Tree of Life
Posted on: October 21, 2009 - 4:39am
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Tree of Life
Here's something interesting that I found.
It's supposedly the most massive attempt to construct a family tree of all living things so far.
http://www.zo.utexas.edu/faculty/antisense/tree.pdf
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. - Marcus Aurelius
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. - Abraham Lincoln
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And here I thought you were going to say something about the awesome Larry Niven and his sweet sci-fi books set in Known Space. You didn't I'm terribly disappointed. That's a very pretty graph, though.
BigUniverse wrote,
"Well the things that happen less often are more likely to be the result of the supper natural. A thing like loosing my keys in the morning is not likely supper natural, but finding a thousand dollars or meeting a celebrity might be."
For those of us who aren't biologist, do you mind telling us what the words on the end are? are they species, genus, etc...?
I think they're species.
The words are kingdoms, the individual end-points are species.
Favorite oxymorons: Gospel Truth, Rational Supernaturalist, Business Ethics, Christian Morality
"Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings." - Sam Harris
From the sublime to the ridiculous: Science -> Philosophy -> Theology