Re: Death before the Fall

Mark Phillips (mark@ist.flinders.edu.au)
Wed, 04 Aug 1999 10:15:51 +0930

> In a message dated 8/3/99 9:12:21 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
> mark@ist.flinders.edu.au writes:
>
> > Population growth is a
> > good one, though even this one is somewhat difficult to make stick. For
> > example I could argue that first, God could have reduced reproduction
> > rates where appropriate....
> >
>
> That's difficult to do without also imparing general metabolism to the point
> where the organism becomes nonviable.

Forgive my ignorance, but I don't understand the relationship between
reproduction rates and metabolism. Perhaps more to the point, I don't
fully understand what metabolism is.

Cheers,

Mark.

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