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Zebra
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 11/08/2009 : 14:29:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Joshua
A virus is alive, it is a living organism that feeds of the cells in your body. We are sort of like a virus in that we have invaded the earth and have began to live un-symbiotically with in nature so we have become a viral out break to the earth just on a macro level.
THis sounds like a great paper to write about I am in the middle to of a course on Psychology of Religion and are covering the boilogical aspects of religion and how there are some religions that are more suceptable to disease based on there breading practices or shall we say imbreading practices and the genetic consequences of such actions. Good luck on you paper.
Joshua
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Hmmmmmmmmm. Define "alive". Most definitions (descriptions) include metabolic activity, which viruses don't have/do. (If a virus is alive, is a prion alive?)
Joshua, in your own paper you may wish to use "spell check" and also paragraph breaks.
It took me a while to parse your sentence on disease susceptibility in religions (meaning, in closed groups). You're referring to things like fumarase deficiency in FLDS families, right?
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