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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Ark of the Biology
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 23:20:11 +0100
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On 04/07/2025 23:36, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:
>> This might be an excerpt from or a response to
>> _Science Fiction By Scientists_,
> 
>    It all kicked off in this out-of-the-way newsgroup called
>    "de.etc.sprache.deutsch".
> 
>    Someone there got curious about a word from Switzerland,
>    "Biolade" (health food store/organic food store).
> 
>    That word made me think of "Bundeslade" (the Ark of the Covenant).
>    It really got my imagination going, trying to figure out what
>    a "Biolade" could be, and I started thinking my text should be
>    a mix of biblical and scientific language. I was also influenced
>    by a certain sci-fi story from a scientist I'd recently read.
> 
>    So first, I put together a post in German for "de.rec.sf.misc",
>    and later followed up with an English one here. The biblical
>    vibe in the German version is based on Martin Luther, and in
>    the English one, it's based on the KJV.

There is "Noah's Ark" of course, and probably
lots of science fiction natural-diversity-saving
"arks" - at least three in "Doctor Who" stories,
and _The Starlost_, and _Silent Running_.
"The Noah Plan" set to music by Peter Schilling,
and "After the Gold Rush", by Neil Young.