Re: [FairfieldLife] Life's big moment!

2014-02-08 Thread Share Long
Fascinating article, salyavin, one that I'd like to take into the philosophical 
and spiritual realms. But for right now, I'm content to just be marveling. 
OTOH, are they saying that it was all one big accident?!





On Saturday, February 8, 2014 1:10 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
 
  
There's a fundamental mystery at the core of our evolution. No, it's not how we 
went from fuzzy shrews to humans — it's how bacteria made the jump from 
single-celled existence to something more complex. The weird part is that 
evolutionary jump only happened once.
Over at Nautilus, Ed Yong has a terrific essay about that moment, roughly 2 
billion years ago, when bacteria made an incredible evolutionary leap. It put 
them on a path that eventually led to the evolution of complex, multicellular 
animals like us. But how the hell did it happen.
Yong writes about a new theory that could shed light on the most important 
missing link in our history as animals. Here's how he starts:
http://io9.com/the-most-important-moment-in-the-evolution-of-life-1517890220?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebookamp;utm_source=io9_facebookamp;utm_medium=socialflow



Re: [FairfieldLife] Life's big moment!

2014-02-08 Thread salyavin808


 Yes Share, I agree. The most amazed I'd ever been was reading a cellular 
biology textbook and being told on the first page not only that life had 
started once on Earth and survived but that we are all (that means all living 
things) descended from one single cell. Easily proved too and the odds of it 
happening twice are so vanishingly small as to be irrelevant - so here we are 
brothers and sisters. Maybe we'll never know the exact details as there are a 
number of theories but they all involve the same thing: an invasion of one type 
of bacteria with another. The idea blows me away! Can everything really have 
come from such a simple background? Yeah, of course. The simplest explanation 
is always the best one.
 

 There's no need to bring any spiritual realm into it as the concept of spirit 
only evolved with the development of the brain and conceptual consciousness. 
But I would say that ;-)

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Fascinating article, salyavin, one that I'd like to take into the 
philosophical and spiritual realms. But for right now, I'm content to just be 
marveling. 
OTOH, are they saying that it was all one big accident?!
 

 
 
 On Saturday, February 8, 2014 1:10 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
 
   There's a fundamental mystery at the core of our evolution. No, it's not how 
we went from fuzzy shrews to humans — it's how bacteria made the jump from 
single-celled existence to something more complex. The weird part is that 
evolutionary jump only happened once.
 Over at Nautilus 
http://nautil.us/issue/10/mergers--acquisitions/the-unique-merger-that-made-you-and-ewe-and-yew,
 Ed Yong has a terrific essay about that moment, roughly 2 billion years ago, 
when bacteria made an incredible evolutionary leap. It put them on a path that 
eventually led to the evolution of complex, multicellular animals like us. But 
how the hell did it happen.
 Yong writes about a new theory that could shed light on the most important 
missing link in our history as animals. Here's how he starts:
 
http://io9.com/the-most-important-moment-in-the-evolution-of-life-1517890220?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebookamp;utm_source=io9_facebookamp;utm_medium=socialflow
 
http://io9.com/the-most-important-moment-in-the-evolution-of-life-1517890220?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebookutm_source=io9_facebookutm_medium=socialflow


 


 












Re: [FairfieldLife] Life's big moment!

2014-02-08 Thread Share Long
salyavin, yes you would say that. And that's a good thing. One of the fun and 
fascinating aspects of FFL is your contribution. You're even kind of nice when 
you're anti TM (-:





On Saturday, February 8, 2014 7:00 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
 
  


Yes Share, I agree. The most amazed I'd ever been was reading a cellular 
biology textbook and being told on the first page not only that life had 
started once on Earth and survived but that we are all (that means all living 
things) descended from one single cell. Easily proved too and the odds of it 
happening twice are so vanishingly small as to be irrelevant - so here we are 
brothers and sisters. Maybe we'll never know the exact details as there are a 
number of theories but they all involve the same thing: an invasion of one type 
of bacteria with another. The idea blows me away! Can everything really have 
come from such a simple background? Yeah, of course. The simplest explanation 
is always the best one.

There's no need to bring any spiritual realm into it as the concept of spirit 
only evolved with the development of the brain and conceptual consciousness. 
But I would say that ;-)

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:


Fascinating article, salyavin, one that I'd like to take into the philosophical 
and spiritual realms. But for right now, I'm content to just be marveling. 
OTOH, are they saying that it was all one big accident?!





On Saturday, February 8, 2014 1:10 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:

 
There's a fundamental mystery at the core of our evolution. No, it's not how we 
went from fuzzy shrews to humans — it's how bacteria made the jump from 
single-celled existence to something more complex. The weird part is that 
evolutionary jump only happened once.
Over at Nautilus, Ed Yong has a terrific essay about that moment, roughly 2 
billion years ago, when bacteria made an incredible evolutionary leap. It put 
them on a path that eventually led to the
evolution of complex, multicellular animals like us. But how the hell did it 
happen.
Yong writes about a new theory that could shed light on the most important 
missing link in our history as animals. Here's how he starts:
http://io9.com/the-most-important-moment-in-the-evolution-of-life-1517890220?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebookamp;utm_source=io9_facebookamp;utm_medium=socialflow





Re: [FairfieldLife] Life's big moment!

2014-02-08 Thread salyavin808
Oh, I'm not 'anti' anything, I just like pointing out their stupidities, 
shortcomings and idiosyncrasies. I'll always like meditating, it's probably the 
only thing that keeps me insane.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 salyavin, yes you would say that. And that's a good thing. One of the fun and 
fascinating aspects of FFL is your contribution. You're even kind of nice when 
you're anti TM (-:
 

 
 
 On Saturday, February 8, 2014 7:00 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
 
   

 Yes Share, I agree. The most amazed I'd ever been was reading a cellular 
biology textbook and being told on the first page not only that life had 
started once on Earth and survived but that we are all (that means all living 
things) descended from one single cell. Easily proved too and the odds of it 
happening twice are so vanishingly small as to be irrelevant - so here we are 
brothers and sisters. Maybe we'll never know the exact details as there are a 
number of theories but they all involve the same thing: an invasion of one type 
of bacteria with another. The idea blows me away! Can everything really have 
come from such a simple background? Yeah, of course. The simplest explanation 
is always the best one.
 

 There's no need to bring any spiritual realm into it as the concept of spirit 
only evolved with the development of the brain and conceptual consciousness. 
But I would say that ;-)

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Fascinating article, salyavin, one that I'd like to take into the 
philosophical and spiritual realms. But for right now, I'm content to just be 
marveling. 
OTOH, are they saying that it was all one big accident?!
 

 
 
 On Saturday, February 8, 2014 1:10 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
 
   There's a fundamental mystery at the core of our evolution. No, it's not how 
we went from fuzzy shrews to humans — it's how bacteria made the jump from 
single-celled existence to something more complex. The weird part is that 
evolutionary jump only happened once.
 Over at Nautilus 
http://nautil.us/issue/10/mergers--acquisitions/the-unique-merger-that-made-you-and-ewe-and-yew,
 Ed Yong has a terrific essay about that moment, roughly 2 billion years ago, 
when bacteria made an incredible evolutionary leap. It put them on a path that 
eventually led to the evolution of complex, multicellular animals like us. But 
how the hell did it happen.
 Yong writes about a new theory that could shed light on the most important 
missing link in our history as animals. Here's how he starts:
 
http://io9.com/the-most-important-moment-in-the-evolution-of-life-1517890220?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebookamp;utm_source=io9_facebookamp;utm_medium=socialflow
 
http://io9.com/the-most-important-moment-in-the-evolution-of-life-1517890220?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebookutm_source=io9_facebookutm_medium=socialflow


 















 


 














Re: [FairfieldLife] Life's big moment!

2014-02-08 Thread salyavin808


 Oh, I'm not 'anti' anything, I just like pointing out their stupidities, 
shortcomings and idiosyncrasies. I'll always like meditating, it's probably the 
only thing that keeps me insane.

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 salyavin, yes you would say that. And that's a good thing. One of the fun and 
fascinating aspects of FFL is your contribution. You're even kind of nice when 
you're anti TM (-:
 

 
 
 On Saturday, February 8, 2014 7:00 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
 
   

 Yes Share, I agree. The most amazed I'd ever been was reading a cellular 
biology textbook and being told on the first page not only that life had 
started once on Earth and survived but that we are all (that means all living 
things) descended from one single cell. Easily proved too and the odds of it 
happening twice are so vanishingly small as to be irrelevant - so here we are 
brothers and sisters. Maybe we'll never know the exact details as there are a 
number of theories but they all involve the same thing: an invasion of one type 
of bacteria with another. The idea blows me away! Can everything really have 
come from such a simple background? Yeah, of course. The simplest explanation 
is always the best one.
 

 There's no need to bring any spiritual realm into it as the concept of spirit 
only evolved with the development of the brain and conceptual consciousness. 
But I would say that ;-)

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Fascinating article, salyavin, one that I'd like to take into the 
philosophical and spiritual realms. But for right now, I'm content to just be 
marveling. 
OTOH, are they saying that it was all one big accident?!
 

 
 
 On Saturday, February 8, 2014 1:10 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
 
   There's a fundamental mystery at the core of our evolution. No, it's not how 
we went from fuzzy shrews to humans — it's how bacteria made the jump from 
single-celled existence to something more complex. The weird part is that 
evolutionary jump only happened once.
 Over at Nautilus 
http://nautil.us/issue/10/mergers--acquisitions/the-unique-merger-that-made-you-and-ewe-and-yew,
 Ed Yong has a terrific essay about that moment, roughly 2 billion years ago, 
when bacteria made an incredible evolutionary leap. It put them on a path that 
eventually led to the evolution of complex, multicellular animals like us. But 
how the hell did it happen.
 Yong writes about a new theory that could shed light on the most important 
missing link in our history as animals. Here's how he starts:
 
http://io9.com/the-most-important-moment-in-the-evolution-of-life-1517890220?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebookamp;utm_source=io9_facebookamp;utm_medium=socialflow
 
http://io9.com/the-most-important-moment-in-the-evolution-of-life-1517890220?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebookutm_source=io9_facebookutm_medium=socialflow


 















 


 














Re: [FairfieldLife] Life's big moment!

2014-02-08 Thread Share Long
(-: to salyavin




On Saturday, February 8, 2014 7:14 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
 
  
Oh, I'm not 'anti' anything, I just like pointing out their stupidities, 
shortcomings and idiosyncrasies. I'll always like meditating, it's probably the 
only thing that keeps me insane.


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:


salyavin, yes you would say that. And that's a good thing. One of the fun and 
fascinating aspects of FFL is your contribution. You're even kind of nice when 
you're anti TM (-:





On Saturday, February 8, 2014 7:00 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:

 


Yes Share, I agree. The most amazed I'd ever been was reading a cellular 
biology textbook and being told on the first page not only that life had 
started once on Earth and survived but that we are all (that means all living 
things) descended from one single cell. Easily proved too and the odds of it 
happening twice are so vanishingly small as to be irrelevant - so here we are 
brothers and sisters. Maybe we'll never know the exact details as there are a 
number of theories but they all involve the same thing: an invasion of one type 
of bacteria with another. The idea blows me away! Can everything really have 
come from such a simple background? Yeah, of course. The simplest explanation 
is always the best one.

There's no need to bring any
spiritual realm into it as the concept of spirit only evolved with the 
development of the brain and conceptual consciousness. But I would say that ;-)

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:


Fascinating article, salyavin, one that I'd like to take into the philosophical 
and spiritual realms. But for right now, I'm content to just be marveling. 
OTOH, are they saying that it was all one big accident?!





On Saturday, February 8, 2014 1:10 AM, salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:

 
There's a fundamental mystery at the core of our evolution. No, it's not how we 
went from fuzzy shrews to humans — it's how bacteria made the jump from 
single-celled existence to something more complex. The weird part is that 
evolutionary jump only happened once.
Over at Nautilus, Ed Yong has a terrific essay about that moment, roughly 2 
billion years ago, when bacteria made an incredible evolutionary leap. It put 
them on a path that eventually led to the
evolution of complex, multicellular animals like us. But how the hell did it 
happen.
Yong writes about a new theory that could shed light on the most important 
missing link in our history as animals. Here's how he starts:
http://io9.com/the-most-important-moment-in-the-evolution-of-life-1517890220?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebookamp;utm_source=io9_facebookamp;utm_medium=socialflow