A mechanistic universe.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

This sort of thing suggests that minds are grounded in mechanistic biology, rather than the other way around.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Useless Critic] Reference

All evolutionary theories must offer an explanation in mechanistic terms of how it should or could have happened in order to be tested.    From Wordnik.com.  [A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria] Reference

Maybe I am using the term "mechanistic" incorrectly then.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)] Reference

It was utter nothingness, and it meant some kind of mechanistic reasoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Lensman]

Any kind of mechanistic notion of changing the molecules, that's nonsense. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unbeliever's Quest] Reference

Hmm. This makes your mention of "mechanistic" in your first point even more difficult to understand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aiguy's Computer] Reference

What part of the Design Matrix criteria for design has to do with whether or not the designer is "mechanistic".    From Wordnik.com.  [Aiguy's Computer] Reference

And we don't have to have a model which fits your specialized definition of "mechanistic" in order to detect design.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voice from the Middle Ground] Reference

BRADFORD: So do we. aiguy: Hmm. This makes your mention of "mechanistic" in your first point even more difficult to understand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aiguy's Computer] Reference

Personally, I am looking forward to his coming examination of the supposed conflict concerning ID and a "mechanistic" perspective.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Flew dies at 87] Reference

Can we replace them by a set of "mechanistic" principles?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

What makes it seem "mechanistic" to you and why do you find that that distasteful?.    From Wordnik.com.  [theophiles.org]

You like to use the word "mechanistic," as if the position you oppose is guilty of applying OT ethics or NT ethics "mechanistically.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Triablogue] Reference

"mechanistic" values of the Enlightenment, and Modernism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

"mechanistic" decentralized market process exemplifies the Wisdom of Crowds and guides us well into the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

Such a world-outlook was bound to be a mechanistic one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Tell us again, what exactly is wrong with that "mechanistic divide"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mirroring Evil? No, Mirroring Art Theory] Reference

The only thing you can't do is be, what's the word, mechanistic (ph).    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2003] Reference

Literature just doesn't work in such a mechanistic, pound-for-pound way.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

A curious mixture of mechanistic "explanations" and vitalistic hypothesis!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Western medicine's mechanistic bias is another of its notable shortcomings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution?] Reference

Mayer actually had a picture directly contrary to the mechanistic conception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

How can we, with our mechanistic science, speak of effort, and of will to do better?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921] Reference

"An intelligent designer, possibly using supernatural powers" is not a mechanistic process.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

It was eerie — he moved with mechanistic efficiency from one test to the next, like a robot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flood]

We're instructed that we must be brave enough to "move beyond the mechanistic Nazi-Jew divide.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mirroring Evil? No, Mirroring Art Theory] Reference

When you have a course in molecular biology, it's all mechanistic, and likewise in neuroscience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Quite HAL 9000, But It Vacuums] Reference

And the Industrial Revolution gave us a very mechanistic world view that dominated our civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Miracles - January 1, 2000] Reference

As far as the evidence goes, it tells strongly and invariably in favor of the mechanistic interpretation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference

To realize this deeply and completely is to awaken from civilization's spell, to release outmoded and mechanistic illusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead] Reference

There's a whole planet out there, dominated by an antiquated mechanistic pattern that's rapidly losing its power and authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead] Reference

A mechanistic model of additive and removal reactions on the environment is proposed as a means of studying species interactions.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Rural common property resources: a growing crisis.] Reference

At a mechanistic level there may be no connection … at a cognitive level, to most people (no, maybe not you, granted) there is.    From Wordnik.com.  [NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth] Reference

In these essays von Baer pointed out the necessity for the teleological point of view, at least as complementary to the mechanistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference