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- adjective Of or pertaining to
gradualism
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Examples
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Only evolution, or some kind of gradualistic 'crane' (to use Daniel Dennett's neat term), is capable of terminating the regress.
Clay Farris Naff: A Salmon's Tale: Science, Religion and the Search for Origins 2010
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Only evolution, or some kind of gradualistic 'crane' (to use Daniel Dennett's neat term), is capable of terminating the regress.
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Only evolution, or some kind of gradualistic ˜crane '(to use Dennett's neat term), is capable of terminating the regress.
Dawkins on the OOL 2006
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Only evolution, or some kind of gradualistic ˜crane '(to use Dennett's neat term), is capable of terminating the regress.
Dawkins on the OOL 2006
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It is the type of change that that a more gradualistic and undirected approaches in evolution has problems explaining.
Continuation… 2008
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Then from the standpoint of gradualistic precursors there are even greater obstacles because with each stage toward the final product the design space shrinks.
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Another thing is, you would think from studying the suite of wnt genes in humans and Drosophila that it followed a gradualistic process of a rise in complexity.
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Another thing is, you would think from studying the suite of wnt genes in humans and Drosophila that it followed a gradualistic process of a rise in complexity.
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Irreducible complexity is not compatible with gradualistic darwinian theory, and when found, it means that the theory is wrong.
A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007
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This is not to say that people haven't tried to construct gradualistic scenarios to account for these machines.
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