Meaning of superpersistent | Babel Free

Definitions

Extraordinarily persistent.

Examples

“Such standards in the elements of art are reasonable. They may be desirable and may give results of great value, especially if such results can include the discovery of the supernormal, the supersensitive to beauty, the superconcentrative and superpersistent in self-activity, in other words the talented children.”

“In trying to explain to us the length of time it would take for chance to produce one usable gene, Dr. Coppedge suggested that we imagine a single amoeba trying to carry the entire known universe one atom at a time across the entire width of the universe (which astronomers estimate to be thirty billion light years). At what speed would this energetic and neverdying one-celled animal carry out this stupendous task? Dr. Coppedge reduced its speed to the slowest conceivable speed, namely, one angstrom unit every fifteen billion years. This means that the amoeba would be traveling the width of the smallest known atom, the hydrogen atom, in the supposed entire time that the universe has existed; that is, fifteen billion years. At this incredibly slow speed, how long would it take our superpersistent amoeba to move the entire universe over the width of one universe? The time requirements for such a transgalactic job are mind-boggling. However, before one usable gene could be produced by chance, our indefatigable amoeba would not only have moved the entire universe one atom at a time, but would have moved more universes than the four billion people living on this planet could count if every one of them counted twenty-four hours a day as fast as they could for the next five thousand years. Yet evolutionists would have us believe that things vastly more complex than this happen all of the time.”

“Lots of backpacks (and even sleeping bags, like Marijiot’s old Pinnacle Gossamer bags) are coated with Teflon, which is made with a superpersistent chemical, PFOA, found in rivers and bloodstreams everywhere.”

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