The Vital Urge

What evoluton implies but cannot explain.

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The natural sciences make it clear that the world has not always been the way it is today. From astronomy and physics we know that the universe is expanding. It has expanded from an infinitely dense point of spacetime into incredibly hot plasma full of subatomic particles, then into the first atoms, and later into the stars and other celestial bodies. From geology and chemistry we know that the…