h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Or not.

Question of the day: Is it really human nature to want to know the origin of life?

I, personally, think it is a societal pressure rather than a general lust for knowledge. If it is human to strive for that particular understanding, then I must be completely inhuman if you add that to the rest of my idiosyncracies. It's not that I don't want to know, but it's hardly important to me. I don't care if I share a common ancestor with other primates; I don't care where I came from. I am here and I live. I don't believe that I have an assigned reason to be on this earth, so my origin is unimportant. I have no dogma that rests on whether evolution is true or not, so why should I care? It's another interesting theory to add to the collection, although I'm still rather partial to the earth being propogated by aliens. I bet those aliens that sowed the earth didn't wonder about their origin...

yeah I have heard quite a number of theories about our origins all of them sound rather fatuous to me. I used to wonder about my origins but I recently relished that it was about as abstract and unimportant as you can get. The major reason I think that humans tend to think about it is that we are naturally philosophically curious creatures. That is in our nature and whatever created us obviously meant that we were to wonder about such things....