Hell, look at it this way. You know what Oxygen is, right? Oxygen is actually a metabolic poison produced by chloryphyll producing plant species. Okay, when all this oxygen was being spit out into the atmosphere over billions of years, did the Earth suck it out into the vaccuum of space? No. Instead, many species of single celled lifeforms died out in the Precambrian era, while others slowly came to adapt themselves to actually utilize the metabolic poison filling the planet's atmosphere.
The Earth does not change to accomodate life. Instead, life either dies out or changes itself to fit the new planetary circumstances.
But what about us wierd little mammals known as Homo Sapiens? Do we run around in nature, living with what the earth gives us? No. We run around and adapt the planet itself to suit us. We change the planet itself, or certain areas of it for given amounts of time.
We build cities, invent technology, mass produce products and adapt resources into commodities that are entirely unnatural, and literally adapt the environment to suit us as a species.
Hell, man, just look at the cube! A perfect cube does not exist in nature. But what did humans do? We created the cube out of our own abilities. We quite literally re-construct nature to fit our needs and wants. No other species on Earth has ever done that, or at least to the extent we have.
Jesus man, we even go to the moon! It is quite literally withing our power to escape our own planet cradle and go elsewhere! What other species can do that? Come on Lsdima, tell me!
More than anything else, this is what makes me think we are not simply physical beings that evolved out of the primordial goo of protiens and amino acids. It makes me wonder that we have a greater origin and a greater function in reality. We can re-construct a new reality, one that can be wildly different from the present one!
Now i know that many people can and will disagree with me. That's fine. But so far nothing's been able to dissauade me from my sense that we are much more than the sum of our Earth parts.
I think that we are meant for much more than our simple physical existance here. For better or worse, we are different!
Come on, Man!
;D Think beyond what you see everyday! Use that special wonderful power of imagination we have! It's incredible!
I'm telling you, people. It's all about the Cube.