Symbiosis Metaphor

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Symbiosis Metaphor The Christian Faith
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The quintessential epistemological stance of a
post-modern culture is show me. What will
this idea accomplish?(Walsh-Keesmat)

• A pragmatic science
• Science must be Applicable
• Applicability follows Discovery

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Kuhnian Science

• Every age has a Paradigm
• Science is elaboration
• Paradigms can employ metaphor

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What is Metaphor?

• He is a truck.
• Subject / Object
• Imperative
• Multilayered (Max Black)

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Dangerous Metaphors

• Cholera
• Miasmaor Organism?
• The Peril of Imperatives . . .

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Inhibitory Metaphors

• Brown Kelp Fertilization
• It is difficult, when observing this
  phenomenon with attention, to keep ones-self from
  believing that a particular impulse guides the
  spermatozoids toward the body that they must
  fertilize.
• 100 yrs to Algal pheromones

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Feminism

• Begley DNA Dominance
• Jumping Genes (Barbara McClintock)
• Solution new Scientists

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. . . throughout nature one species incessantly
takes advantage of, and profits by,the structure
of another . . .(Darwin)

• Red in Tooth and Claw
• Species are Selfish
• Mutualisms Unexpected

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Darwinian Organisms

• Species Maximize
• Reproduction
• Niche Exploitation

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A Christian Approach?

• Who is this that Darkens my Counsel with words
  without Wisdom?
• Humility in recognition of Ignorance
• Confidence Concepts of Truth Reality
• In Behavior, regulated by Integrity and Altruism

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Using . . . Analogy?

• Analogy is an Alternative to Metaphor
• Is Like,rather thanIs.
• Qualities for comparison can be specified
• No presumption allows for exotic sources of
  inspiration

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Rehoboam

• And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be
  a servant unto this people this day, and wilt
  serve them, and answer them, and speak good words
  to them, then they will be thy servants for
  ever. I Kings 127
• Ruler/Servant relationship
• Servant request favor from Ruler

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Ponyfish

• Photobacterium leiognathi servant
• Analogy The Photobacterium requests service from
  the ruler host and gets it.
• May possess Ponyfish gene (Ahmadijan)
• Applicability Ecology DNA recombinance

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Psalm 23 Ambrosia

• Psalm 23 Sustenance Protection
• Ambrosia beetle sustains Monilia candida
• Analogy also protects?
• Ambrosia keeps fungi nearly antiseptic
• Applicability research might discover
  antiseptic agents

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Where Credit is Due

• De Sade coined nature is red in tooth and claw.
  http//opencopy.org/content/view/44/33/
• Football Player www.presby.edu
• Truck www.pcsscreston.ca
• Clouds1 http//www.met.tamu.edu/class/Metr304/Exer
  10dir/CH1.gif
• Mice www.critterhut.com
• Skinned Rabbits www.hollyeats.com
• Reheboam http//www.keyway.ca/jpg/rehoboam.jpg
• ShelterPetra http//www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/s
  bf/escurs/Giord/61petra25big.jpg
• Bioluminescent Jellyfish http//www.lifesci.ucsb.e
  du/biolum/organism/pictures/aequorea.jpg
• Stencil Art http//www.minigraff.com/images/miniGr
  aff_kingsX1.jpg