Side Effects
Seems like more evidence against any omnipotent intelligent designer that neither the electrochemical interaction that permitted the bacterial beginning of life on Earth nor natural selection that pruned it— into eyes, hooves, feet, and brains—gave any thought to all the accidental side effects that would occur— like ecstatic joy, pain, love, power, and depression— and as a consequence, we are left on our own to deal with each of these radical, new expressions on Earth as best we can, drawing … Read on…