always trying to take the fun out of it. in some manner, and to varying degrees, what previous generations have done are significant influences on today.

As a geologist, archaeologist and paleontologist by training, I've never thought of humans as anything exceptional. We evolved a complex neural capacity that allows us to think abstractly.

The eagle can see a small object a mile away, the cheetah has speed. They adapted to fit the requisite requirements of their environment, as have we. We can go extinct just as easy as they can.

Why is so important for humans to need to feel that we are special? I teach science and I would be incredibly remiss if i taught that. We are just another organism in a very long chain of organisms, and will go the way of many organisms.

Nothing a little Buddhism wouldn’t fix.

Seems to be so much pressure from every angle.