The crucial question now becomes: If novelty endlessly arises in the course of time, how can one be sure that humanity is the pinnacle of the entire cosmic evolutionary process? The evolutionary answer is: the human is no perfect being, and there could be better things ahead! Compared with the 13.7-billion-year-old universe that contains at least billions of galaxies, our existence is of absolutely negligible magnitude, both physically and temporally. Humanity has yet to comprehend this implication and shift its attention from an inward-looking fatalist being to an outward looking, willful,
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