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amoeba

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A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.

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As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree. Hugh Everett

I believe we have this enormous brains with the ability to process so much information for a purpose – because we were made in God's image, not in the image of an amoeba. Ben Carson

Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man. James Dobson

I managed to fail Arts I, a course that a moderately intelligent amoeba could have passed without special coaching. Robert Hughes

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds? Albert Claude

A Texan town near Houston is purging its water for 60 days: The city is attempting to clear any "old water" from its system after a six-year-old boy tragically died from brain-eating amoeba found in the city's water. Source: Internet

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