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Imaginary

Imaginary

Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs i suffer imaginary ills and fancied tortures? (Addison)

(Science: mathematics) imaginary expression or quantity, points, lines, surfaces, etc, imagined to exist, although by reason of certain changes of a figure they have in fact ceased to have a real existence.

Synonym: ideal, fanciful, chimerical, visionary, fancied, unreal, illusive.

Origin: L. Imaginarius: cf. F. Imaginaire.


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Creationism is not scientific

... you be so kind and tell me, how can they be for something that was written at least 100 years after their death? So you rely on testimony of your imaginary friend instead of real people. Yeah, no further discussion really needed.

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by JackBean
Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:37 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Creationism is not scientific
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biomedical engineering question

wowo wo a step beyond imagination i got everything imaginary in my head never heard of anything like that but there are rules in bioethics....... read that that might help :)

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by vinayaksabnis
Wed May 23, 2012 1:57 am
 
Forum: Bioinformatics
Topic: biomedical engineering question
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Evolutionary advantage of seeing 'upright'

It's useful, because it's useful to know that the ground is below you and not above. I can hardly think about any creature (even imaginary), which would have ground above (unless we're talking about animals living beneath surface, but they still have the same organization).

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by JackBean
Thu May 03, 2012 6:58 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Evolutionary advantage of seeing 'upright'
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THE DARWINIST "ATHEISTS" TECHNIQUES OF CLAMOR AND DEMAGOGUER

... The horse series charts were the result of distortions of the facts. Every new fossil discovery has revealed the invalidity of these imaginary charts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

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by ahmd1432
Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:50 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: THE DARWINIST "ATHEISTS" TECHNIQUES OF CLAMOR AND DEMAGOGUER
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Theories - Origin of Life

... is overcome for some time. Since that time there has been several other theories so you're actually fighting a dead man (and this is meant imaginary, not Darwin)

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by JackBean
Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:22 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Theories - Origin of Life
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