Dave Hone: belief

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…Well, I personally think that there are few things as important to understand as the history of life on Earth. There are like books, right? There’s like a ch- … or maybe you could think of it as chapters, and then one of the chapters is the time of the dinosaurs. … And then there’s a great extinction, so it just goes up and up. I mean, that’s not a million miles off. I think Darwin had an analogy like that, of, we’ve got a few words on a few pages spread out, but between them you get an idea of what the story is and where it’s going. I think what humans don’t quite realize is we may end up being just a chapter in a book. It might be our extinction event, self-created, perhaps a nuclear war, perhaps robots take over, perhaps we don’t know.…

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