Bible...my version.
Brian Fletcher
Now where was I before I was rudely interrupted........
BOfL
Immortalist
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>
> In the beginning was the end.
>
Turn this into chapter and verse my brother!
TIMETABLE OF EVOLUTIONARY EVENTS
(most dates are approximations)
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Astronomical Events
18-8 billion years ago-The Big Bang
5b origin of our Solar system
4.5b the formation of planet Earth.
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The Precambrian Era
(from 4.5 billion to 570,000 years ago)
4.5b no life, sulfuric acid in air, volcanic eruptions
3.5b beginning of life; simple forms such as bacteria exist alone for 2
billion years; blue-greens gradually fill the air with oxygen
1.5b protozoic forms such as amoeba and paramecium 1b sexual recombination
of genes; proliferation of unicellular species
700 million years ago-multicellular creatures, such as jellyfish and worms
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The Paleozoic Era
(major increase in life forms, beginning with the Cambrian explosion)
570m Cambrian period-molluscs, sponges, arthopods, shellfish,
trilobites
500m Ordovidan-first jawless fishes, first stony corals
440m Silurian-first plants on land
395m Devonian-Age of Fishes, as well as first insects and amphibians
345m Carboniferous-Age of Amphibians, as well as origin of reptiles
280m Permian-first mammal-like reptiles
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The Mezozoic Era
(known as a whole as the Age of Reptiles)
225m Triassic-first mammals, such as monotremes in Australia, earliest
dinosaurs, giant marine reptiles
190m Jurassic-first birds (archeopteryx, related to dinosaur), first
flowering plants
160m according to continental drift theory, the breakup of a united land
mass Pangea, into Laurasia (North) and Gondwanaland (South)
135m Cretaceous-marsupial and placental mammals; first deciduous trees and
grasses
65m the 'terminal Cretaceous extinction'-end of dinosaurs; mammals come out
to occupy daytime niches
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The Cenozoic Era The Tertiary Period-Age of Mammals
65m Paleocene-beginning of first widespread grasslands and hoofed mammals;
prosimians in trees.
54m Eocene-marked radiation of mammals; drifting away of Australia
38m Oligocene-divergence of monkeys and apes about 30m ago
25m Miocene-fossil evidence that orangutan line broke off about 16m ago;
molecular evidence that gorilla line broke off about 10m ago
5-2m Pliocene-Australopithecus hominid in Africa, by 3-2m ago, 4' tall, 450
cm' brain; footprints at Laetoli; show complete bipedalism by 3.5m ago
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The Pleistocene Epoch (2 million to 10,000 years ago): The Ice Ages
Geological event during this epoch: the building of land bridges of ice, and
the lowering of sea level; the formation of mountains and lakes, and the
depositing of rich soil; new variations in weather and climate.
2-lm Homo habilis (brain 464 cm3) and Homo erectus (brain 800 cm3) lived in
Africa, apparently coexisting with Australopithecus
1.9m DK site in Tanzania-circle of rocks and shelter tor communal eating
1.5m Lower Paleolithic culture-earliest crude stone tools, known as
Abbevillian-did not change much for another million years
750,000 H. erectus fossils in Java, Indonesia (brain 883 cm^3)
600,000-400,000 the Mindel glaciation; evidence that Homo erectus hunted
zebra, pigs, buffalo; giant mammals become extinct
500,000 H. erectus fossils in Peking caves (brain 1043 cm1); indications of
probable cannibalism
500,000-100,000 Acheulian stone hand axes, similar world-wide
350,000 First definite evidence of fire for cooking; use of fire dates back
earlier
250,000 Early appearance of Homo sapiens (Steinheim man and Swanscombe
woman; brain 1200 cm')
100,000 Beginning of Middle Paleolithic, characterized by Mousterian culture
and Neanderthal man; use of fur clothing; ivory and wood as well as stone
tools
60,000 Neanderthal burial site at Shanidar in Iraq; suggests belief in
afterlife
60,000 Wurm (or Wisconsin) glaciation begins; it lasts until 40,000 and is
fully retreated by 10,000
40,000 Emergence of modern man, sometimes called H. sapiens sapiens, or
Cro-Magnon (brain 1,400 cm^3)
40,000 The great migrations begin; humans living on six continents by 20,000
BP.
35,000 Upper Paleolithic culture begins-(lasts until Neolithic in 10,000 BP)
stone tools more refined; blades for cutting and knives for whittling.
30,000 Arctic economy in Siberia: reindeer, mammoth, wild horse hunted
30,000 Beginning of cave art, climaxing in Lascaux and Altamira around
17,000 BP
25,000 The Longhouse-dwelling for 15-20 families.
20,000 Venus statuettes plentiful in Europe-perhaps part of fertility cult
15,000 Magdalenian stone tools and jewelry show great variation in personal
style
15,000 Europe becomes covered with fir and pine trees
12,000 Pottery shard in Japan, decorated with geometric pattern
12,000 Fishing economy in South Africa: abalone, squid; seal oil for lamps
11,000 Probable origin of bow and arrow, basket-weaving, use of poisons
11,000 South American Indians reach Patagonia (southernmost tip)
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The Holocene ('Recent epoch': the last 10,000 years)
8000 BC Beginning of agriculture (wheat, lentils); utensils made of baked
clay 8000 Jericho, the oldest known town, fortified by a wall
8000 Domestication of sheep and goats in Middle East
7000 Much settlement into towns, domestication of pig and cattle
4800 Irrigation system developed in Iraa; civil administration
4500 Domestication of horses in Ukraine for labor, transport, war
3500 Bronze Age begins in Turkey; proliferation of crafts
3300 Sumerians invent both the wheel and writing (pictographs)
3000 The silkworm moth domesticated in China
2500 Mohenjo-Daro civilization in India; rice growing there as a weed
1500 Indonesians migrate to Pacific Islands by canoe
1350 King Tutankhamun buried in Egypt with wealth and splendor
1200 The Ten Commandments given to the Hebrews by Prophet Moses
1000 Phoenecian traders spread the alphabet in Mediterranean region
900 Beginning of Iron Age; Hittites introduce coin money
700 Homer writes the Iliad and Odyssy
500 Buddhism flourishes in India; Taoism in China
380 The Academy founded by Plato; Greeks develop astronomy and mathematics
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0 or 1 The birth of Christ
476 AD Fall of Rome; barbarian invasions ot Europe
622 Muhammed flees Mecca; Islamic religion begins
850 Gunpowder first used in China for firecrackers
900 Sudden collapse of the Mayan civilization in Central America
1054 Chinese astronomers observe a supernova in our galaxy
1451 Michelangelo finishes painting the Sistine Chapel
1454 Printing press introduced in Europe: Bible later fuels the Reformation
1500 Navigation improves; European colonization begins in New World, Asia
and Africa
1633 Galileo replies to the Inquisition "but it still moves'
1644 Descartes observes "Cogito, ergo sum'
1765 The steam engine invented by Watt in England
1848 Marx and Engels write the Communist Manifesto
1859 Darwin and Wallace announce the theory of evolution by natural
selection
1907 Braque and Picasso develop Cubism
1941 Penicillin recognized as an antibiotic
1945 End of World War II and the Holocaust; dropping of the first nuclear
bomb
1946 Artificial intelligence-first electronic digital computer
1950s Great acceleration of environmental destruction and pollution
1969 Earthlings land on the moon
1975 Helsinki Agreements on Human Rights
2010 Projected human population: 7 billion
Human Evolution - A Philosophical Anthropology
-- Mary Maxwell
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0231059469/
dee
laughed my head off.. :D
tooly
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>
> Now where was I before I was rudely interrupted........
>
> BOfL
>
What is so frustrating about life is that we will die never REALLY "knowing"
what this was all about.
Brian Fletcher
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> "Brian Fletcher" <bria...@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> news:0C_Vf.17944$dy4....@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>
>> In the beginning was the end.
>>
>
> Turn this into chapter and verse my brother!
>
> TIMETABLE OF EVOLUTIONARY EVENTS
> (most dates are approximations)
>
> --------------------------
> Astronomical Events
>
Details, just details .......hehehehehe...
BOfL
Brian Fletcher
"dee" <sze...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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One I have yet to read..
Did you know he was a major contributor to LOf B ?
He said it was his most satisfying work.
BOfL
Brian Fletcher
"tooly" <rd...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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your knowledge with "we".
Much easier than to write "I will die etc".
There is a very powerful sublty there.
BOfL
Dare
"Brian Fletcher" <bria...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> In the beginning was the end.
Is it also that in the end is the beginning?
andy-k
> "Brian Fletcher" wrote:
>
>> In the beginning was the end.
>
> Is it also that in the end is the beginning?
"I am the alpha and the omega"
-- Revelation 1:8
Brian Fletcher
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> In article <0C_Vf.17944$dy4....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> "Brian Fletcher" <bria...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
>> In the beginning was the end.
>
> Is it also that in the end is the beginning?
You were there also ? :-)
BOfL
Brian Fletcher
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BOfL
Dare
> "Dare" <clyd...@hotmail.com> wrote
> > "Brian Fletcher" <bria...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> >
> >> In the beginning was the end.
> >
> > Is it also that in the end is the beginning?
>
> You were there also ? :-)
Yes! (I'm older than I look) :-)
Lots of endings-beginnings-transitions to now...
is now the end or the beginning? :-)
but after also considering andy-k's post,
perhaps it could be that "now" is "I" ?
["andy-k" <spam.free@last> wrote
> "I am the alpha and the omega"
> -- Revelation 1:8 ]
Immortalist
>
> "Immortalist" <Reanima...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> "Brian Fletcher" <bria...@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
>> news:0C_Vf.17944$dy4....@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>>
>>> In the beginning was the end.
>>>
>>
>> Turn this into chapter and verse my brother!
>>
>> TIMETABLE OF EVOLUTIONARY EVENTS
>> (most dates are approximations)
>>
>> --------------------------
>> Astronomical Events
>>
> Snip the irrelevancies.
>
Can you produce an ethical standard for detecting irrelevancies that will
equally apply to all that you say?
X is irrelevant in condition A but not condition B?
dee
What is LOf B?
Brian Fletcher
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> "Brian Fletcher" <bria...@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Immortalist" <Reanima...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:jX2Wf.2255$Aa1.1200@dukeread05...
>>>
>>> "Brian Fletcher" <bria...@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
>>> news:0C_Vf.17944$dy4....@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>>>
>>>> In the beginning was the end.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Turn this into chapter and verse my brother!
>>>
>>> TIMETABLE OF EVOLUTIONARY EVENTS
>>> (most dates are approximations)
>>>
>>> --------------------------
>>> Astronomical Events
>>>
>> Snip the irrelevancies.
>>
>
> Can you produce an ethical standard for detecting irrelevancies that will
> equally apply to all that you say?
Irrelevance is in the "state" of the beholder. They will detect anything
that is out of synch with their consciousness.
BOfL
Brian Fletcher
> "Brian Fletcher" <bria...@bigpond.net.au> wrote
>> "Dare" <clyd...@hotmail.com> wrote
>> > "Brian Fletcher" <bria...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>> >
>> >> In the beginning was the end.
>> >
>> > Is it also that in the end is the beginning?
>>
>> You were there also ? :-)
>
> Yes! (I'm older than I look) :-)
Antioxidant soup for breakfast ?
> Lots of endings-beginnings-transitions to now...
> is now the end or the beginning? :-).
Now has no beginning or ending.
"I" exists in the now!!!
BOfL
Brian Fletcher
Life Of Brian
(hence my 'tag') BOfL
dee
Brian Fletcher wrote:
> "dee" <sze...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > Brian Fletcher wrote:
> >> "dee" <sze...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >> news:1143534622....@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> >> >
> >> > Brian Fletcher wrote:
> >> >> In the beginning was the end.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Now where was I before I was rudely interrupted........
> >> >>
> >> >> BOfL
> >> >
> >> > this:
> >> > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140239707/qid=1143534575/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-1389089-6393250
> >> >
> >> > laughed my head off.. :D
> >> >
> >>
> >> One I have yet to read..
> >>
> >> Did you know he was a major contributor to LOf B ?
> >>
> >> He said it was his most satisfying work.
> >>
> >> BOfL
> >
> > What is LOf B?
> >
> AHHHGGGGG....:-)
>
> Life Of Brian
>
> (hence my 'tag') BOfL
:D "always look on the bright side of life... <whistle>" rofl..
"he's just a very very bad boy!"
Brian Fletcher
BLASPHEMER....H'e just a very "NAUGHTY" (now I'm not going to repeat this
!!) boy.
Its easy to see how the true religion dissipates semantically....
...and NEVER walk with the Red Sea pedestrians asking to "get stoned" .....
BOfL