Table of Contents

Preface

1. Scientific Theories and Laws

2. The First Decade (1936-1946)

3. Relativity

4. The Second Decade (1946-1956)

5. Quantum Mechanics

6. The Third Decade (1956-1966)

7. The Big Bang

8. The Fourth Decade (1966-1976)

9. The Non-Bang

10. The Fifth Decade (1976-1986)

11. The Never-Bang

12. The Sixth Decade (1986-1996)

13. Evolution

14. The Seventh Decade (1996-2006)

15. The Theory of More than Everything

16. The Eighth Decade (2006-2016)

17. Now What?

18. The Ninth Decade (2016-2026)

Appendix A Paintings

Appendix B TTOMTE and a Steady State Universe

Appendix C Musical Compositions

Bibliography

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WHAT IS A SPECIES

Ages ago, we started naming things like the furry, friendly creatures hanging around the cave. They spent most of the day taking catnaps, so we called them "nap cats." When they weren't sleeping, they'd chase, catch, and play with some mousey-looking critters. We figured we might come up with a name for the little, mousey animals too someday.

Big, not-so-friendly creatures slinked around outside the cave. Some were striped, some were spotted, and some were black. They looked sort of like the nap cats with the same tails, legs, fur, eyes, and whiskers, so we called them "humungous cats" (humungous meaning one who doesn't take naps). We liked naming things; we named ourselves "the walking-know-it-alls."

Eventually, we noticed we didn't like hanging out with some of the other walking-know-it-alls. They were much hairier, had tails, and mumbled without saying anything, so we called them something else. We'd say, "Look, here comes a walking-doesn't-know-so-much." We also noticed the humungous cats not getting along with the nap cats in our caves or even with each other for that matter, so we started renaming the big ones calling them tigers, leopards, and cougars. Like us, names started multiplying all over the place. Too bad we didn't write down all their titles, but we were too busy trying not to be chased, caught, and played with.

Now, in the present day, we identify a separate species by its inability to mate with another (as one method of telling the difference). For instance, a cat can't mate with a dog. However, we do have exceptions. A male ass and female horse (two different species) can create a hybrid, a mule; however, a mule can't create more mules (tough luck, mule). That's no way to start another species anyway as we will show later.

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Sections

WHAT IS A SPECIES

IS THERE EVOLUTION EVIDENCE

EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION

WHY DOES ANYTHING EVOLVE

WHAT IS PURE CHANCE

WHAT TWO STEPS IN EVOLUTION

WHERE DID LIFE COME FROM

EVOLUTION TOWARDS LIFE

EVOLUTION OF LIFE

EVOLUTION OF PLANT LIFE

EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL LIFE

EVOLUTION OF US

FINAL THOUGHTS

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