ellauri082.html on line 505: Evolution is a slight problem I must own, it looks as if it was a continuous process of rearranging atoms, unless we urge that with the dawn of consciousness an entirely new nature seems to slip in, something whereof the potency was not given in the mere outward atoms of the original chaos. (I know it sounds both silly and pretentious, but what else can I say. I must save the appearances of the good book, or else I am soon out of my cozy Harvard chair.)
ellauri082.html on line 732: Institution: Hartpury College. Carrie Haslam: no affiliation whatsoever. EHBEA is European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association. Note: Tatu Vanhanen´s IQ datasets are no longer considered reliable.
ellauri089.html on line 463: § 29. But a systematised appeal to Nature is now most prevalent in connection with the term "Evolution". An examination of Mr Herbert Spencer's Ethics will illustrate which are commonly associated with the latter term. …
ellauri089.html on line 465: § 30. Darwin's scientific theory of "natural selection," which has mainly caused the modern vogue of the term "Evolution," must be carefully distinguished from certain ideas which are commonly associated with the latter term. …
ellauri089.html on line 467: § 31. Mr Spencer's connection of Evolution with Ethics seems to shew the influence of the naturalistic fallacy; …
ellauri089.html on line 473: § 34. Three possible views as to the relation of Evolution to Ethics are distinguished from the naturalistic view to which it is proposed to confine the name "Evolutionistic Ethics". On any of these three views the relation would be unimportant, and the "Evolutionistic" view, which makes it important, involves a double fallacy. …
ellauri111.html on line 707: One more thing--be ware of "new age" teaching--you are not God, you are not divine, and God is not in everybody--all that pantheism (everything is God) and panentheism (God is in everything) is new age teaching which is actually old age because the devil told Eve in the garden, "Ye shall be as gods" (see Genesis chapter 3). The devil is a spirit--he is not dead and he has been telling that same lie ever since then. There is a lot more to this situation, but just get saved and obedient and live reconciled to God. Do not put your trust in science, etc. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth--there is no evolution. Evolution is a big fat lie and a hoax to get people to disbelieve the word of God. Science...many, many lies are told by people in white labcoats. Believe and obey God's word and you will be safe and whole and of an understanding mind and not of a reprobate mind.
ellauri131.html on line 742: Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne issued a similar takedown, by simply highlighting some of Chopra's more outlandish claims, including his idea that the moon only exists because of human consciousness, the suggestion that mass prayer or meditation has the ability to "simmer down the turbulence in nature," as well as the nonsensical statement "Consciousness is the driver of evolution. Every time I eat your pussy or you suck my banana it transforms into a human." Coyne labels Chopra's ideas as "pseudoscience, pure and simple," and accuses him of "pushing a noxious brew of quantum physics, evolutionary biology, and "universal consciousness.'" Ouch.
ellauri162.html on line 817: The concept of a highly conserved ontogeny dates back to 1828 and the work by Karl von Baer. Baer´s work was cited by Charles Darwin and used in support of his Theory of Evolution. The concept was made famous though by Ernst Haeckel in 1874 with the publication of his drawings of the conserved stage. Haeckel was mainly pushing the concept of recapitulation in which he hypothesized that ontological development repeated the evolutionary steps of the organism. Recapitulation has since been discredited and is not accepted by any modern biologist. Haeckel has been accused of falsifying his embryonic drawings, most notably by Jonathan Wells in his book Icons of Evolution. Some biology text books used Haeckel´s drawings for many years after it was known they were faked. However, most modern biology textbooks only use them now for historical reference and actual photos of embryos are used to discuss the pharyngula stage.
ellauri162.html on line 829: Scienceblogs appears to have a problem keeping and attracting talented writers. According to PZ Myers, Scienceblogs has "been facing a steady erosion of talent". In 2010, the Christian apologetic website True Free Thinker wrote a quite pointed and accurate criticism of PZ Myers Pharyngula blog indicating that PZ Myers' blog posts often lack substance. Pharyngula is widely acclaimed in the liberal media due to its embrace of evolutionary pseudoscience which liberals irrationally embrace (see: Evolution, Liberalism, Atheism, and Irrationality). Myers' blog is also listed by the science journal Nature, which also embraces evolutionary pseudoscience, as the best blog by a scientist. Pharyngula is known for its sarcastic and often specious criticism of creation science and intelligent design theory, as well as regular postings of photos of cephalopods (often with vulgarly sexual connotations both subtle and blatant). As Singer said, sexual organs are the best indicators of the soul.
ellauri373.html on line 516: nimellä "ahadhamizmi". Alakazam. Alakazam was the only Pokémon whose base stat total does not increase by exactly 100 points upon Mega Evolution, gaining instead only 90.
ellauri375.html on line 567: Enhancement and Evolution: They believe in the continuous improvement and evolution of humanity, using technological advancements to enhance human abilities and overcome biological limitations.
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ellauri402.html on line 196: Moina, tuolloin nimeltään Mina tai Minna, syntyi Genevessä Sveitsissä vaikutusvaltaiseen puolalais-juutalaiseen perheeseen isän puolelta ja englantilaisesta ja irlantilaisesta äidin puolelta. Hän muutti Pariisiin, kun hän oli kaksivuotias. Hänen isänsä Michel Bergson saavutti musiikillista menestystä säveltäessään oopperoita Louisa de Montfort ja Salvator Rosa. Hän oli kotoisin Varsovasta ja kuului vaikutusvaltaiseen Bereksohn-perheeseen. Moina Mathersin isoisä Jacob Levison (s. n. 1799) oli kirurgi ja hammaslääkäri. Hänen isoäitinsä oli Katherine Levison, syntynyt Lontoossa v. 1800. Hänen äitinsä täti oli Minna Preuss, syntynyt Hullissa, Yorkshiressa, vuonna 1835, ja hänen äitinsä Kate, os Levison, syntyi myös Yorkshiressa. Hänen vanhin veljensä, myöhemmin Nobel-palkinnon voittaja Henri Bergson, 1859–1941, liittyi College of Francen tiedekuntaan ja tunnetaan parhaiten filosofisen teoksen Creative Evolution kirjoittajasta. Hän oli myös British Society for Psychical Researchin puheenjohtaja.
xxx/ellauri126.html on line 311: The ideas Chopra promotes have regularly been criticized by medical and scientific professionals as pseudoscience. The criticism has been described as ranging "from the dismissive to...damning". Philosopher Robert Carroll writes that Chopra, to justify his teachings, attempts to integrate Ayurveda with quantum mechanics. Chopra says that what he calls "quantum healing" cures any manner of ailments, including cancer, through effects that he claims are literally based on the same principles as quantum mechanics. This has led physicists to object to his use of the term "quantum" in reference to medical conditions and the human body. Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has said that Chopra uses "quantum jargon as plausible-sounding hocus pocus". Chopra's treatments generally elicit nothing but a placebo response and have drawn criticism that the unwarranted claims made for them may raise "false hope" and lure sick people away from legitimate medical treatments.
xxx/ellauri130.html on line 587: But recently that position has shifted a little. Last year he published A Comedian’s Prayer Book, which features him talking to the supreme being in his typically down-to-earth way (“I always liked thinking Jesus' knob hung out from women's clothes with sinners. It made me feel potentially understood”). “One of the things religion has suffered from is being spoken of in grave terms constantly. I seriously think it is a joke." Another boring thing about Skinner: he’s been a teetotaller since he reached his 60s. He got a kid at 55, who must now be, wait, 35? No, Buzz is just 10. I have only recently realized I'm not the main character here, but just an extra in a bigger scene. “Hitting kids … that’s another of those things that have stopped,” Evolution is what Skinner is all about – animals can change and they can grow, it just takes millions of years. When he made his jokes about racism and homophobia, he says, there was a slight backlash from the left. They hadn't stopped hitting lads, the sods. Frank Skinner’s 30 Years of Dirt is at the Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh, from 4 to 28 August. For more information and tickets go to frankskinnerlive.com.
xxx/ellauri170.html on line 727: Evolution Confirms Our Favorite Pastime . . . I ran across an article last night whose title made me laugh: Early Humans Climbed Trees: ‘Selam’ Fossil Settles Longstanding Australopithecus Debate. Uhhhh, 21st Century humans also climb trees. I don’t need some scientists to tell me that climbing trees have been a long-standing human pastime.
xxx/ellauri170.html on line 731: Perhaps we do not give these scientists enough credit for the faith they possess. Yes, to believe in this type of human evolution takes a whole lot of faith. Sadly, their faith is placed in the wrong location and in an untrue process. If only they were able to place that faith in the real designer behind the design. I believe it is imperative we educate ourselves and teach this generation as Paul warned Timothy to “keep that which is committed to your trust, avoiding oppositions of science falsely so called” (1 Timothy 6:20). So I'm simplifying the quote, but I don't care. Evolution is not science. It is a theory: “a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation” (dictionary.com).
xxx/ellauri170.html on line 759: For further study, visit http://www.doinggood.org, and find some great resources, including Creation versus Evolution: Scientific and Religious Considerations (book by Dr. Arlo Moehlenpah ;)
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 145: I learned that making power from the Sun is not easy. I began to see how nature beat this problem. Collecting sunlight is key to the survival of a tree. Leaves are the solar panels of trees, collecting sunlight for photosynthesis. Collecting the most sunlight is the difference between life and death. Trees in a forest are competing with other trees and plants for sunlight, and even each branch and leaf on a tree are competing with each other for sunlight. Evolution chose the Fibonacci pattern to help trees track the Sun moving in the sky and to collect the most sunlight even in the thickest forest.
xxx/ellauri239.html on line 84: Toisaalta dao sisältää tietynlaisen dualismin. Hurraa! huutaa Vaakku ja takoo selkään Cartesiusta Bergsonia ja denimhousuista Jamesin Billiä. Vaihtoehdothan tässä ovat monismi, dualismi, kolmiyhteisyys, pluralismi ja sexiturismi. Esimerkkinä taolaisesta dualismista käytetään savesta valmistettua kuppia: ”Astia muovataan savesta, mutta tyhjä tila tekee astian hyödylliseksi. Ovet ja ikkunat veistetään huonetta tehdessä, mutta tyhjästä tilasta johtuu huoneen hyödyllisyys. Sen vuoksi käyttämällä sitä, mikä on, hyödytään siitä, mitä ei ole.” Eli siis mitä? Tyhjästä on kuin onkin hyvä nyhjästä! Täysi kuppi ja tyhjä pää, tyhjä kuppi ja täysi pää, kylä lähtee niillä tää! hihkuvat kiinalaiset runoilijajuopot. Äläs läiski tiuskaisee Bergson. Notably, I contend that in my third book, Creative Evolution, I overcome both dualism and monism by removing their contradiction through a durational or slanted approach to Being.
xxx/ellauri298.html on line 606: Hänet tunnetaan myös yhteistyöstään Ken Wilberin kanssa. Hän on The Society for Consciousness Studies -järjestön perustaja, akateeminen neuvonantaja ja emerituspresidentti, [viittaus tarvitaan] The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Researchin perustaja ja Budapestin satajäsenisen Clubin jäsen. Hän on Consciousness: Ideas and Research for the Twenty First Century -julkaisun vanhempi toimittaja, Journal of Conscious Evolutionin apulaistoimittaja, Dynamical Psychologyn apulaistoimittaja.
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