Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin, A Book Review by Rebecca Moll

Your inner Fish, A journey into the 3.5 Billion year History of the Human Body. Wow. I'm still trying to fathom the 3.5 billion years, let alone the human body and its evolutionary past.

Big stuff. Talk about mega data.

We are literally future fossils, just one piece in the continuum - the rise of our species, heck, the rise of living things, considering who knows what we will evolve to be in the future - a new species? Hard to imagine.

But, what does this mean to us? How do the secrets of our deep evolutionary past and their unavailing impact our lives and the understanding of the world around us today? How does it integrate with our beliefs, our self-image, our very soul? Does it integrate?

For starters, connections. Just the complexity, the adaptations, adverse selections, all the steps along the way, imprinted into our DNA is enough realize, we live in a very highly organized physical world. To me, this intricate and complex web of connections suggests a hand at the helm, a creator, who is probably amused by our feeble attempts to understand.

I've heard He has a sense of humor.

Some propose that evolution defies belief in a creator. I suggest HE is chuckling this very moment. Who knows when He breathed a soul into the living things He created?
For me there is beauty in all creations, all the connections, adaptations, adverse selections, right down to the DNA nucleotides that spiral within our body's microscopic cosmos.

And as for my inner fish, well, I see it paired with loaves, on a beach by the Sea, a crowd of hungry people... Just one of many possibilities. I believe He loves us all, regardless our beliefs and I respect all faiths rooted in love.

How about your inner fish?

If you like books that leave you with questions, have you drawing parallel lines in your mega data brain, digging deep in revealing new understandings, then Your Inner Fish is a good one for you. A book well worth the read, regardless of your educational background. Just remember, as you turn the pages and find yourself understanding more and more, increasing in knowledge and self confidence, remember somewhere, someplace in or beyond this great universe, there is laughter. :)