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sentient

Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif.

(Science: physiology) Especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.

Origin: L. Sentiens, -entis, p. Pr. Of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See Sense.


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Bird-Dinosaur News

... When you really think about it, the probability are just not so small. I would add that this is only because those tiny probabilities lead to a sentient life that you can ask those questions. But in how many planets are there where there is no-one to wonder about natural selection? This is just ...

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by canalon
Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:46 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Bird-Dinosaur News
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... Who is this logic you speak of? I totally agree with 'logic' - NS never tried to account for the mutation of genes(if infact NS were sentient) thats what the mutation theory is for. if evolution can take place by speciation i.e. a new species has new traits [physical characteristics] ...

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by futurezoologist
Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:38 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16296

God vs Evolution

A creative universe simply can be creative.... as a first principle, with no centralized mind. It simply is what it is, and what it is... leads to sentient life-form, ensemblic, self-organizing, self-realizing parts of itself. But the universe is not "creative" as you say. We as one of ...

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by want2know
Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:52 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: God vs Evolution
Replies: 266
Views: 26814

God vs Evolution

... A creative universe simply can be creative.... as a first principle, with no centralized mind. It simply is what it is, and what it is... leads to sentient life-form, ensemblic, self-organizing, self-realizing parts of itself. Purpose is already what it is by virtue of the fact that the universe ...

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by robertkernodle
Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:04 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: God vs Evolution
Replies: 266
Views: 26814

A Monkey's Uncle

... Darby, and yes I understand that giving it a name (Evolution) doesn’t give it substance and that it is simply a process of cause and effect. But sentient life surely exerts some influence? "- what you are suggesting apparently somehow ties to the selfish gene" If I had it to do over, ...

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by JDavidE
Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:58 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: A Monkey's Uncle
Replies: 26
Views: 5283
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