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After arguing that evolution is capable of explaining the origin of complexity, near the end of the book Dawkins uses this to argue against the existence of God: " a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution ... must already have been vastly complex in the first place ..." He calls this " postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation.
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After and arguing
After Prussia unified the other states into the second German Empire, its long-time leader Otto von Bismarck ( 1862-90 ) had long opposed colonial acquisitions, arguing that the burden of obtaining, maintaining and defending such possessions would outweigh any potential benefit.
After their father's death, the son with two heads claimed two shares of the inheritance, arguing that he was two men ; Solomon decided that the son with two heads was only one man.
After Nephi's vision, he sees Laman and Lemuel, who are arguing over the meaning of Lehi's vision.
After arguing for days about it, White was finally persuaded to release the songs himself although he was initially reluctant to step out in front of the microphone.
After arguing and a vote, Harrison ultimately won.
After a contentious council of war with several of his generals forcefully arguing for continuing the fight for a third day, at 23: 00 Bennigsen decided to withdraw and, covered by the Cossacks, the Russians silently began to leave.
After several years of drought, irrigation companies were arguing over their share of Utah Lake's water from the Jordan River.
After the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 Avnery used his editorials in HaOlam HaZeh to call for a preventive war against Egypt, arguing that " the reactionary Arab regimes " would attack Israel " the minute Arab superiority in weapons over Israel is great enough.
After the release of Nickel and Dimed, Christianson filed suit against the book's publishers, arguing that they used her picture without her consent.
After arguing that the custom of drinking healths was sinful, he asserted that for men to wear their hair long was ' unseemly and unlawful unto Christians ,' while it was ' mannish, unnatural, impudent, and unchristian ' for women to cut it short.
After convincing the politicians to pursue an advanced underground tunnel freeway, they proceeded to oppose the very tunnel they were previously arguing for.
After forty minutes of arguing, the game was awarded to Washington, by the score of 1-0.
After various failed initiatives he stepped up the pressure on Rome, in the summer of 1529, by compiling a manuscript from ancient sources arguing that, in law, spiritual supremacy rested with the monarch and also against the legality of Papal authority.
After the February Revolution, Bolshevik leaders returning from exile ( such as Lev Kamenev ) were arguing a much more moderate line, that Russian involvement in the war could be justified and that there should be cooperation with the liberals in the Provisional Government.
After the text revision of the fourth edition of the DSM, a debate arose, with arguments to recategorize dyspareunia as a pain disorder instead of a sex disorder, with Charles Allen Moser, a physician, arguing for the removal of dyspareunia from the manual altogether.
After arguing they decide to confess to their crimes so they know what to expect from each other.
After the district court ruled in favor of Microsoft, Apple appealed the decision arguing that the district court only considered infringements on the individual elements of Apple's GUI, rather than the interface as a whole.
After arguing over the quality of the movie, the family either offers the customer an egg or inquires about payment, generating an adverse reaction from the customer.
After they were evicted by armed marines, eleven were convicted under the as yet untested ' criminal trespass ' laws, but charges were dropped after lawyer Mike Fisher sought to have the case tried in the United States, arguing that the offence, if any, was committed on American soil.
After the final rebuff by the city council on 18 January, in which they were ordered to desist from arguing and submit to the decision of the council, and have their children baptized within eight days, the brethren gathered at the home of Felix Manz and his mother on 21 January.
After three days with them in the country, I begin to see that everything I can't stand in my wife derives from her beginning to a completely weird family, where the mother was always arguing with the father — and now, after his death, does not hesitate to malign his memory in every way possible.
After his retirement in 2001 Radice, wrote Friends and Rivals, an acclaimed triple biography of three modernisers from an earlier generation — Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey, and Anthony Crosland, arguing that their failure to work more closely together had harmed the modernising cause.
After escaping to the " real world ", she takes advantage of her new freedom: dressing like a teenage punk, kissing boys that Helena finds distasteful, smoking, and arguing with Helena's father.
After graduation from the NYIB in 1843, Crosby joined a group of lobbyists in Washington, D. C. arguing for support of education for the blind.
After and evolution
After the Revolution of 1917, views expressed by anthropologists in the USSR, and later the Soviet Bloc countries, were highly shaped by the requirement to conform to Marxist theories of social evolution.
After the evolution of armoured warfare, mechanised infantry were mounted in armoured fighting vehicles and replaced light infantry in many situations.
After several centuries of evolution, the fully developed longship emerged some time in the middle of the ninth century.
After reading ‘ Origins of Life ’, with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear evolution could not have occurred.
After the asymptotic giant branch ( AGB ) phase, the short planetary nebula phase of stellar evolution begins as gases drift away from the central star at speeds of a few kilometers per second.
After this work, Weismann accepts evolution as a fact on a par with the fundamental assumptions of astronomy ( e. g. Heliocentrism ).
After a period of variation and evolution, Chinese characters were standardized under the Qin Dynasty ( 221 – 206 BC ).
After the trial Scopes admitted to reporter William Kinsey Hutchinson " I didn't violate the law ," ( DeCamp p. 435 ) explaining that he had skipped the evolution lesson and his lawyers had coached his students to go on the stand ; the Dayton businessmen had assumed he had violated the law.
After the 1970s, nucleic acid sequencing allowed molecular evolution to reach beyond proteins to highly conserved ribosomal RNA sequences, the foundation of a reconceptualization of the early history of life.
After his migration to the US, Reich began to speculate about biological development and evolution, and then branched out into much broader speculations about the nature of the universe.
After the return from Italy the general amnesty of August 16, 1859 had marked the evolution of the absolutist or authoritarian empire towards the liberal, and later parliamentary empire, which was to last for ten years.
After examining the evidence of cooperation in nonhuman animals, in pre-feudal societies and medieval cities, and in modern times, he concluded that cooperation and mutual aid are the most important factors in the evolution of species and the ability to survive.
After discussing evolution with Pikachu to match Raichu's power ( Pikachu refused to evolve ), Ash used a strategy relying on Pikachu's speed to defeat Raichu the next day.
After this decision, some jurisdictions passed laws that required the teaching of creation science alongside evolution when evolution was taught.
After On the Origin of Species, the idea of " lower animals " representing earlier stages in evolution lingered, as demonstrated in Ernst Haeckel's figure of the human pedigree.
After evolution, Sceptile retains its rebellious personality.
After the anti-time anomaly is sealed in the episode, it is further presumed that evolution, as shown by Q, resumed without incident.
After Thutmose III's victory at Megiddo and his successful campaigns in the Levant over the next 20 years, Egypt's rise to power in the international community and its evolution into an empire is evident in the annals.
After 1965 she created two large series of etchings, one about evolution, the other about music and musicians.
After years of debate, members of the organization voted to modify the name to better reflect the evolution of the profession represented by the organization.
After a long journey one of these ships discovered Earth, but because a primitive intelligent species was emerging on the planet it was decided to move underground in order to not disturb the natural evolution of humanity.
Anarchist Juan Gómez Casas discusses the evolution of anarchist organization before the creation of the CNT: " After a period of dispersion, the Workers Federation of the Spanish Region disappeared, to be replaced by the Anarchist Organization of the Spanish Region ....
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