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What Defines an Organism? Biologists Say 'Purpose.'
ICR News ^
| December 10, 2009
| Brian Thomas, M.S.
Posted on 12/10/2009 8:12:50 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
David Queller and Joan Strassmann, evolutionary biologists at Rice University, recently proposed a new way to describe what makes an organism a unified whole. They defined an organism as an entity made up of parts that cooperate well for an overall purpose, and do so with minimal conflict. But how do parts like these get together, and where does purposeful behavior come from?...
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To: GodGunsGuts
Misread your title.....Thought it read “What Defines an Orgasm”
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:39:37 AM PST
by
jrg
To: stormer
Get thee back to DU. Truly that is the level of their discourse there.
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:39:58 AM PST
by
RoadGumby
(Ask me about Ducky)
To: GodGunsGuts
So what...it is still crap
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:41:39 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
"Maybe I'm just not average enough to fully appreciate him--maybe I just need to know less."
That statement has greater depth than anything else I have ever read on a crevo thread. A tip of the hat to you.
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:41:45 AM PST
by
stormer
To: rusty millet
"An orgasm does require purpose!"Yes it does...to stay alive...
On a more serious note...dust does not require consumption.
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:42:09 AM PST
by
Earthdweller
(Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
To: RoadGumby
Weakest strawman argument of the year award...
Epic fail.
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:43:36 AM PST
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: RoadGumby
HA!
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:43:46 AM PST
by
stormer
To: xcamel
Inanimate objects have no self purpose, do they?
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:44:21 AM PST
by
RoadGumby
(Ask me about Ducky)
To: GodGunsGuts
Sounds like “One purpose for all” is being derived from the same source of “One size fits all”...how monolithic and unimaginative. Of course, that is the purpose.
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:46:02 AM PST
by
givemELL
(Does Taiwan Meet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)
To: xcamel
What do we care what a speck of dust or a vessel full of gas thinks? Blow away will ya?
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:46:29 AM PST
by
Earthdweller
(Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
To: stormer
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:47:01 AM PST
by
paulycy
(Demand Constitutionality.)
To: GodGunsGuts
They defined an organism as an entity made up of parts that cooperate well for an overall purpose, and do so with minimal conflict. Silly me. I always thought the way to determine whether or not something was an 'organism' was anything with the ability to reproduce.
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:48:43 AM PST
by
MamaTexan
(Government has become a criminal enterprise!)
To: Earthdweller
What does Cyanobacteria “eat”?
and gas in a large enough quantity (like the sun) consumes itself.
Next...
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:49:21 AM PST
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: xcamel
Nobody asked you what your diet is the question is what are you?...next?
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:50:38 AM PST
by
Earthdweller
(Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
To: paulycy
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:52:26 AM PST
by
stormer
To: xcamel
...well gases do not necessarily consume themselves. A volume of gas will exchange energetic states until the inherent steric hindrances are eliminated through uniformity of conformation - losing heat as they do so - until they are rendered inert. (Couldn’t resist - the spaghetti monster made me do it)
To: GodGunsGuts
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:55:54 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: Earthdweller
Are you the reason for the “Hire the handicapped.. they’re fun to watch” posters?
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posted on
12/10/2009 8:59:13 AM PST
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
My standards are obviously far above yours, otherwise I would be posting about how nature selects from random processes to create complex, specified, super-sophisticated digital DNA codes, while I ignored the fact that the only empirically verified source for complex, specified, digital codes are intelligent designers.
To: FormerRep
Inherent..it’s kind of like sterile or maybe engaging in alternatives on a cosmic scale.
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posted on
12/10/2009 9:01:19 AM PST
by
Earthdweller
(Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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