Showing posts with label bacteria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bacteria. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Bacteria will have 7 billion years of life on Earth : homo sapiens lucky to see 7 million

If statistical evidence from the fossil record is anything to go by, the bacteria will live on Earth at least one thousand times longer than us homo sapiens.

Now biology books that highlighted this inconvenient truth by reviewing the entire passage of life on earth from beginning to predicted end at least would not fall into the normal "GREAT CHAIN OF  EUGENIC BEING" trap.

Humans the Michael Ignatieff of Biology ?

Are humans 'just visiting' planet Earth ?

Just a parasite-predator 'taker' feeding off the hard work of humble autotrophic producers ?

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

'White Finches evolved to be Black' : is ANY of this true ?

Well 'finches' are 'finches' - we'll let that semi-accurate layperson definition stand, for the sake of argument.

But did all the white finches, as gradually as Darwin claimed they must, all turn into black finches ?

But might it really be that most finches used to white and now - currently and only here and not there - most are black ?