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e·mer·gent ev·o·lu·tion

appearance of a property in a complex system for example, organism that could have been predicted only with difficulty, or perhaps not at all, from a knowledge and understanding of the individual genotype changes taken separately.
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e·mer·gent ev·o·lu·tion

(ē-mĕrjĕnt ev-ŏ-lūshŭn)
Appearance of a property in a complex system e.g., organism that could have been predicted only with difficulty, or perhaps not at all, from a knowledge and understanding of the individual genotype changes taken separately.
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(50) In addition to the article, "Creation Belief," by Klapwijk in Philosophia Reformata 76 (2011), there are seven detailed responses to Klapwijk's book, Purpose in the Living World?: John Satherley, "Emergence in the Inorganic World," 32-49; Henk Geertsema, "Emergent Evolution? Klapwijk and Dooyeweerd," 50-76; Russ Wolfinger, "Whence the Question Mark?," 77-83; Bruce Wearne, "Some Contextual Reflections on 'Purpose in the Living World?,'" 84-102; Gerben Groenewoud, "Augustine and Emergent Evolution," 103-18; Chris Gousmett, "Emergent Evolution, Augustine, Intelligent Design, and Miracles," 119-37; Harry Cook, "Creation and Becoming in Jacob Klapwijk's Theory of Emergence," 138-52.
Emergence: a biologist's look at complexity in nature
(5) Jacob Klapwijk, Purpose in the Living World?: Creation and Emergent Evolution, trans.
The spiritual meaning of technological evolution to life
In the system's emergent evolution, neither upward or downward causation nor the interaction between them can be simple, linear causation.
Towards complex holism
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