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Descend

Descend

1. To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; the opposite of ascend. The rain descended, and the floods came. (Matt. Vii. 25) We will here descend to matters of later date. (Fuller)

2. To enter mentally; to retire. [He] with holiest meditations fed, into himself descended. (Milton)

3. To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; with on or upon. And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. (Pope)

4. To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.

5. To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.

6. To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.

7. (Science: anatomy) to move toward the south, or to the southward.

8. To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

Origin: f. Descendre, L. Descendere, descensum; de- _ scandere to climb. See scan.


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... for one. As for beebaloo: The fact that similar functions are coded by very similar genes from bacteria to whales is something you expect if they descend from a common organism. While in a creation there is no reason for this to be the case. And even less reason that the farther away 2 organisms ...

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Look up what the puts an organism in the family Sciuridae, then do the same for genus and species. You will notice differences as you descend. Record notes, and off you go.

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A Monkey's Uncle

... those of a chicken and that maybe we still had dinosaurs with us today, there were almost shouts of blasphemy. Now that we concur that birds did descend from those terrible lizards, nothing has changed. We are just looking at things a little differently now. - the rest of the paragraph is evidence ...

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