{"id":27378,"date":"2015-03-12T13:10:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T12:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocasapiens-dweb.blogautore.repubblica.it\/?p=27378"},"modified":"2021-11-13T19:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:30:58","slug":"lera-della-fede-cristiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/12\/lera-della-fede-cristiana\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#039;era della fede cristiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secondo &#8220;l&#8217;ottimo Masiero&#8221;, ricordo ai distratti,<\/p>\n<p><em>Quando gli esploratori del XVI secolo scoprirono le Americhe e il Pacifico, la loro maggiore sorpresa non fu la scoperta di nuove terre, ma quella dell\u2019<b>egemonia tecnologica globale <\/b>dell\u2019Europa. Come mai \u2013 si chiesero \u2013 solo noi\u00a0abbiamo fonderie, cannocchiali, orologi affidabili, mezzi di trasporto oceanici, ecc.? L\u2019unica risposta che io trovo convincente \u00e8:\u00a0<b>la fede cristiana nel Logos<\/b>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Come tutti sanno, meno l&#8217;ottimo M. e i suoi ammiratori, c&#8217;erano fonderie in tutto il mondo da millenni; trasporti oceanici tra Africa e Sud-est asiatico e Americhe da secoli; i cristiani perseguitavano &#8211; e avrebbero continuato a farlo &#8211; gli inventori di cannocchiali e orologi affidabili.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lhixp7NMyt1qzozj1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nIn una &#8220;prospettiva&#8221; su\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em> di oggi, i geologi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v519\/n7542\/full\/nature14258.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Lewis e Mark Maslin<\/a> dello University College di Londra, applicano i criteri stabiliti dalla <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stratigraphy.org\/index.php\/ics-chart-timescale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carta crono-stratigrafica internazionale<\/a>\u00a0dell&#8217;ICS per\u00a0datare l&#8217;inizio dell&#8217;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v415\/n6867\/full\/415023a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antropocene<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0we review the historical genesis of the idea and assess anthropogenic signatures in the geological record against the formal requirements for the recognition of a new epoch. The evidence suggests that of the various proposed dates two do appear to conform to the criteria to mark the beginning of the Anthropocene: 1610 and 1964. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>All&#8217;Anthropocene Working Group sono arrivate proposte diverse, come scrive anche\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/anthropocene-the-human-age-1.17085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Monastersky<\/a>. L&#8217;idea di definire una nuova era geologica resta parecchio contestata, ma il 1964 \u00e8 in buona posizione perch\u00e9:<\/p>\n<p><em>Between 1945 and 1963, when the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty took effect, nations conducted some 500 above-ground nuclear blasts. Debris from those explosions circled the globe and created an identifiable layer of radioactive elements in sediments. At the same time, humans were making geological impressions in a number of other ways \u2014 all part of what has been called the Great Acceleration of the modern world. Plastics started flooding the environment, along with aluminium, artificial fertilizers, concrete and leaded petrol, all of which have left signals in the sedimentary record.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lewis e Maslin suggeriscono invece di partire da<\/p>\n<p><em>a noticeable drop in atmospheric CO2 concentrations between 1570 and 1620, which is recorded in ice cores. They link this change to the deaths of some 50 million indigenous people in the Americas, triggered by the arrival of Europeans. In the aftermath, forests took over 65 million hectares of abandoned agricultural fields \u2014 a surge of regrowth that reduced global CO2.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nessuno si aspetta una decisione del <a href=\"http:\/\/quaternary.stratigraphy.org\/workinggroups\/anthropocene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Working Group<\/a> a breve, l&#8217;inizio dell&#8217;Olocene \u00e8 stato formalizzato nel 2008. Segnalo solo &#8211; guarda caso &#8211; che il periodo dal 1620 al 1964 coincide con quello della colonizzazione e e delle stragi compiute per portare &#8220;la fede cristiana&#8221; in tutto il mondo. (Rif. anche l&#8217;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stratigraphy.org\/index.php\/ics-chart-timescale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editoriale<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;\u00e8 un <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/doifinder\/10.1038\/519129a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editoriale<\/a> sulle interferenze politiche nella selezione della sede per lo Square Kilometer Array, ne parliamo domani in radio, rif. prossimo post, e <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/in-the-beginning-1.17075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uno<\/a> sui 350 anni compiuti il 6 marzo scorso dalla prima rivista scientifica, quella della Royal Society di Londra, il cui titolo completo era<\/p>\n<p><i>Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Under\u00adtakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/mistrust-and-meddling-unsettles-us-science-agency-1.17078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boer Deng<\/a> racconta altre interferenze, quelle dei congressisti repubblicani che vogliono dettare l&#8217;agenda della National Science Foundation;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/doifinder\/10.1038\/519140a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Cressey<\/a> segnala la ricerca di <a href=\"http:\/\/spo.nmfs.noaa.gov\/mfr764\/mfr7643.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Rocha et al.<\/a> della NOAA sulla strage dei cetacei durante il secolo scorso:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0between 1900 and 1999, 2.9 million whales were killed by the whaling industry: 276,442 in the North Atlantic, 563,696 in the North Pacific and 2,053,956 in the Southern Hemisphere.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ben Booth &amp; Nicolas Bellouin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v519\/n7542\/full\/519167a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recensiscono<\/a> il modello di <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1175\/JCLI-D-14-00050.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sand et al.<\/a> \u00a0sulla risposta del clima alle emissioni di fuliggine, con qualche avvertenza riguardante il rischio di semplificazione:<\/p>\n<p><em>This result confirms the importance of rapid responses in the atmosphere to changes in black carbon. These responses manifest themselves as warming at height and changes in cloud properties that lead to a net decrease in mid- and high-level cloud.\u00a0Moreover, they act to offset the initial artificially large perturbation, mainly because the warming and cloud loss at altitude effectively radiate energy to space, before the surface climate is able to respond. However, the magnitude of the rapid responses reported by Sand\u00a0et al. \u2014 roughly seven times stronger than those to carbon dioxide \u2014 will come as a surprise to many climate scientists<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; nei paper, a Natale era stato anticipato on line <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v519\/n7542\/full\/nature14135.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quello<\/a> dei genetisti inglesi del <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ddduk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deciphering Developmental Disorders Study<\/a>,\u00a0un primo tentativo di identificare le mutazioni genetiche implicate in malattie rare (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanger.ac.uk\/about\/press\/2014\/141224.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">com. stampa<\/a> del Sanger Institute) e da usare eventualmente per la diagnosi &#8211; dopo conferme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; in tema anche l&#8217;articolo di <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/dna-mutation-clock-proves-tough-to-set-1.17079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ewen Callaway <\/a>sulla difficolt\u00e0 di stabilire il tasso di mutazione (l&#8217;orologio molecolare) nel genoma umano;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; e l&#8217;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/don-t-edit-the-human-germ-line-1.17111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appello<\/a><\/strong> dell&#8217;Alliance for Regenerative Medicine che chiede ai genetisti di non fare &#8220;l&#8217;editing&#8221; dei gameti umani:<\/p>\n<p><em>Heritable human genetic modifications pose serious risks, and the therapeutic benefits are tenuous\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Key to all discussion and future research is making a clear distinction between genome editing in somatic cells and in germ cells. A voluntary moratorium in the scientific community could be an effective way to discourage human germline modification and raise public awareness of the difference between these two techniques. Legitimate concerns regarding the safety and ethical impacts of germline editing must not impede the significant progress being made in the clinical development of approaches to potentially cure serious debilitating diseases.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Una moratoria sembra il minimo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secondo &#8220;l&#8217;ottimo Masiero&#8221;, ricordo ai distratti, Quando gli esploratori del XVI secolo scoprirono le Americhe e il Pacifico, la loro maggiore sorpresa non fu la scoperta di nuove terre, ma quella dell\u2019egemonia tecnologica globale dell\u2019Europa. Come mai \u2013 si chiesero \u2013 solo noi\u00a0abbiamo fonderie, cannocchiali, orologi affidabili, mezzi di trasporto oceanici, ecc.? L\u2019unica risposta che&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/12\/lera-della-fede-cristiana\/\">Continua a leggere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">L&#039;era della fede cristiana<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,10,17],"tags":[530,1712,2972,4563,4725,5809,6181],"class_list":["post-27378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-altri-animali","category-ambiente","category-clima","category-genetica","tag-antropocene","tag-crispr","tag-geologia","tag-modelli","tag-nature","tag-religione","tag-scienza","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42947,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27378\/revisions\/42947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}