There Are No Forces On This Planet

People Ache To Believe That We Human Beings Are Vastly Different From All Other Species - And They Are Right! We Are Different. We Are The Only Species That Has An Extra Medium Of Design Preservation And Design Communication: Culture.

Has It Ever Occurred To You How Lucky You Are To Be Alive? More Than 99 Percent Of All The Creatures That Have Ever Lived Have Died Without Progeny, But Not A Single One Of Your Ancestors Falls Into That Group! ... Not A Single One Of Your Ancestors, All The Way Back To The Bacteria, Succumbed To Predation Before Reproducing, Or Lost Out In The Competition For A Mate.

Those Who Feel Guilty Contemplating "betraying" The Tradition They Love By Acknowledging Their Disapproval Of Elements Within It Should Reflect On The Fact That The Very Tradition To Which They Are So Loyal—the "eternal" Tradition Introduced To Them In Their Youth—is In Fact The Evolved Product Of Many Adjustments Firmly But Delicately Made By Earlier Lovers Of The Same Tradition.

The Juvenile Sea Squirt Wanders Through The Sea Searching For A Suitable Rock Or Hunk Of Coral To Cling To And Make Its Home For Life. For This Task, It Has A Rudimentary Nervous System. When It Finds Its Spot And Takes Root, It Doesn't Need Its Brain Anymore So It Eats It!

In Fact, If You Are Faced With The Prospect Of Running Across An Open Field In Which Lightning Bolts Are Going To Be A Problem, You Are Much Better Off If Their Timing And Location Are Determined By Something, Since Then They May Be Predictable By You, And Hence Avoidable. Determinism Is The Friend, Not The Foe, Of Those Who Dislike Inevitability.