A Few More From The Museum. February 21, 2010
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature, Love and Death, Politics and Society.Tags: Amherst College, creation, fossils, god, Judgement Day, museum of natural history
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The lower floor of the Amherst College Museum of Natural History is festooned with slabs of stone, historical records of How Things Were a hundred million years ago:
The odd lighting is designed to emphasize the subtle undulations of stone surfaces shaped by their environment eons ago, including interference ripples from a clay lake bed:
…and the imprints of those who came here long before us, and preceeded us into the historical record:
Our legacy, as observed from a hundred million years in the future, will likely be that we’re viewed less as a benign phase of existence and more as a cause of the massive extinctions and upheaval which are, on a geological time line, just around the bend.
And so it goes.
If our judges are of a species and mind to forgive us our trespasses on the grounds that we were too stupid to know better, we’ll go down in history as bumbling idiots.
But if there is a God, and if He really expected us to be shepherds of His creation, we’re totally fucked.
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