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Something from Nothing

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

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Cheese Baby, Aristotle Says.

Aristotle says that the menstral blood provides all of the mass, the solid bits to shape. The seaman provides information about what shape the offspring will take. Aristotle didn't come up with the idea of life springing forth from inadimate material. But like fig juice sprayed seductively into a heifer skin of milk, aristotle informed spontaneous generation,. giving it a shape with rules, logic and support.

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