VOLCANO MADNESS: Re: [Geology2] Re: Study details world's worst die-off: hell on Earth

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Re: [Geology2] Re: Study details world's worst die-off: hell on Earth

We weren't discussing theology. :-)

Lin

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Robert Blau <robert-blau@webtv.net> wrote:

As the saying goes,"God is no respecter of persons."

 
   Posted by: "Lin Kerns" linkerns@gmail.com lin.kerns   Date: Fri
  Nov 18, 2011 6:22 pm ((PST)) 
 
True. And how old was your friend when he learned this? For those of us
who grew up surrounded by nature, we learned that the first time a tick
embedded in our skin or a catfish "spined" us at the river or we
  accidentally ran our bikes over a yellow jackets' nest. 
Lin 
 
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Robert Blau <robert-blau@webtv.net>
wrote: 
  ** 
    A philosophical friend comments: 
 
The human race thinks it is so important, but from the perspective of
the universe, who cares? 
 
"Nature" is as indifferent as it is majestic or mysterious or terrifying
   
or any other quality that our minds can attribute to it. 
 
Lin wrote: 
Study details world's worst die-off: hell on Earth By Seth Borenstein AP 
Science Writer / November 17, 2011 
        WASHINGTON—During the world's biggest mass
  extinction, Earth seemed pretty close to a description of hell -- fiery,
 
smoky and explosive -- created by massive volcanic eruptions, according
to research dug up in China. 
In geologic terms, it was surprisingly quick, and it may provide a scary 
  lesson about climate change for our future, authors of the new study
say. It was the third of five extinctions in world history, occurring
even before dinosaurs roamed.