The development I’m talking about is the development of species, development of life. Life on Earth and maybe life elsewhere in the universe. Is there life elsewhere? The only answer to that question is ‘we don’t know’. We are searching for life in the universe, for evidence of past life. We need to be patient on this one because this can take some time.
Life on our own planet Earth started about 3.7 billion years ago and you could say that humans evolved themselves to an intellectual level by now. So on Earth it took 3.7 billion years from one cell organisms to intellectual life. This evolution had some setbacks because of 7 mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth. But life managed to bounce back every time so far. And our development goes on because why should it stop? In fact, evolution has one simple rule : adapt or die. Species that are able to adapt to the changes of the environment have a good chance of survival and further development. Those who struggle or cannot adapt have a serious problem in surviving. We humans are capable to adapt, we have come so far and are able to continue.
We know where we come from but where are we going? What are we as an intellectual species going to do with our capacities and qualities that we made our own during our evolution from single cell organism to an intellectual species? We can put them in use to raise our quality of life, to raise the quality of life for all species on Earth and taking care of our planet and also to explore others worlds, exploring the universe.
