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Originally posted by wolf
Oxygen is natural because it "comes" that way ... two molecules of O, stuck to each other. It's not FORCED into that configuration by photosynthesis.

Plants breathe in carbon dioxide and then convert it to oxygen. How are they not the direct cause? If oxygen "comes" that way, then how come it was a completely different thing before the plant acted on it?

Oh, I see. Because it wasn't <i>humans</i> doing the changing. I see your bias.

Originally posted by wolf
Consider ... Uranium, naturally occuring element.

Plutonium ... only exists because man tosses additional neutrons in Uranium's general direction which are absorbed by the nucleus, creating this new artificial element.

SO? Man is a part of nature. Uranium is a part of nature. Rearrange the elements, and it is still made up of things that come from nature, and was acted on by a being that is of nature.

Originally posted by wolf
When Uncle DuPey uses an assortment of hydrocarbons to make paint and plastic and a myriad of other things that make living better, that's chemistry ... and while the components are organic molecules, it's not natural, dammit!!

Yes it is. Man didn't create chemistry. It's just principles he's observed in nature. Taking advantage of the rules of nature doesn't corrupt anything.