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 After all of our discussions I can't help but be anxious for the next class.  The more we try to answer questions the more questions come about, which makes me feel like they will never be answered.  But even if they could never be answered, we are at least becoming conscious of these gray areas and trying to "make sense of them".  I'm really interested to see what the cultural and individual evolution is going to be all about.

As we were discussing descent with modification in the last class my mind was going crazy.  If the driving force of evolution is RANDOM genetic mutations, then there really is no explanation for anything. Where did the randomness come from?  The Big Bang Theory was a random burst of matter and energy, but was that also just random? What caused that.  Doesn't something have to start somewhere? so many questions.  In life we are taught the causes if everything, "if you do that this will happen", "that happened because of this", "avoid that or this will happen to you." But if evolution and the universe are the result of some random occurrence, then can't a random event happen at any given moment that would totally warp every thing we've ever believed as reality or truth?  How am I supposed to make sense of myself and keep my feet on the ground, and live a life of reason, if there is no reason for anything?

This all just makes me wonder even more if there ever was a beginning.  I don't think there could be a beginning if nothing was there to document it, or see it happen.  Nobody was there to be able to TELL us what happened.  If there was someone there, then where did they come from? See, no beginning.  Which makes me believe even more that maybe we really are only the stories that we have....