Author: Chris Nitardy
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1622305574
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Warning: This Book May Bolster Your Faith! Are you really the descendant of chimpanzees? The latest scientific evidence says "No Way!" From microbiology to cosmology, science is continually unlocking mysteries that reveal an incredibly complex universe, one that screams Intelligent Design. The Stumbling Blocks of Evolution unapologetically highlights many scientific facts that absolutely crush the theory of evolution. In fact, many of the very building blocks of evolution (i.e. fossil record, mutations, etc.) are now widely recognized as unavoidable stumbling blocks. Modern science is pointing in a new direction and it has Darwin's faithful followers all tripped-up. The Bible states in Hosea 4:6, My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Regrettably, evolutionary propaganda has caused an onslaught of young believers to reject their faith in God. This book provides valuable information that will act as armor against Darwin's poisonous seeds of doubt. The Stumbling Blocks of Evolution was written by a layman who, like so many others, was grappling with his own understanding of origins. If you're looking for a book that will galvanize your faith and make the Bible come alive then you have come to the right place. This book addresses some of the most commonly asked questions regarding evolution, creation and the Bible. Chris Nitardy is just a regular family guy who became interested in knowing the truth about evolution and creation. This new curiosity kicked off an investigation that forever changed his view of religion, faith and life. In short, God became real.
Stumbling Blocks of Evolution
Author: Chris Nitardy
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1622305574
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Warning: This Book May Bolster Your Faith! Are you really the descendant of chimpanzees? The latest scientific evidence says "No Way!" From microbiology to cosmology, science is continually unlocking mysteries that reveal an incredibly complex universe, one that screams Intelligent Design. The Stumbling Blocks of Evolution unapologetically highlights many scientific facts that absolutely crush the theory of evolution. In fact, many of the very building blocks of evolution (i.e. fossil record, mutations, etc.) are now widely recognized as unavoidable stumbling blocks. Modern science is pointing in a new direction and it has Darwin's faithful followers all tripped-up. The Bible states in Hosea 4:6, My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Regrettably, evolutionary propaganda has caused an onslaught of young believers to reject their faith in God. This book provides valuable information that will act as armor against Darwin's poisonous seeds of doubt. The Stumbling Blocks of Evolution was written by a layman who, like so many others, was grappling with his own understanding of origins. If you're looking for a book that will galvanize your faith and make the Bible come alive then you have come to the right place. This book addresses some of the most commonly asked questions regarding evolution, creation and the Bible. Chris Nitardy is just a regular family guy who became interested in knowing the truth about evolution and creation. This new curiosity kicked off an investigation that forever changed his view of religion, faith and life. In short, God became real.
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1622305574
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Warning: This Book May Bolster Your Faith! Are you really the descendant of chimpanzees? The latest scientific evidence says "No Way!" From microbiology to cosmology, science is continually unlocking mysteries that reveal an incredibly complex universe, one that screams Intelligent Design. The Stumbling Blocks of Evolution unapologetically highlights many scientific facts that absolutely crush the theory of evolution. In fact, many of the very building blocks of evolution (i.e. fossil record, mutations, etc.) are now widely recognized as unavoidable stumbling blocks. Modern science is pointing in a new direction and it has Darwin's faithful followers all tripped-up. The Bible states in Hosea 4:6, My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Regrettably, evolutionary propaganda has caused an onslaught of young believers to reject their faith in God. This book provides valuable information that will act as armor against Darwin's poisonous seeds of doubt. The Stumbling Blocks of Evolution was written by a layman who, like so many others, was grappling with his own understanding of origins. If you're looking for a book that will galvanize your faith and make the Bible come alive then you have come to the right place. This book addresses some of the most commonly asked questions regarding evolution, creation and the Bible. Chris Nitardy is just a regular family guy who became interested in knowing the truth about evolution and creation. This new curiosity kicked off an investigation that forever changed his view of religion, faith and life. In short, God became real.
Buying Time For Climate Action - Exploring Ways Around Stumbling Blocks
Author: Jan Wouter Vasbinder
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811249202
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The 2021 IPCC report made one thing crystal clear — global climate change is here to stay. Time is up. We need to act or climate change will lead to inconceivable suffering by billions of people. Buying Time for Climate Action is the combined narrative of world class experts, all committed to help humanity survive its largely self-induced destructive course. Changing that course requires urgent action. Determining which actions will lead to helpful change requires insights into the stumbling blocks that always emerge when actions aimed at change are planned, resulting in lost time. The experts who contributed to this volume, through their expertise, networks, wisdom and creativity, have largely concluded that the way to cope with the stumbling blocks is to avoid them by focusing on grassroots initiatives. Their narratives and discussions, presented in this book, highlight such thinking.The book is essential reading for anyone committed to help avoid an existential disaster for humanity, and ready to move plans into effective action.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811249202
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The 2021 IPCC report made one thing crystal clear — global climate change is here to stay. Time is up. We need to act or climate change will lead to inconceivable suffering by billions of people. Buying Time for Climate Action is the combined narrative of world class experts, all committed to help humanity survive its largely self-induced destructive course. Changing that course requires urgent action. Determining which actions will lead to helpful change requires insights into the stumbling blocks that always emerge when actions aimed at change are planned, resulting in lost time. The experts who contributed to this volume, through their expertise, networks, wisdom and creativity, have largely concluded that the way to cope with the stumbling blocks is to avoid them by focusing on grassroots initiatives. Their narratives and discussions, presented in this book, highlight such thinking.The book is essential reading for anyone committed to help avoid an existential disaster for humanity, and ready to move plans into effective action.
The Evolution of Economies
Author: Patrick Spread
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131730330X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
It is clear even to casual observation that economies evolve from year to year and over centuries. Yet mainstream economic theory assumes that economies always move towards equilibrium. One consequence of this is that mainstream theory is unable to deal with economic history. The Evolution of Economies provides a clear account of how economies evolve under a process of support-bargaining and money-bargaining. Both support-bargaining and money-bargaining are situation-related - people determine their interests and actions by reference to their present circumstances. This gives the bargaining system a natural evolutionary dynamic. Societies evolve from situation to situation. Historical change follows this evolutionary course. A central chapter of the book applies the new theory in a re-evaluation of the industrial revolution in Britain, showing how specialist money-bargaining agencies, in the form of companies, evolved profitable formats and displaced landowners as the leading sources of employment and economic necessities. Companies took advantage of the evolution of technology to establish effective formats. The book also seeks to establish how it came about that a ‘mainstream’ theory was developed that is so wildly at odds with the observable features of economic history and economic exchange. Theory-making is described as a process of ‘intellectual support-bargaining’ in which theory is shaped to the interests of its makers. The work of major classical and neoclassical economists is contested as incompatible with the idea of an evolving money-bargaining system. The book reviews attempts to derive an evolutionary economic theory from Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Neoclassical economic theory has had enormous influence on the governance of societies, principally through its theoretical endorsement of the benefits of ‘free markets’. An evolutionary account of economic processes should change the basis of debate. The theory presented here will be of interest immediately to all economists, whether evolutionary, heterodox or neoclassical. It will facilitate the work of economic historians, who complain that current theory gives no guidance for their historical investigations. Beyond the confines of professional theory-making, many will find it a revelatory response to questions that have hitherto gone unanswered.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131730330X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
It is clear even to casual observation that economies evolve from year to year and over centuries. Yet mainstream economic theory assumes that economies always move towards equilibrium. One consequence of this is that mainstream theory is unable to deal with economic history. The Evolution of Economies provides a clear account of how economies evolve under a process of support-bargaining and money-bargaining. Both support-bargaining and money-bargaining are situation-related - people determine their interests and actions by reference to their present circumstances. This gives the bargaining system a natural evolutionary dynamic. Societies evolve from situation to situation. Historical change follows this evolutionary course. A central chapter of the book applies the new theory in a re-evaluation of the industrial revolution in Britain, showing how specialist money-bargaining agencies, in the form of companies, evolved profitable formats and displaced landowners as the leading sources of employment and economic necessities. Companies took advantage of the evolution of technology to establish effective formats. The book also seeks to establish how it came about that a ‘mainstream’ theory was developed that is so wildly at odds with the observable features of economic history and economic exchange. Theory-making is described as a process of ‘intellectual support-bargaining’ in which theory is shaped to the interests of its makers. The work of major classical and neoclassical economists is contested as incompatible with the idea of an evolving money-bargaining system. The book reviews attempts to derive an evolutionary economic theory from Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Neoclassical economic theory has had enormous influence on the governance of societies, principally through its theoretical endorsement of the benefits of ‘free markets’. An evolutionary account of economic processes should change the basis of debate. The theory presented here will be of interest immediately to all economists, whether evolutionary, heterodox or neoclassical. It will facilitate the work of economic historians, who complain that current theory gives no guidance for their historical investigations. Beyond the confines of professional theory-making, many will find it a revelatory response to questions that have hitherto gone unanswered.
Creation vs. Evolution
Author: Frederick Guttmann
Publisher: Frederick Guttmann
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In the last two centuries, a powerful war has begun against all classes that call themselves theists. Clearly the Catholic occultism of 14 centuries left strong meya, especially in Europe. The Inquisition, that is, the persecutions, the murders, the arbitrariness, the robberies and the monopoly of Rome, arrived even at the dawn of the Second World War, but the worst damage caused by them was to make the world see in Catholicism the representative image of God, and as such, a great hatred was created for everything related to religion. We know that Catholicism was born in the year 325 AD in the days of Constantine, but the religious dictatorship was not born there, because 3 centuries later, another pioneer revived religious wars, putting them at the level of battle lines. Between Islam and Catholicism they led the free world to they detested God, because in them they saw a reflection of the God that the Bible spoke of. Although the true message of God was lost at the end of the first century at the time of its precursors, the Messianic Jews or Christian Jews - as they were called in Antioch - had perished.
Publisher: Frederick Guttmann
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In the last two centuries, a powerful war has begun against all classes that call themselves theists. Clearly the Catholic occultism of 14 centuries left strong meya, especially in Europe. The Inquisition, that is, the persecutions, the murders, the arbitrariness, the robberies and the monopoly of Rome, arrived even at the dawn of the Second World War, but the worst damage caused by them was to make the world see in Catholicism the representative image of God, and as such, a great hatred was created for everything related to religion. We know that Catholicism was born in the year 325 AD in the days of Constantine, but the religious dictatorship was not born there, because 3 centuries later, another pioneer revived religious wars, putting them at the level of battle lines. Between Islam and Catholicism they led the free world to they detested God, because in them they saw a reflection of the God that the Bible spoke of. Although the true message of God was lost at the end of the first century at the time of its precursors, the Messianic Jews or Christian Jews - as they were called in Antioch - had perished.
Reticulate Evolution
Author: Nathalie Gontier
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319163450
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Written for non-experts, this volume introduces the mechanisms that underlie reticulate evolution. Chapters are either accompanied with glossaries that explain new terminology or timelines that position pioneering scholars and their major discoveries in their historical contexts. The contributing authors outline the history and original context of discovery of symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer, hybridization or divergence with gene flow and infectious heredity. By applying key insights from the areas of molecular (phylo)genetics, microbiology, virology, ecology, systematics, immunology, epidemiology and computational science, they demonstrate how reticulate evolution impacts successful survival, fitness and speciation. Reticulate evolution brings forth a challenge to the standard Neo-Darwinian framework, which defines life as the outcome of bifurcation and ramification patterns brought forth by the vertical mechanism of natural selection. Reticulate evolution puts forward a pattern in the tree of life that is characterized by horizontal mergings and lineage crossings induced by symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer, hybridization or divergence with gene flow and infective heredity, making the “tree of life” look more like a “web of life.” On an epistemological level, the various means by which hereditary material can be transferred horizontally challenges our classic notions of units and levels of evolution, fitness, modes of transmission, linearity, communities and biological individuality. The case studies presented examine topics including the origin of the eukaryotic cell and its organelles through symbiogenesis; the origin of algae through primary and secondary symbiosis and dinoflagellates through tertiary symbiosis; the superorganism and holobiont as units of evolution; how endosymbiosis induces speciation in multicellular life forms; transferrable and non-transferrable plasmids and how they symbiotically interact with their host; the means by which pro- and eukaryotic organisms transfer genes laterally (bacterial transformation, transduction and conjugation as well as transposons and other mobile genetic elements); hybridization and divergence with gene flow in sexually-reproducing individuals; current (human) microbiome and viriome studies that impact our knowledge concerning the evolution of organismal health and acquired immunity; and how symbiosis and symbiogenesis can be modelled in computational evolution.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319163450
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Written for non-experts, this volume introduces the mechanisms that underlie reticulate evolution. Chapters are either accompanied with glossaries that explain new terminology or timelines that position pioneering scholars and their major discoveries in their historical contexts. The contributing authors outline the history and original context of discovery of symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer, hybridization or divergence with gene flow and infectious heredity. By applying key insights from the areas of molecular (phylo)genetics, microbiology, virology, ecology, systematics, immunology, epidemiology and computational science, they demonstrate how reticulate evolution impacts successful survival, fitness and speciation. Reticulate evolution brings forth a challenge to the standard Neo-Darwinian framework, which defines life as the outcome of bifurcation and ramification patterns brought forth by the vertical mechanism of natural selection. Reticulate evolution puts forward a pattern in the tree of life that is characterized by horizontal mergings and lineage crossings induced by symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer, hybridization or divergence with gene flow and infective heredity, making the “tree of life” look more like a “web of life.” On an epistemological level, the various means by which hereditary material can be transferred horizontally challenges our classic notions of units and levels of evolution, fitness, modes of transmission, linearity, communities and biological individuality. The case studies presented examine topics including the origin of the eukaryotic cell and its organelles through symbiogenesis; the origin of algae through primary and secondary symbiosis and dinoflagellates through tertiary symbiosis; the superorganism and holobiont as units of evolution; how endosymbiosis induces speciation in multicellular life forms; transferrable and non-transferrable plasmids and how they symbiotically interact with their host; the means by which pro- and eukaryotic organisms transfer genes laterally (bacterial transformation, transduction and conjugation as well as transposons and other mobile genetic elements); hybridization and divergence with gene flow in sexually-reproducing individuals; current (human) microbiome and viriome studies that impact our knowledge concerning the evolution of organismal health and acquired immunity; and how symbiosis and symbiogenesis can be modelled in computational evolution.
Evolution Vs. Creationism
Author: Eugenie C. Scott
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520261879
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Presents the scientific evidence for evolution and reasons why it should be taught in schools, provides various religious points of view, and offers insight to the evolution-creationism controversy.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520261879
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Presents the scientific evidence for evolution and reasons why it should be taught in schools, provides various religious points of view, and offers insight to the evolution-creationism controversy.
The Portal of Evolution
Author: Fellow of the Geological and Zoological Societies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creation
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creation
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Power, Trust, and Meaning
Author: S. N. Eisenstadt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226195551
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
S. N. Eisenstadt is well known for his wide-ranging investigations of modernization, social stratification, revolution, comparative civilization, and political development. This collection of twelve major theoretical essays spans more than forty years of research, to explore systematically the bases of human action and society. Framed by a new introduction and an extensive epilogue, which are themselves important statements about processes of institutional formations and cultural creativity, the essays trace the major developments of contemporary sociological theory and analysis. Examining themes of trust and solidarity among immigrants, youth groups, and generations, and in friendships, kinships, and patron-client relationships, Eisenstadt explores larger questions of social structure and agency, conflict and change, and the reconstitution of the social order. He looks also at political and religious systems, paying particular attention to great historical empires and the major civilizations. United by what they reveal about three major dimensions of social life—power, trust, and meaning—these essays offer a vision of culture as both a preserving and a transforming aspect of social life, thus providing a new perspective on the relations between culture and social structure.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226195551
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
S. N. Eisenstadt is well known for his wide-ranging investigations of modernization, social stratification, revolution, comparative civilization, and political development. This collection of twelve major theoretical essays spans more than forty years of research, to explore systematically the bases of human action and society. Framed by a new introduction and an extensive epilogue, which are themselves important statements about processes of institutional formations and cultural creativity, the essays trace the major developments of contemporary sociological theory and analysis. Examining themes of trust and solidarity among immigrants, youth groups, and generations, and in friendships, kinships, and patron-client relationships, Eisenstadt explores larger questions of social structure and agency, conflict and change, and the reconstitution of the social order. He looks also at political and religious systems, paying particular attention to great historical empires and the major civilizations. United by what they reveal about three major dimensions of social life—power, trust, and meaning—these essays offer a vision of culture as both a preserving and a transforming aspect of social life, thus providing a new perspective on the relations between culture and social structure.
Organizational Evolution and Strategic Management
Author: Rodolphe Durand
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1446227111
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
`I have no doubt this book will be read and used time and again by any scholar working within the evolutionary approach to organizations. I believe that it will also be of great interest to strategy scholars' - Management `Rodolphe Durand has a compelling message for the growing community of evolutionary researchers in organization studies. Evolutionary researchers need to attend more carefully to historical and contemporary debates in the biological sciences if they are to avoid false tracks and simplisitic analogies. Durand offers here the foundations of a distinctive and authentic evolutionary theory that takes organizations seriously for what they are' - Richard Whittington, Oxford University `This book fills an important gap in the study of organizations and strategy from an evolutionary perspective. It offers a synthetic approach to evolutionary analysis with grounded empirical examples that graduate students and seasoned scholars alike will find immensely useful. Durand's OES model, rooted in a critical examination of philosophical and scientific writings on evolution, is particularly promising and provides a valuable guidepost for future research on organizations and strategic management' - Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta How is economic evolutionary theory, in which organisations evolve according to environmental selection, reconciled with evidence of strategic management? This book is the first of its kind to propose a solution to this theoretical puzzle and engage readers in a balanced understanding of organizational evolution. Rodolphe Durand embarks upon a fresh assessment of the literature. His discoveries provide the foundation for a new theory of organizational selection and an organizational evolution and strategy model that reconciles economic evolution with strategic intentionality. Chapters include an examination of the work by Lamarck, Darwin and Spencer; a constructive appraisal of evolutionary theory applied to organisations and a summary of how the organizational evolution and strategy model will affect future theory and research. - An associated web site with further information can be found at: http://studies.hec.fr/web/durand
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1446227111
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
`I have no doubt this book will be read and used time and again by any scholar working within the evolutionary approach to organizations. I believe that it will also be of great interest to strategy scholars' - Management `Rodolphe Durand has a compelling message for the growing community of evolutionary researchers in organization studies. Evolutionary researchers need to attend more carefully to historical and contemporary debates in the biological sciences if they are to avoid false tracks and simplisitic analogies. Durand offers here the foundations of a distinctive and authentic evolutionary theory that takes organizations seriously for what they are' - Richard Whittington, Oxford University `This book fills an important gap in the study of organizations and strategy from an evolutionary perspective. It offers a synthetic approach to evolutionary analysis with grounded empirical examples that graduate students and seasoned scholars alike will find immensely useful. Durand's OES model, rooted in a critical examination of philosophical and scientific writings on evolution, is particularly promising and provides a valuable guidepost for future research on organizations and strategic management' - Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta How is economic evolutionary theory, in which organisations evolve according to environmental selection, reconciled with evidence of strategic management? This book is the first of its kind to propose a solution to this theoretical puzzle and engage readers in a balanced understanding of organizational evolution. Rodolphe Durand embarks upon a fresh assessment of the literature. His discoveries provide the foundation for a new theory of organizational selection and an organizational evolution and strategy model that reconciles economic evolution with strategic intentionality. Chapters include an examination of the work by Lamarck, Darwin and Spencer; a constructive appraisal of evolutionary theory applied to organisations and a summary of how the organizational evolution and strategy model will affect future theory and research. - An associated web site with further information can be found at: http://studies.hec.fr/web/durand
Evolutionary Linguistics
Author: April McMahon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521814502
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? This is an introduction to the interdisciplinary debates.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521814502
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? This is an introduction to the interdisciplinary debates.