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longer do we think atoms are solid, species, mountains, continents,
stars are fixed or the universe unchanging.
Atoms change
to new elements.
Genes mutate
and create small changes to offspring.
Creatures evolve
as some die out and new types appear.
Societies change
even within our own lifetimes.
Mountains rise and fall
as earth’s crust deforms and erodes.
Continents drift
pushed apart by sea-floor spreading.
Stars evolve
being born, changing, dying.
The Universe expands
from a hot mass to billions of galaxies.
“Evolution” itself evolves
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Computer art poster designed for Darwin Day, http://www.darwinday.org,
by Myrrh ©2002. Star nebula background adapted from NASA Hubble
image of NCG 6888, Crescent Nebula (B.D. Moore and J.J. Hester, Arizona
State University). Fossils and animals from Text-Book of Paleontology
by Karl A von Zittel (New York: Macmillan 1913) and Dover Publications’
drawings in the public domain. Calligraphy title by Melissa Dinwiddie. |
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