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To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state. Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky. (pope) For being not propp'd by ancestry. (Shak) I prop myself upon those few supports that are left me. (Pope)

Origin: Akin to LG. & D. Proppen to cram, stuff, thrust into, stop, G. Pfropfen, Dan. Proppe, Sw. Proppa; of uncertain origin, cf. G. Pfropfen to graft, fr. L. Propago set, layer of a plant, slip, shoot. Cf. 3d. Prop, Propagate.


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Re: Microevolution is a fairytale

... no one can prove that bacteria mutate randomly or spontaneously in the face of environmental pressures, so without proof it really is pointless to prop it up as evidence. You probably did not look too hard. Tons of work has been done on bacteria, I can only refer you once again to Richard Lenski ...

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by canalon
Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:17 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Microevolution is a fairytale
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Re: Microevolution is a fairytale

... of a lot easier than proof (see above). sorry, I just don't think it's too much to ask for evolutionists to present evidence that the mechanism propped up by evolutionists is valid. And as far as an example of a controlled experiment that would disprove evolution, what exactly would you take?...ToE ...

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by supersport
Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:41 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Microevolution is a fairytale
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... LD - lipid droplet; MC - mitochondrion; MT - microtubules; MVB - multivesicular body; Nu - nucleus; PC - phagocyte; Pl - plasmodium; Pr - prop; PS - plasmodium shoot; R - ribosomes; TF - transitional fibres; TZ - transitional zone; V - villus, villi; W - cyst wall. Address for correspondence: ...

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by al
Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:21 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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... to penetrate to the cy- toplasm (Ikeda et al., 2003). Melanized cell wall of C. neoformans is unu- sually durable. It maintains its paramagnetic prop- erties, structure, shape and size of the parasitic cell even after a drastic treatment destructive to amelan- otic cells (boiling in 6 M HCl, ...

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by Nadas Moksha
Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:39 pm
 
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seeds, fertilization in flowering plants..

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by isabell
Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:51 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: seeds, fertilization in flowering plants..
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