Scientists find evolution of life

EurekAlert ^ | 10/30/03

[Dales]

Two hints.

1) This would be a very poor thread to choose to engage in flamewarring or flamebaiting.

2) It would be wrong to try to guess my position based on me posting this thread.

[maestro]

Correct!

LOL

I like your style!

:-)

[DannyTN]

So in the past, these organisms sucked carbon dioxide out of the air. But now that we are burning fossil fuels, these organisms will become estinct. Why? Because of the carbon dioxide?

Does not compute. Global warming sky is falling stupid computer model bump.

[Wonder Warthog]

"However, in a related study published in Nature on Sept. 25, 2003, Caldeira and LLNL physicist Michael Wickett found that unrestrained release of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide to the atmosphere could threaten extinction for these climate-stabilizing marine organisms."

They just HAVE to add the propanda about "excess atmospheric CO2". Exactly "why" should a few more ppm of CO2 "threaten extinction" for critters who make their shells out of calcium carbonate?? Seems to me that it would be more likely to make them flourish in greater abundance.

[Dales]

With the economy back up to the Reagan levels, global warming is passe, and we are back to the rollickin' days of global cooling. Get retro, baby!

[StatesEnemy]

"The most recent ice ages were mild enough to allow and possibly even promote the evolution of modern humans," Caldeira said. "Without these tiny marine organisms, the ice sheets may have grown to cover the earth, like in the snowball glaciations of the ancient past, and our ancestors might not have survived."

100,000 years hence...

"The most recent ice ages were mild enough to allow and possibly even promote the evolution of modern gogatons," Xizirina said. "Without these hairless primates, the ice sheets may have grown to cover the earth, like in the snowball glaciations of the ancient past, and our ancestors might not have survived."

[JethroHathAWay]

Dales is rockstar LOC! Good post Dales!

[Mike Darancette]

Seems to me that it would be more likely to make them flourish in greater abundance.

Remember, Philbert, environmentalism has become a religion and when you do not adhere to doctrine illogical bad things are promised.

[f.Christian]

It would be wrong to try to guess my position based on me posting this thread.

If the FR has a secret NWO agenda ... master race - PLAN ---- I certainly would like to know about it !

[Rocky]

So there were glaciers at the equator. The whole earth must have been covered with ice. I guess it all piled up at the high points and left the ocean basins empty, right? Sure. If not, where did all the water go?

And I also believe that they know enough to model the atmosphere and predict whether or not CO2 will concentrate in the air or be absorbed in the water. Their many successes to date in such predictions (can anyone name one?) should give us plenty of confidence in their methods.

And what does this have to do with evolution?

[vpintheak]

Whatever! People will never stop at trying to explain the unexplainable. Unless you believe in God that is, then it is easy to explain.

[Dales]

And if the if part of your declaration is negative, then?

But it is Halloween, almost. Might as well let your imagination run wild.

Just as long as the thread doesn't turn into another flame barrage or nasti fight (with moose bites and lutefisk smitings), then I don't have a dog in this hunt.

[Junior]

Read post #1. Ping.

[f.Christian]

Well some of the injuries are faked ...

wouldn't you think --- foul play !

[Physicist]

People will never stop at trying to explain the unexplainable.

That's as may be, but science is about discovering how to explain the explainable.

Unless you believe in God that is, then it is easy to explain.

Saying "God did it" isn't an explanation. The question becomes: how did God do it?

[Jim Robinson]

Hey, you're our secret weapon. That's why we set up our posting conflagerator to scramble your posts so no one can figure out what you're saying. Only you see the real message. Everyone else sees only gobbledygook.

[f.Christian]

ahhhhhh thanks ... tlbfletcher --- the gift !

[Dales]

Some things can't be faked.

[Physicist]

If not, where did all the water go?

There still would have been liquid water below the ice, because of the geothermal heat coming from the ocean floor. As is the case today, life could have been supported during these severe ice ages around the hydrothermal vents.

[Quick1]

LOL!