[stars & stripes forever]

ROMANS 1

[left that other site]

There is a green beach made up of olivine on the big Island of Hawaii. Hard to get to...but quite remarkable.

[Robert DeLong]

So now the question becomes, what caused olivine to disappear? Sounds like divine intervention to me.

[JimSEA]

Olivine weathers rapidly so when the composition of the crust changed as plate tectonics began, the crust became more stable and light silica rocks increasingly became the content of the crust (granite—72 percent silica on average). There were changes in magma composition as well.

[laweeks]

Wow! What an explosion! Put together all that intricate DNA gene stuff in correct order in whatever it was in so it could replicate itself to some day create me. Now that's an explosion!

[rightwingcrazy]

“the disappearance of a mineral called olivine from the Earth’s crust led to an explosion of biological life.”

Wow, what are the odds?

[Bubba_Leroy]

Trump’s fault.

[Mr. K]

"... oxygen in the atmosphere suddenly increased by about 10,000 times in just 200 million years.

Anything that takes 200 million years is not "suddenly"

[Huskrrrr]

What a great thread!

[fhayek]

“Drink more olivine!”