Prominent Darwinists from Stephen Gould to Richard Dawkins to John Maynard Smith insist that evolution is unguided and purposeless. |
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It is easy to forget that prior to the terrorist attacks, the president appeared purposeless and adrift. |
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This planned spontaneity might sound like a paradox, but I usually find that chaotic and purposeless free time is not worth a great deal. |
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Scientists continue to find order and purpose in an orderless and purposeless universe which can nonetheless produce structures of great beauty. |
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For those who want to be more spoon-fed, long takes of the two leads walking will probably seem purposeless. |
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Insomnia, Nolan's entrance into major studio film-making, was an empty and purposeless work, again, nearly all posturing. |
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Many scientists believe the dogma that the blind, purposeless forces of evolution created all the genetic information in plants. |
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It is however for the Board itself to protect its prestige and reputation by not being misled into purposeless action. |
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They organize the missions not as a purposeless manifestation of despair but to attain a certain political aim. |
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Many there are now convinced of what they have lost in the last half a century due to purposeless confrontation. |
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It is true that I despise purposeless killing, and regard it as an act of vandalism deserving the severest condemnation. |
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It is purposeless drama and disappointing as this came from the hands of noted director Krishna Vamsee. |
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But this matchless capacity for purposeless lies has proven a drain on the charm resources of both. |
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He keeps introducing characters who have no bearing on the story, and there are far too many purposeless scenes. |
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Wilful, purposeless, ambivalent cruelty seems to have been a major theme of the rudderless summer government. |
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Without them you have not got a society at all, you have purposeless anarchy. |
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An alienated and fearful public is the flip side of an isolated and purposeless elite. |
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The son of former partisans and communist militants, he leads a purposeless existence, unable to develop any meaningful relationships. |
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In the face of such opprobrium the reader senses a personal derision, of meaningless and seemingly purposeless lives turned in on themselves. |
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It leaves a disconcerting sense of loneliness and purposeless to things. |
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Otherwise, scrap these purposeless ministries and start over with meaning. |
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In the past two months I have kicked smoking, hopefully for good, redefined my the meaning of my existence fit a new purposeless endeavour, now I need another distraction. |
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This, for those who have embraced his philosophy, and that is most of our contemporaries, makes the world and human life meaningless and purposeless. |
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In that development, the ventricles, the main pumping chambers of the heart, beat rapidly in a chaotic, purposeless fashion. |
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Bulldozers have destroyed homes in a purposeless manner and have savagely dug up roads, including electricity, sewage and water lines. |
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Provisions related to previous periods are reviewed at regular intervals and written back to the results if they have become purposeless. |
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If God doesn't exist, we are just bunches of molecules temporarily assembled by a purposeless evolution. |
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If we are the purely material product of a purposeless evolution, then God didn't create our spiritual soul. |
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Tics are described as abrupt, purposeless, stereotyped movements or sounds. |
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It does not matter whether we speak of nature as a heartless, purposeless guide or as a Creator with a plan, a goal, and wisdom. |
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Aimless movements, purposeless speeches result in debilitating the limbs of the body. |
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Stereotypy describes excessive repetition of apparently purposeless behaviour. |
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These experiences are of course sometimes purposeful, other times purposeless, and event at moments accidental. |
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To focus on and fully grasp the needs of our clients in order to avoid purposeless visits. |
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In these images, the ecstatic and ultimately purposeless movements of these dancing bodies disrupt the disciplined spatial and kinetic order of the supermarket, jamming the routes traced by and for consuming subjects. |
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This literary use arose because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are fustian. |
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In early infancy activity is entirely purposeless and unwilled, merely the instinctive movement of every part of the body. |
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It is quite the opposite now, and not only is the existence of the Electoral College outdated and purposeless in our modern society, but it also makes the voting system more susceptible to manipulation and fraud. |
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Are we then but an accident of nature, the freakish outcome of blind and purposeless forces, an incidental by-product of a mindless, mechanistic universe? |
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While not completely disempowering, this realization casts the role of the BCDRC in a starker light: though neither purposeless nor powerless, we are puny outsiders and limited in our sway over the behemoth. |
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Yet my protest on their behalf is purposeless. |
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The slaughter appears in that light almost purposeless and, save in partisan memory, without lasting effects. Fear and anger, in short, seem to have taken charge. |
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Giovanni Gelmi is also fusional when he is contrasting his practical experience as an industrial welder with the purposeless nature of artistic creation. |
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According to his convictions, we are the chance result of purposeless evolution, our moral laws are only social conventions, and death is just the dissolution of a bunch of atoms. |
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Then I stopped, because it seemed a pity to smirch the innocence of this object – its sprightly, purposeless oddity – with a neutralising explanation. |
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He unconsciously looses much time when he indulges in purposeless speech. |
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This literary use is because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are fustian. |
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Indeed, according to the FCA, the research and analysis aspect of the trade would be purposeless if it does not end with the sale and purchase of securities. |
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Over and around her drab grey bedroom Aly conjures a kaleidoscopic wonderweb world of projected computer animations, psychedelic graphics and weirdly costumed actors beetling about the stage with purposeless speed. |
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Sydenham's chorea is a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by sudden, involuntary, arrhythmic, choreic, and purposeless movements. |
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