I recently finished reading a fascinating book titled A Garden of Marvels by Ruth Kassinger with a paragraph that truly got to me: There are vastly more chloroplasts on Earth than stars in the universe. All these chloroplasts owe their lives to that one eukaryote that engulfed an indigestible cyanobacterium that lived 1.6 billion years ago. That single creature's descendents turned the rocky continents into our leafy, green world, without which none of us could exist.
I love that - we owe our existence to a minuscule eukaryote that existed over a billion years ago not some imaginary deity that supposedly created everything 6,000 years ago (and the same goes for all the other creation myths). If forced to worship something it would be that eukaryote that started our incredible chain of life all those eons ago. Thank you little cell...you did good.
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