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- From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: looking for God
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.165652.3352@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:56:52 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
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- >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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- Yes. It's called maintaining homeostasis.
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- David Nye
- nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu
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