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For intelligent design creationists, it's the end of the chain.
Often our tinkerings with nature do lead to big, unintended consequences and chain reactions.
They walked off with our food and bits of our tent, clearly letting us know that we were at the bottom of the food chain and that this was their spot, not ours.
Same with probation officers, same with judges, same with folks who were up that law enforcement chain, because they realized, like we did, that we'll never arrest ourselves out of this situation, that there will not be enough prosecutions made, and you cannot fill these jails up enough in order to alleviate the problem.
For a long period of time, we believed in a natural ranking order in the world around us, also known as the great chain of being, or "Scala naturae" in Latin, a top-down structure that normally starts with God at the very top, followed by angels, noblemen, common people, animals, and so on.
In Arizona, I went out with a group of women who were made to wear t-shirts saying, "I was a drug addict," and go out on chain gangs and dig graves while members of the public jeer at them, and when those women get out of prison, they're going to have criminal records that mean they'll never work in the legal economy again.
Now, that's a very extreme example, obviously, in the case of the chain gang, but actually almost everywhere in the world we treat addicts to some degree like that.
I've been known to mess with things like chain link fencing.
And so I did a lot of dirty things with chain link, which nobody will forgive me for.
And that chain link is really expensive.
Again, moving upwards along this hierarchical chain of organization.
But of course the genome is just the bottom of a long chain of being, as it were.
That chain of being, really the first organized unit of that, is the cell.
By doing this, you tell the farmer how many fruits she has in every tree and allow her to estimate the yield in the orchard, optimizing the production chain downstream.
So think about how you're going to work through this ahead of time, so you don't have to manufacture the chain of reasoning on the spot.
Passing life from one generation to the next is the chain of being.
At roughly 65,000 kilometers long, this underwater range is some 10 times longer than the longest mountain chain found purely on dry land, the Andes.
This belief holds that the universe has a hierarchy resembling a chain, and that chain starts at the top with God, then travels down through the angels, planets, stars, and all lifeforms before ending with demons and devils.
Early in this philosophic movement, it was thought that mankind's place in this chain was exactly in the center.
He pried mankind off the chain and claimed that humans have a unique ability to take any position they want.
Mankind, according to Pico, could crawl down the chain and behave like an animal or crawl up the chain and behave like a god, it's our choice.
That becomes detritus, the base of what we call the brown food chain, which looks more like this.
What happens to plants also happens to all other organisms up the food chain: some are eaten alive, but most are eaten only when they're dead and rotting.
And all along this food chain, living things shed organic matter and expel digestive waste before dying and leaving their remains to decay.
All detritus is ultimately consumed by microbes and other scavengers, so it actually forms the base of the brown food chain that supports many other organisms, including us.
What a food chain really represents is a single pathway of energy flow.
Given that plants are at the base of the food chain, most of that's going to have to come from plants.
I pictured big sharks ruling the food chain and saw graceful sea turtles dancing across coral reefs.
In order for our bodies to move, information needs to travel from the brain's grey matter, down the spinal cord, through a chain of nerve fibers called axons to our muscles.
When bacteria digest fiber, they produce short chain fatty acids that nourish the gut barrier, improve immune function, and can help prevent inflammation, which reduces the risk of cancer.
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