[syriacus]

Someday with good luck, water, and sunshine a seed may become a tree. But until that happens, it is still a seed and not a tree.

You wanted me to accept your comparison of acorns and blastospheres, so I did.

Now you tell me your acorns are only seeds and haven't germinated, the way that blastospheres have.

Which is it?

Do you want to compare acorns to blastospheres, or not?

[jas3]

You wanted me to accept your comparison of acorns and blastospheres, so I did.

Now you tell me your acorns are only seeds and haven't germinated, the way that blastospheres have.

Which is it?

Do you want to compare acorns to blastospheres, or not?

No Warthog, you've misrepresented my analogy. I have always maintained that an acorn is not a tree and that it does not have a tree "inside" it. I also did not tell you that "acorns are only seeds and haven't germinated the way blastospheres have".

The blastospheres that are the subject of the article atop this post have divided thrice. Show me an acorn that has been through only three cell divisions, and then attempt to sell it as a TREE. It is not even close to being a tree at that point. The definition of a tree is not a seed that has undergone a single cell division or two divisions or three divisions. Were you to attempt to use that definition in commerce you would be sued for fraud. Claiming in this post that an acorn *IS* a tree is intellectual fraud.

jas3