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What grandeur do you lose when you deny evolution?

Thought I'd give her a bump in case someone missed it.
 
I am the child of the child of the child of the child of (recursion to a huge degree) the first living creature in the world. The story of life in the world is the story of my family, and it is an incredible one, full of drama, death, change, beauty, huge innovation and heartbreaking loss. It is my story, and yours, and everyone's. We are a family that extends back billions of years. We are the result of a simple proces that generates almost unimaginable complexity. The story of my biology is the story of the greatest adventure seen by life as we know it.

That is the grandeur of evolution to me.
 
Lamuella said:
I am the child of the child of the child of the child of (recursion to a huge degree) the first living creature in the world. The story of life in the world is the story of my family, and it is an incredible one, full of drama, death, change, beauty, huge innovation and heartbreaking loss. It is my story, and yours, and everyone's. We are a family that extends back billions of years. We are the result of a simple proces that generates almost unimaginable complexity. The story of my biology is the story of the greatest adventure seen by life as we know it.

That is the grandeur of evolution to me.
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Ditto.
 
The final paragraph of The Origin of Species:

Charles Darwin said:
It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
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You're in good company with that notion, Travis :)
 
Well that's good to know.

A question to the geologists: My girlfriend thinks that I should perhaps expand my explanation a bit and then, with some help from some illustrations, introduce the topic to kids in book form. I'm in favor of it myself as I think explaining such things to kids is always important in getting them interested in science.


So, do you all think it's a good idea?
 
I have about 3000 kids books in my house. Not one of them tells the story of a single rock. Not even the ubiquitous and mildly annoying "magic schoolbus."

I can see this as a wonderful kids book. Your notion of the grandeur and drama captured as layers of color -- very elegant.

{cracks whip} Get on it, you!
 
I'm not sure many people who deny evolution would have a problem with the version of events you present in the OP. This is because the only thing most people who disagree with evolution have a problem with is that humans and other complex organisms evolved from puddles of goo. So long as God was involved somewhere between then and now, they can accept your story.
 
While I can see such a book appealing to nerdy kids, I think you need to have a more dramatic ending (e.g., an asteroid impact, massive volcanic eruption, or, even better, both) to capture the attention of boys and a focus on the struggle for life and love of a single organism to keep the girls interested.

;)

ETA: Oh, and if you could work Justin Bieber into the story that would probably help too.
 
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Travis said:
In a school there is a geologist with an office. In that office there is a desk.
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Really, really beautiful - thanks Travis. One thing that always occurs when listening to fundametalist creationist idiots - "Godidit"... it's just so bloomin' boring :D

And definitely do the children's book, we need more stuff like that to engage the male of the species.

Yuri
 
Beautiful story.

Reminds me a bit of Dawkins watch and rock found on the moor.
 
Ivor the Engineer said:
While I can see such a book appealing to nerdy kids, I think you need to have a more dramatic ending (e.g., an asteroid impact, massive volcanic eruption, or, even better, both) to capture the attention of boys and a focus on the struggle for life and love of a single organism to keep the girls interested.

;)

ETA: Oh, and if you could work Justin Bieber into the story that would probably help too.
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Hell, work Bieber getting hit by a gigantic asteroid, and you'd have a real winner.


A nice bit of writing, Travis.
 
I have a hard time rereading it without seeing all sorts of little ways I would now rewrite it.
 
Travis said:
I have a hard time rereading it without seeing all sorts of little ways I would now rewrite it.
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I've had that experience. More than once I've read something I wrote,say, months ago and had pretty much forgotten about it. Then, while reading it, thinking, "Who wrote this piece of dung?" Oh, wait ......... :( :o :mad:
 
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