From: Bertvan@aol.com <Bertvan@aol.com>
[...]
>The Gaia concept is certainly a part of ID.
It certainly isn't.
"I recognise that to view the Earth as if it were alive is just a
convenient, but different, way of organising the facts of the Earth. I am of
course prejudiced in favour of Gaia and have filled my life for the past
twenty-five years with the thought that Earth may be alive: not as the
ancients saw her÷a sentient Goddess with a purpose and foresight÷but alive
like a tree. A tree that quietly exists, never moving except to sway in the
wind, yet endlessly conversing with the sunlight and the soil. Using
sunlight and water and nutrient minerals to grow and change. But all done so
imperceptibly, that to me the old oak tree on the green is the same as it
was when I was a child." (James Lovelock, "Gaia: The Practical Science of
Planetary Medicine", Gaia Books Limited, London, 1991, p.12.) [Quoted
from: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/philosophy/mave/guide/gaiath~1.htm]
Richard Wein (Tich)
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