Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Microbes and the end of the world


Scientists think that around 240 million years ago Microbes killed almost every living thing on God’s green earth, so who’s to say that today in our modern time that microbes might have the same plan for us. Sure we have, technology but how could this help us against a type of pathogen that has it out for human kind. In my children’s book i wrote about a type of apocalyptic future when archea decided that humans were unfit to live in the World that they engineered and eventually they killed us all. Honestly these scientists might have all the right ideas in mind. We are raping this planet and it is only a matter of time until mother nature decides enough is enough. I hope me and my children are never around to see it but I think the inevitable is already upon us.
This argument uses pathos to reach to the Heart of the reader. And logos because these studies are based off of scientific fact. It’s beautiful really, but this maybe our harsh reality is to much to bear so we should continue to live our. 
http://www.universityherald.com/articles/8526/20140401/mit-researchers-believe-microbes-caused-the-earths-mass-extinction-252-million-years-ago.htm

1 comment:

  1. As far as we have gone to know about microbes, knowing they can live in almost any place imaginable. They can also do so many things imaginable, either being good or bad. For scientists to give a theory is because they have discovered something that led to them thinking of that theory; in this case, "almost 240 million years ago microbes killed almost every living thing." Which is almost impossible to contradict. Yet who is to say there was another natural cause of that and we are not sure what it was and the only remaining thing that was found was microbes; they are known to live for millions of years till they die. Just because they found that, they can assume that microbes were the cause of it, just to make life easier and not search further? It is an interesting article and if they could attack both sides of the argument, it would be a well organized article.

    ReplyDelete