Random Analogies
"Detachment from material things is essential for attachment to God. According to Sheen, the human heart is like a stream that loses its depth as it divides its waters of affection into many channels. A patriot cannot serve more than one country, and a truly religious person cannot serve both God and Mammon. This is the choice that the designer religion has failed to make. "
"Proteins are made from strings of amino acids according to directions encoded by the DNA in genes, but these proteins subsequently undergo important modifications. "When it is first translated from the genetic code, a protein is like a bare Christmas tree," Fisher says. "For any given protein encoded by the same genetic code, one protein molecule looks just like another. But the addition of small molecules through post-translational modification is like adding ornaments to the Christmas tree branches."
