Tuesday, November 9, 2010
THE COSMIC EGG & THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION PART 1
I have created, as some you may know, another blog, entitled THE COSMIC EGG which you can locate on my dashboard listings of other blogs created by me on various topics and subjects. THE COSMIC EGG blog is in response to a book titled, THE COSMIC CANCER by David L. Sussman, whom I recently met at a local library lecture and whose book I had earlied purchased at a bookstore in town. However, I started this blog way before I ever met him or read his book,etc. My interest in evolution, early and primitive man(cavemen as they are often called), various forms of life, all that can be grouped under NATURAL HISTORY, and numerous other subjects began early in my life when my parents took me when a baby and small child to museums,movies, animal farms, etc. and also became stronger when I began to read and utilize also a set of 'encyclopedias' known as 'THE WONDER BOOKS that my grandfather and cousin had when I lived on a farm around nine or ten. I mention all of these autobiographical bits to merely indicate a lifelong quest and interest in knowledge....among other things.....which I am now looking a bit deeper into at the age of 74,the tenth period of my life...... My readings in evolutionary and religious and philosophical/scientific works, plus the imaginative fictions that go along with these sort of things, whether in movies, comics, on radio, or in literature and books, all contributed to my 'development' and interests...in other words made impressions on me and acted as influences on me in many ways...mentally, emotionally, 'psychically',etc. and perhaps a bit physically.. When around 9 or 10 a visit to several New York Caverns and obtaining some fossils, along with my interest in rocks and minerals,etc., led me to keep an interest in these things, so that when I went to college, I took as many courses as I could in varied areas of subjects and topics and did a lot of things outside the regular curricula.... I shall not list the courses I took except when relevant in these blogs and other things that I have done except when again most relevant to the discussion here. My life has been rather boring and uneventful for others who look for a great deal of achievement,especially in worldly,everyday matters.....
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Many of my readings on dinosaurs, fossils, evolution and related topics took place in the Fiske Free Library back in the early and late fifties, where a magnificent collection of books existed until the barbarians of the sixties set foot into the library and rid the place of nearly all of them, many now rare and also often signed by the authors themselves, and replaced them with the usual things, and nowadays, the books are going off the shelves as are the VHS tapes once acquired now also exiting due to non-manufacture....I also must point out the same thing happening in museums that are ridding themselves of the great and valuable Natural History collections,etc. as well as the Universities also doing the same thing...I will not name these institutions here at this time....but will comment on such in other places and at other times..though bucking such trends seems futile to a thow-away generation that ignores history.....while creating their own dismal versions for future generations to muddle through,etc.
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