay - to - play medium for brands, nonprofits and other Page owners, and the trend seems clear.

Podcast host Steve Mirsky talks with human evolution expert Kate Wong about the small group of humans who survived tough times beginning about 195,000 years ago and gave rise to all of us, a story told in the cover article of the August issue of Scientific American, our 165th anniversary edition.

«It's all about the time scale over which evolution occurs in relation to the timing of the changes now occurring in the environment, because there are likely to be mismatches,» he said.

Many people — obviously we're living in a time where evolution is under fire and a lot of people, even people who accept evolution, don't necessarily see why it's so important that it's studied, but when you are talking about...

Researchers suddenly had many more options at their disposal, according to physicist Douglas Stanford of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. «You can analyze things about a black hole you couldn't any other way, like the time evolution of the system,» he says.

Their work has helped address hypotheses about Neandertal evolution, specifically the accretion model hypothesis, which suggests that Neandertals evolved their defining features at different times, not in a single linear sweep.

Biological invasions pose major threats to biodiversity, but little is known about how evolution might alter their impacts over time.

The discovery in Argentina is the first time a dromaeosaur — the group that includes raptors — has been identified in South America, and its presence there could change what we know about the evolution of flight.

Neuroscientists have long wondered why the brain has a region exclusively dedicated to reading — a skill that is unique to humans and only developed about 5,400 years ago, which is not enough time for evolution to have reshaped the brain for that specific task.

While the new discovery confirms scientists» ideas about the evolution of disease, the worrying implication is that the same process could cause other virulent strains of cholera to emerge at any time.

Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on August 24 think they know why that call feature has arisen multiple times over the course of evolution: it improves the ability of listeners to detect call components that provide important identifying information about a caller.

Theories of stellar evolution predict that stars weighing less than about 25 times the mass of the sun end up as neutron stars, while heftier stars are destined to become black holes.

For the first time, the genomes of the giraffe and its closest living relative, the reclusive okapi of the African rainforest, have been sequenced — revealing the first clues about the genetic changes that led to the evolution of the giraffe's exceptionally long neck and its record - holding ranking as the world's tallest land species.

The stars may be passing through a stage of stellar evolution that lasts no more than a few tens of thousands of years, the scientists say — a phase between red giants (about 30 or 40 times the size of our sun) and blue subdwarfs (stars about one - fifth the size of our sun but seven times hotter and 70 times brighter).

Scally's group comes up with a date of about 6 million years ago, adjusting what would have been a more recent estimate by assuming that the mutation rate slowed over time in ape evolution.

With the honeyguides» help, the Hadza found hives about 58 % of the time, more than twice as often as when foraging alone, researchers report in a paper in press at Evolution and Human Behavior.

The researchers, led by Penn State political scientist Eric Plutzer, questioned nearly 1,000 teachers about their personal beliefs and the amount of class time they devoted to evolution and creationism.

On evolutionary time scales, we know far less about the effects of extinction of rare species, but we do know that evolution can amplify the effect of a species over time through its interactions on survival of other species.

«During the evolution of a star about to go supernova, the outer part of the star expands out to about 100 times the radius of the sun, and the inner part that's going to make the pulsar shrinks to less than 1,000 miles across,» Phinney says.

At the time, little was known about human evolution, and Boule's findings made headlines worldwide.

«Collecting real - time data for material microstructural evolution during radiation exposure: Researchers have improved a versatile spectroscopy method to enable continuous monitoring of the properties of materials exposed to radiation — which could provide real - time information about a material's microstructural evolution.»

The finding supports one of Charles Darwin's notions about evolution: If an organ isn't crucial, variations in its structure or performance aren't lost over time, keeping the potpourri in the population.

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, who began to be interested in the role of cooperation in evolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals anevolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals anEvolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals and plants.

The account of the players and theories in the field of human evolution does highlight how much of the debate involves mere name games, with lumpers and splitters arguing ad nauseam about the same few specimens widely scattered through space and time.

A best - seller by former New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade about recent human evolution and its potential effects on human cultures has drawn critical reviews since its spring publication.

The girl's lineage had less time to accumulate mutations, and the «missing evolution» suggests she died about 80,000 years ago, although the date is tentative, says co-author David Reich, a population geneticist at Harvard University.