(January 4, 2016 at 5:21 pm)TheRealJoeFish Wrote:
Graphical form of what Anomalocaris said. From Wikipedia page on "Great Oxygenation Event". Essentially, life started over 3 billion years ago (maybe 3.5ish?) but O2 certainly wasn't around until 2.5 bya at the earliest, and didn't reach today's levels until relatively recently in the geological timescale
(In the picture the red and green are the upper and lower bounds, respectively, of the estimated oxygen concentration)
![[Image: 840px-Oxygenation-atm-2.svg.png]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Oxygenation-atm-2.svg/840px-Oxygenation-atm-2.svg.png)
Gee, the GEO is an amazing story. The way Wikipedia describes it, it reads like an epic drama. The very thing that makes our life possible was the bane of anaerobic organisms. The Oxygen Holocaust. So oxygen is the great geological Hitler. The Mussolini of the cosmos.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
