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Evolving Rocks
SpaceAdmiral notes a new study making the claim that rocks have been evolving throughout Earth's history. "'Mineral evolution is obviously different from Darwinian evolution — minerals don't mutate, reproduce or compete like living organisms,' said Hazen in a statement announcing the study's findings. 'But we found both the variety and relative abundances of minerals have changed dramatically over more than 4.5 billion years of Earth's history. For at least 2.5 billion years, and possibly since the emergence of life, Earth's mineralogy has evolved in parallel with biology,' Hazen added. 'One implication of this finding is that remote observations of the mineralogy of other moons and planets may provide crucial evidence for biological influences beyond Earth.'"
but not as we know it?
They turned into Dwayne Johnson
There ain't no monkeys in MY pet rock's family tree!
"Dr. Smith, we want you to study this rock."
"OK, what am I looking for?"
"Well, we believe that it's changing."
"Ahhhhh....Right. OK, would you mind passing me some of that good stuff you're smoking? Rather obvious at this point I'm gonna need some too."
Give 'em a break, they study ROCKS for pete's sake.
This is as exciting as it gets for them.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
The sensational band the B-52's already discovered that rocks were evolving back in '78. Just look what they said...
We were at the beach
Everybody had matching towels
Somebody went under a dock
And there they saw a rock
It wasn't a rock
It was a rock lobster
Along the lines of evolution and rock, man didn't evolve from The Monkeys, he evolved from The Beatles!!!
One man with a gun can control 100 without one