Symmetry in Evolution

International Society for Complexity, Information and Design ^ | 11-30-02 | Philip L. Engle

[dirtboy]

Explain The Haiwan Islands then.

Did you ever see the videos or the pictures of Surtsey Island in the North Atlantic. A brand new island formed in a matter of weeks and inside of a year, plant life was springing up, birds were nesting and so on.

That's one island. The Hawiian Islands are just part of a long chain of shield volcanoes that stretch all the way to the Aleutian Trench, each one progressively older, all the way to the Emperor Seamounts, which are buried (hence, eroded and subsided) islands. All in all, I believe the sequence is over 100 million years old.

[f.Christian]

bm1 ...

Explain The Haiwan Islands then.


42 posted on 01/31/2003 11:32 PM PST by Burkeman1

fC ...

I've lived in both . . . N. Californis and Maui - - -

and I see same geolgy --- similarities here !

A christmas tree farmer living upcountry told me . . . "only the monterey pine grow wells here" !

[Burkeman1]

I just finished a book entitled "Guns, Germs, and Steel." It is an amalgamation of scientific thought from dozens of scientific fields- botonoy, archeology, linguistics, genetics, geology, climatology and many others. The book cites hundreds of studies from hundreds of different fields to show how and why western civilization ended up on top of all others. I suggest you read it.