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When you and I were born, only one thing was certain about the rest of our lives: that you and I would someday die. Just as a trillion, trillion, trillion (1036) microorganisms, animals and plants have died before us.... A God who slaughters is no God at all. Or if he is... He is a God who must be stopped.

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The microbial brain—gifted with long-range transport, data trading, genetic variants... and the ability to reinvent genomes—began its operations some 91 trillion bacterial generations before the birth of the Internet. Ancient bacteria, if they functioned like those today, had mastered the art of worldwide information exchange.... The earliest microorganisms would have used planet-sweeping currents of wind and water to carry the scraps of genetic code...

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