Sentence examples for based on a clock from inspiring English sources

Although the use of timekeeping analogies to advocate the argument from design were proposed long before Paley (e.g., John Ray had earlier used an analogy based on a clock to argue for natural theology, much like Cicero had used an analogy involving a sundial to make the same argument), the argument presented by Paley remains a classic exposition of the argument from design.

The measurement may be in seconds, minutes, hours, etc., based on a conventional clock, or we may be measuring our movement in time on an atomic clock, which is the most accurate type of clock humankind has developed to measure the passage of time.

The typical architecture for such systems is based on a GPS clock generator that is connected to all data acquisition devices via a dedicated fiber-optics link carrying the synchronization clock.

This analysis was based on a molecular clock, the idea that in certain stretches of DNA or RNA, mutations accumulate at a reliable rate (e.g., one per year), allowing them to be used as timers: the more mutations the genetic material has accumulated, the longer since it split off from its ancestral sequence.

While temporal self-location on the physiological level has been known for some time to be based on a 'biological clock' located within the hypothalamus, the mechanisms that participate in temporal position finding on the cognitive level are not yet fully understood.

We also used an ultrametric tree based on a relaxed clock using the same priors as above.

Based on a molecular clock, reproductive isolation can often remain incomplete for more than 3 million years after speciation.

Finally, 13 MYA was assigned as the fixed diversification time of the Oriolus stem group, based on a molecular clock analysis [ 74].

A third calibration point, the divergence of deuterostomes (vertebrates) and arthropods based on a molecular clock study using 50 proteins and calibrated with the vertebrate fossil record (993 Ma) [ 33], was used in some analyses and tested (with the arthropod fossil record and by substituting vertebrates with a tunicate, Ciona intestinalis) in others (see below).

Small topological differences are not surprising given data uncertainty and that researchers inferred the original tree under an unrooted model whereas our estimate is based on a local-clock-constrained model of phylogenetic trees.

The Hayabusa2 time system is based on an onboard clock called the Time Index (TI), the minimum unit of which is approximately 31.25 (=1000/32) ms.