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Malleable

Malleable

Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonised cast iron. See iron. Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.

Origin: f. Malleable, fr. LL. Malleare to hammer. See malleate.


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Re: Dog Trainer comes up with Anti-evolution idiocy

... of a litter. So the distribution of genes is not by a random process of errors in transcription, but has a 'slippage' factor so that it can be malleable according to an energetic template. In other words, the temperamental flaw of each individual will be synced up with the temperamental flaws ...

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by Promethean
Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:19 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Dog Trainer comes up with Anti-evolution idiocy
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Proliferation and Precipitation Theory

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by Darby
Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:16 pm
 
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Topic: Proliferation and Precipitation Theory
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God vs Evolution

... it" for you. But your ending does not end my own position, which I maintain is NOT unfounded, as you assert. You cannot know whether laws are malleable or not. You only can see them in the limits of your and your fellow humans' mortal lifespans in a shared, apparently consistent history of ...

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by robertkernodle
Mon May 21, 2007 6:26 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: God vs Evolution
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God vs Evolution

... indevisisble from the string of relationships that led to it existing. it appears in your posts that you dont think that but think that laws are malleable and dont define whats really going on and at best are subjective fractured interpretation of a localised event. this pov is unfounded if it ...

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by narrowstaircase
Sun May 20, 2007 10:53 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: God vs Evolution
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God vs Evolution

. As I hinted, it's best not to go with absolute first reactions OR to go with them comically ,... because words are pretty malleable things. what do you mean by that? You asked what I think about applying Godel's ideas to areas outside mathematics. I'm NOT an expert, but I've read ...

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by narrowstaircase
Tue May 15, 2007 9:02 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: God vs Evolution
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