Extinction Events and Disease

'Infectious Disease, Endangerment and Extinction'

       The authors, Ross D. E. MacPhee and Alex D. Greenwood have produced a paper which proposes that, "...the role of disease in historical extinctions at the population or species level may have been underestimated."   What this means is that the agent of disease, may have ended the successful selection of particular species on our planet.  Asteroid strikes, massive volcanic activity and the like can explain mass extinctions.  Yet these ideas can't justify why totally different species emerge from their catastrophe.  Why not simply re-populate with the same groups of species?  Why should evolution head down a totally different path?

      Natural Selection and Darwinism hold a logical explanation for why it should be that species might appear and disappear.  Smaller more efficient species simply take over as the larger ones simply use up too much stuff, better flyers get the food etc.  Darwinism has an explanation for total transformation of the type of living things that exist or cease to exist over long and shorter periods of natural history.  Darwinism suggests a kind of free market theory, where independent evolutionary forces operate politically to generate the greatest efficiency and evolutionary skill.  

      However the reality might be more complicated than this free-market competition.  Cancer research has shown that cancer cells develop a staggering 66% of the time, independently of lifestyle and genetic makeup.  This would mean that the agent of disease is operating against that span of natural selection which is thought to be the location of Darwins evolutionary free market.  The activity of disease can skew the selection of viable species and render evolutionary goods that are superior, extinct.   So we do not have the unstoppable forward moving virtue of free-market competition between independent evolutionary actors.  Our market of evolution is attacked and debased by the activity of disease.  The action of disease is arbitrary and opposite to goods that would otherwise be viable in natural selection.  

      Why shouldn't I have the sense of smell won by a dog?  Why shouldn't I have the hearing of a bat?  By what process are goods won by natural beings, denied to travellers further down the evolutionary scale of history? Are our senses won, in life and death struggle so ebullient, and so acute that they are sought to their destruction by a fearful agent of disease?  From which rationale are these super achievements of evolution so impinging upon the welfare of disease that they must be mitigated against, compensated for etc?

sourced from

Ross D. E. MacPhee and Alex D. Greenwood, “Infectious Disease, Endangerment, and Extinction,” International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 2013, Article ID 571939, 9 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/571939   

Science 2 January 2015: Vol. 347 no. 6217 pp. 78-81 DOI: 10.1126/science.1260825            

Smooth the Paths.

Are earthquakes as natural as we think?

      The agents of cancer act separately to the genetic makeup and lifestyle of individuals.  Cancer occurs in the opposite direction to the content of states of being in nature.  So should we believe that earthquakes are inevitable geological phenomena?  We could think instead, geology in earthquakes is affected against what nature would have.  The act of geological process injured by disease and disorder.
     Bushfires are the disordering of natural systems.  Are earthquakes actually necessary for the maintenance and renewal of geological process?  Taking a sign from the temperature germination of Australian plants... Is there some kind of signal system that triggers earthquakes?  A trigger system that is responded to by myriad living organisms sensing the need to reproduce?  Some kind of quantum polyps, coral polyps make corals, that generate minerals?
    Certainly without massive geological process we would not have the planet Earth itself.  All the continents and islands where we live are generated and shaped by things like volcanoes and earthquakes.  The enormous task of geological construction would infer a degree of 'like it or lump it' to the effect that a 'colony' of rocks would not prohibit a larger 'country' of geological forms occurring, and in that area itself.  Yet we have evidence the natural process in plants and animals encounter disease and disorder to the opposite affect of their nature and struggle for survival.  It is not ridiculous to suggest the same is true of geological process.
    The question then may be, what would geological process be without the effect of disease and disorder?  Hellfire and destruction or smooth and smoochy garden of Eden?

Originally sourced from an ABC news article, 6 Jan 2015

" Magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits New Zealand's South Island, epicentre near Methven " ABC/AFP http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-06/new-zealand-south-island-earthquakes/6001566?section=world

Also sourced,

P. Cianfarra and F. Salvini, "Intraplate Transtensional Tectonics in the East Antarctic Craton: Insight from Buried Subglacial Bedrock in the Lake Vostok—Dome C Region," International Journal of Geosciences, Vol. 4 No. 9, 2013, pp. 1275-1284. doi: 10.4236/ijg.2013.49122.

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                             This is a new blog for a new era.  It is called "RealedgesTime."
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                     I have degrees in political science and history.  I had been prevented from taking part in the world of politics and history from the very month I graduated university.  Prevented not by the CIA, the special branch or some weird race law, but directly as a result of being attacked by the agent of disease.  Having spent the years since 1998 attacked  and afflicted twenty four hours a day, I have had a unique opportunity.  The opportunity to appreciate the depth and scope of the activity of the agent of disease on the political science and history of our planet.
                   How the true scope of the activity of disease affected history already took all my mental energy before I graduated university.  After I graduated, as though by tactical conspiracy, the agent of disease attacked me very seriously indeed.  Far from mere bacteria or chemical imbalances, I had uncovered an entire realm of being, the enemy of ease and order on our entire planet.  A realm of being with millions and billions of years experience diseasing and disordering the earth.
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