Sentence examples for discussion of evolution from inspiring English sources
Sometimes, Dr. Scott said, parents will ask that their children be allowed to "opt out" of any discussion of evolution and principals lean on teachers to agree.
The discussion of evolution in your special issue on animals ("Supremacy of a Social Network," March 15) appears to equate "humans" with human males.
Sandwiched between his discussion of evolution and a concluding statement called "A New Enlightenment" is a series of chapters on language, culture, morality, religion and art.
The most dismaying feature of the rise of creationism and intelligent design (ID) in the present day is the success advocates have in distorting so much of the wider public discussion of evolution.
(In a sense, Kenneally notes, such considerations had been taboo for much longer: although Darwin noted similarities between human speech and sounds made by monkeys and birds, and speculated that language "has been slowly and unconsciously developed by many steps," by the mid-1870s the linguistic societies of Paris and London had formally banned all discussion of evolution).
A discussion of evolution.
The two often rode horseback on field expeditions, engaged in intense discussions of evolution, intermittently stopping to collect specimens.
Between the Scopes trial and the early 1930's, "science-proof" fundamentalists pressured publishers into excising discussions of evolution -- and often the word itself -- from biology textbooks.
As teachers and scientists, we need to leave an opportunity for the religious individual to work out the accommodation according to his or her beliefs, and not slam the door by inserting extra-scientific philosophical statements about purpose and meaning into our discussions of evolution.
Discussions of "evolution" and "epigenesis" can therefore be misleading in retrospect since evolution has assumed a meaning more nearly like the old epigenesis [Bowler 1975].
Drawing students' attention to this historical peculiarity is an interesting and effective way to engage them in deeper discussions of evolution, particularly of human evolution (Werth 2009).
