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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Evolution
An "anti- man-serum" was prepared by injecting subcutaneously sterile human serum into a rabbit till the animal became immune to poisoning from the foreign blood-serum.
The mistake arises from the confusion of the ideas "similarity of blood" and "blood-relationship" in the genealogical sense of the term; otherwise it would be at once perceived that the fact of chemical similarity of blood is of no more importance for the theory of evolution than any other fact of comparative morphology or physiology.
They certainly form an excellent demonstration in favour of the proposition defended throughout this article: that such forms as the endemic species, which may well be compared with the races of the human species, were not directly created, but arose by some process of modification which was greatly facilitated by their complete isolation.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05655a.htm   (13590 words)

  
 Creation, Evolution, and Thomas Aquinas
Although any discussion of evolution and creation requires insights from each of these three areas, it is not always easy to keep these disciplines distinct: to know, for example, what is the appropriate competence of each field of inquiry.
Such an application of his doctrine of creation to the human soul depends on his arguments about the existence and nature of the soul, arguments which he advances in natural philosophy.
Maimonides (1135-1204), an ardent critique, describes the position of the kalam theologians in this way: "They [the theologians] assert that when a man moves a pen, it is not the man who moves it; for the motion occurring in the pen is an accident created by God in the pen.
www.catholiceducation.org /articles/science/sc0035.html   (9183 words)

  
 Creation & Evolution Links from the Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Stephen Jones, an Australian man who is very interested in the creation/evolution debate, has compiled an incredible number of internet links related to Phillip Johnson, most of which are highly related to "Intelligent Design".
The IDEA Club at Vanderbilt University (in Tenessee) is a recently started IDEA Club student chapter, founded by undergraduate microbiology major Josh Smart.
It has an evolution library and resources for teachers and students.
www-acs.ucsd.edu /~idea/links.htm   (3279 words)

  
 social education -  the evolution of an idea
This page explores the development of the notion of social education using materials from the encyclopaedia and the archives.
The particular forms that the idea took (especially through the work of Davies and Gibson) will be explored – as will some of the issues that arose in practice.
(2002) 'social education - the evolution of an idea', the encyclopedia of informal education, http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-soced.htm.
www.infed.org /biblio/b-soced.htm   (282 words)

  
 Human Evolution
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) sponsors the Human Evolution Education Network(HEEN) to bring together K-12 science teachers and scientists whose expertise is human evolution.
Human Evolution Education Network Bibliographies When teachers call the National Center for Science Education, one of their favorite questions is, "Can you recommend some good books about evolution for me to use in class?" The answer isn't always
Primate Evolution An Anthropology Curriculum for Human Prehistory (University of Washington, Dept. of Anthropology).
home1.gte.net /ericjw1/humanevolution.html   (972 words)

  
 materialism
Darwin's dangerous idea: evolution and the meanings of life (New York : Simon and Schuster, 1995).
Kinds of minds: toward an understanding of consciousness (New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, 1996).
Vitzthum, Richard C. Materialism: An Affirmative History and Definition (Prometheus, 1995).
www.skepdic.com /materialism.html   (163 words)

  
 Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire References   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Darwin, C. "An historical sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species, previously to the publication of this work." Appended to third and later editions of On the Origin of Species.
Osborn, H.F. From the Greeks to Darwin: The Development of the Evolution Idea through Twenty-Four Centuries.
Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/hilairerefs.html   (69 words)

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