If you want to claim science for climate change then you need to define it first. If all you mean is a changing climate in modern times, then we can see that, who needs science? Who disputes that? If you want to claim a change over millions or hundreds of thousands of years, well that is another story. Any so called science you have for that can be easily flushed and shown to be religion or belief based. So what are you on about exactly?
Anthropogenic Global Warming and where it’s taking our planet, and the society that depends on a healthy biosphere.Geology
Biology
Evolution
Science is not spouting words. Really. Evolution, for example means squat. If you mean bacteria or something evolve, yes, we can see that. God made us that way, so what? If you mean you think that you can take the created trait of being able to adapt and evolve and make that mean this is where all life originated, that is a fairy tale and not science and there is no way you can support that here. I dare you to try! Same thing with the other words you tossed out. There is some merit and knowledge and fact and science to the disciplines, however, when you try to apply them to origins there is no factual merit to that effort. I deny NO fact, NO evidence or knowledge, period. Try to tell the truth.
There is some merit and knowledge and fact and science to the disciplines, however, when you try to apply them to origins there is no factual merit to that effort. I deny NO fact, NO evidence or knowledge, period. Try to tell the truth.You really have no clue as to what you are talking about, do you? I bet you have never even read a book about Natural history or Darwin's Origin of Species.
Yet you dare offer critique as if you knowledgeable on the subject. You have clearly demonstrated your ignorance of the natural sciences. Its you loss, really!
@Dad1. Evolution, for example means squatTo you apparently it doesn't. I imagine you have never actually studied it. Have you?
Who Says Understanding Earth’s Evolution is Irrelevant?Sadly all too many.
I often hear people, not just the religious with their thoughtless rejection and outright contempt for our Earth and her story, but also rational educated people who superficially accept the notion of evolution, yet who seem to have little curiosity about Earth’s Pageant of Evolution, voice complete disinterest.
Too many dismiss the need to learn anything about it as though Evolution were pointless. All the while I’m thinking, but evolution created this world we depend on, why isn’t that worth embracing?
The general apathy doesn’t seem right. Especially considering what an amazingly beautiful, action packed, complex, mysterious and absolutely relevant story Earth’s deep history has to offer us.
From it’s earliest formation with that improbable, but oh so perfectly aimed collision that ‘liquified’ the planet, then reformed that mess into our amazingly advantageous coupled Earth and Moon arrangement, without which complex animals probably could never have evolved on Earth.
On a microscopic level it started with the changing brew of elements and molecules that kept on playing with each other, always trying to find advantageous pairings. Those select advantageous pairings lead to cascading sequences. Thanks to time, lots of time, some of those pairings started repeating themselves in new ways.
Evolution is the passage of generations within their constantly changing environment. To survive one must learn, adapt, change, and be fruitful. It wasn’t always the fittest, sharing and cooperating turns out to have a great deal to do with survival. As does plain old luck, being in the right place at the right time, rather than the wrong one on a bad day.
So it began with elemental atoms getting concentrated here on Earth, then combining into ever more complex and interesting molecular bundles. Some of these combinations of molecules evolved and diverged into ever richer assortments of minerals. Then life joined the party bringing along a few tricks.
Life figured out how to ingest some of those newly evolving minerals and rearrange them into yet more unique minerals that could then be used for building body parts.
Life also somehow figured out how to split water molecules into their individual atom’s thus starting the rise of free oxygen. A very rare thing because oxygen is one of the most reactive atoms around. Meaning mineral evolution was supercharged once oxygen atoms were available to bind with elements and minerals.
Life kept on making more oxygen, with time oxygen ran out of minerals and elements such as iron to bind with, it then started to accumulate in the atmosphere.
That led to some real losers, still only oxygen had the “reducing” properties with the potential to power the complex organisms requiring intensive metabolic activity. Meaning the losers were quite simple organisms, while the stage was being prepared for something much grander.
Life, that is biology, kept busy getting along and figuring out how to do the things it did better, since that’s what got passed down in greater quantity. During Earth’s first two, three billion years life was constrained by the limitations of Earth’s toxic environment.
Scientists have learned that in order to understand a cell, they needed to understand its environment as much as the cell’s interior. This appreciation goes a long way to explaining why life remained at the simplest level for so long. Earth’s toxic environment.
It should be no surprise there was little to see on the outside, cells were responding to a hostile environment, still generations were living out their lives and experimentation was going on at the fine detail level.
Life was busy discovering biological tricks, engineering the molecular components that would, over the course of billions of years, learn to fit together with other components, eventually enabling complex life to blossom.
But, Biology couldn’t have done it without her partner Geology! Earth’s geology includes our moon which probably played a vital role in kick starting plate tectonics, which kick started continent formation.
Tectonics became evolution’s forge. You know, with all that bulldozing, mixing, and pressing, and baking, and volcanic activity, and so on.
We’ve also learned that the moon started orbiting rather close in to Earth and in the beginning the days were as short as 5 hours. Try to imagine those first billion years with truly humongous relentless tidal waves racing fast as jets, mowing down early volcanoes as they emerged from the oceans.
Of course as the moon pulled away from Earth, the days became incrementally longer while the tides became shorter. Our moon continues pulling away from Earth, though now it’s slowed down to about an inch and half a year.
The volcanoes were equally relentless, continental shelves and mountains slowly built up upon huge tectonic plates that floated atop Earth’s softer mantel. They were jostled around our globe driven by deep down convection currents. Which destined them to smash into each other and create yet more volcanoes and land formations, and gases for our atmosphere and so on.
Try to imagine those first nearly four billion years, there were no plants, no roots, no soil, only wind, rain, rivers, and the pounding waves - erosion, rocks, sand, and the ocean and those relentless waves.
Then some six, seven hundred million years ago, among with geochemical changes, Earth’s rotational wobble aligned with continental movements and ocean currents to produce a couple glacial periods that covered the continents, turning our planet into a Snowball Earth. Periods when glaciers pulverizing massive quantities of rocks on the continents (as in a mile’s worth and more). This then flowed into the seas enriching them with mineral nutrients and more building blocks for life. Over the oceans ice reached all the way to the equator.
Then some really wild things started happening. For one, the simple single celled life, that had any sense, kept moving towards the open water and sunlight. See what’s going on here? Though glaciers covered the oceans, it was never 100% covered. There were always currents that came together, cracks and leads and narrow water channels where sunlight still accessed ocean waters.
These single-celled critters of every variety were increasingly concentrated, meaning competition and opportunities for those who learned fastest and adapted bestest.
All the while, deep in the belly of Earth the kilometer and more worth of glaciers was acting as insulation holding in the heat that was rising up from the core. The weight of the ice also acted as a pressure lid. Meaning volcanic activity was stifled, while heat from Earth’s deep interior was accumulating and volcanic pressures were increasing.
Here is a list of videos that do a wonderful job of describing fundamental aspects of our evolution and why we should care above it:
January 6, 2016
{1} Our Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine
January 9, 2016
{2} Co-evolution of Minerals and Life | Dr Robert Hazen
January 14, 2016
{3} Evolution of Carbon and our biosphere - Professor Hazen focuses on the element Carbon
January 23, 2016
{4} Evolution-Considering Deep Time and a Couple Big Breaks
February 6, 2016
{5a} The Most Beautiful Graph on Earth - A. Hessler
February 7, 2016
{5b} Earth’s Earliest Climate - By Angela Hessler
February 14, 2016
{6} Evolution of Earth’s Atmosphere - easy version
February 18, 2016
{7} Our Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine, visualized
February 19, 2016
{8} Atmospheric Insulation Explained - appreciating our climate engine
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Here is a list of videos that do a wonderful job of describing fundamental aspects of our evolution and why we should care above it:
January 6, 2016 {1} Our Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine http://_ whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/01/earths-heat-moisture-engine_htmlJanuary 9, 2016
{2} Co-evolution of Minerals and Life | Dr Robert Hazen
http://_whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/01/2-coevolution-of-minerals-and-life_htmlJanuary 14, 2016
{3} Evolution of Carbon and our biosphere - Professor Hazen focuses on the element Carbon
whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/01/3-evolution-carbon-biosphere-hazen_htmlJanuary 23, 2016
{4} Evolution-Considering Deep Time and a Couple Big Breaks
whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/01/4-evolution-deeptime-moon-geomagnetic_htmlFebruary 6, 2016
{5a} The Most Beautiful Graph on Earth - A. Hessler
whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/02/most-beautiful-graph-on-earth_htmlFebruary 7, 2016
{5b} Earth’s Earliest Climate - By Angela Hessler
http:// whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/02/earths-earliest-climate-by-hessler_htmlFebruary 14, 2016
{6} Evolution of Earth’s Atmosphere - easy version
http:// whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/02/6-evolution-earths-atmosphere-easy_htmlFebruary 18, 2016
{7} Our Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine, visualized
whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/02/7-global-heat-moisture-distribution_htmlFebruary 19, 2016
{8} Atmospheric Insulation Explained - appreciating our climate engine
http:// whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/02/8-atmospheric-insulation-explained_html
I’ve kept up on scientific news for well over 50 years now, recent additions have been some amazing books that report on the continued accumulation of evidence and what it has to teach us our origins and ourselves.
Metazoa - Animal life and the birth of the mind. by Peter Godfrey-SmithThe Deep History of Ourselves - the Four-billion-year story of how we got conscious brains. by Joseph LeDoux
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything. by: Robert M. Hazen
Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World. by Nick Lane
What Is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches. by Erwin Schrödinger
Fossil Men - The quest for the oldest skeleton and the origins of humankind. by Kermitt Pattison
Where has Dad1 gotten his information? The Bible?
His precious Holy Book is more like a Rorschach test, morphing into whatever the reader want to extract from it - tribal texts written for their current sociological needs, that is controlling the masses of people starting to accumulate.
No curiosity to dig deeper into physical reality because he’s so self-satisfied languishing within his own sealed apathetic mindscape.
Never trying to reconcile the evidence he can see and hear, with the pliable words that he reads in this ancient text by ancient people, who believed their little region was all that existed in the world, and who were clueless about chemistry, biology, geology and all the secrets that rocks held.
Secrets within the rocks and biology and the Earth herself, that diligent human curiosity started unraveling with increasing tempo. The proud tradition that keeps learning more amazing and harmonious physical facts that point the way to understand our origins and the origins of this mind of our’s that’s capable of creating “gods” and monsters to believe in.
Rather than spam foolish and godless and baseless fables as if they were science, you need to support your claims. Do not rattle off long stories when you can’t defend a single aspect of them.
What a bunch of out-of-this world malarkey. Death is an inherent part of life. If you can’t come to terms with the simple reality – that is that death also possesses a degree of sanctity and is a necessary part of life’s survival, it’s no wonder you turn your back on physical reality.False! The original creation did not have death as part of life. The eternal future will not have death as part of life either. Only in the temporary world of today is death a part of man's life because Adam brought death here by his choice.
What mercies does your god offer?He offered life everlasting to anyone who asks and comes to Him and He offered His life to secure it for us.
So why are you assuming that rule doesn’t apply to you?The context is origin science claims. They are offered as something more than belief wen they are not. People who have belief in God know they believe, while the deluded denizens of so called science imagine their beliefs are fact and proven, observed or some such nonsense.
At least I respect that my convictions are the product of my brain processing the information that I’ve become familiar with?I tend to agree that the belief based models of the past peddled by so called science are machinations of the mind alone as well! I might add in some cases, that they are also inspired and piped up from hell.
Rather than cheer lead a dead guy’s largely now refuted book, you would need to offer specific evidence and be able to defend it. Where is the first life form? Have you observed it? How about the fossil record, can you prove each creature had to come to exist only by evolving and could not have been created or descended from a creature that was created? etc
Rather than spam foolish and godless and baseless fables as if they were science, you need to support your claims. Do not rattle off long stories when you can’t defend a single aspect of them.(Funny that, you don't even know what I was sharing there. Must be some miraculous insight you've been gifted with.)
Actually, the thing is you want easy answers, when what a serious persons of good faith curiosity must do is start to read about the evidence, think about it and learn.
The impression I’m getting from you is that you’ve already convinced yourself that you got it all figured out and anything that’s contrary to your opinion, is satan spume.
@Dad1 Rather than cheer lead a dead guy’s largely now refuted book,Pray tell, which dead guy are you talking about? Which book are you talking about? The Bible?
@Dad1 you would need to offer specific evidence and be able to defend it. Where is the first life form? Have you observed it? How about the fossil record, can you prove each creature had to come to exist only by evolving and could not have been created or descended from a creature that was created? etc.But Dad, would you have the patience to do the homework to read the information and learn about that evidence?
DECEMBER 8, 2019 Introduction to "Cc's Pageant of Evolution"They say a true test of how well you’ve learned about something is how well you can explain it to others and in its essence this months long Pageant of Earth’s Evolution project has been that sort of a self-evaluation for me. Both to see how well I understand it and to see if I could convey the story in a way that might resonate with people.
Why is that important to me? Because I believe clearly appreciating Earth and her story is one of human society’s greatest failures - and greatest challenge for enabling any sort of future functional human society, since our avarice has pretty well condemned this globally connected modern society we depend on.
I keep struggling with; How could intelligent people allow such self-destructive disregard to the need of the life support system that sustains your society? I mean seriously, never accepting that our long term economy depends on a healthy biosphere no matter how much we’ve learned about it?
Proudly proclaiming that endless growth was our economic priority and that Greed was Good and Too Much Was Never Enough. From my perspective it’s always been nothing less than sociopathic self-interest and faith-induced-blindness. Along with being absolutely self-destructive. As those who dare to open their eye and minds can see when surveying the growing carnage covering our planet. But I digress.
The beginning of this Pageant of Evolution project was rough because I discovered I hadn’t been paying as much attention as I assumed and that I was shockingly behind on recent developments and what I was up to date on had painful blindspots.
But that’s what serious learning is about. It is not easy or comfortable. If you’re comfortable you’re not learning. Sure we all have Ego’s, but it’s secondary, honest learning comes first. The genuine enthusiast or student knows that it’s their duty to seek out and expose their own gaps in understanding, to find their own misunderstands. Why? Because our ‘mistakes’ provide our best learning opportunities. They are the sign posts pointing us at what we need to study up on.
Contrary to that approach - in today’s politics and media and churches, mistakes are never admitted. Blame seems to be passed along, it’s always: “Not my fault!”
What happened to being stand-up enough to admit to one’s own mistakes and then dealing with the consequences and coming out of it a better person? Think about it, . . . Isn’t that actually what Jesus’s Passion is all about? Why do the faith-shackled reject that constructive perspective?
For me the enthusiast (and most Earth scientists) life isn’t about getting rich and burying themselves in bling. The goal is all about a more complete and accurate understanding and appreciation of ourselves and the physical reality surrounding us.
That’s the adventure I’m on.Like any adventure, sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see.
Now with the sturm und drang of this project behind me I’m feeling good, satisfied with what I’ve learned and written. For now… I’ll probably have another go at it in a few years, providence willing.
My key to writing? Keep rereading, fixing what isn’t right, reread, reread, reread, every time there’s something to fix, if not totally tear down and renovate, or delete altogether, but eventually the rough spots seem less so, and then one day after a couple read throughs without any snags spotted, it’s time to finished. Before additional tinkering starts detracting or getting redundant, so no help. I imagine I never get the punctation as proper as it should be, but then I’m not a pro, so it is what it is. Though I do keep trying to improve, too bad I receive so little serious critique or feedback.
I keep hoping to find others for whom what I’m writing makes some sense, it would be nice to get some feedback and to network, while we still can. The comments section is pretty dead around here, but if anyone wanted to communicate a little I’d recommend visiting CFI Forum, affiliated with the Center for Inquiry - small but a good place for civil intelligent discussions.
I don’t have twitter or Facebook, but I do have email citizenschallenge email com.
If you work up to having some clear point sometime, get back to us. Just be prepared to defend it though. You have been tip toeing through the tulips too long now.
I lit up the second essay with over 160 links that range from published scientific papers, science articles and YouTube videos. Below I have listed their titles and authors in the order of their appearance. That is because I can’t do the learning for others, they must make that choice. I can only do as a cowboy does, lead the horse to water, and the horse needs to do the rest.
Pageant of Earth's Evolution (in 24hr) part one
Pageant of Earth's Evolution (in 24hr) part two
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Pageant of Evolution, part two:
¶ 1 …
the first half = Pageant of Earth's Evolution (in 24hr) part one
pageant of Evolution = video_The Emergence of Life on Earth, Robert Hazen, March 15, 2012
first = Paper_Unearthing the First Cellular Innovations, Nick Lane
enduring Life = video, How Energy Flow Shapes The Evolution of Life, Nick Lane, Feb 14, 2018
about 4 hours = video_The Origin of Cellular Life on Earth, Jack Szostak, 2012
claw together = How life evolved: 10 steps to the first cells
existence = Earliest evidence of life on Earth ‘found’ ……By Pallab Ghosh, BBC News,1 March 2017
simple = Archaea, Wiki article
protective sacks = The first cell membranes, Deamer, et al, 2002
harsh environment. = Paper_Early Earth Had a Hazy, Methane-filled Atmosphere
¶ 2 …
Evolution progressed = video_Inevitable Life?, Eric Smith, Professor, Santa Fe Institute, April 18, 2007
very slowly - Why Did Earth Have a Poison-Filled "Boring Billion" Years?, Rebecca Kessler, Feb 25, 2011
hostile environment = video_How Oxygen Can Alter Evolution and Adaptation of Life in the Ocean, Erik Sperling
limited means, = Iron toxicity for cyanobacteria delayed oxygen accumulation in early Earth's atmosphere, Swanner et al. 2015
stifled further development. = Earth's 'boring billion' years of stagnant, stinking oceans might actually have been rather dynamic, by Simon Poulton
key early scientific breakthrough = Philosophy of Cell Biology, 2019
perspective, = Story of Dr. Peter Mitchell, biochemistry, chemiosmotic theory, bioenergetics.
environment = Chapter 5: THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT, project2061.org, American Association for the Advancement of Science
¶ 3 …
geology and biology = The co-evolution of Life and Earth, Dietrich et al. 2017
combining forces =Geology Intersects Biology, Laura Levis
process and tame = paper_The timetable of evolution, May 17, 2017
to the point that = Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion
descendants = = Archaea: Morphology, ucmp.berkeley.edu
had the means = video_How Energy Flow Shapes The Evolution of Life - Professor Nick Lane
Developing environments = Poster_Earth Evolution, intersection of Geology and Biology,, May 19, 2017
changing conditions = Life: Evolution and Extinction, WGBH
ocean = Oceans Through Time, ocean.si.edu
atmosphere = The earth's original atmosphere, atmo.arizona.edu/students
spectacular innovations and expansion = Animal Dawn - Dr. Diego Garcia-Bellido, 2016
¶ 4 …
geology taught biology = Geobiology - Life Emergent, Helen Hill, 2014
building blocks = The evolution of geobiology in the context of living stromatolites, Spear, Corsetti, 2013
forcing it to adapt = Tempo And Mode In Evolution: Genetics And Paleontology 50 Years After Simpson.
changing conditions = Evolution Of The Atmosphere: Composition, Structure And Energy, globalchange.umich.edu
repurposed = How skates and rays got their wings, University of Chicago Medical Center, 2015
genetic heritage = The Concept of Co-option: Why Evolution Often Looks Miraculous, McLennan, 2008
body parts = paper_Developmental-Genetic Toolkit for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Schneider, Amemiya, Dec 2016
modifications made = The Continuing Evolution of Genes, Zimmer, 2014
learned to thrive = What is biodiversity?, Lenne, 2019
brave new environments = Reciprocality between biology and geology: Reconstructing polar Gondwana, Michaux, 2009
¶5
increasing interaction = 'Evo-devo' biology tackles evolutionary history's unanswered questions, Indiana University, 2014
stuff of competition = paper_Rethinking Early Evolution: Earth's Earliest Animal Ecosystem Was Complex And Included Sexual Reproduction, University of California - Riverside, 2008
working together = The Evolution of Evo-Devo Biology, Goodman, Coughlin, 2000
ecology = video_The Ediacaran Period: Glimpses of the Earth's Earliest Animals, Calla Carbone, 2016
outlines of today’s world = video_The origins of Ecdysozoan body plans, Martin Smith, 2017
¶6
variations on those themes = Fossils of the Cambrian Period, fossilmuseum.net
plate tectonics = video_Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau, Wayne Ranney, 2015
climate = Earth's Earliest Climate, Angela M. Hessler, 2011
celestial = Bombardment of the early Solar System, Nature Geoscience, July 2013
influences = Milankovitch Cycles, OpenSourceSystems.foundation.us
¶7
Paleozoic Era = video_The Hidden Secrets of the Ordovician Age, Richard Smith, Oct 21, 2014
old life = Paleozoic Era, http://palaeos.com/paleozoic/index.html
Ordovician Period = Ordovician Period, earth.usc.edu
Jostling = video_1.5 billion years of Plate Tectonics, C.R. Scotese, Oct 1, 2017
first plants = video_How plants crawled out of the sea, Oct 5, 2015
on land = The first conquerors of land, Vasika Udurawane, EarthArchives.org
converged around the South Pole = 50 years ago, an Antarctic fossil pointed to Gondwanaland’s existence, Maria Temming, 2019
killer ice age = paper_The Magnitude and Duration of Late Ordovician–Early Silurian Glaciation, February 11, 2011
¶8
Silurian Period = The Silurian - 443 to 417 Million Years Ago, Paleoportal.org
diversifying species = paper_Diversity Dynamics of Silurian–Early Carboniferous Land Plants in South China, September 20, 2013
¶9
Devonian Period = Devonian Period, Ohio History Central
18 minutes = The First Forests, DevonianTimes.org
continents aligning = paper_On the sensitivity of the Devonian climate to continental configuration, vegetation cover and insolation, Brugger et al., 2018
Pangea = Facts About Pangaea the Most Recent Supercontinent
seeds = Seed Evolution Webpage, seedbiology.de
¶10
Pangea = Coal formation linked to assembly of supercontinent Pangea, Nelsen et al., 2016
tectonics = 1.5 billion years of Plate Tectonics, C.R. Scotese, Oct 1, 2017
poisoned the ocean = What caused Earth's biggest mass extinction?, Hannah Hickey, Dec 6, 2018
refugees = Why Did Life Move to Land? For the View, Jennifer Ouellette, March 7, 2017
explore = Evolution and Function of Freshwater Ecosystems, Pokorný P.
systems = Book_Freshwater Fishes: 250 Million Years of Evolutionary History
land habitats = Evolution: Out Of The Sea, Christie Wilcox, July 28, 2012
¶11
Carboniferous Period = Plants Cover The Earth, fossils-facts-and-finds.com
a big deal = paper_Formation of most of our coal brought Earth close to global glaciation, Georg Feulner, 2017
35% oxygen = The Age of Oxygen (400 MYA to 290 MYA), Smithsonian Institution
land soaked it in = Coal formation linked to assembly of supercontinent Pangea, Ker Than, Jan 20, 2016
insects = Video_ The Age of Giant Insects, PBS Eons, Sep 18, 2017
giants = Why Giant Bugs Once Roamed the Earth, By Ker Than, August 9, 2011
plants = Early Plant Life, LumenLearning.com
forests = The First Forests, Sedeer el-Showk, July 08, 2013
egg = Eggs and Their Evolution, stanford.edu
¶12
biota = A hidden cradle of plant evolution in Permian tropical lowlands, Blomenkemper, 2018
for 15 minutes = Permian to Triassic, British Geologic Survey,
¶13
like none other = End-Permian extinction, which wiped out most of Earth's species, was instantaneous in geological time, by Jennifer Chu, Sept. 19, 2018
melted into sills = paper_Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction, Burgess et al., 2017
¶14
Siberian Traps = Earth’s worst extinction “inescapably” tied to Siberian Traps, CO2, and climate change, Howard Lee, October 14, 2015
So ended = Siberian Traps likely culprit for end-Permian extinction, Jennifer Chu, Sept 16, 2015
¶15
Mesozoic = The Mesozoic Era, palaeos.com
middle life = The Mesozoic Era IV: Flowers and Mammals, University of Maryland, Tholtz, 2011
begins = The Triassic Period: the rise of the dinosaurs, Josh Davis, August 27, 2019
Triassic Period = Reptiles Inherit The Earth, fossils-facts-and-finds.com
didn’t miss a beat = Life in the Aftermath of Mass Extinctions, Pincelli Hull, Oct. 5, 2015
noteworthy = Closing Romer's Gap: The story so far, National Museums Scotland
adaptations = The origin of tetrapods, Evolution.Berkeley.edu
tetrapods = The Basic Groups of Tetrapods Evolved - Lecture 9, EESC.columbia.edu,
four feet = Tetrapod Triumph! Solving Mystery Of First Land Vertebrates, By Gemma Tarlach, Dec 5, 2016
who = Paleobiology of the Mesozoic Era, FossilMuseum.net
differentiated = Wings, Legs, and Fins: How Do New Organs Arise in Evolution?, Neil Shubin, 2009
amphibians = The evolution of Amphibians: The Conquest of Land, David López Bosch, July 2015
reptiles = The genesis of reptiles and the amniotic egg, ReptileEvolution.com
dinosaurs = How Did Dinosaurs Evolve?, Bob Strauss, April 18, 2018
mammal-like reptiles = The Stem-Mammals--a Brief Primer, Darren Naish, Sept 20, 2016
bird = Earliest Beginnings Of Bird Evolution Brought Into Focus With New DNA Analysis, AllAboutBirds.com Oct 5, 2015
lineages = Origin and Evolution of Birds, UntamedScience.com
Plants = The evolution of plants part 4: A tale of flowers and seeds, Vasika Udurawane
new heights = video_How did plants become forests during the Carboniferous?, Benjamin Burger, Nov 7, 2015
scaled down = Reign of the giant insects ended with the evolution of birds, Tim Stephens, June 04, 2012
did = paper_A bottom-up perspective on ecosystem change in Mesozoic oceans, Knoll, Follows, 2016
ocean Life = Greenhouse World and The Mesozoic Oceans, Takashima et al., 2006
¶16
Pangea = Breakup of supercontinent Pangea cooled mantle and thinned crust, University of Texas at Austin, Dec 2016
now breaking up = paper_Quantifying the effects of the break up of Pangaea on global terrestrial diversification with neutral theory, Jordan 2016
decimating = Life between extinctions: cracking open the Cretaceous period, Katie Kline, Mar 25, 2010
Triassic Period = 3.4.3. Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, ldeo.columbia.edu
biota = Triassic Period, GeologyPage.com, April 7, 2014
reptiles = Ancestral Reptiles of the Carboniferous and Permian Periods, ThoughtCo.com
Survivors included dinosaurs = Decade of fossil collecting gives new perspective on Triassic period, emergence of dinosaurs, University of Washington, March 28, 2018
Jurassic Period = Jurassic Period, ScienceViews.com
critters = The Evolution of the First Mammals, Bob Strauss, June 24, 2019
Cretaceous Period= What can the Cretaceous tell us about our climate?, Philip Pika, August 20, 2018
Mammal-like = Synapsid, Wikipedia
diversifying = Two studies, two answers: When exactly did mammals emerge?, Brad Balukjian, Aug 7, 2013
Flowers = Evolving Ideas on the Origin and Evolution of Flowers: New Perspectives in the Genomic Era, Andre S. Chanderbali, et al., 2016
fruit = 26.1C: Evolution of Angiosperms, LibreTexts, Nov, 19,2019
reptiles = The First Reptiles, ThoughtCo.com
amphibians = Cretaceous Amphibians, Western Australian Museum, 2014
¶17
a well aimed = Fossil Site Reveals Day That Meteor Hit Earth and, Maybe, Wiped Out Dinosaurs, Broad and, Chang, March 29, 2019
space rock crashed into = The Impact That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs, Hartmann, Planetary Science Institute
Mesozoic Era = The Mesozoic era, AustralianMuseum.net
¶18
eventually recovered = How long did it take for life to rebound after the death of the dinosaurs?, Sarah Kaplan, Nov. 7, 2016
survivors = Placental Mammals Originated On Earth 65 Million Years Ago, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, June 21, 2007
Cenozoic = Cenozoic Era, University of Kansas
new life = The Cenozoic, Palaeos.com
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genetic toolkit = paper_Developmental-Genetic Toolkit for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Schneider, Amemiya, Dec 2016
adaptations and diversification = Misconceptions about evolution, berkley.edu
modern = Rising fast: the first trees, EarthHistory.org.uk
forests = Tracing the evolution of forest trees, Marlene Cimons, Nov 2014
grasslands = How did grasses alter Earth’s ecosystem?, Caroline Strőmberg, June 8, 2015
mammals = Flowering plants, new teeth and no dinosaurs: New study sheds light on the rise of mammals, University of Washington, May 1, 2019
how to exploit = The idiosyncratic mammalian diversification after extinction of the dinosaurs, Peter Moon, Dec 21, 2018
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primates = The First Primates, Palomar.edu
first hominids = Infographic_Human Evolution: A Timeline of Early Hominids, EarthHow.com, Sept 2, 2018
modern humans - Homo sapiens – modern humans, Fran Dorey, 11/12/18
appeared = World History Timelines - Mapping Two Million Years of Humanity, K. Kris Hirst, August 31, 2019
6 seconds = Human History Timeline, humanhistorytimeline.com
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past milliseconds = book_The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events, Based on Werner Stein's Kulturfahrplan, Bernard Grun
learned = The Evolution of Philosophy, Christopher J. Wills, Sept 2012
reflect = Abbreviated and simplified history of Western Philosophy, PhilosophyBasics.com
masters of science = Timeline of scientific discoveries, From Wikipedia
manipulating the physical world = How Are We Changing the Physical Environment of Earth’s Surface?, NAP.edu
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We know much = The Birth of Modern Science, TheGreatCoursesDaily.com
but understand next to nothing = The missing key to Stephen Gould’s Nonoverlapping Magisteria, citizenschallenge.blogspot.com
demonstrated by = “Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot” PopulationSpeakOut.org
(*) = DeepEcology.org
wanton destruction = Powerful new map depicts environmental degradation across Earth, by Michael Miller, Nov 19, 2018
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Humanity’s gluttonous = The Evolution of Human Gluttony, Nathan Lents, Sept 20, 2014
self-serving = paper_Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems, Vitouse et al. 1997,
inflicting reckless damages = Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk, say scientists, Oliver Milman, Jan 15, 2015
like never before = Human impact has pushed Earth into the Anthropocene, scientists say, Adam Vaughan, Jan 7, 2016
injecting ever more = How we measure background CO2 levels on Mauna Loa, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA
insulating CO2 = CO2 Science - Blue team: "Pruitt, it's certain as certain gets! It's the physics! Don't you know???, ConfrontingScienceContrarians, citizenschallenge
carbonic-acid = The Chemistry of Ocean Acidification, PMEL.NOAA_gov
since the triggers = The Great Permian Extinction: When all life on Earth almost vanish, Jackson Chambers, 2016
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Not much = Peter, why are you an Earth Centrist?
there will be consequences = FOURTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT, nca2018.globalchange_gov
Mother Earth = Our Changing Biosphere, serc.carleton_edu
</blockquote>3 minute response - you are a speed reader who comprehends nothing. What a shame.
The point is it’s too complicated for any simple convincing answers. You need to do your own good-faith homework - if you refuse to take the initiative to honestly learn about it, you’re sort of hopeless. Which leaves me hoping to connect with someone else in the audience, so my effort is still worth it, even if perhaps you aren’t.
Four Corners Free Press, August 2019In last month’s celebration of Earth’s Pageant of Evolution I touched on the interplay of tectonics, geochemistry and archaic life. The intimate love-making of Earth’s geology and biology - to put it poetically rather than scientifically.
Getting back to the science, scientists have learned about the why and how of various ocean bottom structures that provide the catalyst between geochemistry and biochemistry, by helping bind basic molecules into complex organic building blocks of life.
This month to convey the immensity of Deep Time I’m scaling down Earth’s 4.6 billion years to 24 hours. A billion years take 5 hours plus change, 3.2 million years tick by every minute. Our human story fits into Earth’s past 4-5 seconds. Imagine that.
Earth was an infant (3-4 minutes) when Theia slammed into her creating our Moon/Earth system. By 3 AM baby continents were plowing through the oceans and doing their mountain building; erosion; grinding; pulverizing; redistribution; redigesting; creation drama.
Suggestively the earliest simple celled organisms show up shortly after that. Toughing it out in a very hostile world of raw unfiltered Sun’s rays and energetic-particle bombardment along with toxic atmosphere and oceans.
To the rescue - plate tectonics started a cascade of processes - that by around 5 AM induced Earth’s iron core to turn into a dynamo that built a magnetic force field around Earth, thus deflecting those deadly particles. This allowed the slow seepage of geochemically produced oxygen to interact with the sun’s rays, this in turn allowed ozone to form and accumulate, absorbing ever more of those harmful rays.
As Earth’s shielding developed, life figured out how to utilize the tamed sunlight to split water’s H2O bond, using the hydrogen atoms to build sugars while discarding the oxygen. Thus photosynthesis, a potent source of oxygen, was born and Earth’s ozone shielding got reinforced.
Still, the global ocean and atmosphere was a brew of toxins. Though geology and biology was busy cleaning that up, albeit at a glacial pace.
Geology acts very slowly. How slow is slow, you ask? Consider taking a trip around the world moving as fast as your fingernails grow. Worse, upon your arrival you collide and are sent reeling right back across the planet, again and again.
One result was that shallow seas and massive tidal pools existed for immense periods of time, coming and going. While continents were creeping along the archaic microorganisms within those oceans were reproducing every day, in hours and minutes.
By afternoon, some simple cells expanded, sequestering their command and control within a reinforced citadel (the nucleus), while created new components, structures and pathways within the much larger fortified cell membrane. These cells even recruited outside microbes to help with the increasing work load and differentiating duties. Thus Earth’s first Eukaryotes appeared.
In learning about this scientists made a fundamental realization: cell biology and organisms, their development and evolution, cannot be considered without also understanding the environment within which they exist, and to which they must constantly adjust in order to thrive.
So it was, by 3 PM eukaryotes were firmly established, pushing Life’s potential as far as the environment allowed. Then back to biding time, waiting for what came next as Earth continued going through its great geochemical and geophysical convulsions, including continent grinding global ice ages.
By 7 PM ocean chemistry was moderating while free oxygen levels achieved concentrations that allowed those complex eukaryotes to evolve into coordinated communities and then into Earth’s first critters.
But, it was a rough time. When communities of critters had a chance to develop and reproduce enough to make a difference, they made a difference alright. They were too bountiful and sucked free oxygen right back out of their environments. Suffocating themselves into extinction, until stromatolites could pump out enough oxygen for another go. One day at a time.
Apparently, living in moderation never was part of Earth’s natural order. Of course, the consequences of this tendency towards excess has always been collapse.
So, around 9 PM and after some 17 hours worth of stage prep; developing various genetic widgets and gadgets like a Lego set; a few rehearsals; now the timing was right - Life took off like unchaperoned teenagers at a springtime full moon dance.
The Ediacaran “Explosion” lasting around 12 minutes before an extinction event handed Life’s baton over to about 7 minutes worth of the Cambrian “Explosion.” During this third of an hour most of Life’s basic animal body plans (Phylum) appeared, filling every available niche.
The apparent suddenness was even a dilemma for Charles Darwin, since this sudden fossil proliferation was already recognized back then. Today we understand it as an “eye of the beholder” problem. Looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
160 years of collecting and processing evidence has resolved a time span of 70 to 90 million years worth of biological adventurism. Geologically, it’s shockingly short. Biologically, not so much.
Why was the Cambrian radiation so exuberant? Short answer, Earth was ripe and Life was ready. There were no precedents. No competition. No rules. No constraints. Endless microbial mats on sea floors. Generations ticking away in geologic milliseconds.
As increasingly complex and efficient primal animals consumed all those microbial mats things started getting grime, competition was born along with it’s hunting and defense strategies. Next thing we see is an arms race and ecology developing as life settles in for the long haul.
Except for periodic massive catastrophic tectonic upheavals, or the occasional asteroid impact, knocking the pins out from under Earth’s biosphere.
When radical geophysical catastrophes has Life scrambling again, it returns to its ancient genetic toolkit. As the dust settles and survivors figure out what’s what, there were always moments of sudden “explosive” (geologically speaking) animal radiation events.
Life would repurpose its genetic heritage, body plans adapted, animals radiated, and survivors learned to thrive in their brave new world. Some say since the Cambrian, Earth’s story has simply been variations on those themes as life dances to climate. But, all that must wait for another FCFP issue.
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An index of this collection of my favorite YouTube videos dedicated to a better appreciation of Earth’s pageant of evolution to date:
September 30, 2019
Martin Smith - Origins Ecdysozoan Body Plans - What a scientist sounds like.
September 26, 2019
Keith Peterson - Cambrian - Molecular Clock - What a scientist sounds like.
September 23, 2019
Diego Garcia-Bellido - Animal Dawn - What a scientist sounds like.
September 21, 2019
Jackson Wheat - Cambrian “Explosion” - What a science communicator sounds like
September 19, 2019
Religious Thinking v. Scientific Thinking
September 12, 2019
Prof. Christopher White - Historical Geology - What a Professor sounds like.
September 11, 2019
Liu, Carbone, Brasier, Corfield, Wood - Ediacaran Marine Ecosystem - What scientists sound like.
September 9, 2019
Mary L. Droser - Ediacara Biota - What a scientist sounds like.
September 8, 2019
Murray Gingras - 585 MYA ani mal tracks - What a scientist sounds like
August 31, 2019
Pageant of Evolution (3), Earth’s story in 24 hours.
{Four Corner’s Free Press column}
August 30, 2019
Diary 8/30/2019 - Life happens.
August 24, 2019
Jeff Gee, Joanna Haigh - Earth’s Magnetic Force Field - What a scientist sounds like
August 23, 2019
David Bercovici - Origin of Plate Tectonics - What a scientist sounds like.
August 22, 2019
Caroline Beghein - Tectonics to Deep Earth Dynamics - What a scientist sounds like
August 20, 2019
Jason Morgan - history of plate tectonics - What a scientist sounds like
August 19, 2019
Plate Tectonics and Life - What Scientists Sound Like
August 17, 2019
Paul Hoffman - Snowball Earth explained - What a scientist sounds like.
August 14, 2019
Pageant of Evolution (2), geological rearranging.
{Four Corner’s Free Press column}
August 12, 2019
Diary August 11, 2019 - Defeated? What’s that mean?
August 10, 2019
Michael Russell - Emergence, serpentinization engine, electron exchange - What a scientist sounds like.
August 7, 2019
Jack Szostak - Origins, geochemistry to biochemistry - What a scientist sounds like.
August 4, 2019
Robert Hazen - Origins, mineral evolution - What a scientist sounds like.
August 2, 2019
Pageant of Evolution (1), the warm up.
{Four Corner’s Free Press column}
July 29, 2019
David Attenborough communicator extraordinaire - Life on Earth, Living Planet
July 29, 2019
Ben Burger, Rocks of Utah - geology videos - What a scientist sounds like.
July 22, 2019
James Sadd, Earth Revealed - video geology course - What a scientist sounds like.
July 20, 2019
Nick Zentner’s Geology Video Collection - Washington state - What a scientist sounds like.
July 3, 2019
Wayne Ranney’s Geology Video Collection - Colorado Plateau Evolution - What a scientist sounds like.
August 31, 2019
Diary July 31, 2019 - About this pageant of evolution.
I already am familiar with the issues actually. You need to do more than pretend you are. Find a point and try to support it. Fable mongering and spamming doesn’t cut it. There is nothing you can put on the table and support, so stop spamming useless links unless you can lift some point from one of them for discussion.
Take any of those titles and do a google, a world of potential learning will blossom before your eyes.Oh and that was part one of a two part essay - “Pageant of Earth’s Evolution In 24hr”
Dec. 7, 2019In the first half of this look at Earth’s 4.6 billion year old pageant of Evolution, scaled down to 24 hours, Earth’s first enduring Life took about 4 hours to claw together an existence within very tiny, very simple, very protective sacks, against an extremely harsh environment.
After that, Evolution progressed very slowly. Why? Because Earth’s hostile environment provided limited means, this stifled further development. Which brings us to a key early scientific breakthrough in perspective, namely that an organism cannot be understood without also understanding the environment it lives within.
It took another 17 hours worth of Earth’s geology and biology combining forces to process and tame Earth’s raw materials to the point that descendants of those simple cells had the means to do more. Developing environments with changing conditions(ocean, atmosphere, chemistry, nutrients, climatic conditions, tectonics) these are what enabled spectacular innovations and expansion.
In a poetic sense Earth’s geology taught biology by providing building blocks and forcing it to adapt to changing conditions. Life continually repurposed its genetic heritage, body parts were re-proportioned, modifications made, animals radiated, and survivors learned to thrive in their brave new environments.
The increasing interaction of plants, animals, predators, prey, sensing, grasping, protecting, hiding, thinking – the stuff of competition, all of it working together giving birth to ecology and the outlines of today’s world during the Cambrian Period.
Since about 9:00 PM, or 500 million years ago, Earth’s Evolution has simply been variations on those themes as Life danced to climate, plate tectonics and celestialinfluences.
Around 9:30 PM, or 443 million years ago, the third period of Earth’s Paleozoic Era(old life) begins with 14 minutes of the Ordovician Period and growing continents around the southern hemisphere. Jostling each other caused erratic sea level rise and increased continental erosion dumped into the seas, while first plants emerged on land. When continents converged around the South Pole another killer ice age was initiated.
¶8] The 9 minute Silurian Period brought in another resurgence of Life and diversifying species as those continents drifted north through the temperate climate zone.
The Devonian Period, at about 9:50 PM, lasted nearly 18 minutes with continents aligning along the equator, then slowly coalescing into another supercontinent called Pangea. Tougher environments and climate served to force Life to evolve better solutions, such as seeds.
Pangea related tectonics caused increased volcanoes, disappearing shallow seas, and poisoned the ocean. This forced another round of smaller extinctions. It also drove desperate refugees to diversify and explore river systems and land habitats.
By 10:07 PM with dust settling, the warming Carboniferous Period became a big dealbecause the air contained 35% oxygen. Life on land soaked it in, insects became giants, plants became lush forests and genetic tinkering landed upon the egg.
The 18 minute long Carboniferous came in with glaciers, went out with droughts and deserts, causing another collapse at 10:27 PM. When conditions improved a slimmed down Permian Period biota rebounded for 15 minutes.
Then around 10:41 PM, a volcanic event like none other occurred. Under Siberia a hot lava plume encountered a subducting oceanic plate with all of its carbon rich rock, organics, and sea water. The hot plume melted into sills, creating immense vapor pressure, before continuing to the surface and an unimaginably powerful and dirty explosion.
After which the Siberian Traps continued erupting in ‘normal’ fashion for the next million years. Over 90% of ocean Life and two-thirds of land animals disappeared. So ended the Paleozoic Era at 252 Million Years ago.
The Mesozoic (middle life) Era begins with 16 minutes of the Triassic Period. Again the few survivors didn’t miss a beat. Among the most noteworthy adaptations were tetrapods (four feet) who differentiated into distinct amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, mammal-like reptiles and bird lineages. Plants also reached new heights and complexity, while insects scaled down and prospered, as did ocean Life.
¶16] Pangea was now breaking up and again causing intensified volcanic activity, decimating the Triassic Period biota. Survivors included dinosaurs who quickly radiated and dominated the following 17 minutes of the Jurassic Period and 25 minutes of the Cretaceous Period. Mammal-like critters kept it small, though diversifying just the same. Flowers and fruit appeared, reptiles and amphibians also prospered.
Then a well aimed mountain sized space rock crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula, releasing truly catastrophic cascading consequences 65 million years ago. Thus ended the hour long Mesozoic Era with three-quarters of animals and all non-avian dinosaurs dead, along with forests and jungles burned to a crisp. This was a mere 20 minutes ago.
Those forests and jungles, along with the atmosphere and oceans, eventually recoveredand created new environments and conditions that enabled new groups of survivors to inherit the bounty and figure out how to exploit every possible niche during the Cenozoic (new life) Era.
Again Life’s evolving genetic toolkit enabled fantastical adaptations and diversificationinto the modern forests and grasslands that spread into previously uninhabitable harsh barren lands. Once mammals figured out how to exploit these new resources they filled every imaginable environmental niche on our Earth.
Among mammals were primates, with one branch leading to the first hominids 2 minutes ago. Through them modern humans appeared all of 6 seconds ago.
In the past milliseconds we humans have learned to reflect upon this universe and ourselves. We have become masters of science and manipulating the physical world.
We know much, but understand next to nothing, as demonstrated by (*) our wanton destruction of the biosphere we depend on for everything.
Humanity’s gluttonous self-serving instincts are inflicting reckless damages upon our planet and her biosphere like never before. We have been injecting ever moreinsulating CO2 into our atmosphere and carbonic-acid into our oceans - unlike anything since the triggers to the Permian/Triassic super extinction event.
What else is left to say? Not much, except perhaps to point out there will be consequences for our society’s flippant disregard of our Mother Earth, her life history, and her needs.
I lit up that text with over 160 links that range from published scientific papers, science articles and YouTube videos. Because, I’ve come to like creating Student Resources - issue focused bibliographies, of solid information, to help save them time with their projects, and lend a little support to those with their own unique ideas.
That’s why I’ve listed and share the following titles and authors in the order of their appearance. Over at my blog these are all linked to the source. It’s about providing the information that I based my understanding on. I can’t hand feed @Dad1, you need to have some genuine good faith curiosity - but I don’t sense that in you. You seem more the warrior, your’s is not to think, but to overcome and vanquish. Though it would be fun if you had more substance than this handwaving and gotchas you’re shown us thus far.
It’s easy for people who simply want to confuse and misdirect attention and energy in order to avoid the real issues at hand, to toss up all sorts of demands and expectations, and attitude, yet somehow feel they themselves are immune from meeting those same expectations. Your double standard is horrendous.
I would love to field some serious questions about specifics because I love trying to explain this stuff, since that helps me understand it better for myself. I don’t play keep away or gotcha games, I’ll lay out my cards and defend them as challenged, always want to learn a little more.
I believe in an honest scientific style debate which means, representing my ideas and just as importantly (to the best of my ability) honestly representing the ideas of others. Debates where truth is law, a willful deception is damnable. Where mistakes are for learning - rather than for creating bludgeons.
Why because better personal understanding is my goal. I don’t have an agenda beyond endlessly striving to better understand this world, myself, and my human family, the human condition.
Although I will say I feel a tad feisty toward people who presume to represent “God” - because at 66 can say as a young lad I took to heart the Biblical invitation, SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND. I seeked and sonny let me tell you I have found. I know god’s breath against my back and I know my puniness in the face of it all. I am appreciation my moment of existence where I literally am the eye’s of the universe, since only through it’s creations could an ephemeral god, be able to know itself. I am a biological being, and animal creature of Earth’s divining, here to live every day aware and in grateful awe, then I die. But I will live on, within the hearts and minds of others. And it is good. And it is real.
You got ego and attitude. You know nothing of god and I see through you. So, you wanna have a friend civil human conversation or want to keep playing your dog chasing tail game? Your choice, but don’t fancy you’re fooling anyone over here.
(an unexpected digression that I don’t intend to edit out, back to the preceding program…)
… Tragically, I find too many believe in the lawyerly, political debate where winning is everything and concepts such as honesty, honor, constructive learning are dismissed with contempt. That path only lead to ultimate self destruction.
Please refer to #346592
List of titles, authors to all the links embedded within Pageant of Evolution, part two:¶ 1 …
the first half = Pageant of Earth’s Evolution (in 24hr) part one
pageant of Evolution = video_The Emergence of Life on Earth, Robert Hazen, March 15, 2012
first = Paper_Unearthing the First Cellular Innovations, Nick Lane
enduring Life = video, How Energy Flow Shapes The Evolution of Life, Nick Lane, Feb 14, 2018
about 4 hours = video_The Origin of Cellular Life on Earth, Jack Szostak, 2012
claw together = How life evolved: 10 steps to the first cells
existence = Earliest evidence of life on Earth ‘found’ ……By Pallab Ghosh, BBC News,1 March 2017
simple = Archaea, Wiki article
protective sacks = The first cell membranes, Deamer, et al, 2002
harsh environment. = Paper_Early Earth Had a Hazy, Methane-filled Atmosphere¶ 2 …
Evolution progressed = video_Inevitable Life?, Eric Smith, Professor, Santa Fe Institute, April 18, 2007
very slowly - Why Did Earth Have a Poison-Filled “Boring Billion” Years?, Rebecca Kessler, Feb 25, 2011
hostile environment = video_How Oxygen Can Alter Evolution and Adaptation of Life in the Ocean, Erik Sperling
limited means, = Iron toxicity for cyanobacteria delayed oxygen accumulation in early Earth’s atmosphere, Swanner et al. 2015
stifled further development. = Earth’s ‘boring billion’ years of stagnant, stinking oceans might actually have been rather dynamic, by Simon Poulton
key early scientific breakthrough = Philosophy of Cell Biology, 2019
perspective, = Story of Dr. Peter Mitchell, biochemistry, chemiosmotic theory, bioenergetics.
environment = Chapter 5: THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT, project2061_org, American Association for the Advancement of Science¶ 3 …
geology and biology = The co-evolution of Life and Earth, Dietrich et al. 2017
combining forces =Geology Intersects Biology, Laura Levis
process and tame = paper_The timetable of evolution, May 17, 2017
to the point that = Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion
descendants = = Archaea: Morphology, ucmp.berkeley_edu
had the means = video_How Energy Flow Shapes The Evolution of Life - Professor Nick Lane
Developing environments = Poster_Earth Evolution, intersection of Geology and Biology, May 19, 2017
changing conditions = Life: Evolution and Extinction, WGBH
ocean = Oceans Through Time, ocean.si_edu
atmosphere = The earth’s original atmosphere, atmo.arizona.edu/students
spectacular innovations and expansion = Animal Dawn - Dr. Diego Garcia-Bellido, 2016¶ 4 …
geology taught biology = Geobiology - Life Emergent, Helen Hill, 2014
building blocks = The evolution of geobiology in the context of living stromatolites, Spear, Corsetti, 2013
forcing it to adapt = Tempo And Mode In Evolution: Genetics And Paleontology 50 Years After Simpson.
changing conditions = Evolution Of The Atmosphere: Composition, Structure And Energy, globalchange.umich.edu
repurposed = How skates and rays got their wings, University of Chicago Medical Center, 2015
genetic heritage = The Concept of Co-option: Why Evolution Often Looks Miraculous, McLennan, 2008
body parts = paper_Developmental-Genetic Toolkit for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Schneider, Amemiya, Dec 2016
modifications made = The Continuing Evolution of Genes, Zimmer, 2014
learned to thrive = What is biodiversity?, Lenne, 2019
brave new environments = Reciprocality between biology and geology: Reconstructing polar Gondwana, Michaux, 2009¶5
increasing interaction = ‘Evo-devo’ biology tackles evolutionary history’s unanswered questions, Indiana University, 2014
stuff of competition = paper_Rethinking Early Evolution: Earth’s Earliest Animal Ecosystem Was Complex And Included Sexual Reproduction, University of California - Riverside, 2008
working together = The Evolution of Evo-Devo Biology, Goodman, Coughlin, 2000
ecology = video_The Ediacaran Period: Glimpses of the Earth’s Earliest Animals, Calla Carbone, 2016
outlines of today’s world = video_The origins of Ecdysozoan body plans, Martin Smith, 2017¶6
variations on those themes = Fossils of the Cambrian Period, fossilmuseum.net
plate tectonics = video_Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau, Wayne Ranney, 2015
climate = Earth’s Earliest Climate, Angela M. Hessler, 2011
celestial = Bombardment of the early Solar System, Nature Geoscience, July 2013
influences = Milankovitch Cycles, OpenSourceSystems.foundation.us¶7
Paleozoic Era = video_The Hidden Secrets of the Ordovician Age, Richard Smith, Oct 21, 2014
old life = Paleozoic Era, /palaeos.com/paleozoic/index_html
Ordovician Period = Ordovician Period, earth.usc_edu
Jostling = video_1.5 billion years of Plate Tectonics, C.R. Scotese, Oct 1, 2017
first plants = video_How plants crawled out of the sea, Oct 5, 2015
on land = The first conquerors of land, Vasika Udurawane, EarthArchives.org
converged around the South Pole = 50 years ago, an Antarctic fossil pointed to Gondwanaland’s existence, Maria Temming, 2019
killer ice age = paper_The Magnitude and Duration of Late Ordovician–Early Silurian Glaciation, February 11, 2011¶8
Silurian Period = The Silurian - 443 to 417 Million Years Ago, Paleoportal.org
diversifying species = paper_Diversity Dynamics of Silurian–Early Carboniferous Land Plants in South China, September 20, 2013¶9
Devonian Period = Devonian Period, Ohio History Central
18 minutes = The First Forests, DevonianTimes.org
continents aligning = paper_On the sensitivity of the Devonian climate to continental configuration, vegetation cover and insolation, Brugger et al., 2018
Pangea = Facts About Pangaea the Most Recent Supercontinent
seeds = Seed Evolution Webpage, seedbiology_de¶10
Pangea = Coal formation linked to assembly of supercontinent Pangea, Nelsen et al., 2016
tectonics = 1.5 billion years of Plate Tectonics, C.R. Scotese, Oct 1, 2017
poisoned the ocean = What caused Earth’s biggest mass extinction?, Hannah Hickey, Dec 6, 2018
refugees = Why Did Life Move to Land? For the View, Jennifer Ouellette, March 7, 2017
explore = Evolution and Function of Freshwater Ecosystems, Pokorný P.
systems = Book_Freshwater Fishes: 250 Million Years of Evolutionary History
land habitats = Evolution: Out Of The Sea, Christie Wilcox, July 28, 2012¶11
Carboniferous Period = Plants Cover The Earth, fossils-facts-and-finds.com
a big deal = paper_Formation of most of our coal brought Earth close to global glaciation, Georg Feulner, 2017
35% oxygen = The Age of Oxygen (400 MYA to 290 MYA), Smithsonian Institution
land soaked it in = Coal formation linked to assembly of supercontinent Pangea, Ker Than, Jan 20, 2016
insects = Video_ The Age of Giant Insects, PBS Eons, Sep 18, 2017
giants = Why Giant Bugs Once Roamed the Earth, By Ker Than, August 9, 2011
plants = Early Plant Life, LumenLearning.com
forests = The First Forests, Sedeer el-Showk, July 08, 2013
egg = Eggs and Their Evolution, stanford.edu¶12
biota = A hidden cradle of plant evolution in Permian tropical lowlands, Blomenkemper, 2018
for 15 minutes = Permian to Triassic, British Geologic Survey,¶13
like none other = End-Permian extinction, which wiped out most of Earth’s species, was instantaneous in geological time, by Jennifer Chu, Sept. 19, 2018
melted into sills = paper_Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction, Burgess et al., 2017¶14
Siberian Traps = Earth’s worst extinction “inescapably” tied to Siberian Traps, CO2, and climate change, Howard Lee, October 14, 2015
So ended = Siberian Traps likely culprit for end-Permian extinction, Jennifer Chu, Sept 16, 2015¶15
Mesozoic = The Mesozoic Era, palaeos.com
middle life = The Mesozoic Era IV: Flowers and Mammals, University of Maryland, Tholtz, 2011
begins = The Triassic Period: the rise of the dinosaurs, Josh Davis, August 27, 2019
Triassic Period = Reptiles Inherit The Earth, fossils-facts-and-finds.com
didn’t miss a beat = Life in the Aftermath of Mass Extinctions, Pincelli Hull, Oct. 5, 2015
noteworthy = Closing Romer’s Gap: The story so far, National Museums Scotland
adaptations = The origin of tetrapods, Evolution.Berkeley_edu
tetrapods = The Basic Groups of Tetrapods Evolved - Lecture 9, EESC.columbia.edu,
four feet = Tetrapod Triumph! Solving Mystery Of First Land Vertebrates, By Gemma Tarlach, Dec 5, 2016
who = Paleobiology of the Mesozoic Era, FossilMuseum.net
differentiated = Wings, Legs, and Fins: How Do New Organs Arise in Evolution?, Neil Shubin, 2009
amphibians = The evolution of Amphibians: The Conquest of Land, David López Bosch, July 2015
reptiles = The genesis of reptiles and the amniotic egg, ReptileEvolution.com
dinosaurs = How Did Dinosaurs Evolve?, Bob Strauss, April 18, 2018
mammal-like reptiles = The Stem-Mammals–a Brief Primer, Darren Naish, Sept 20, 2016
bird = Earliest Beginnings Of Bird Evolution Brought Into Focus With New DNA Analysis, AllAboutBirds_com Oct 5, 2015
lineages = Origin and Evolution of Birds, UntamedScience_com
Plants = The evolution of plants part 4: A tale of flowers and seeds, Vasika Udurawane
new heights = video_How did plants become forests during the Carboniferous?, Benjamin Burger, Nov 7, 2015
scaled down = Reign of the giant insects ended with the evolution of birds, Tim Stephens, June 04, 2012
did = paper_A bottom-up perspective on ecosystem change in Mesozoic oceans, Knoll, Follows, 2016
ocean Life = Greenhouse World and The Mesozoic Oceans, Takashima et al., 2006¶16
Pangea = Breakup of supercontinent Pangea cooled mantle and thinned crust, University of Texas at Austin, Dec 2016
now breaking up = paper_Quantifying the effects of the break up of Pangaea on global terrestrial diversification with neutral theory, Jordan 2016
decimating = Life between extinctions: cracking open the Cretaceous period, Katie Kline, Mar 25, 2010
Triassic Period = 3.4.3. Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, ldeo.columbia_edu
biota = Triassic Period, GeologyPage_com, April 7, 2014
reptiles = Ancestral Reptiles of the Carboniferous and Permian Periods, ThoughtCo.com
Survivors included dinosaurs = Decade of fossil collecting gives new perspective on Triassic period, emergence of dinosaurs, University of Washington, March 28, 2018
Jurassic Period = Jurassic Period, ScienceViews_com
critters = The Evolution of the First Mammals, Bob Strauss, June 24, 2019
Cretaceous Period= What can the Cretaceous tell us about our climate?, Philip Pika, August 20, 2018
Mammal-like = Synapsid, Wikipedia
diversifying = Two studies, two answers: When exactly did mammals emerge?, Brad Balukjian, Aug 7, 2013
Flowers = Evolving Ideas on the Origin and Evolution of Flowers: New Perspectives in the Genomic Era, Andre S. Chanderbali, et al., 2016
fruit = 26.1C: Evolution of Angiosperms, LibreTexts, Nov, 19,2019
reptiles = The First Reptiles, ThoughtCo_com
amphibians = Cretaceous Amphibians, Western Australian Museum, 2014¶17
a well aimed = Fossil Site Reveals Day That Meteor Hit Earth and, Maybe, Wiped Out Dinosaurs, Broad and, Chang, March 29, 2019
space rock crashed into = The Impact That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs, Hartmann, Planetary Science Institute
Mesozoic Era = The Mesozoic era, AustralianMuseum.net¶18
eventually recovered = How long did it take for life to rebound after the death of the dinosaurs?, Sarah Kaplan, Nov. 7, 2016
survivors = Placental Mammals Originated On Earth 65 Million Years Ago, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, June 21, 2007
Cenozoic = Cenozoic Era, University of Kansas
new life = The Cenozoic, Palaeos.com¶19
genetic toolkit = paper_Developmental-Genetic Toolkit for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Schneider, Amemiya, Dec 2016
adaptations and diversification = Misconceptions about evolution, berkley.edu
modern = Rising fast: the first trees, EarthHistory_org_uk
forests = Tracing the evolution of forest trees, Marlene Cimons, Nov 2014
grasslands = How did grasses alter Earth’s ecosystem?, Caroline Strőmberg, June 8, 2015
mammals = Flowering plants, new teeth and no dinosaurs: New study sheds light on the rise of mammals, University of Washington, May 1, 2019
how to exploit = The idiosyncratic mammalian diversification after extinction of the dinosaurs, Peter Moon, Dec 21, 2018¶20
primates = The First Primates, Palomar.edu
first hominids = Infographic_Human Evolution: A Timeline of Early Hominids, EarthHow_com, Sept 2, 2018
modern humans - Homo sapiens – modern humans, Fran Dorey, 11/12/18
appeared = World History Timelines - Mapping Two Million Years of Humanity, K. Kris Hirst, August 31, 2019
6 seconds = Human History Timeline, human history timeline_com¶21
past milliseconds = book_The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events, Based on Werner Stein’s Kulturfahrplan, Bernard Grun
learned = The Evolution of Philosophy, Christopher J. Wills, Sept 2012
reflect = Abbreviated and simplified history of Western Philosophy, PhilosophyBasics.com
masters of science = Timeline of scientific discoveries, From Wikipedia
manipulating the physical world = How Are We Changing the Physical Environment of Earth’s Surface?, NAP.edu¶22
We know much = The Birth of Modern Science, TheGreatCoursesDaily.com
but understand next to nothing = The missing key to Stephen Gould’s Nonoverlapping Magisteria, citizenschallenge_blogspot_com
demonstrated by = “Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot” PopulationSpeakOut_org
(*) = DeepEcology_org
wanton destruction = Powerful new map depicts environmental degradation across Earth, by Michael Miller, Nov 19, 2018¶23
Humanity’s gluttonous = The Evolution of Human Gluttony, Nathan Lents, Sept 20, 2014
self-serving = paper_Human Domination of Earth’s Ecosystems, Vitouse et al. 1997,
inflicting reckless damages = Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk, say scientists, Oliver Milman, Jan 15, 2015
like never before = Human impact has pushed Earth into the Anthropocene, scientists say, Adam Vaughan, Jan 7, 2016
injecting ever more = How we measure background CO2 levels on Mauna Loa, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA
insulating CO2 = CO2 Science - Blue team: "Pruitt, it’s certain as certain gets! It’s the physics! Don’t you know???, ConfrontingScienceContrarians, citizenschallenge
carbonic-acid = The Chemistry of Ocean Acidification, PMEL_NOAA_gov
since the triggers = The Great Permian Extinction: When all life on Earth almost vanish, Jackson Chambers, 2016¶24
Not much = Peter, why are you an Earth Centrist?
there will be consequences = FOURTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT, nca2018_globalchange_gov
Mother Earth = Our Changing Biosphere, serc.carleton_edu
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Rather than try to look at the entire spam list, I will pick the first point and allow you to try to support it.
Here it is below
¶ 1 … the first half = Pageant of Earth’s Evolution (in 24hr) part one pageant of Evolution = video_The Emergence of Life on Earth, Robert Hazen, March 15, 2012 first = Paper_Unearthing the First Cellular Innovations, Nick LaneSo, have you any evidence for these points? In your own words, post the support. (hint: do not offer some series of hour long videos that supposedly agree with you)
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Life took about 4 hours to claw together an existence within very tiny, very simple, very protective sacks, against an extremely harsh environmentGreat we have a specific claim. Prove it! You could say the earth shot out from the rear of a turtle...so? Support the claim.
For lurkers: the specific claim that it took about 4 hours for life to start existing on earth, for example needs support. How does the poster think he knows this?
Great we have a specific claim. Prove it! You could say the earth shot out from the rear of a turtle…so? Support the claim. --dad1Took me a minute to search for that quote. You left out the "scaled down to 24 hours" part. I'm not going to explain what that means.
In the first half of this look at Earth’s 4.6 billion year old pageant of Evolution, scaled down to 24 hours, Earth’s first enduring Life took about 4 hours to claw together an existence within very tiny, very simple, very protective sacks, against an extremely harsh environment. -- CCYou know that the turtle's butt argument is one that people use against religion, right? How do you discern your thoughts on creation against that ridiculous hypothesis?