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Here is a list of videos that do a wonderful job of describing fundamental aspects of our evolution and why we should care above it:

January 6, 2016
{1} Our Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine
http://_ whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/01/earths-heat-moisture-engine_html

January 9, 2016
{2} Co-evolution of Minerals and Life | Dr Robert Hazen
http://_whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/01/2-coevolution-of-minerals-and-life_html

January 14, 2016
{3} Evolution of Carbon and our biosphere – Professor Hazen focuses on the element Carbon
whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/01/3-evolution-carbon-biosphere-hazen_html

January 23, 2016
{4} Evolution-Considering Deep Time and a Couple Big Breaks
whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/01/4-evolution-deeptime-moon-geomagnetic_html

February 6, 2016
{5a} The Most Beautiful Graph on Earth – A. Hessler
whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/02/most-beautiful-graph-on-earth_html

February 7, 2016
{5b} Earth’s Earliest Climate – By Angela Hessler
http:// whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/02/earths-earliest-climate-by-hessler_html

February 14, 2016
{6} Evolution of Earth’s Atmosphere – easy version
http:// whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/02/6-evolution-earths-atmosphere-easy_html

February 18, 2016
{7} Our Global Heat and Moisture Distribution Engine, visualized
whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/02/7-global-heat-moisture-distribution_html

February 19, 2016
{8} Atmospheric Insulation Explained – appreciating our climate engine
http://  whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot_com/2016/02/8-atmospheric-insulation-explained_html

I’ve kept up on scientific news for well over 50 years now, recent additions have been some amazing books that report on the continued accumulation of evidence and what it has to teach us our origins and ourselves.

Metazoa – Animal life and the birth of the mind.  by Peter Godfrey-Smith

The Deep History of Ourselves – the Four-billion-year story of how we got conscious brains.  by Joseph LeDoux

Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything.  by: Robert M. Hazen

Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World.  by Nick Lane

What Is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches.   by Erwin Schrödinger

Fossil Men – The quest for the oldest skeleton and the origins of humankind.  by Kermitt Pattison

Where has Dad1 gotten his information?  The Bible?

His precious Holy Book is more like a Rorschach test, morphing into whatever the reader want to extract from it – tribal texts written for their current sociological needs, that is controlling the masses of people starting to accumulate.

No curiosity to dig deeper into physical reality because he’s so self-satisfied languishing within his own sealed apathetic mindscape.

Never trying to reconcile the evidence he can see and hear, with the pliable words that he reads in this ancient text by ancient people, who believed their little region was all that existed in the world, and who were clueless about chemistry,  biology, geology and all the secrets that rocks held.

Secrets within the rocks and biology and the Earth herself, that diligent human curiosity started unraveling with increasing tempo.  The proud tradition that keeps learning more amazing and harmonious physical facts that point the way to understand our origins and the origins of this mind of our’s that’s capable of creating “gods” and monsters to believe in.