![]() I say we have no idea whether we are very impressive or not. But now I would like to explore a series of thoughts that arise from the speculation that the miracle of the human is not necessarily very impressive. I would just like to point out that we do not know right now whether, for example, we will take life to the stars, or annihilate it entirely here on earth, and perhaps the ultimate end of evolution is universal extinction under our aegis that wouldn’t surprise me in the least: it’s just the sort of trick evolution has already pulled on most of the species that have ever existed. However, that a philosophical position makes you feel defensive is not a demonstration that it is false. We have a sort of species patriotism wherein to denigrate the human as not created in God’s image or not anomalous free agents in a deterministic order or not the crowning achievement by which evolution finally walked upright seems intolerable. Human beings may be nature’s most amazing production, but whether or no, we are certainly nature’s most self-congratulatory production.
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