We always seem to ask the really big questions we just don't have an answer to yet.
How did we come to be? And where are we going?
You know, the kind of discussions you have with your mates
late at night which seem really deep at the time?
For most of our existence we have believed our world was created by someone or something.
Christians say that God created the whole universe from scratch in seven days.
Islamic creation is quite similar.
Hindus claim a lotus flower grew from the god Vishnu's belly,
which Brahma turned into the skies and the earth.
The Chinese Taoists' creation story involves a giant emerging from an egg
which had hatched for 18,000 years.
No matter the story we tell, we want to make sense of our emergence.
The nice thing about Creationism is that it puts control in the hands of supreme beings.
We have to take no responsibility.
Then came Darwin's On the Origin of the Species.
Evolution theory caused massive mayhem.
Explaining our existence became the domain of scientists.
According to most of them, we have slowly evolved from one celled organisms
into complex beings.
Some, more complex than others.
We share the majority of our DNA with mice, chimps and ...?
Europeans ... sorry Daily Mail readers.
We keep on mutating, so who knows what we'll look like in the future?
Fortunately, natural selection tends to pick the winners.
So we adapt pretty well to changes in our environment.
Creationism and Evolution may differ on how we came to be,
but they do agree that we just sort of have to go with the flow.
The forces that shape us were and are so strong,
we're like leaves blown around by a storm.
That's a disturbing image, isn't it?
Religion and Science have been at odds for centuries about Creation versus Evolution,
yet we have now entered a third phase...
the age of human intervention is upon us.
Genetic Engineering, Robotics and Nanotechnology
give us the chance to change the essence of who we are,
not in hundreds or thousands of years, but right now.
Instant gratification.
We no longer have to accept what creation or evolution has turned us into.