...earth where no fewer than ten thousand organisms exist per cubic inch. The abundance of life in our environment leads scientists to propose that whenever and wherever conditions for life are favorable...

...of life, in spite of the evidence from previous planetary probes for a sterile extraterrestrial environment. The scientist who believes in a Divine-fiat cosmogony also has an intense interest in the...

...at this level will produce descriptions of the organism and how it reacts with the surrounding environment. The process of science spends most of its time at this level of puzzle solving. While for a...

...Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart and Portland, Oregon. Schafer, W. 1972. Ecology and palaeoecology of marine environments. University of Chicago Press. 568 pp. Sternberg, C.M. 1933. Carboniferous tracks from...

...is internal. On the other hand, amphibians and reptiles (and many other animals), choose a warm environment at the time of activity, and this supplies the necessary heat; they are called "ectotherms...

...in a context of survival — all predetermined by one's genetic composition and acted upon by an environment. The weak often do survive at the expense of the more fit — "Greater love has no man than this...

...creative additions of new and different forms of life in response to needs of a changing physical environment was a concept that was expressed by a number of its leading exponents. Generally a view of...

...that racemization takes place at a much more rapid rate. Thus relatively minor alterations in the environment of the sample can drastically affect its apparent age. The paper by Bischoff and Rosenbauer...

...example, it is difficult to test the idea that we were created fifteen minutes ago with a fully mature environment complete with past memories, etc. We tend to reject such models because we suspect that...

...unrelated to past work experiences, it is most natural to take furtive glances around one's new environment to determine what has gone on before, the present state, and the future goals of the organization...

...schools are often negative towards religion and religious values and beliefs. In addition, the social environment of universities tends to be somewhat antagonistic to religion. This indicates that secular...

...Washington. Geological Society of America Bulletin 74:391-406. Fritz, William. 1979. Depositional environment of the Yellowstone fossil forests as related to Eocene plant diversity. Geological Society...

...unit of harmoniously coordinated parts and chemical pathways. Its spontaneous assembly out of the environment, granting the unlikely simultaneous presence together of all the parts, is not a believable...

...accepted evidence that life could not arise spontaneously from non-living sources under current environmental conditions, by the middle of this century the topic of spontaneous generation of life once...

...rules defined clearly. Some remarkable examples of automatic behavior triggered by signals from the environment have been observed in insects and animals. Consider the little Sphex wasp [13] that lays...

...science. The very stable civilizations, such as those of India and China, certainly provided the environment for intellectual pursuits; nevertheless science advanced in the Western world, probably because...

...abundant reason why creationists do accept microevolution and adaptation of organisms to changing environments as very real processes. It would be no surprise if fossil intermediates at this level were...

...carbohydrates, lipids, DNAs, RNAs: it is a living entity. It is true that life “happens” in an environment in which we have all those intricately designed complex systems, but the system itself is not...

...Rom W, Steier P. 1998. First 14C results for archaeological and forensic studies at the Vienna environmental research accelerator. Radiocarbon 40:273-281. Zito R, Donahue DJ, Davis SN, Bentley HW, Fritz...

...local adaptation is often the result of disruption of a gene that is deleterious in a particular environment. Behe illustrates this point with examples from polar bears, Galapagos finches, African cichlids...