99.9 percent of all species known to have
existed on this planet are now extinct—failed experiments in evolution. The
idea, whether religious or secular, that the human species is somehow exempt
from this calculation is no longer credible. We are the first species on this
planet to “do science,” as Carl Sagan pointed out; but, thereby, we are also
the first species to engineer a means of mass collective suicide (nuclear,
chemical, and biological).
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