For most of our history, most humans held themselves categorically different from the animals (with the exception of some shamanic traditions). Eventually most of us adopted a concept of animal in which we ourselves belonged, and we began to recognize that we had more in common with even the plants than we had realized. We discovered whole kingdoms we never knew existed which we also gradually recognized as distant kin.
Yet we still draw the line somewhere around the virus. What the virus and everything more organized that's carbon based are doing is categorically different from the rest of the activity of the universe. How long do you expect that story to hold up?




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Does Abiogenesis and any of it's hypothesis deal with anything evolving into something else?

I couldn't have said better. You took the words right out of my mouth.


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