[Vision2020] Evolution's Sky

Wed Nov 9 20:45:25 PST 2005

Actually Hanson, that is a poem I wrote much earlier and later perfected 
from conversations with noted molecular biologist RD Brown while he and I 
were working on the idea of atmospheric generation of preliminary genetic 
materials sourced from the combination of clay particles as substrates for 
catalysts of iron-nickel-cobalt from Archean asteroid strikes.  Dr Brown 
bailed before we finished working on the paper, which was understandable 
because he was given one heck of a deal to run a major lab with about 100 
million in research funding.

The introduction of blue green algae into the preliminary atmosphere, 
something quite toxic to all of us creatures who later followed, caused the 
first very large planetary die off as they literally shat their way through 
the CO2 eats to form an air rich in oxygen that killed they and most species 
adapted to the 20% CO2 of the atmosphere then current.  That rapidly cooled 
the planet and allowed the formation of large oceans.  Venus is today much 
as our planet was back then.  It is perfectly possible for us to one day 
terraform Venus simply by introducing blue green algae to its upper 
atmosphere (Indeed, it might just be that our probes might just do that on 
their way down to the surface of that planet.)

Now I realize that deeper thoughts in poetry must strike you as things 
written about acid trips of Rock Stars (Hendrix was one hell of a guitar 
player, but not exactly noted for his lyrical accomplishments.), but there 
are reasons for writing enjoyable and educational verse.  Its point is to 
make you think and look more deeply into yourself and the world around you.  
Acid and drugs are not actually required to do this and may really tend to 
stop you now and in the future from seeing that deeply.

I posted that poem at this time because obviously the debate here about 
evolution versus intelligent design has so far focused almost exclusively on 
ID rather than even looking at what is taught as evolution in the schools.  
So, what is evolution?   Is what they are feeding the kids in school as 
being evolution really science or is it a theology dressed in sheep’s 
clothing?

Because I have been listening to defenses of Darwin and things about gaps in 
evolution that are simply terrible science from just about all who post 
here.  How exactly can you support the teaching of something that you have 
little or no understanding of and that few if any teachers teaching can even 
hope to discuss logically with their students?

Phil Nisbet

>From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>To: "'Phil Nisbet'" <pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com>, <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Evolution's Sky
>Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 20:02:16 -0800
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>"Purple haze all in my brain
>Lately things just don't seem the same
>Actin' funny, but I don't know why
>'Scuse me while I kiss the sky"
>
>- Jimi Hendrix 1967
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>"Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the
>other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force
>That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers."
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>- Dave Barry
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>The carbon oxide atmosphere
>Of the swirling mist of time
>That damps the cool of healing rain
>To the Proterozoic slime
>Creeping in a puddled mass
>Eating toxins by the ream
>To the tune of hissing vapor trails
>Of an ultraviolet dream
>
>And in the sky high interface
>Where the universe begins
>On the seed of a fleck of iron dust
>Twists the root of creation
>As green spore chloroplast takes shape
>A new era has been spawned
>That will see the borning chain to eyes
>Which may gaze upon the dawn
>
>A ladder twining in the sun
>That in just two billion years
>Will fill three quarters of the planet up
>With an ocean made of tears
>That will bake to vapor in Sol’s heat
>As it reaches for the sky once more
>To stand on the edge of the universe
>With the stars to sing the score
>
>So play me Venus when you cool
>For I’ve lost my taste for earth
>And I’ve cried my tears in oceans
>In the place that gave me birth
>And lift me on a water jet
>To the dark and sultry sky
>And let me taste the universe
>Just once before I die
>
>PC Nisbet 2002
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