One more time

Think again about evolution - Some things never cross my mind. I’ve gone through decades of existence and only in the past few years have begun to think why. How did I get here is an old question. Also for decades I accepted the idea that people were at the top of power and I am one of that species. Well that part is true. Homo sapiens sapiens is a superior species for only one outstanding fact. Speech. Language. Not just the communication. Many other species communicate with sounds and actions. We have just begun to realize the extent of that. However it appears that they say only what is relative to the present – greetings, pleasure, danger, excitement. History is not passed on. Human communication goes much beyond the immediate and the future. Ours is the ability to assign and record symbols that will be processed and understood by our offspring for generations. That did not happen over night, nor in the past hundred years. The human brain developed and figured out many things. Everything right up to the keyboard on which I work came about by evolution. Experiences recorded for centuries and built upon by those who could decipher and understand and add more experiences. Contrary to fantasy preachers’ contention that knowledge leads to sin and distruction, information adds to the foundation of greater technology. True, selfish hearts and minds can lead to violent actions but our species will survive that. We wouldn’t have evolved to the present without the ability to reason. Two hundred years ago, Darwin predicted in “Origin of the Species” – There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one: and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

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