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- From: lewocz@acsu.buffalo.edu (John S. Lewocz)
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- Subject: Re: looking for God
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:13:54 GMT
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- In article <martin.726335097@marsh> martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas) writes:
- >Betty Lee Dowlin (BLD110@psuvm.psu.edu) writes:
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- >>God exists. What is the life force? What is that leaves that body when it
- >>dies?
- >
- >How do you know anything "leaves" as such? Still, I see what
- >you're saying..."When a life dies: what changes?" I would answer
- >that it is something we don't fully understand as yet. It need not
- >be an autonomous spirit, necessarily.
- >"What happens to a flame when it burns out?" is a similar question.
- >I'm don't think you'd think the answer to that is that its soul
- >goes up to heaven.
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- As I understand it, and as was explained to me once by a biology student,
- a cell's structure immediately breaks down upon the death of the cell. If
- you can suspend "life processes" without damaging the structure of a cell
- it can be revived, eg. frozen sperm cells, etc.
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- So it would seem that a living thing is a stucture that must maintain
- a certain set of processes to maintain its stucture: a fragile state.
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- Can anyone substantiate this?
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- --John
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