Essentially a synonym for Theistic Evolution, but sometimes emphasizing God's ongoing, intimate role in the process more strongly. It asserts that evolution is true, but it is God's creative mode. The focus is on "creation" as the continuous, purposeful action of God through natural means, rather than a one-time event. It's the theological position that tries to have its scientific cake and eat it devotionally too.
Example: "The Evolutionary Creationist Sunday school teacher used evolutionary trees to teach about God's providence. 'See this branch? That's where God, working through natural selection, began the line that would lead to creatures capable of knowing and loving Him.' The kids were cool with it; the elders were nervous." Evolutionary Creationism
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Example: "He argued for Evolutionary Intelligent Design, claiming the genetic code was 'front-loaded' with information for future body plans. 'Evolution is the car,' he'd say, 'but God installed the GPS with the destination pre-programmed.' Biologists replied that the car built its own GPS on the road." Evolutionary Intelligent Design
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The biological principle of commutative support across life forms, where organisms help, protect, or share resources with others to increase collective survival and evolution.
Trees use Evolutionary Empathy by sending nutrients through their root networks to support struggling neighbors.
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Get the Evolutionary Empathy mug.The theory that all Asians are different. You may be thinking, "they all look the same", but this could not be more false. Asians look different because of their different geographic locations they have originated from. That is why, if you really pay attention you will be able to see Asians from different areas are all slightly different. These geographic differences account for many things including the different layers in their eyes, making them smaller, it effects their driving capabilities, and accounts for their small genitalia.
Timmy had 3 car accidents, therefore we know his nationality was Philippino. We know this because of the theory of Asian Evolution.
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Get the Prohibited Evolution mug.1: An expression used to describe how a specific romantic couple has progressed in their relationship over time
2: A phrase used to refer to how the processes from which people get into romantic relationships and or marriages in a specific culture have changed over time
2: A phrase used to refer to how the processes from which people get into romantic relationships and or marriages in a specific culture have changed over time
Quintin: How are you and Denise doing these days?
Winston: We’re doing great. She has gotten comfortable enough with me to start talking to me about her past, some of the problems that have been affecting her family, her religious beliefs, and so on.
Quintin: In terms of your romantic evolution, it sounds like the two of you have gotten really far in your relationship in the past eight months.
Winston: Me and her have definitely made a lot of progress during that time in regards to our romantic relationship.
Winston: We’re doing great. She has gotten comfortable enough with me to start talking to me about her past, some of the problems that have been affecting her family, her religious beliefs, and so on.
Quintin: In terms of your romantic evolution, it sounds like the two of you have gotten really far in your relationship in the past eight months.
Winston: Me and her have definitely made a lot of progress during that time in regards to our romantic relationship.
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Get the Romantic evolution mug.1: A phrase used to refer to how a specific political ideology or the beliefs of a particular political party has changed over time
An example of political evolution would be the Republican’s views on environmental issues. In the past, Republicans used to take a more aggressive approach by actively making policies and laws that would protect the environment from harm as you can observe based on the work done by U.S. President Richard Nixon. As time passed, as demonstrated by the work of U.S. President Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan, Republicans shifted to strongly favoring deregulation and eliminating or weakening environmental protections.
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