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Category: The World as Mystery

The World as Mystery: Life, Here and There

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 ~ Joel Caris ~ 4 Comments

There is an idea I’ve held in my head a long time, from the time when I was a child. It is that the universe is a very large place, holding an impossible number of stars with an uncountable number of orbiting planets, and that therefore there must be other sentient life in the universe. … Continue reading The World as Mystery: Life, Here and There

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