I am making a vow to myself. I will not visit known fangirls' blogs over the course of the next week, for fear of getting my brains blasted out by their ravings about the movie. So I solemnly swear.
It's really awe-inspiring, how far we've come. It's all very well for us to stick a drop of rainwater under the microscope and go "Ooh, look, microorganisms! Look, the amoeba's only got one cell! Fascinating!" But we think less often of the fact that we're descended from them, don't we?
The first life was unicellular, and presumably its binary fission made more and more of itself until the seas were teeming with single-celled beings.
So...from brainless single cells, here we are aeons later, billions of cells taller and with brains enough to make us want to look back and see where life started. Consciousness, that would arguably be the biggest miracle here.
That a bunch of cells could come together to create this awareness is amazing. And what kick-started it was probably a kind of mutation, so now we know how great the power of variance can be. Never laugh at mutants, folks. Their descendants might start preying on yours, ha.
It can be very enlightening, watching the History Channel. Heh.
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I'm not saying omniscience is the answer, though. Not in a thousand years.
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