Have you been watching Cosmos, the updated series airing on FOX inspired by the Carl Sagan series from 1980?  It’s been quite fascinating thus far in these first two episodes.  The first episode really set the table for what will be covered in this whole mini-series and it was ridiculously compelling.  Honestly, it’s a big overwhelming and terrifying.  Why?  Because that first episode covered how utterly small we are in the scope of the universe, which is itself utterly unfathomably huge….and even though it’s easy to say it’s infinite, that word alone just doesn’t feel like something that’s understandable.
Another concept that was discussed in the first episode (which aired last week) was the idea of the Cosmic Calendar. Â The Big Bang takes is the beginning….and all of human history and existence occupies just the last few seconds of Dec 31. Â It’s humbling. Â Yet also so fascinating.
Tonight’s episode took a look in reverse, making us feel completely huge, as it dove into the realm of molecules and atoms and DNA and the wonderful theory of evolution. Â I trust in that theory as fact, but it’s still such a rush to contemplate the shared origins we as humans have with every living thing out there. Â As the host, Neil Degrasse Tyson, mentions, it’s a very spiritual thing to contemplate. Â And as he also mentions, science is more than upfront about what it doesn’t know, which includes just how life actually did begin. Â The series really is fascinating.