"mineral evolution" & "a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . ."

[Michael Bailey]

eckshually, didn't Paracelsus do the whole shtick back when it could
pass for science?

On 12/17/08, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> This guy has no credentials as a geologist and this is crackpot science.
> This is a "radical new idea" only among cranks and idiots.
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>  From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
>  To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>  Sent: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:12 pm
>  Subject: "mineral evolution" & "a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . ."
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>  Kevin Kelly offers an interesting take on "mineral evolution" & links to
> a recent paper on that topic.
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> "The theory of "mineral evolution" -- the idea that the Earth's rocks
> are dynamic "species" which emerged over time, sometimes in concert
> with living things -- is a radical new idea…"
> continues:
> http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/12/technology_a_ge.php
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"It was all of a piece" - the drunk in Kesey's _Sometimes a Great
Notion_ explaining why he couldn't stop drinking from the leavings in
the discard can at the end of the bar, even though people were begging
him and offering him money to put it down