All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are chosen, the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.

Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.