Evolution
Traditional Definition:
- A gradual process in which something changes into a different and
usually more complex or better form.
- a) The process of developing.
b) Gradual development.
- a) Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive
generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic
variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new
species.
b) The historical development of a related group of organisms; phylogeny.
- A movement that is part of a set of ordered movements.
New World Definition:
The idea of Evolution is not new. The idea of biological evolution has
existed since ancient times, notably among Hellenists such as Epicurus
and Anaximander, but the modern theory was not established until the 18th
and 19th centuries, by scientists such as Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles
Darwin. While transmutation of species was accepted by a sizeable number
of scientists before 1859, it was the publication of Charles Darwin's
The Origin of Species which provided the first cogent mechanism by which
evolutionary change could occur: his theory of natural selection. Darwin
was motivated to publish his work on evolution after receiving a letter
from Alfred Russel Wallace, in which Wallace revealed his own discovery
of natural selection. As such, Wallace is sometimes given shared credit
for the theory of evolution.
Articles
Earth
changes sustaining our planet- Spirit of Lake Harriet | by Michael Underwood
"In the beginning of our Mother Earth's evolution, her development
to become a life-sustaining entity took many centuries. Whether this
process began as an act of God or an accident of the universe is not
important. What is important was her struggle to create a growth atmosphere,
to which we could travel as souls to experience and gain the wisdom
of her gifts."
Citizens
of Planet Earth: Meet the Uni-Verse by discovering it again in yourself
"...our next stage of personal and/or collective evolution. This process can be illustrated by our discovery of human flight. Several people on the planet at the turn of the last century were simultaneously open to the idea that human flight was possible."
Interviews
The Aquarian
Age The EDGE Interview with Richard Koepsel by Cathy Smith
"...and say that, yes, evolution is speeding up and it is true
that illiteracy is very much on the decline and it's true that more
things are available to more people than ever were before. If you take
a century and a half ago, everybody who knew calculus knew everybody
else who knew calculus. There were that few people who could do calculus,
and now they teach it in high schools."
Conscious
Women, Conscious Lives An interview with author Darlene Montgomery by
Tim Miejan
"...creates a continuity. It creates a sense of universality.
And I would say the fact that there's sort of an immortality in soul,
that we are not just a physical body, that there's a continuity that
goes back and a similarity to human beings even as you go back to the
earliest point in time."
Quotations
"It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it."
~Kevin Kelly
"It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again."
~Christopher Knight
"My own mystic bent leads me to believe that musical variations, collage, reiteration and process, or evolution, are beautiful. Life is worth living and beauty is worth making."
~Beth Anderson
"If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour."
~John G. D. Clark