Evolutionary Actuality

Evolutionary Actuality

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  • Author: Reuben B. Collins,II
  • Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
  • ISBN: 1479774278
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 342

Evolutionary Actuality is a theory based on the concept of change and its inevitability. Change is a progressive organic force that influences the progressive development of our human existence. This original work also proposes the creation an ideal governing model which is described as being the Equity Based Society. The Equity Based Society is an embodiment of the Evolutionary Actuality concept. The book also explores a phenomenon that is referred to as Disjunctive Diversionary Interest. Its impact has the effect of making our society or any society for that matter less democratic. The book makes the case for the Equity Based Society through the usage of statistical analysis and theory.


Emergent Evolution

Emergent Evolution

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  • Author: David Blitz
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9401580421
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 242

Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace in this work: firstly, that evolution is a universal process of change, one which is productive of qualitative novelties; secondly, that qualitative novelty is the emergence in a system of a property not possessed by any of its parts; and thirdly, that reality can be analyzed into levels, each consisting of systems characterized by significant emergent properties. In part one I consider the background to emergence in the 19th century discussion of the philosophy of evolution among its leading exponents in England - Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, T. H. Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, and G. J. Romanes. Unlike the scientific aspect of the debate which aimed to determine the factors and causal mechanism of biological evolution, this aspect of the debate centered on more general problems which form what I call the "philosophical framework for evolutionary theory." This considers the status of continuity and discontinuity in evolution, the role of qualitative and quantitative factors in change, the relation between the organic and the inorganic, the relation between the natural and the supernatural, the mind-body problem, and the scope of evolution, including its extension to ethics and morals.


God, Evolution & Science

God, Evolution & Science

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  • Author: William Stolzman
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1725257874
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 396

God, Evolution & Science: How Our World Evolved from God presents a new approach for linking God, energy, and our material world in an evolutionary way. Energy is conservative, and it exists in two forms: potential and kinetic. Scientists have well established that our physical world began as a singular, kinetic “Big Bang.” Consequently, before that event, there had to exist a singular, potential, energetic reality, which I name the “Almighty.” This potential reality is forward-leaning and thus has the unidirectional dimension of time, which must also be quantized. Since energy is oriented toward establishing systems, the Almighty must also have a systemic aspect. The author establishes that evolution is not only biological but logical. He shows how from the Almighty logically evolved a quantized, bidirectional, four-dimensional field. By progressively breaking the symmetries of this field, he is able to show how the four forces of physics logically evolved. He subsequently shows how our world as we observe it today logically evolved from the Almighty. Whether this Almighty is impersonal or personal is discussed at length. Finally, the author also shows that beyond the entropic decay of our world, our physical world will end a “Big Collapse.” Nonetheless, because energy is conservative and eternal, the author shows how there remains the logistical possibility of a transcendentally evolved afterlife in the Almighty.


Making Sense of Evolution

Making Sense of Evolution

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  • Author: Massimo Pigliucci
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 0226668355
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 310

Making Sense of Evolution explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories—selection, adaptation, and species—that are complex and open to multiple possible interpretations, many of which are incompatible with one another and with other accepted practices in the discipline. Particular experimental methods, for example, may demand one understanding of “selection,” while the application of the same concept to another area of evolutionary biology could necessitate a very different definition. Spotlighting these conceptual difficulties and presenting alternate theoretical interpretations that alleviate this incompatibility, Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan intertwine scientific and philosophical analysis to produce a coherent picture of evolutionary biology. Innovative and controversial, Making Sense of Evolution encourages further development of the Modern Synthesis and outlines what might be necessary for the continued refinement of this evolving field.


Personal Reality, Volume 1

Personal Reality, Volume 1

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  • Author: Daniel Paksi
  • Publisher: James Clarke & Company
  • ISBN: 0227907175
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

Western civilization was built on the concept of God. Today modern science, based on the critical method and so-called objective facts, denies even the existence of our soul. There is only matter: atoms, molecules, and DNA sequences. There is no freedom; there are no well-grounded beliefs. The decline of Western civilization is not the simple consequence of decadence, hedonism, and malevolence. Modern critical science has liberated us from the old dogmas but failed to establish our freedoms, values, and beliefs. However, human knowledge is not objective but personal. We are the children of evolution. Everybody sees the world from his own personal point of view anchored into his/her body. We use our billions-of-years-old evolutionary skills and thousands-of-years-old cultural heritage to recognize and acknowledge the personal facts of our reality, freedom, and most important natural beliefs: respect and speak the truth. In reality, even science itself is based on our personal knowledge. Only our false conceptual dichotomies paralyze our thinking. God or matter? There is a third choice: the emergence of life and human persons. This is the only way to defend our freedoms and the Christian moral dynamism of free Western societies.


Figments of Reality

Figments of Reality

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  • Author: Ian Stewart
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521663830
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 348

Popular science tour de force from bestselling authors, on evolution of intelligence, culture and mind.


Bees as Superorganisms

Bees as Superorganisms

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  • Author: Robin Moritz
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 3642846661
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 409

The honeybee (Apis melli/era L. ) is one of the better studied organisms on this planet. There are plenty of books on the biology of the honeybee for all, the scientist, the beekeeper, and the layman. In view of this flood of publications one is tempted to ask: why does it require another one? The answer is simple: a new one is not required and we do not intend to present a new book on "the honeybee". This would really just add some more inches to the already overloaded bookshelf without sub stantial new information. Instead, we intend to present a book on the honeybee colony. This of course immediately releases the next question: so what is the difference? Although the difference may look insignificant at first glance, we try to guide the reader with a fundamentally different approach through the biology of honeybees and eusocial insect societies in general. The biology of individual colony members is only addressed when it is necessary to explain colonial mechanisms, and the colony as a whole, as a biological unit, which is the main focus of this treatise. Both of us felt that all current textbooks on bee biology put too much emphasis on the individual worker, queen or drone in the colony. Often it is com pletely neglected that the colony is a very significant (if not the most significant) biological structure in bee biology.


Productive Evolution

Productive Evolution

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  • Author: Nicholas Rescher
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 3110320142
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 127

A doctrine of intelligent design through evolution is not going to find many friends. It is destined to encounter opposition on all sides. Among scientists the backlog of evolution will have little patience for intelligent design. Among religiousists, many who form intelligent design have their doubts about evolution. In the general public’s mind there is a diametrical opposition between evolution and intelligent design: one excludes the other. This book will argue that this view of the matter is not correct, and that in actuality one can regard evolution itself as a pathway to intelligent design. We would do well to go beyond The Origin of Species and—taking as our guide such works as W. Wentworth Thomson’s On Growth and Form acknowledging that evolutionary adaptation can result in solutions of a sort that intelligence could readily ratify. Accordingly, what the present book seeks is a naturalization of Intelligent Design that sees such design as itself the result of natural and evolutionary processes.


Mapping Reality

Mapping Reality

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  • Author: Jane Azevedo
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • ISBN: 9780791432075
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 344

Using the insights of evolutionary epistemology, the author develops a new naturalist realist methodology of science, and applies it to the conceptual, practical, and ethical problems of the social sciences.


Evolution and the Nature of Reality

Evolution and the Nature of Reality

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  • Author: Douglas H. Shennan
  • Publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub
  • ISBN: 1553952332
  • Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 144

Shows how the conventional idea of absolute truth is false. Our concept of truth depends on the experience of our ancestors and on the evolution of their sense organs