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单词 Darwinism
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Definition of Darwinism in English:

Darwinism

noun ˈdɑːwɪnɪz(ə)mˈdɑrwəˌnɪzəm
mass noun
  • The theory of the evolution of species by natural selection advanced by Charles Darwin.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They say that Darwinism is not about how life got started, but rather, how life evolved.
    • As Fuller sees it, Darwinism is being taught as dogma and intelligent design acts as a ‘critical foil’ to those ideas.
    • Among the things that Darwinism made were behaviours, which are predispositions to react in certain ways.
    • He singles out Dawkins as promoting the view that Darwinism is a Universal Explanation of Everything.
    • How can the evolution of human ethics be reconciled with Darwinism?
    • Science fiction is firmly rooted in Darwinism and presents a distorted view of reality.
    • The big bang and Darwinism are two halves, physical and biological, of an atheistic origins myth.
    • It was inevitable that Darwinism and its later development into the science of genetics should face fierce opposition from theologians.
    • He seems to be saying that there is evolution but that Darwinism is not the explanation.
    • Could anyone be so nuts as to suggest that creationism and Darwinism be taught side by side, as competing theories of how we all got here?
    • The second of the central tenets of classical Darwinism is the unfettered efficacy of natural selection.
    • The combination of Darwinism and molecular biology has created the orthodoxy known as neo-Darwinism.
    • I can't think of any theory as broad as Darwinism or Freudianism that could be falsified directly.
    • There are many Christian evolutionists, and many ways to reconcile Christianity with Darwinism.
    • My position is that there isn't a necessary connection between Darwinism and atheism.
    • The way the tail grows could prove Darwinism and evolution or prove it totally wrong!
    • The Christians seem to be allowed less difficulty in accepting evolutionism in general and Darwinism in particular.
    • Margulis and Sagan say that Darwinism never really addresses where new species come from.
    • For us as scientists, natural selection and Darwinism are essentially synonymous.
    • Acceptance of Darwinism and rejection of religion were critical for the new movements of communism.
    Synonyms
    natural selection

Darwin argued that since offspring tend to vary slightly from their parents, mutations which make an organism better adapted to its environment will be encouraged and developed by the pressures of natural selection, leading to the evolution of new species differing widely from one another and from their common ancestors. Darwinism was later developed by the findings of Mendelian genetics (see neo-Darwinian)

Derivatives

  • Darwinist

  • adjective & noun ˈdɑːwɪnɪst
    • Both design advocates and Darwinists affirm evolution while disagreeing over the question of purposeful direction.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Dawkins the Darwinist answers with lethal effect that our brains ‘were only designed to understand the mundane details of how to survive in the stone-age African savannah.’
      • Darwinists will often compare their theory favorably to Einsteinian physics, claiming that Darwinism is just as well established as general relativity.
      • We know that social Darwinists and eugenicists in the past have drawn on, and perhaps been inspired by, evolutionary biology.
      • Prominent Darwinists from Stephen Gould to Richard Dawkins to John Maynard Smith insist that evolution is unguided and purposeless.
      • Had Wallace and not Darwin established the evolutionary theory, the many ardent Darwinists who are arch-sceptics might today be believers in the power of God and the human mind, instead of atheists.
      • Whereas Darwinists had been relentless in disparaging intelligent design as a pseudoscience, Darwinism itself now came to be viewed as a pseudoscience.
      • Why do some Darwinists keep trying to conflate intelligent design with creationism?
      • We wanted to separate ourselves from the strict Darwinists and the creationists.
      • Unlike many Darwinists and theistic evolutionists, young earth creationists have been extraordinarily gracious to me, and I've always tried to return the favor.
      • I write as neither a creationist nor a Darwinist, but as one who knows what is probably the most disreputable scientific secret of the past century: There is no plausible scientific theory of the origin of species!
      • Scientists and scholars in the intelligent design movement are mounting a concerted effort to force Darwinists to open up and discuss the weaknesses of evolutionary theory.
      • The divide between Darwinists and the Creationists remains to this day.
      • In an attempt to cloud the issue, the Darwinists will always try to interject ‘creationism’ and ‘separation of church and state’ into the debate.
      • Darwinists virtually never explain in any detail how natural selection would actually get from protein A to protein B after the gene for protein A duplicated.
      • To believers in creation, the Darwinists seem thoroughly intolerant and dogmatic when they insist that their own philosophy must have a monopoly in the schools and the media.
      • The virulence of the attempts to suppress Intelligent Design demonstrates the Darwinists ' insecurity.
      • And if creationists want to teach that Darwinists believe that whales evolved from bears, they will be teaching an utter falsehood.
      • They view theistic evolution as a weak-kneed sycophant, who desperately wants the respectability that comes with being a full-blooded Darwinist, but refuses to follow the logic of Darwinism through to the end.
      • We appear to be hardwired to understand - if not verbalise - that there is an elitist, Darwinist reality to life that no amount of liberal philosophy can change.
 
 

Definition of Darwinism in US English:

Darwinism

nounˈdɑrwəˌnɪzəmˈdärwəˌnizəm
  • The theory of the evolution of species by natural selection advanced by Charles Darwin.

    Darwin argued that since offspring tend to vary slightly from their parents, mutations that make an organism better adapted to its environment will be encouraged and developed by the pressures of natural selection, leading to the evolution of new species differing widely from one another and from their common ancestors. Darwinism was later developed by the findings of Mendelian genetics (see neo-Darwinian)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Science fiction is firmly rooted in Darwinism and presents a distorted view of reality.
    • The big bang and Darwinism are two halves, physical and biological, of an atheistic origins myth.
    • Among the things that Darwinism made were behaviours, which are predispositions to react in certain ways.
    • My position is that there isn't a necessary connection between Darwinism and atheism.
    • There are many Christian evolutionists, and many ways to reconcile Christianity with Darwinism.
    • They say that Darwinism is not about how life got started, but rather, how life evolved.
    • Margulis and Sagan say that Darwinism never really addresses where new species come from.
    • He seems to be saying that there is evolution but that Darwinism is not the explanation.
    • The Christians seem to be allowed less difficulty in accepting evolutionism in general and Darwinism in particular.
    • The combination of Darwinism and molecular biology has created the orthodoxy known as neo-Darwinism.
    • How can the evolution of human ethics be reconciled with Darwinism?
    • For us as scientists, natural selection and Darwinism are essentially synonymous.
    • As Fuller sees it, Darwinism is being taught as dogma and intelligent design acts as a ‘critical foil’ to those ideas.
    • I can't think of any theory as broad as Darwinism or Freudianism that could be falsified directly.
    • He singles out Dawkins as promoting the view that Darwinism is a Universal Explanation of Everything.
    • It was inevitable that Darwinism and its later development into the science of genetics should face fierce opposition from theologians.
    • Could anyone be so nuts as to suggest that creationism and Darwinism be taught side by side, as competing theories of how we all got here?
    • Acceptance of Darwinism and rejection of religion were critical for the new movements of communism.
    • The way the tail grows could prove Darwinism and evolution or prove it totally wrong!
    • The second of the central tenets of classical Darwinism is the unfettered efficacy of natural selection.
    Synonyms
    natural selection
 
 
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