Mouth Many analogies have been used to explain the Trinity, however, all analogies fail when taken too far. Examples of these are the analogies that state...
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Analogy is a two-component fabric system for weatherproof clothing based on "biomimicry" of fur (the system was originally called "Nikwax Biological Analogy")...
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Structural functionalism (redirect from Biological functionalism)
norms, customs, traditions, and institutions. A common analogy called the organic or biological analogy, popularized by Herbert Spencer, presents these parts...
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Homology (biology) (redirect from Biological analogy)
homologos from ὁμός homos 'same' and λόγος logos 'relation'. Similar biological structures or sequences in different taxa are homologous if they are derived...
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Analogical models (redirect from Dynamical analogies)
of dynamic behaviour (Truit and Rogers, p. 1-3). dynamical analogies establish the analogies between electrical, mechanical, acoustical, magnetic and electronic...
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watchmaker analogy or watchmaker argument is a teleological argument, an argument for the existence of God. In broad terms, the watchmaker analogy states...
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Biochemistry (redirect from Biological chemistry)
Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and...
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Synthetic biology (redirect from Biological design)
designing and constructing biological modules, biological systems, and biological machines, or re-designing existing biological systems for useful purposes...
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Silicon (redirect from Biological silicon)
differences from carbon. For example, organic chemistry has very few analogies with silicon chemistry, while silicate minerals have a structural complexity...
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nets by analogy with ablative brain surgery. Other analogies include other neuroscience biological systems such as Drosophila central nervous system and...
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Virus (redirect from Virus (biological))
in almost every ecosystem on Earth and are the most numerous type of biological entity. Since Dmitri Ivanovsky's 1892 article describing a non-bacterial...
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Israeli apartheid (redirect from Analogies between Israel and apartheid South Africa)
favor discrimination on the grounds of alleged biological differences, yet few people are as biologically heterogeneous as the Jews. In 2014, U.S. Secretary...
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called higher evolution, is the idea that the mind or spirit, in analogy to biological evolution, collectively evolves from a simple form dominated by...
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that may evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of biological evolution. Memes do this through processes analogous to those of variation...
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Devolution (biology) (redirect from Biological devolution)
evolution and its elaboration in the light of subsequent advances in biological research, have shown that adaptation through natural selection comes about...
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Essentialism (redirect from Biological essentialism)
through the logic of natural dispositions. The invoked nature can be biological, ontological or theological. Its opponent is culturalism. "Monism will...
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early 20th century, and it had been relegated to "biological mythology" by the mid-20th century. Analogies to recapitulation theory have been formulated in...
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Convergent evolution (redirect from Biological convergence)
Richard Owen was the first to identify the fundamental difference between analogies and homologies. In biochemistry, physical and chemical constraints on...
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Longevity escape velocity (redirect from Biological escape velocity)
movement, longevity escape velocity (LEV), actuarial escape velocity or biological escape velocity is a hypothetical situation in which one's remaining life...
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Reproduction (redirect from Biological reproduction)
Reproduction (or procreation or breeding) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parent"...
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Race and genetics (redirect from Race (humans) as a biological concept)
somewhat similar way that "gender" is differentiated from the more clear "biological sex", scientists state that potentially "race" / phenotype can be differentiated...
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Scientific racism (redirect from Biological racism)
racism, sometimes termed biological racism, is the pseudoscientific belief that the human species is divided into biologically distinct taxa called "races"...
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mathematician Dietrich Braess in 1968. The paradox may have analogies in electrical power grids and biological systems. It has been suggested that, in theory, the...
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Predation (redirect from Biological predation)
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding...
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Molecular machine (redirect from Biological machine)
macromolecular devices such as switches and motors. Naturally occurring or biological molecular machines are responsible for vital living processes such as...
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where hydrogen and carbon dioxide are converted into methane. By analogy with the biological process, a chemical-catalytic process, also known as Sabatier...
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number is also dimensionless. These correlations are the mass transfer analogies to heat transfer correlations of the Nusselt number in terms of the Reynolds...
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Irreducible complexity (redirect from Biological irreducibility)
Irreducible complexity (IC) is the argument that certain biological systems with multiple interacting parts would not function if one of the parts were...
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Signalling theory (redirect from Biological signal)
biologists use the phrase "honest signals" in a direct, statistical sense. Biological signals, like warning calls or resplendent tail feathers, are honest if...
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memetics draws widely from biology and, as a subset of memetics, relies upon analogies between genes, evolutionary pressure, and the cultural transmission of...
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