Sentence examples for evolutionary statements from inspiring English sources

As for level 1 students, we assessed the degree of acceptance of three evolutionary statements, using a five-point scale from 1 = firmly reject to 5 = firmly accept.

This study shows that comprehensive data (and taxon) sampling is often crucial to allow secure evolutionary statements.

Here we make evolutionary statements from a census of abundance of 1,830 FSFs (defined in SCOP ver. 1.75) in a total of 1,037 proteomes.

Authors' response: We have replaced "fitness" by "genes involved with lethality when knocked-out" (4) p.10 (Results, Functional Plasticity Analysis) naïve idea on evolution It may be my misunderstanding, but some descriptions in p.10 seem to be naïve as an evolutionary statement.

Of these students, 38% responded "false" to the statement "evolutionary theory is the only theory that adequately explains the diversity of life on Earth".

From your parents/guardians 3.233 177 0.008   AA Lat/His NA     EA 0.09 0.05 0.01 N/a   Please rate your agreement with the following statement: Evolutionary science is a valid academic discipline.

When commenting on the statement "evolutionary theory is the only theory that adequately explains the diversity of life on Earth," 20% of students who completed the post-course questionnaire made comments suggesting that religious theories provided adequate explanation for the diversity of life on Earth.

The November 1998 PCUSA survey on Science, Technology, and Faith (as reported in The Presbyterian Panel) found that the statement "evolutionary theory is compatible with the idea of God as Creator" was agreed to by 61% of church members and 85% of Presbyterian pastors.

One example of this was the 1998 survey of the Presbyterian Church USA, where the statement "evolutionary theory is compatible with the idea of God as Creator" was agreed to by only 61% of the general membership but by 85% of the pastors.7 It would be interesting to see if this pattern holds true for the other mainstream Protestant denominations.

The second statement (evolutionary changes arise in response to the needs of organisms to adapt to its environment) refers to a common misunderstanding that organisms direct evolution to meet their needs (e.g., the classic Lamarckian explanation of the "giraffe's long neck"—see the "Introduction and background").

Fig. 1 Percent student response to statements about evolutionary theory and scientific facts.