a snail

One of the many blogs that I have been reading, is
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
which is very much concerned with atheist v christian right issues (evolution v creationism).

My sympathies do not lie with the christian right (nor with any idiotic religious views) and I felt that it all came together the other day, when sitting in a traffic jam. I was looking at the boot of the car in front, when I observed a snail, crawling up the boot lid of the car. Clearly, the owner of the car had been to the local tip the previous day and left behind, after the garden waste had been removed from the boot, was the snail. It occurred to me, that the snail, whilst crawling up the lid of the boot, had no more idea or understanding as to the nature of its immediate surroundings, as we have to the nature of our existance, meaning of life (if there is one) and all the rest.  Any attempt by anyone to impart to the snail, an understanding of the nature traffic jams etc. would be a futile as any attempt to explain the nature of our existance to us.    

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