When humans of any religion make claims about how important their religion is to them, it isn't a matter of human rights. I do not dispute they claim that. But when I read the scientific reality of how brutal the universe is and how hostile it is to life, I can't help but feel sorry for those who cling to such superstitions. Not because they are bad. But because they have been taught self importance in the wrong context. We as a species are important in the here and now, in as far as we can hope to cooperate and extend our finite ride. But we are not important, friend or foe, in the context 13.8 billion years.
I find it amazing by itself, that with all the quantum events that happened, didn't happen, and could have happened, that could have prevented the evolution of our species, that lead to me. I find it amazing that the atoms in me are a result of the death of prior stars.
But even if humans didn't have nukes, and we were not causing global warming as a species, the universe like a supernova, gamma ray, comet, or meteor could wipe our species out in a second.
I find it amazing by itself, that with all the quantum events that happened, didn't happen, and could have happened, that could have prevented the evolution of our species, that lead to me. I find it amazing that the atoms in me are a result of the death of prior stars.
But even if humans didn't have nukes, and we were not causing global warming as a species, the universe like a supernova, gamma ray, comet, or meteor could wipe our species out in a second.
