CONSIDER THIS: Are We Mere Specks or Members of a Privileged Species?

When you get up in the morning and look in your bathroom mirror, are you looking at a mere speck of matter, one of billions upon trillions of specks that make up the material universe? Or are you one of legions of examples of the most privileged species on Earth?

If you follow and agree with Bill Nye, the Science Guy, we’re all mere specks in the universe of specks. Nothing particularly unique in any of the specks we call humans because when we die, that’s the end of our speck-life. That’s it, move along, specks, nothing to see here now.

But not so, according to the Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Dr. Michael Denton, a geneticist and biochemist who earned his Ph.D. from King’s College in London. Denton. His focus in the following 5:24 video is “the special properties of carbon, water, and oxygen that make human life and the life of other organisms possible, and it explores some of the unique features of humans that make us a truly privileged species.”

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