Jagged Environment
The influence of the extra-terrestrial
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Jagged EnvironmentThe influence of the extra-terrestrial |
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Mass extinctions |
Mostly we only focus of the parts we can see; we avoid the depths. People remain absorbed in the surface (the skin of problems); avoiding any real notion of the deep (Earth), sensing odd flashes into eyes strained at the skies. Yet the solutions can only be found in the superficial, to superficial problems. Does this matter? Yes, because the great primordial mechanism of the depths creates the surface - and drives its demonstration of the whole; of the underlying machine. In this Earth-centred scheme, I have ignored, and even marginalised, the influence of events caused beyond this planet. This is because, their impact, even literally of an asteroid, is very minor, compared with the driving forces within the Earth itself - the code. Such events, if sufficiently dramatic, may abruptly remove higher life-forms, but the underlying mechanisms of the deep-Earth will not change; as set within its massive structure. We must accept that such catastrophes do happen, and that life is later born again, or eventually complicates from simpler kinds. The truth of this is the gaps in the fossil record, which otherwise would be in effective continuity. We cannot know all the details of the mechanisms by which life does emerge, but its seeds were set in the initial accumulation of the Earth, and its emergence is a consequence of the chemical gradients set up between materials which slowly diffuse and react with each other. It is the running-down of the chemical spring, of which we are but a small indication, which will witness the steady conclusion of the code; and life will cease to be generated, and will die-out. Copyright © 2001 Chris James Last updated 12 March, 2005 |
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