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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being drawn or developed.

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  • adjective Capable of evolving.

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Examples

  • And because they are incremental changes and because they are selectable, they are therefore evolvable. kornbelt888: No, where my interest lies is the uncharted waters that make up the distinctive neural networks between humans and our predecessors.

    Assessing Fault 2009

  • If we answer them in reverse order: we know matter is evolvable because biology is made of matter and it needs chemistry material to do its stuff.

    Lee Cronin: 'Aliens could be made from iron' 2011

  • The IC argument fails if any of Behe's examples of a multiple-parts-required system is shown to be evolvable through standard variation/selection mechanisms.

    Assessing Applegate's Attack 2010

  • Zachriel: And because they are incremental changes and because they are selectable, they are therefore evolvable.

    Assessing Fault 2009

  • The IC argument fails if any of Behe's examples of a multiple-parts-required system is shown to be evolvable through standard variation/selection mechanisms.

    Assessing Applegate's Attack 2010

  • The IC argument fails if any of Behe's examples of a multiple-parts-required system is shown to be evolvable through standard variation/selection mechanisms.

    Assessing Applegate's Attack 2010

  • We can imagine a Pegasus, a horse with the wings of a bird, but it is not evolvable (as that term applies).

    Crossroads 2009

  • I have also suggested the rebirth of say NIAC (or something else I don't care) with the charter to precisely define a modular, evolvable, architecture to settle the Solar system.

    Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch 2009

  • We can imagine a Pegasus, a horse with the wings of a bird, but it is not evolvable (as that term applies).

    Crossroads 2009

  • The IC argument fails if any of Behe's examples of a multiple-parts-required system is shown to be evolvable through standard variation/selection mechanisms.

    Assessing Applegate's Attack 2010

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