even resembling a human being would ever evolve again. For there is a powerful random character to the process of evolution (C 282). So unusual is this chance origin of life on earth that Sagan agrees with an MIT scientist that it will take the discovery of life in space “to transform the origin of life [on earth] from a miracle to a statistic” (LU 358). So it is by the “miracle” of chance evolution that life emerged in this vast COSMOS. Man’s Duty to the COSMOS The incredible odds against life arising
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