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The Iconic Darwin's Arch in The Galapagos Is Gone Forever After a Collapse
https://www.sciencealert.com ^
| 20 MAY 2021
| LAURA GEGGEL
Posted on 05/20/2021 6:36:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
The top of Darwin's Arch, the famous natural stone archway in the northern Galapagos Islands, has crashed into the waves, according to news reports.
The arch, located less than 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) off the steep and rocky coast of Darwin Island, collapsed as "a consequence of natural erosion," on May 17, the Ecuador Ministry of Environment and Water wrote in Spanish on Twitter.
The natural arch was named for the English biologist Charles Darwin, who studied evolution in the Galapagos during his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle in the early 1830s.
Now that the arch's top is gone, one tour company, Aggressor Adventures, is calling the two stone monoliths that remain "The Pillars of Evolution," CNN reported.
TOPICS: Education; History; Outdoors; Travel
KEYWORDS: charlesdarwin; darwin; darwinsarch; ecuador; galapagos; galapagosislands; ggg; hmsbeagle; imperialism; pillarsofevolution; whiteprivilege
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To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/20/2021 6:36:56 AM PDT
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PGR88
To: Red Badger
It’s not gone...it just evolved into something else! :-)
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posted on
05/20/2021 6:37:30 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/20/2021 6:38:56 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: SunkenCiv
Ping!......................
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posted on
05/20/2021 6:40:15 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/20/2021 6:40:17 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: PGR88
> Not global warming? <
Give it time. Al Gore will be on the case after he’s had his morning coffee.
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05/20/2021 6:40:18 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(iI have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: left that other site
It’s not gone...it just evolved into something else! :-)Perfect.
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posted on
05/20/2021 6:40:50 AM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(We support Trump. Not the GOP)
To: Red Badger
Somewhere out there I suspect a story is being concocted which blames rising sea levels
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posted on
05/20/2021 6:41:50 AM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
To: Red Badger
It looks unwell in that image.
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posted on
05/20/2021 6:41:56 AM PDT
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PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
To: Red Badger
So what are they going to call it now?
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posted on
05/20/2021 6:42:09 AM PDT
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fidelis
(Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
To: Red Badger
Well, what did you expect with rising seas because of man-made global warmingTM
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posted on
05/20/2021 6:43:33 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
To: Red Badger
globull warming or racism???
I get sooooo confused
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posted on
05/20/2021 6:43:48 AM PDT
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joe fonebone
(bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
To: fidelis
To: Red Badger
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05/20/2021 6:45:30 AM PDT
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goodnesswins
(The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
To: PGR88
Oh I’m sure they were aching to try to link it!
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posted on
05/20/2021 6:49:00 AM PDT
by
Skywise
To: fidelis
"So what are they going to call it now?"
Darwin's Towers:
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posted on
05/20/2021 6:49:05 AM PDT
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PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
To: left that other site
Actually, the event is in fact evolution, geological evolution.
Many get so hung up on anti Darwinian biological evolution they overlook and completely fail to understand geological evolution
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05/20/2021 6:49:16 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
To: Red Badger
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05/20/2021 6:49:57 AM PDT
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facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Red Badger
"a consequence of natural erosion," Well, the arch was formed in the first place as "a consequence of natural erosion," so I guess erosion giveth and erosion taketh away.
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