The ancients had a kind of vitalist idea of life and intelligence and all the god-concepts seem rooted in it. ofro.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elliott Sober: What is wrong with Intelligent Design? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The ancients had a kind of vitalist idea of life and intelligence and all the god-concepts seem rooted in it. normdoering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elliott Sober: What is wrong with Intelligent Design? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The extension to “most” is tricky, since I don’t know where that puts believers in some kind of vitalist view of biology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wexler Responds to Beckwith - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

I think the vitalist version comes up in the next bracket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID] Reference

Lamarckism survives only as a portion of the vitalist creed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

These truths are as plain to the mechanist as they are to the vitalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference

Chemistry hit divine origins concepts hard when it found that life has no vitalist spark to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Reason Evolutionists Are Losing the PR Battle - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Woodger saw the issues in the mechanist-vitalist debate as more complex than either side admitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life] Reference

These and other vitalist beliefs affected the develop - ment of Greek cosmology in three main ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Though I did put myself down for 10-1 on the vitalist version and 100-1 for Atman and the Sikh Guards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID] Reference

They were just the most vitalist of people and the country couldn't afford to have anything happen to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Rudy Campaign Official: He's The Guy To Chase "The Muslims" Back "To Their Caves"] Reference

But we can also find evidence of this sort of vitalist affective phonetics in Shelley's echo of the Breath of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth] Reference

Another alternative that I find very attractive is some strain of the vitalist/idealist/panpsychist/panentheistic worldview.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Chink in a Worldview's Armor?] Reference

There are a fair number of pro-science conservatives, and a fair number of anti-Darwinian Neo-Lamarkian, or vitalist liberals.    From Wordnik.com.  [A new recruit - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

This is fully compatible with a vitalist/idealist/panpsychist view that has become a strong player in consciousness explorations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alpha Centauri U., BioEvolution 7314] Reference

Secondly, vitalist notions are naturally very impor - tant in accounts of how the world developed from an original, undifferentiated state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Driesch, already a famous biologist, thus became an avowed vitalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The report is a series of merciless punches to the vitalist organs of homeopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

Blog post: The Evidence Check on Homeopathy - a merciless punch to its vitalist organs.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

A popular vitalist theory of the eighteenth century was 'animal magnetism', in the theories of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Now, in Spencer, evolution gave us a vitalist mechanic or mechanical vitalism, and the appeal seemed cut off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference

But the word has a bad reputation, associated with mysticism, vitalist theories, sloppy thinking, wishful thinking, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

On the other hand, the same man also clearly eschews such vitalist tendencies while giving shape to his political thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kafila] Reference

His thesis was a vitalist work, claiming that fluid transport in plants could not be accounted for by materialistic forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Lamarck was, therefore, a vitalist, not a materialist; he was also neither an atheist, nor irreligious, nor an opponent of the Scriptures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

I agree with ‘Rev’, you argue like a vitalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Random Nonsense - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Could any vitalist, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

Lamarck was not a vitalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work] Reference

Baer in this shows himself a vitalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

He may be called a scientific vitalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

A vitalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference

Driesch styles a "problematic vitalist".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Moore, Benjamin, a scientific vitalist, 106; his "biotic energy," 106-113, 145, 146.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference