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Title: 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
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