If anti-vitalism is true, life does not suddenly appear where it was not present before.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 February « Anglican Samizdat] Reference

The first and most traditional argument is the idea of vitalism or dualism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sentient Developments] Reference

The atman concept originally conected to a kind of vitalism and supernaturalism that theories like Darwinian evolution have undermined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer Institute on Science and Religion at the Jefferson Center - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Kirschner M, Gerhart J, Mitchison T (2000) Molecular "vitalism".    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

There is a strong aspect of vitalism to the EAM model.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe Responds] Reference

According to my own scientific philosophy neo-vitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dembski and Common Descent - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The animating spirit, so to speak, a version of vitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID] Reference

We were being instilled with the philosophy called vitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmund S. Phelps - Autobiography] Reference

The first alternative is compatible with thoroughgoing vitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

In fact, it doesn't look a whole lot different conceptually from vitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Matter Can Enlighten Minds] Reference

Green in his deeply anthropological adaptation of German Idealist vitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)] Reference

Espous - ing epigenesis and a teleological vitalism, he insisted on qualitative change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

But this vitalism was not original to Orwell, and he did not need Reich to teach it to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pursuers of Orwell] Reference

School of Medicine, and the name of Hippocrates, and this belief corresponds to modern vitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference

He could find no value in Bergson's vitalism, antiscientific intuition, and religious mysticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRAGMATISM] Reference

It is important to note that emergentism need not be combined let alone buttressed with vitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Or that there's some mystical force required for life to get going (isn't that a form of vitalism?).    From Wordnik.com.  [De Facto Intelligent Design in Biology] Reference

Mr. Mumford is a lay preacher with a doctrine of vitalism deriving ultimately from Comte and Bergson.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's Always Going To Be Some] Reference

Diderot's rationalism implied a vitalism which out - moded the stable mechanisms of the deistic cosmos.    From Wordnik.com.  [DEISM] Reference

According to my own scientific philosophy neo-vitalism, life would be expected to originate many times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dembski and Common Descent - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

But vitalism, the principle of endowing the living with a life force, is tautological and explains nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Schweitzer: Redefining Life: God Need Not Apply] Reference

The name is most commonly applied to vitalism, a view mainly associated with G.E. Stahl and revived by F. Bouillier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

Du Bois-Reymond founded the Physical Society to support experiment and to banish vitalism from scientific research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermann von Helmholtz] Reference

But I wonder just how much traction is to be had in identifying creationism/vitalism etc. with childhood psychology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Creationism Child's Play? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Page 549, Volume 3 formulated in most forms (old or new) of vitalism, is usually without any genuine explanatory power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Georg Simmel, a penetrating thinker and remarkable writer, that we find the expression of both vitalism and relativism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Dennett often mentions the history of “vitalism” in biology, as an argument by analogy, to show why dualism is wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 February « Anglican Samizdat] Reference

While you're at it ¦. why don't you explain how advances in organic chemistry invalidated that murky notion of vitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blurring the Line] Reference

Unlike physics, biology grew out of a tugs-of-war between a tradition of vitalism and, since Decartes, one of mechanicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Science] Reference

While you're at it …. why don't you explain how advances in organic chemistry invalidated that murky notion of vitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blurring the Line] Reference

Inferring design is a common and well-accepted human activity … There is no magic, no vitalism, no appeal to occult forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aiguy's Computer] Reference

Materialistic methods of interpretation were upheld by perhaps the majority of biologists, but vitalism found powerful support.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

His followers apparently were put off by implications of vitalism, or something like that, and coined instead, "Process Philosophy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [David Ray Griffin: IDist] Reference

Yale's celebrant of vitalism Harold Bloom was not yet around then but Columbia's Jacques Barzun was sending that message in his books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmund S. Phelps - Autobiography] Reference

He used the time to work in the lab in Berlin, and continued to focus on the consequences of Weber's and Liebig's attacks on vitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermann von Helmholtz] Reference

The first is associated with the great names of Aristotle, Cuvier, and von Baer, and leads easily to the more open vitalism of Lamarck and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference