Evolution Is No Linear Family Tree, But

The Fewer Species There Are And The Fewer Species We Know About, The Fewer Questions We Even Know To Ask.

To Me, The Human Move To Take Responsibility For The Living Earth Is Laughable - The Rhetoric Of The Powerless. The Planet Takes Care Of Us, Not We Of It. Our Self-inflated Moral Imperative To Guide A Wayward Earth, Or Heal Our Sick Planet, Is Evidence Of Our Immense Capacity For Self Delusion. Rather, We Need To Protect Ourselves From Ourselves.

Body Concentrates Order. It Continuously Self-repairs. Every Five Days You Get A New Stomach Lining. You Get A New Liver Every Two Months. Your Skin Replaces Itself Every Six Weeks. Every Year, 98 Percent Of The Atoms Of Your Body Are Replaced. This Non-stop Chemical Replacement, Metabolism, Is A Sure Sign Of Life.

The Idea That We Are "stewards Of The Earth" Is Another Symptom Of Human Arrogance. Imagine Yourself With The Task Of Overseeing Your Body's Physical Processes. Do You Understand The Way It Works Well Enough To Keep All Its Systems In Operation? Can You Make Your Kidneys Function? Can You Control The Removal Of Waste? Are You Conscious Of The Blood Flow Through Your Arteries, Or The Fact That You Are Losing A Hundred Thousand Skin Cells A Minute?

We Are Unconscious Of Most Of Our Body's Processes, Thank Goodness, Because We'd Screw It Up If We Weren't. The Human Body Is So Complex, With So Many Parts...a System Which Is Far More Complex Than We Can Fully Imagine. The Idea That We Are Consciously Care-taking Such A Large And Mysterious System Is Ludicrous.