Changing World.
When I look out the window and see blue sky, some white fluffy clouds and maybe even a rainbow, it is a surprise to learn that at one time things were a great deal different than they are now. The theme of this little piece is world change and actions that can be intentional or without intension.
Approximately two point seven billion years ago was the start of the production of oxygen and it took about one hundred million years before enough oxygen was produced for the start of air breathing life. Before that time there was bacterial life that could survive without oxygen, but due to ocean microbes there came a time when through the process of photosynthesis, oxygen as a waste product could be produced. A full day at that time lasted six hours, as the earth was spinning faster and since then its spin is slowing down.
All life is vulnerable to catastrophic events and there has been many annihilations of different species. When the dinosaurs disappeared, except for birds, there was an opportunity for other small species to flourish. Dinosaurs disappeared about sixty five million years ago and first appeared about two hundred and forty million years ago. That is quite impressive when compared to human origins.
If I was to look out the window of prehistory, the weather may well have been cold and icy. In the distance I would probably have been able to see several creatures by the name of Ardipithecus. These creatures walked erect on two legs and would have been making their way to more hospitable terrain. Of the many species in early hominids, Ardipithecus is truly the bridge of apes to humans. With long arms stretching down to the knees and hands that were half ape and human, the face was flatter and more human like. Shorter and lighter, with a much smaller skull and brain capacity compared with modern man, these beings would have been seen at a time that was about four point four million years ago.
About forty to fifty thousand years ago there were three species of humans competing for survival. Evidence of this is in modern day human DNA. Evolution is not like a row of dice toppling on each other but a bush with twigs ending with extinct species.
The world itself is argued to be a result of unintentional actions from tiny pieces of evolved star mater that due to natural process over time have become a bulging off centre, spinning rock.
Although invisible, there is a continuous change in the magnetic strength and polarity of the earth’s magnetic field.
I believe that there are natural forces without intension and subsequently over time more actions in the form of agents with intension. However the consequences of intended actions may result in unfortunate repercussions. The elephant in the room is global warming.
The unintentional production of oxygen was beneficial to some life, although poison to others.
The demise of dinosaurs gave the opportunity for small and diverse life to flourish.
Life adapts to changing environment and although for some, the change is too drastic or fast, it could be suggested that in the long term new life has the opportunity to thrive and prosper.
Approximately two point seven billion years ago was the start of the production of oxygen and it took about one hundred million years before enough oxygen was produced for the start of air breathing life. Before that time there was bacterial life that could survive without oxygen, but due to ocean microbes there came a time when through the process of photosynthesis, oxygen as a waste product could be produced. A full day at that time lasted six hours, as the earth was spinning faster and since then its spin is slowing down.
All life is vulnerable to catastrophic events and there has been many annihilations of different species. When the dinosaurs disappeared, except for birds, there was an opportunity for other small species to flourish. Dinosaurs disappeared about sixty five million years ago and first appeared about two hundred and forty million years ago. That is quite impressive when compared to human origins.
If I was to look out the window of prehistory, the weather may well have been cold and icy. In the distance I would probably have been able to see several creatures by the name of Ardipithecus. These creatures walked erect on two legs and would have been making their way to more hospitable terrain. Of the many species in early hominids, Ardipithecus is truly the bridge of apes to humans. With long arms stretching down to the knees and hands that were half ape and human, the face was flatter and more human like. Shorter and lighter, with a much smaller skull and brain capacity compared with modern man, these beings would have been seen at a time that was about four point four million years ago.
About forty to fifty thousand years ago there were three species of humans competing for survival. Evidence of this is in modern day human DNA. Evolution is not like a row of dice toppling on each other but a bush with twigs ending with extinct species.
The world itself is argued to be a result of unintentional actions from tiny pieces of evolved star mater that due to natural process over time have become a bulging off centre, spinning rock.
Although invisible, there is a continuous change in the magnetic strength and polarity of the earth’s magnetic field.
I believe that there are natural forces without intension and subsequently over time more actions in the form of agents with intension. However the consequences of intended actions may result in unfortunate repercussions. The elephant in the room is global warming.
The unintentional production of oxygen was beneficial to some life, although poison to others.
The demise of dinosaurs gave the opportunity for small and diverse life to flourish.
Life adapts to changing environment and although for some, the change is too drastic or fast, it could be suggested that in the long term new life has the opportunity to thrive and prosper.
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