Evolution churned its kettle for 150 million years and turned out some pretty amazing monsters. Not one of them had a laptop or could balance a checkbook. Then along came a catastrophic encounter with a big friggen rock and wiped the slate pretty clean. Then in 64 million years or so Evolution created more monsters this time hairy and smelly until something else happened and they were gone.
Then Evolution in a million years or so created monkeys with laptops and checkbooks. Do you really think it reached the pinnacle of its efforts in one million years when the previous attempts took 150 and 65?
Mankind is a blip on the radar, a mistake, a wisp of vapor that will be gone when the sun rises. We are not the endgame of Evolution we are a highly unlikely error, caused by a very unique set of circumstances that just happened to appear for a short while in East Africa. All Evolution ever did was make big stupid and hungry monsters. When we finally send a probe to the nearest life-bearing planet, it will be eaten.
Evolution makes monsters and sometimes in a very few wildly improbable instances it makes a mistake. If the universe is teeming with as much life as the statisticians would have me believe, I’m really very glad they are much too far away.



