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metaphor

The application of a concept to which it is not literally applicable but which suggests a resemblance and invites comparison. Metaphors as figures of speech are a common literary device but in the history of medicine, metaphors lend a philosophical aura. Medical metaphors were widespread in ancient literature; the description of a sick body was often used by ancient writers to define a critical condition of the state, in which one corrupt part can ruin the entire system.


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Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation

... change us? Finally, I argue that the resultant products of evolution in the form of intelligent life is NOT something entirely random. Using a metaphor, consider that the Golden Ratio (Phi) 1.618 is abundant throughout the universe and can be seen both in the math of the spiral formed by Nautilus ...

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by jeremyo
Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:12 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation
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Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?

... explanation of how we came from primates, going from 48 to 46 chromosomes? Accurately worded I would have to say that Adam and Eve are here a metaphor for "how we came from primates, going from 48 to 46 chromosomes". Science already has a "Mitochondrial Eve" so it's not ...

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by GaryGaulin
Sun May 24, 2009 6:45 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
Replies: 106
Views: 16673

Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?

... Adam and Eve) could only be born 46 chromosome descendants, us. Even where one believes Adam and Eve is just a made up story, the common metaphor still applies. What makes us "human" is thus described in the Bible and Quran. The theory also has mineral dust/clay metabolism, ...

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by GaryGaulin
Sat May 23, 2009 6:05 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
Replies: 106
Views: 16673

Re: New perspectives in theory of evolution

... is more complicated. This model can explain a demograpical, social and civilizational development of last four centuries (in this can be useful metaphor of adolescense and calling of the Comte's theory maintains that social evolution ran from religious phase to scientific); but in second part ...

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by InsertFn
Mon May 18, 2009 8:37 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: New perspectives in theory of evolution
Replies: 4
Views: 1531

Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?

... the emergence of life that I accept wholeheartedly the biblical account that we were created by God from "dust"--which is a outstanding metaphor for the elements. The fact that it is dust -- small particles of matter, rather than say a rock or by something other worldly say, speaks to ...

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by AFJ
Sun May 17, 2009 5:11 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
Replies: 106
Views: 16673
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