Study of neurophysiology and psychobiology revealing the 'graduality' of evolution, the building upon as assimilation of 'conscious' realisation - in Freudian terms: 'das id' underlying survival which evolution in expression has seen fit to 'sublimate'?. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
Just because evolution is gradual, Meyer seems to think that ID predicts “non-graduality”. From Wordnik.com. [Two analyses of Meyer's "Signature in the Cell" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
If it was, then the country could be graduality taken over by a religious majority that takes the biblical permissions to own slaves seriously, and they would then “legislate the morality” of owning other people. From Wordnik.com. [Should male legislators decide if abortion is legal?] Reference
So, this experience of a very slow replacement of the dollar by new reserve currencies like the yen, the Deutschemark and the Swiss franc has proved that the graduality of that process did make the consequential increase and U.S. dollar supply easy to absorb by a growing U.S. economy. From Wordnik.com. [Germany After Unification] Reference
But we do not call the seedling the cause of the full-grown tree; the invariable antecedent it certainly is, and we know very imperfectly on what other antecedents the sequence is contingent, but we are convinced that it is contingent on something; because the homogeneousness of the antecedent with the consequent, the close resemblance of the seedling to the tree in all respects except magnitude, and the graduality of the growth, so exactly resembling the progressively accumulating effect produced by the long action of some one cause, leave no possibility of doubting that the seedling and the tree are two terms in a series of that description, the first term of which is yet to seek. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
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