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If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes.

Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia. At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale. Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow.

Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident. Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour. At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins. Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight.

The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant. Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless. Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw. And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger. It’s a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment. In fact, not many things do for long.

— Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

This is the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.

It is a 2-dimensional diagram which attempts to explain the quantum structure of the universe, and no one in my religion may study it unless they are over 40, married, have a firm background in the bible and an understanding that it is not a fucking accurate history book.

When my rabbi first told me about this, my head exploded.

Long story short?

There is no Hell, no devil… nothing but complete and utter infinity which we humans are physically incapable of comprehending due to the physically finite structure of our brains.

Evolution?

Indisputable mechanism; how the universe operates.

The afterlife?

Nobody fucking knows, stop trying and live your damn life.

Demons/evil spirits?

You make your own; it’s a home-based industry.

And God?

It/He/She is impossible to know, and only an asshole would condescend to try and speak for It/Him/Her. We’re specks of dust on the asses of fleas. Just assume there is a higher power, do good deeds and live your damn life.