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Originally Posted by Legal lies
The "point" of our lungs is respiration. Their "goal" is to attach oxygen molecules to hemoglobin so that oxygen can be distributed throughout the body.
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The "function" of our lungs falls in the category of respiration. They carry out this function by... blah blah blah.
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Originally Posted by Legal lies
All this about the points or goals is merely to say that this seems to be what it is that they do, that it is their function. Our course our lungs don't have conscious goals-I don't think that the terminology implies this. It is merely a useful way of speaking.
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The terminology is flawed in it's logic. It can be much more accurately described in a number of other fashions as I have demonstrated. I can interpret many reasons from evolutionary theory to support a more grandiose point to all of this. That is however simply supporting an opinion, it's not "fact", it's not an accurate description of what is occurring. It is flawed.
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Originally Posted by Legal lies
I don't think I'm misunderstanding science, I think you're overanalyzing things.
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Or am I simply taking the time to analyze things fully? Isn't that in a sense a large part of science? Attempting to fully analyze and accommodate in theory/models what is taking place?