Albatrossity2
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| Quote (Ftk @ May 11 2007,13:41) | | Why are there so many useful and lifesaving items within our reach? If the Earth were merely a huge collection of dust particules (sic) after the big bang, how did it get all these useful products? |
Well, I don't know. But it could have something to do with that pesky bugaboo, common descent, and the fact that metabolic pathways and associated bits are rather highly conserved. Or with the fact that co-evolution of plants and herbivores predicts some of this. Or it could be due to (gasp) reasons that science hasn't figured out yet (Horrors! New Knowledge! Begone, Satan!).
Or it could be just another poof-think.
My money is on the first one. Louis, take it away!
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Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind
Has been obligated from the beginning
To create an ordered universe
As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.
- Pattiann Rogers
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