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Index of Subjects Fred, I would hope that our duty as "naturalists" would of have been to try our utmost to have stopped the disaster. Paul. On 2015-12-16, at 10:26 AM, Fred Schueler wrote: > Quoting Paul Ruggles <cpruggles@eastlink.ca>: > >> I'm afraid Steve that, tragically, we have waited too long to address the problem. I believe that it is now - virtually impossible to stop this ecological disaster. I suppose "Better Late Than Never". > > * still, it's our duty, as naturalists, to document the disaster, and to document evolutions's response to it, if only to remind non-naturalists how foolish they've always been. > > fred. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > Mudpuppy Night - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm > Vulnerable Watersheds - http://vulnerablewaters.blogspot.ca/ > study our books - http://pinicola.ca/books/index.htm > RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > "[The] two fundamental steps of scientific thought - the conjecture and refutation of Popper - have little place in the usual conception of intelligence. If something is to be dismissed as inadequate, it is surely not Darwin [, whose] works manifest the activity of a mind seeking for wisdom, a value which conventional philosophy has largely abandoned." Ghiselen, 1969. Triumph of the Darwinian Method, p 237. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > >
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